THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 18 MARCH 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967578
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 18, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
18 MARCH 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
18 MARCH 1965
1. Indonesia
2. Vietnam
Security measures, including black-
outs, air raid precautions, and restric-
tions on foreigners, have been imposed
in northern Sumatra and the city of Me-
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nervous about possible Malaysian-British
retaliation for Indonesian raids.i
(See map.)
The Peace Corps may soon be subjected
to intensive harassment. The Djakarta
press says that the country's largest
trade union federation--Communist led--
has called on Sukarno to expel all Peace
Corps members. Today, Sukarno; said he
did not have time to discuss the "big
question" of withdrawing the Peace Corps
.with Ambassador Jones, but would do so
next week.
The Armed Forces Council meeting
to discuss command changes originally
scheduled to meet on Monday and post-
poned until today has again been pushed
back. This suggests that the generals
are having trouble making up their
minds about keeping General Minh as com-
mander in chief. The indications are
that he will stay on.
Hanoi has issued its clearest
statement to date on the impossibility
of negotiating. The statement asserts
that the US "aggressor" must end his
aggressive war and withdraw all US
troops from South Vietnam. The state-
ment also denounced the exchange of
letters between President Johnson and
Tito as a "peace farce," calling Tito
a "stool pigeon."
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3. Cyprus
4. Western Europe
Turkish Prime Minister Urguplu says
that the feeling in his government and
parliament is such that he would not be
able to restrain those in favor of war
if there is a single attack on Turkish
Cypriots. Urguplu, lacking Inonu's pres-
tige, is in a weaker position vis-a-vis
the army.
The arrival of Soviet arms in Cyprus
may bring to an end Ankara's brief flir-
tation with Moscow. The Turks view. So-
viet denials as taking refuge in a tech-
nicality.
In Athens, the government has evi-
dently provided the press with the line
that the Soviet arms are purely defen-
sive. One editorial implied that the
US is "hypocritical" in objecting.
Foreign Minister Fanfani has pro-
posed an EEC foreign ministers' meeting
in May on procedural aspects of Euro-
pean political unification. De Gaulle
and Erhard agreed in January that unity
talks this spring would be desirable, but
have said little about this since. Spaak
told his parliament this week that the
European political community will be-
come a reality in three to five years.
In an apparent warning to the Wilson
government, Spaak also said that time
is working against UK membership in the
EEC.
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5. Congo
6. Ghana
Voting in the parliamentary elec-
tions, which will continue province-by-
province until the end of April, begins
in the Katangan provinces this weekend.
As yet, no foreign governments have
taken up Tshombe's invitation to send
observers.
One of Tshombe's campaign aides
says that candidates allied with him
will win 150 of the 180 seats, and that
parliament will then elect Tshombe pres-
ident.
Although various other sources have
reported that Tshombe plans to replace
President Kasavubu, this is the first
time one of his close political hench-
men has mentioned it to the US Embassy.
Even if these reports are false, they
may well cause trouble, since Kasavubu
commands broad political power and
guards it jealously.
Col. Hoare's force of mercenaries
and Congolese is advancing northward
toward Aba from Mahagi in the border-
closing operation. No further brushes
with the Ugandans have been reported.
The US Embassy in Accra reports
that public resentment against Nkrumah
is becoming more pronounced because of
increasing unemployment, shortages of
consumer goods, and government auster-
ity measures.
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