Monday, January 17, 1966 - .. 7: 05 AM ::vL2YiORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT SouU-1 Vietnarn ])urin; the past 24 hours the Viet Cong have launched a series of sharp a.ttack5 against government installations. A special forces camp in Binh Long Prov1nc:e was mortared and overrun and a. nearby village was occupied. Vietnam•se casualties were 34 killed, 60 wounded, and a village chief and Vietnam~..se special forces soldier captured. The Th&i Otte Infantry School, northeast of Saigon, was attacked by an est)mate were 8 killed and 12 wounded. f!0iur Viet Cong were reported killed. A.noi:her Viet Coag fo:rce attacked two Regional Force Companies approximately .si:,c l"'nlile~ .south of Danang, :resulting in friendly losses of 9 killed and 12 wounclcd. Viet Cong losses a:re not known. A n-:i)~ exploded today under a bus about 40 miles west of Saigon, killing ~ Vietnamese civilians and wounding 4. .· A VS p.ilot s~ott-ed an estimated Viet Cong battalion crossing a river c..rprcnc1n:-alc1y 20 miles; west of Saigon. Nineteen ah·craft were diverted to s.i..,..:Ke. m.c. force resulting in a reported 7 Viet Cong known killed and an c.JJ1{i.onal 36-45 estimated killed. O:perati.on J~fierson, a Korean/US/Vietnamese operation 60 miles south o.f Qui ~on, has been terminated. Final casualties are 3 US killed and 8 wounded, 2.9 Koreans killed and 66 wounded, 13 South Vietnamese killed and 18 wounded. Viet Cong casualties were 391 killed and 14 captured. Dominican ReOJ..1}>1ic ---------!:=-­ General Palmer :ia sc.)\ed11led to depart the Dominican Republic today. He will he relieved 4s US Command.er Dominican Republic by General Robert Linvill. DECLAssIFIID A11tbomyl-1kJ <'f;IO-ll\\ ("\~) Bv~~~NARA, Date I!J1J/Sj2lj p \ uH;~ed A B--5l anl a XC-135 Tanker c-:-a~!~-:d while conducting a refueling operation ~ 180 ~Hes from Gib~altlr. The B-52 crashed on the shore in Spain and the Tanker went down in the sea. Four survivors have been picked up and three a.cld~Hona.l life :i.:afts have been sighted. The B-52 was carrying four Mark 28 tbcirmo-nuclea:r weapons. The 16th Nuclear Disaster ·team has been dispa.tchea. to the a:rea. White House Situation Room I . :-P--/}'11 <.. / ~ f -~ l )_>~t...(I~" . /., Lv-~-(.,A/r}JB~iefing Officer t , " PRESERVi rtON COPY ... • r