THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 29 JUNE 1961

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005958926
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 29, 1961

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
29 JUNE 1961
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1. Cuban air force
dependence on
lloc extended.
A contingent of Cuban air force radio
operators are slated for 4 6-month
training course in RussianreqUiPment.
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Shipment of Soviet-made transport
aircraft will probably soon supple-. 50X1
ment the MIG fighters recently delivered.
. Iraq-Kuwait
a) Most Iraqis are astonished at
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hoping he can get Away with it,
many others worried that he has
taken on more than he can handle;
b) Several Iraq government officials
have expressed their frank
opinion that Qasim is crazy;
c) As of 28 June, no evidence of
abnormal military activity in
Baghdad area;
d) Most likely Qasim objectives for
the present are to establish
juridical claim to Kuwait and
to buttress himself as Arab
nationalist;
e) But even if he does not move
militarily now, Qasim--half
cuckoo and half fox--will be
watchful for international
crisis likely to tie British
hands.
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3. Austria favors UN member-
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De Gaulle, speaking in Lorraine, and Debre, in Paris, yesterday
repeated intent to partition unless rebels unbend in Evi n talks.
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Bonn has reportedly decided to offer food supplies to East
Germany. (West German press)
C. Nkrumah, f ced with impending financial crisis, will ask for a
280 million doll r Soviet loan during his July visit to Moscow
according to high Ghana official
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WATCH COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS-728 June
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A. No Sino-Soviet Bloc country intends to initiate hostilities a-
gainst the United States or its possessions in the immediate future.
B. No Sino-Soviet Bloc country intends deliberately to initiate
direct military action against US forces abroad, US allies, or areas
peripheral to the Bloc in the immediate future.
C. BERLIN: The Watch Committee sees no indications which would
lead to a different conclusion from that of the Berlin Committee
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LAOS: The CommuniSts will maintain their pressures on the Boun
Oum government to accede to the establishment of a "neutralist"
coalition government favorable to them while they continue small-
Scale military operations against government forces and the
consolidation of their military position. The ability of the
Royal Laotian Government to maintain its cohesion and determina-
tion to resist is becoming increasingly eroded.
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Khrushchev's 28 June speech in Moscow - We summarize it 50X1
as follows:
It contained the usual mixture of threats and inducements
which he still.hopes will bring the West to make concessions on
Berlin and Germany. at the bargaining table. Khrushchev served
notice that urgings of Western "hotheads" for .mobilization and ,
other military measures will not deter the USSR ,from signing a, sep-
arate peace treaty with East Germany and warned that Moscow is
"taking the necessary meaSures to counter any Western moves to
declare a mobilization. Khrushchev, on the .other_hand, complained
that the West is distorting his proposals on-Berlin and Germany
and stressed his readiness to reopen negotiatkons, He &intended
Soviet proposals would protect West Berlin's: right to choose its
own social and economic system under international guarantees.
He also sought to minimize the consequences of a separate treaty
by again stating "there will be no blockade-of West Berlin of any
kind" and no "restrictions" on access, provided that interested
powers reach an agreement with East Germany. Khrushchev also
hinted that a second meeting with President Kennedy might be
!'useful," although he did not link this directly to the Berlin
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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