THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 27 JULY 1961

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005958970
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 27, 1961

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
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27 JULY 1961
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1. French anti-Gaullist
conspiracy
2. USSR offers economic
aid to the Sudan
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?Ex-general Salan proposed to Jacques
Soustelle that a political-military
committee be formed outside of Fral50X1
and Algeria and that its objectives
be to resist a rebel-dominated Algeria
and to prepare a "shadow government"
to seize power in France. 50X1
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Soviet-experts will go to the Sudan.
in the next few weeks to make a survey
and recommend specific industrial
projects to be underwritten with Soviet
credits and technical assistance.
Possible some military equipment may
also be included. Abboud is visiting
the USSR for the first time. 50X1
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A. Soviet First Deputy Premier Mikoyan is scheduled to visit Japan
unofficially in mid-August in connection with a Soviet trade fair.
This would be the first visit of a top Soviet official to Japan
since the Communist revolution of 1917. Mikoyan will probably
offer prospects of a further expansion of trade which doubled in
1960 over 1959.
B.
East German authorities are enforcing
their recent decree to
evict East Berliners who work in West Berlin from their state-
owned apartments unless they quit their jobs in the west.
C.
Nasir has so far been reluctant to invite the Tunisians to the
forthcoming conference of non-aligned countries. The clash at
Bizerte may have changed his mind and
to attend.
Bourguiba may now be asked
D.
Senegal, which severed diplomatic relations
with Portugal Tuesday,
is determined to have Lisbon change its African policy. Senegalese
leaders apparently want to establish close relations with nationalist
elements in Senegal who
ing Portuguese Guinea,
are planning terrorist
activity in neighbor-
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E.
Castro's main speech at
the 26 July celebrations
contained no bomb-
? shells. He later ordered the merger of all political organizations
into a new coalition called the "United Party of the Socialist Revo-
lution." The "surprise" which Castro promised the Cuban people may
yet be forthcoming without fanfare. 50X1
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WATCH COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS--26 July 1961
No Sino-Soviet Bloc country intends to initiate direct military
action in the immediate future.
- CONGO: The presence of a Soviet delegation in Stanleyville and
the rTgiiii political fortunes of Gizenga in the parliamentary debates
at Lovanium indicate that opportunities may develop for a resumption
of bloc penetration into the Congo. , IGenera50X1
Mobutu may attempt a military coup if the success of the Gizenga faction
appears imminent.
LAOS: Little progress is being made toward the formation of a coali-
tion government. No significant military actions are Immediately in
prospect.
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