THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 1 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959066
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 1, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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1. Brazil
a. In the crucial hour, accord-
ing to press reports, the anti-Goulart
revolt centered in Minas Gerais state,
seems to be winning the support from
elsewhere that it has desperately
needed.
b. It has been joined, late
press reports say, by six other south
and southwestern states, reportedly
including Goulart's home state of Rio
Grande do Sul, headquarters of the
loyalist third army. We are not so
sure of the loyalty of this province
to the rebel cause,
c. Goulart even so has lost impor-
tant strength and is on a slippery
slope indeed. Army Chief of Staff,
Branco, who heads a strong anti-Goulart
movement in the army has finally thrown
his support to the insurrection, but
has reportedly since been arrested.
d. There are conflicting reports
concerning the second army commander
Kruel, who commands some 25,000 troops
in Sao Paulo. Late press reports have
him supporting the revolt and moving
toward Rio, but this has yet to be
confirmed. So too, does a report that
some rebel troops from Minas Gerais
are on the march toward Brasilia.
Most of these troops, it would seem,
will be needed at the southern state
border to meet loyalist first army
forces, under War Minister Dantas mov-
ing up from Rio.
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e. In Rio itself, anti-Goulart
-governor Lacerda is holed up in the
executive mansion surrounded by po-
lice in anticipation of a loyalist
marine effort to arrest him. Lacerda
has few forces of his own and is in
a tough spot as the first army is
garrisoned in his city.
f. As expected, the Communist
led labor federation has declared a
general strike to show its support
for Goulart. Some of its ringleaders
have been rounded up by Lacerda's
police and the strike seems to be
only partially effective, but in the
explosive atmosphere, massive distur-
bances could ensue.
? g. The only consistency in the
welter of confusing and conflicting
reports is the notable absence, so
far, of open hostilities, even in
Guanabara and Rio Grande do Sul(where
government and opposition forces
are about equal in number ) and at
the border of the rebel stronghold in
Minas Gerais state.
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. Cambodia
. South Vietnam?
a. Sihanouk has decided to put
aside his foreign policy problems
for a while and take .a couple of months
off.
b. He has discarded the idea
of a Geneva Conference for the time
being and no longer plans to go to
Hanoi and Peiping to seek help. Nor
does he intend to break relations with
the US or the UK as he had earlier
threatened.
? c. In other words, he is tempo-
rarily settling for the status quo.
Perhaps he realizes domestic problems
have been neglected for too long.
d. In any event, he says he is
going to devote himself to his family,
prepare himself for numerous holidays
and anniversaries next month, and
?get ready for his trip to France (fty?
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June).
a. The Viet Cong continue where
possible to level their sights at US
military personnel in the field. US
trucks in two separate convoys near
Hue were singled out for mining and
harassing fire last weekend.
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4. Somalia-
Ethiopia
b. They are also now trying
particularly to terrorize those local
government officials and field of-
ficers who have proved themselves
effective against them. Two such
leaders in the crucial delta area were
killed this past week, and another
nearly so.
c. The Viet Cong thus seem in-
tent on frustrating Khanh's plans to
send better qualified personnel into
the field to provide "grass roots"
leadership.
a. Somali and Ethiopian repre-
sentatives meeting in Khartoum on Mon-
day reaffirmed their adherence to a
cease-fire, but fighting has continued
in at least five places along the bor-
der.
? b. The Ethiopians have moved up
reinforcements and seem to be on the
offense in retaliation for continuing
harassment by Somali tribesmen in the
Ogaden. ?
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A. South Korea - Japan The prospect of a Korean-Japanese
treaty has receded, probably into next year at least.
It will be some time before public opinion in Seoul can
be reconciled to the idea, and officials now say they
do not plan to try for a treaty by May when the current
session of the Japanese Diet ends.
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F. Turkey Some? of the urgency has gone out of the Parlia-
mentary crisis over Inonu's tax bill. The government
apparently has decided that the better part of valor
would be quietly to settle for a compromise bill.
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