THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 10 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
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• Publication Date: April 10, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
10 APRIL 1964
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1. Brazil
a. The military shows no
signs of being ready at this time
to step down from the stage and
return control to the civilian
politicians.
b. Yesterday, War Minister
Costa e Silva promulgated an
"institutional act" which
will remain in effect until Janu-
ary 1966. It suspends certain
constitutional guarantees and gives
the revolutionary leaders the
authority they have been seeking
to proceed against elements in
Congress, the government, and the
military.
c. He did not wait for con-
gressional approval, which might
have been obtained, suggesting
that the key figures now see no
need to seek "legitimacy" through
Congress. At least two Congress-
men were arrested last evening
and dozens more are on the mili-
tary's list.
d. The high command still
seems to be backing Castello Branco
for interim president. Congress
will most likely elect him today
or tomorrow, the alternative ap-
parently being that or dissolution.
General Kruel has been put forward
as an alternative, but his candi-
dacy has not worked up Much steam.
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2. Cyprus
a. Turkey is thinking of
calling for an urgent Security
Council meeting on the question
of the Turkish contingent on Cyprus.
b. The Turks remain deter-
mined not to move their contingent
off the Kyrenia road, despite
Makarios? announcement he will cut
off its water if it does not
return to camp. The Turks did
say yesterday that they would per-
mit Greek Cypriot civilians to
use the road and the UN force to
patrol it.
c. There were few incidents
yesterday and one hopeful sign.
Six Turkish Cypriot employees of
the US Embassy returned to work
yesterday for the first time since
the December outbursts.
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d. Makarios seems, however,
quite determined to prevent the
Turkish Cypriots from returning
to their governmental roles except
on his terms. He says they must
first "clarify" their attitude
toward "the state," i.e., Makarios.
? e. The archbishop is off to
Greece tomorrow for talks. For
what it may be worth, he went out
of his way before leaving to have
a talk with Bishop Kyprianos,
described as a fanatic champion of
enosis. Makarios has not been an
enthusiast, seeing little in it
for himself.
f. In Turkey the feeling
seems to be gaining ground that
Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots
have come to their present pass
by following US guidance. Three
hundred more Greeks in Turkey have
been given 15 days to liquidate
their business or leave their job.
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3. Burma
a. Ne Win is plunging ahead
with his zenophobic program to
socialize the country and rid it
of foreign influences.
b. Yesterday he extended
the nationalization of wholesale
and retail concerns from Rangoon,
where they were taken over last
month, to the rest of Burma. Most
affected by these steps are Indian
and Chinese businessmen; the former
are leaving Burma at the rate of
150 a day.
c. All of this bears more
than a superficial resemblance to
the Indonesian action against
foreign shopkeepers several years
ago.
d. Last week the Burmese
leader forced the closing of USIA
and British Council libraries as
well as the Burmese-American
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4. South Vietnam
e. Ne Win's increasingly
totalitarian approach is not con-
fined to foreigners. He has hinted
that he is ready to make "living
sacrifices" among the opposition
to his domestic programs.
f. Many of his opponents
have long since been jailed or
at least removed from official
posts.
g. The dismissal and subse-
quent arrest of Trade Minister
Chit Myaing removed the last ef-
fective voice of moderation from
Ne Win's Revolutionary Council.
It leaves economic policy, which
Ne Win shows no sign of under-
standing, entirely in the hands
of leftist-oriented radicals.
h. Opposition to these tend-
encies exists, but except for the
tribal insurgents, seems divided,
leaderless, and generally hopeless.
a. The Viet Cong is keeping
up the pressures on the Khanh
regime.
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b. Wednesday's raid on a
military training center only 15
miles from Saigon netted the Com-
munists a nice haul of small arms
and equipment. It was followed by
the ambush yesterday of a govern-
ment battalion in the delta area.
c. The incident rate has
stayed above 400 a week since early
last month, well over the average
of the past two years.
d. The Communists are begin-
ning to act like a de facto govern-
ment in guerrilla-infested Quang
Ngai. In this province,small Viet
Cong bands enter government hamlets,
"eliminate" the local leaders, and
begin issuing directives to the
residents.
e. The picture is not all
black, however. Government action
in some provinces is getting re-
sults, slow and oainful as the
going may be.
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5. Gabon
6. Libya
a. In next Sunday's elections
we expect Leon Mba and his
helpers to stuff the ballot boxes
even in cases where Mba's men
would win anyway.
b. This will set off the
opposition, which has been at hair
trigger ever since the French
plucked Mba out of the bush in
February and restored him to the
presidential chair.
c. The French are saying,
for our benefit at least, that
once the elections are over, Mba
will be on his own. They antici-
pate that once French troops are
removed Mba will have to compromise
with his opponents, something
neither Mba nor the French have
encouraged so far.
d. We doubt that these op-
ponents would accept anything ex-
cept his ouster. Ambassador
Darlington thinks that Mba will
be forced to go "sooner rather than
later."
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NOTES
Israel In the Israeli-US talks this week, the Israelis
have givenno hope that they will abandon their pro-
grams as long as Nasir has one. The anticipated public
uproar in the Arab states on the possibility of a US-
Israeli tank deal is building up.
Jordan-USSR Husayn
might seek Soviet arms if his desires are
met in the West
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D. Afro-Asian Conference A meeting to lay the groundwork
for a second Afro-Asian conference gets under way in
Bandung today. Most of the nations attending are
represented by secondary figures, but two have sent
foreign ministers. Pakistan's Bhutto is passing up
the opening sessions of the SEATO conference to do a
little anti-Indian lobbying. Peiping has sent Foreign
Minister Chen Yi in a bid to repeat the success scored
at the 1955 Bandung meeting.
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E. Cambodia-USSR Sihanouk has approved a Soviet pro-
posal for a new shipment of military equipment to
Phnom Penh.
F. Belgium As the doctor's strike continues, political
temperatures are rising. If a settlement is not ham-
mered out soon, the stability of the present coalition
government will be threatened. Difficulties could
arise from within the coalition parties themselves, or,
perhaps, from a flurry of protest strikes by organized
labor.
G. British Guiana The pro-Jagan union has again resorted
to violence in pressing its so far unsuccessful effort
to wrest control of the sugar workers from an anti-Jagan
union. The latter is threatening reprisals. In Jagan's
People's Progressive Party, dissension between extremist
and moderate factions is growing with Jagan's own sym-
pathies and indeed control over the party unclear.
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a. There is a second large
area of high priority construction
in a remote section of China's
far west.
? b. This one is near Yumen
some 300 miles to the northwest of
the Kokonor projectj
Activity at the Yumen site was
first seen in photography of
September 1959.
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c. Since that time construc-
tion at the site has been pushed
fairly rapidly despite the general
economic retrenchment and construe-
tion .cutbacks elsewhere.
d. This fact, plus its iso-
lated location and the lack of
similarity with normal industrial
installations, leads us to believe
that we are looking at photography
of a major national defenseproj-
ect-
e. ? The photography also shows
extensive spacing between individ-
ual facilities at the site, a large
power plant under construction and
several huge excavations of a most
unusual shape and size, all sug-
gestive of an atomic energy associa-
tion.
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