THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 18 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959121
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 18, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
18 APRIL 1964
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1. Cyprus
a. The island was generally
quiet again yesterday following
Makarios' return from talks in
Athens.
? c. There is no letup in
the Turkish war of nerves, however.
Yesterday the authorities in
Istanbul were ostentatiously taking
a census in areas where Greeks
live, letting it be known that
this is a necessary preliminary
to expulsion.
d. While this goes on, the
Turks are drawing a bow at the US
and other NATO countries. The
US is being depicted as unable or
unwilling to help the Turks. One
paper yesterday called into ques-
tion US base rights in Turkey.
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2. South Vietnam
e. A foreign office man,
following Inonu's lead, told the
press that if NATO continues
"to tread on our feet, we could,
of course, withdraw."
f. We do not think that
the Turks mean to follow through
on any of this, but there is a
strong emotional feeling that
Turkey has been left in the lurch
on the Cyprus matter.
a. Vietnamese Communist
authorities, proceeding from the
premise that it is best to strike
while the Khinh regime is still
unstable, recently sent a new
set of instructions to operatives
in the field.
b. These instructions,
mark no sharp departure from past
practice. Rather they seem
designed to bring new vigor to
current operations.
c. The orders call for an
all-out effort in the countryside
to hamper large-scale government
operations, to harass government
hamlets and set up Viet Cong
"combat hamlets," and to build up
Communist administration at the
village level.
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3. Libya
d. The effort in the cities
is to be directed to promoting
support for the neutralization
of South Vietnam and to offering
help to coup plotters.
e. Viet Cong military action
has indeed been stepped up in
the past few weeks. The five-day
fight this week in the southern
delta was the largest single
engagement of the war so far.
Over 200 Communists were killed,
by the latest count.
f. Following this, the Viet
Cong has thrown itself into another
large-scale action near the
Cambodian border and stepped up
its activity in one delta area
southeast of Saigon.
a. King Idris,
has ordered Premier Muntassir to
agree in the forthcoming negotia-
tion over US and UK bases that
the bases can stay for a long
time, not just for three or four
years.
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4. USSR
b. The King has assured
Muntassir that the Libyan parlia-
ment will accept such an agreement.
To make certain of this, the King
plans to install a new, more
pliant parliament.
c. We think the King is
over Nationalist
sentiment on this score is strong,
and the current lull in antibase
agitation, both in Libya and
Cairo, could come to an abrupt
end if the King follows the
indicated line.
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5. Brazil
6. Zanzibar
4. . Though the cleanup of
Communists and fellow travelers
goes on, it seems to us :that the
pace has slackened and that the
Authorities are.beginning to pay
increased attention to the more
pedestrian business of forming
a working government.
b. Foreign Minister Leitao
da Cunha gave Ambassador Gordon
to understand yesterday that a
break with Cuba is in the cards
and all that remains to be decided
are the timing and pretext./
c. The foreign minister has
also suggested that, in view of
the open border between Uruguay
and Brazil, it would be a good
idea to persuade Montevideo to
get rid of Goulart. He wondered
if we could plant this idea where
it would do the most good.
a. Rumors are going about
in Dar-es-Salaam and elsewhere
that the leaders of the Zanzibar
Government may be about to part
ways.
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b. One interesting version,
has
Babu about to be eased out of the
picture by Hanga, who
would be
preferable as a leader. The story
is that Babu, like Okello, will
not be permitted to re-enter
Zanzibar when his present Southeast
Asian trip is over.
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NOTES
B. North Sea Oil As expected, trouble over the
rights to explore for gas and oil in North
Sea waters has not been long developing./
C. UN General Assembly U Thant is thinking of
a 10 NoVember opening day for this year's
General Assembly, rather than the usual Sep-
tember date. The delay is occasioned by the
US elections and the "nonaligned" conference
now set for October.
D. Angola - Communist China Holden Roberto has
now postponed "indefinitely" plans to go to
Peiping to discuss arms and other aid. This
decision is said to have followed Roberto's
talks with Bourguiba)
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