THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 28 MAY 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959202
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 28, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
28 MAY 1964
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Laos
a. Communist forces will soon
be in position to train their guns
on Muong Soui, the main obstacle
to a westward advance along Route 7.
b. Neutralist efforts to
defend this position, assuming they
try, will be hampered by a lack of
supplies and a heavy loss of armor.
Before withdrawing from Muong
Kheung for the second time yester-
day, the neutralists destroyed the
bulk of their heavy equipment.
c. Pathet Lao forces are also
keeping up the pressure to the
south of the Plaine. They seem
especially intent on wiping out the
Meo guerrillas in this area.
d. In Vientiane, Souvanna
won some support for his policies
from the rightist-dominated
national assembly before the ses-
sion ended Tuesday. Some elements
remain critical, however, of his
failure to take strong actions,
e. Warsaw threw still another
conference proposal into the hopper
yesterday. Rapacki would have the
co-chairmen, the three ICC powers,
and representatives of the three
Laotian factions convene in Switzer-
land immediately.
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2. France -
North Vietnam
f. The proposal was produced
after consultations in Moscow,
where the Polish ICC commissioner
for Laos turned up over the weekend.
The immediate aim may have been to
counter British pressure on Poland
to end its "temporary withdrawal"
from the ICC.
g. Soviet spokesmen are try-
ing meanwhile to influence US
decisions/
a. Several small straws in
the Paris wind suggest that the
French are willing to develop
closer political contacts with
Hanoi.
b. The chief of North Viet-
nam's trade mission in Paris was
received for the first time at the
Quai by the head of the Far Eastern
office. Previously, the Hanoi man
had been unable to get past the
economic and cultural functionaries.
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3. India
d. Ho Chi Minh has made no
secret of his interest in diplo-
matic relations.1
e. The French will not want
to rush things. Formal recogni-
tion of Hanoi would jeopardize the
much larger French economic stake
in South Vietnam.
a. President Radhakrishnan
is pressing for an immediate
decision on a successor to Nehru.
Congress Party members of Parlia-
ment are caucusing today, but may
deal only with preliminaries.
b. What worries Radhakrishnan,
and we think rightly, is that the
longer the election process is
prolonged the greater will be the
danger of a factional struggle
developing.
c. Front-runner Shastri prob-
ably is also interested in speeding
up a vote.
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4. Congo
d. One immediate effect of
Nehru's death has been to put
Sheikh Abdullah back where he
started in his delicate dealings
on Kashmir. He has canceled what
was left of his peace mission in
Pakistan, and has gone back to
Delhi to re-read the situation
before taking up his case again
with India's new leadership.
a. The latest pocket revolt
broke out yesterday in Albertville
in North Katanga. Unidentified
rebels seized and blocked the air-
field there and locked up local
authorities.
b. The best guess at the
moment in that the local gendar-
merie mutinied.
c. Leopoldville officials
meanwhile have reconsidered their
request that UN troops help out
in Kivu. They are sending in
additional Congo Army units from
Leopoldville and Stanleyville in
the hope that this will do the
trick.
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5. Lebanon
a. Efforts to draft President
Shihab for a second term are going
forward, despite continuing signs
that he means business when he says
he wants to quit.
b. Parliament ?yesterday took
the first steps toward removing
the constitutional bar against a
president succeeding himself. Many
feel Shihab's re-election in August
is the only way to avoid bitter
religious and political wrangling
over a successor.
c. Shihab will now find it
more difficult to resist the pres-
sure to run again, and may yield
in the end.
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NOTES
B. East Germany - USSR Ulbricht is off on Fri-
day on his third mission to Moscow this year.
He is mainly interested in doing something
about his regime's growing isolation. Bonn's
recent success in improving its relations
with Eastern Europe, whose leaders have shown
little concern for East German interests, has
hit Ulbricht where it hurts. He will be look-
ing for remedies in Moscow.
C. USSR A new Soviet twin-jet interceptor is
being phased into operation at an air defense
base in the Black Sea area. The new fighter,
probably one of two first shown in the July
1961 air show, is an all-weather, Mach 2 air-
craft with advanced weapons and a range con-
siderably greater than any Soviet fighter now
operational.
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D. Cambodia-France Sihanouk, who had planned
to arrive incognito in France today, now
expects to land in Nice on Monday. The
prince wants to take a rest cure until his
official visit begins two weeks later. A
Cambodian military mission is coming to France
with Sihanouk ,to seek additional military aid.
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