THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 19 AUGUST 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959369
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 19, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE -
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
19 AUGUST 1964
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1. Cyprus
a. Tensions on the island
may ease somewhat as a result of
Makarios' agreement yesterday with
UN representatives to relax the
economic blockade against Turkish
Cypriot communities.
b. It remains to be seen,
however, how far the Greek Cypriots
will go in carrying out the agree-
ment. We have reports that water
and fuel supplies have already
been restored to some areas. But
Makarios has insisted that easing
the blockade must not prejudice
"normal military security measures.'
d. Greek Cypriot leaders,
backed by Soviet propaganda and
anticipating Soviet military aid,
probably believe they can force a
solution to the Cyprus problem
based on full independence and
self-determination. Communist-
line deputy Lyssarides, just back
from Moscow, is voicing this view.
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g. Greece has withdrawn its
military and civilian personnel
from NATO branch headquarters at
Izmir, Turkey, despite urgent ap-
peals from NATO headquarters in
Paris. The NATO secretary general
has asked both Greece and Turkey
to return the forces they had with-
drawn from NATO and to press
Makarios to cancel his appeal to
Moscow for military help. Ankara
has informed NATO that all Turkish
troops have been returned to their
NATO assignments.
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2. Congo
a. Tshombe apparently in-
tends to use his mercenaries soon
to lead "mobile groups" against
the rebels.
c. Albertville, seat of
leftist Gaston Soumialot's "Pro-
visional Government," may be in
a state of near anarchy. Soumialot
has been reported in Kindu and ap-
parently is not going to Stanley-
ville as expected. His name has
not been mentioned in the many
pronouncements uttered by rebel
"General" Olenga since his insur-
gents seized Stanleyville. This
suggests to us that Olenga may
contemplate taking over the rebel
leadership.
d. Our embassy in Leopold-
ville reports that the rebels may
be on the move again in Kwilu,
pushing toward the provincial
capital of Kikwit.
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3. USSR
g. Moscow's Pravda has charged
that the "transfer of US paratroopers
and armaments to the Congo" can
only mean that the US is entering
another undeclared war of the
"South Vietnam type."
h. The Congolese Government
announced this morning that it will
expel all nationals of neighboring
Congo (Brazzaville) and Burundi
because their governments are aid-
ing the rebels in the Congo.
a. Yesterday's space opera-
tion from Tyuratam differs from
any previous Soviet launching.
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b. Moscow announced that
three Cosmos satellites were or-
bited by a single booster of a
new type. The Soviets have never
before orbited three payloads with
a single booster.
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d. Tyuratam space launches
in the past have used the SS-6 mis-
sile. We have had no indications
that any more powerful booster is
available for space operations.
e. Most Cosmos satellites
launched from Tyuratam have been
for military reconnaissance. We
do not yet know the purpose of
yesterday's operation, but it has
some of the characteristics of
earlier scientific satellite
flights.
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NOTES
A. USSR-Zanzibar A Soviet ship arrived in Zan-
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advisers and a light cargo of military supplies,
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The sup-
plies delivered yesterday may be intended for
the expansion of Soviet training to include
Tanganyikans as well as Zanzibaris.
B. Yemen An army of Yemeni republican tribesmen,
with Egyptian artillery and air support, has
started an offensive against royalist tribes
in northwestern Yemen near the Saudi Arabian
border. Tactically, the operation is aimed at
cutting what supplies may be reaching the
royalists from Saudi Arabia. It is probably
also part of a broader effort to eliminate
royalist resistance before the Arab states'
summit conference scheduled for 5 September.
C. British Guiana The arrest of opposition
leader Forbes Burnham on Monday on charges of
illegal possession of shotgun shells further
confuses the political situation. Five other
members of Burnham's party were imprisoned the
same day, allegedly for complicity in the recent
bombings in Georgetown. As a result, the East
Indian community may rally to Premier Jagan's
cause, dimming prospects for the new anti-Jagan
Justice Party which has begun to attract East
Indians dissatisfied with the Jagan regime.
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E. South Vietnam Interrogations of two Viet Cong
defectors and the contents of a captured Viet
Cong document indicate that the Communists plan
a change in tactics in their forthcoming fall-
winter-spring campaign in the northern part of
the country. They allegedly will initiate a
"war of annihilation" against the South Viet-
namese Air Force in which everyone in each air
force unit under attack will be killed and the
unit erased from the table of organization.
They will also reportedly start a campaign of
"clinging to the enemy." Both campaigns, if
carried out, would be a marked departure from
typical insurgent hit-and-run tactics.
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G.
Bolivia Police sent to wipe out the guerrillas
in Santa Cruz Department early this month made
no headway, and the armed forces have taken over
the counterinsurgency effort. Vice President
that unless the
lawlessness is quickly halted it could reach
a point where all opposition forces would climb
on the bandwagon, including Communists and
Castroites. The efficiency, discipline, and
competent leadership of the guerrillas suggest
that the government's campaign might be a long
one.
H. Cuba-Bolivia The Bolivian foreign minister
has told our ambassador that La Paz may announce
tomorrow that it has broken relations with Cuba.
President Paz may have been holding off to give
the Cuban Embassy time to arrange its affairs
and establish an underground organization. The
Cubans in La Paz have reportedly stepped up
their efforts in the last few days to arrange
a "stay behind" network and have been in closer
contact than usual with Czech Embassy officials.
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