THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 1 OCTOBER 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959457
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 1, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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1 OCTOBER 1964
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1. South Vietnam
a. Khanh continues to give
ground before the young generals
who saved his skin on 13 September.
b. Besides getting rid of
Khiem, he has accepted the resig-
nation or agreed to send abroad
several other officers who have
been black-balled by the young
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are supposed to have pledged him
their support.
c. So far Khanh has pro-
ceeded cautiously in the case of
the Rhade tribesmen.
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d. Minh, according to Ambas-
sador Taylor, is optimistic about
the prospects for formation of a
civilian government. For once he
is really pitching in and doing his
part.
e. Only a month remains, how-
ever, before Khanh must step down,
if indeed he lasts that long.
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2. North Vietnam
a. A new wave of infiltra-
tion into South Vietnam by North
Vietnamese military forces may be
under way.
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iperhaps as many as
three North Vietnamese battalion-
size units with heavy weapons
moving southward through the infil-
tration corridor in late August
and early September.
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3. Communist
China - Africa
a. Communist China has been
assiduously courting new African
states with traveling circuses,
acrobatic troupes, and hard-headed
offers of cash in return for recog-
nition.
b. Senegal and the Central
African Republic have succumbed.
Dahomey and Cameroon may soon fol-
low.
c. These successes of course
will affect the representation
vote in the upcoming General As-
sembly. The Chinese probably
calculate, as do others, that the
shift of a few votes could give
them a bare majority in a straight
vote.
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4. Cyprus
? d. This would not get Peiping
into the UN, but it might provoke
Chiang into pulling out.
a. The Greek Cypriots claim
they have signed an arms agreement
with Moscow.
b. Moscow has not yet com-
mented, but an official communiqu?
is due later today. The Soviets
may have agreed to give Makarios
a limited amount of hardware.
c. If so, the agreement will
be yet another point of friction
between Makarios and Athens.
d. The 'problem of rotating
troops of the Turkish contingent
on Cyprus is heating up again.
The arrangements which UN officials
glued together late last week have
come unstuck, with Turkey refusing
to link the rotation with the open
ing of the Nicosia-Kyrenia road.
e. Officials in Ankara say
their patience is at an end. They
suggest that the rotation may be
attempted next week.
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5. Communist China
a. The Peiping regime's 15th
anniversary today has so far been
an uneventful, almost humdrum affair
marking one more mile post in the
long road back from the follies of
the Great Leap Forward.
b. Spokesmen for the regime
passed out the usual bouquets for
Mao Tse-tung, made ritual references
to how well things are going at
home and abroad, and rained the nor-50xi
mal amount of abuse on the US.
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NOTES
A. Honduras The Hondurans may be about to -wince
on another group of US fishing boats.
B. Libya With the death of security chief Bu
Quwaitin, King Idris loses one of the major
props of his regime. His departure will add
? to the regime's difficulties in dealing with
the ferment which has followed the arrest, just
before next week's election, of a large batch
of antiregime and pro-Egyptian figures.
C, USSR Khrushchev has left Moscow for what is
? expected to be a month's vacation near the Black
Sea.
D. Ecuador The ruling junta has fired the ruling
elders ofGuayaquil and put a naval captain in
charge of the turbulent city. This will only
exacerbate local hostility toward Quito. Fur-
ther disturbances are possible on 9 October,
when Guayaquil celebrates independence.
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F. Congo Belgians with interests, in the Congo
have concluded that they cannot do business
with the rebels. This opens the way. for
Brussels to take a stronger hand .in helping
Tshombe keep'peace and 'order. There is no '
change in the military picture.-
G. Great Britain Embassy London notes that a
strike in the automobile industry and a bitter
dock dispute are not helping LabOr's chances.
H. Bolivia Though the. Bolivian Government got
through the De .Gaulle visit without incident,
the security situation is still poor. The
miners have .been mobilizing their militia,
expecting the government forces will soon move
into. their area: Banditry has now broken out
in the northeast -proVinces,anci-guerrilla bands
are operating elsewhere along the Brazilian
border.
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USSR-China
a
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the Mission has now 50X1
been examined. It shows si?nifi-
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b. A large gantry had been
moved forward to enclose the large,
130-foot missile which showed up
in the first package four days
earlier. This suggests a flight
test of this vehicle will come soon.
c. Also,we saw ICBMs of three
types being prepared for firing at
Tyuratam, the largest number ever
seen at one time. Their measure-
ments conform generally to our
earlier estimates. All three were
apparently fired several days
later.
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acquired since early June cloud-
free photography of 16 of the 18
old ICBM complexes. No further
single silo construction of the
type being put in at the old com-
plex at Olovyannaya have been seen.
In this period, however, we have
found five new complexes using
single silos.
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