THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 5 OCTOBER 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959464
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 5, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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5 OCTOBER 1964
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1. South Vietnam
2. Congo
a. Two key elements have
finally given the new High National
Council their public, if conditioned,
support.
b. Militant Buddhist leader
Tri Quang has urged his followers
to give the Council a chance to
carry out its promises. The leader
of the new People's Revolutionary
Committee, Dr. Quyen, has said
much the same.
c. Their statements consider-
ably improve Khanh's chances of
lasting out his 60-day mandate.
d. The Council is expected
to publish a draft provisional con-
stitution soon, but differences
among the membership are likely to
slow its work on other problems.
a. Red Cross officials now
in Bujumbura have been unable to
arrange another visit to Stanley-
ville.
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b. Their request to the
Stanleyville rebels drew a reply
signed by Soumialot and saying
that "President" Gbenye was absent
and nothing could be done before
12 October. Chances are that
Gbenye left to attend the Cairo
conference, but we have no confir-
mation.
c. The Red Cross plane is
likely to be sent back to Switzer-
land within the next day or so.
d.
rumors, brought by
travelers from Stanleyville, that
US personnel there are being mis-
treated.
e. Tshombe, according to
press reports, arrived at Cairo
at dawn today, but his plane was
not allowed to land. It flew on
to Athens.
f. The conference sponsors,
Nasir, Tito, and Madame Bandaranaike,
have asked Kasavubu to come in
Tshombe's stead. Kasavubu is un-
likely to accept.
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3. Cyprus
4. Italy
a, The Turkish Cypriots are
holding up a settlement on control
of the Nicosia-Kyrenia road.
b. They are willing to let
the UN check and convoy unarmed
Greek civilians, but they want
Turkish Cypriot police to control
the road and handle non-Greek
travelers.
c. Our embassy in Nicosia
thinks a lot more pressure from
Ankara will be, required to make
the Turkish Cypriots knuckle under.
d. Makarios' absence from
the island during the nonaligned
conference in Cairo will probably
hold up further negotiations.
e. The embassy reports the
general impression in Nicosia that
the Cypriots got very little from
their recent dealings in Moscow.
a. Moro, in trying to make
?a truce in the bitter fight between
his own left-wing Christian Demo-
cratic faction and Fanfani's right
wing, may drive the Socialists out
of his coalition and bring on a
new crisis.
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b. Leaders of the Christian
Democratic factions have agreed on
a party program, but the left be-
lieves it does not have enough
reform in it to Satisfy Nenni and
Saragat.
c. The Socialist leaders do
not believe they can give much more
ground in keeping the "opening to
the left" open.
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NOTES
A. Indonesia-Malaysia
Djakarta intends to move one more
army brigade to Borneo and two to North Sumatra.
The moves are probably part of a contingency
plan against a British and Malaysian attack on
Indonesia.
B. Ecuador The junta has given in to Guayaquil's
demands for autonomy and will release all per-
sons arrested during the past few days. Almost
constant demonstrations over the weekend forced.
the junta's hand. The US consul cautions that
the agreement announced last night may not
completely calm the situation, since the pro-
test movement may now be controlled by elements
determined to bring the junta itself down.
C. Syria The ouster of ineffectual Prime Minister
Bitar on Saturday puts Baathist-oriented mili-
tary leaders in direct control of the Syrian
Government. Lt. Gen. Amin al-Hafiz, the new
premier and long-time strong. man of the regime,
is reported ready to make peace with Nasir in
an effort to end Syria's isolation in the Arab
world. Nasir's vendetta with the Baath Party,
? however, and the hostility of the Nasir-backed
regime in Iraq make his success unlikely.
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D. USSR The government has sharply increased the
price it will pay for gold bought from the popu-
lation, another indication of its worry over
its gold position./
E. Haiti A new group of some 30 to 40 exiles
is believed to have landed near Port Salut in
southwestern Haiti. The rebels probably in-
tend to join up with the few exiles still opera-
ting in this area.
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