THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 27 OCTOBER 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959507
• 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 27, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
27 OCTOBER 1 964
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1. South Vietnam -
Cambodia
a. There have been four in-
cidents in the past week along the
highly charged border between South
Vietnam and Cambodia. Further
trouble seems to be in the cards.
b. Two of the incidents in-
volved air strikes by Vietnamese
planes against a Cambodian border
village. In another, the Cambo-
dians seem to have become enmeshed
in a skirmish between South Viet-
namese and the Viet Cong.
c. Then, the Cambodians
claim to have shot down a C-123
on a resupply mission near the
border. American lives were lost
in the last two incidents.
d. Yesterday, Sihanouk
warned that the next "aggressive
act" against Cambodia would re-
sult in a diplomatic break with
the US as well as his recognition
of Hanoi and the South Vietnamese
rebels.
e. He also spoke o "re-
prisals."
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2. Gabon
a. The French, who have been
the chief if not the only support
of President Leon Mba since the
February coup attempt, have now
withdrawn that support.
flight to Paris. Mba was balky,
but got on the plane when told that
the Paris decision was irrevocable.
c. The sudden French action
was prompted by the recent spate
of beatings and public humiliations
visited on Mba's political oppo-
nents. The last straw was when
his goon squads began to include
Europeans, even French citi-
zens, in their ministrations.
d. There is no hint of what
Paris intends to do now.
e. The French, who have
vital economic interests in Gabon,
will bend every effort to keep
their hand in. But their die-
hard backing of Mba will make it
difficult to strike any arrangement
with an effective alternative.
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3. USSR
a. The grapevine from Moscow
has turned up several plausible
accounts of why and how Khrushchev
was sacked. Most seem to agree
that the chief cause was domestic
and economic.
b. One version, attributed
to a Pravda staff man, has it that
the ouster was triggered by a 2
October Pravda story which conveyed
the impression that the top leaders
. were in agreement with Khrushchev's
plan to de-emphasize heavy industry
and defense.
c. By this account, Brezhnev
and Kosygin engineered the coup to
prevent this alleged directive from
being put into effect.'
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4. Bolivia
f. Not surprisingly, a num-
ber of foreign Communists are in-
clined to give weight to Khru-
shchev's tactics in dealing with
Peiping as the primary cause for
his downfall.
a. There were serious riots
in at least three Bolivian cities
yesterday, and the Paz govern-
ment is braced for another round
of violence today.
b. Student demonstrators
against the government are being
joined by rambunctious tin miners
and other leftist elements. The
attitude of Barrientos is not clear,
but apparently he has not yet ir-
revocably cast his lot with these
elements.
c. So far government secu-
rity forces have been able to con-
tain the disturbances with a min-
imum of difficulty. However, stocks
of antiriot equipment are running
low, and there are signs of greater
organization and discipline among
the demonstrators.
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NOTES
A. Sudan After opposition elements showed their
muscle yesterday by calling a fairly effective
general strike, Prime Minister Abboud moved to
conciliate them by firing his old cabinet and
letting it be known that hard-line military
figures will not be included in the new list.
Though willing to throw sops such as this to
civilian opposition leaders, Abboud does not
seem to have been shaken sufficiently to con-
template any really meaningful dimunition of
his or the military's power.
B. Panama Like his predecessors, President
Robles is finding it difficult to get moving
on a program of badly needed economic reforms
in the face of opposition from entrenched in-
terests. Now, the difficulty is compounded by
the fact that the followers of the defeated
candidate, Arnulfo Arias, see in this a chance
to discredit the victorious Robles.
C. Cuba - International Communism
the Cubans are
trying to line up a conference of Latin Ameri-
can Communist parties in Havana for
the purpose of working out a joint position on
the Sino-Soviet controversy.
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D. Cuba-Africa The Cubans seem to have made
points among the African delegations to the
recent nonaligned conference, and, as a re-
sult, we may see a broadening of Havana's diplo-
matic representation on the continent. Burundi,
Ethiopia,Tunisia, Dahomey, and Nigeria have
been mentioned. Cuba has also dangled offers
of aid before the Congo (Brazzaville) and Holden
Roberto's Angolan rebel movement.
G. Cyprus The opening of the Nicosia-Kyrenia
road and the rotation of about half the troops
of the Turkish contingent went off yesterday
without incident.
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Communist China
b. mission
disclosed a 70-foot missile
at., one of the 4joaAs at the
Shuangchengtzu missile test
erected
center.
c. The size suggests a missile
on the order of the Soviet SS-3 or:
SS-4. We cannot be sure whether
the missile is one provided by the
USSR before 1960 or a missile fab-
ricated at least in part by the.
Chinese.
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