THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 24 OCTOBER 1961

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005991998
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 24, 1961

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
24 OCT W61
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1. Marshal Malinovsky's
anti-ballistic missile
claim
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2. Chinese Commummi-st
internal difficulties
The Marshal?who has frequently substituted
aspiration for realization in the past--
told the Party Congress yesterday that
"the problem Of destroying rockets in
flight has been successfully solved."
We do not take this at face value as
meaning that the Soviets have actually
achieved an operational anti-ballistic
missile capability. We do think it
possible, however, that they have
reached a point in ther R & D at which
they think success is in sight. We
know that their anti-ballistic missile
program has a high priority and there
are some indications of an early attempt to
destroy an IHBM with an nuclear-armed \,
anti-missile missile. However, we
have no positive evidence that defensive
missiles have yet been fired at in-
coming ballistic missiles.
Malinovskyts statement has not changed
our estimate that the Soviets "will
probably begin at least liMited
deployment of an antiballistic missile
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The Danish Ambassador, who recently
ended .a 2-year tour in Peiping, reports
that the country has suffered "extra- 50X1
ordinary economic setbacks," of a
fundamental nature. He attributes them
not so much to natural calamities as
to institutional defects, primarily
the elimination of incentives for
the peasantry. Among the results:
rations are at a bare minimum, public
lassitude has set in, and labor .roduc-
?tivity has fallen off visibly. 50X1
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Soviet Party Congress
4. Congo situation
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a) Chou En-lai left Moscow for home
yesterday, probably for consultations
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Communist leadership on the turn-for-
the worse in Sino-Soviet relations which
has developed at the Congress, and on
what position to take at the session
of Communist party leaders that will
probably follow the Congress. Defiant
to the end, Chou paid homage at Stalin's
grave before being seen off by Khrushchev;
b) yesterday's Congress session again
featured denunciation of the "anti-party
group" and Albania. There were strong
hints that the latter may be formally
expelled from the Warsaw Pact;
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provide further evidence that the
Ulbricht regime's internal propaganda
has been put somewhat out of joint by
Khrushchev's equivocation on the German
issue at the Coligress. 50X1
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Deputy Premier Gizenga, still in
Stanleyville, is once again seeking
military supplies from Cairo. He has 50x1
specified that he wants small arms and
communications equipment for "platoons
of troops in combat." Although he
may merely be trying to strengthen his
Stanleyville stronghold, we do not
discount the possibility that he hopes
to propel himself into the forefront
of the "nationalist" cause by a military
move against Katanga. 50X1
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. Nasir shaking up Egyptian
officer corps
He has begun to weed out military
personnel whose support would be
essential to the success of any
right-wing plot against him. In
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Nasir is also intent on getting
more momentum into his government
machinery and a fairly broad shake-up
of the bureaucracy and the country
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only political party is in the
offing.
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A. Tension reMains high in the Dominican Republic as sporadic rioting
continues.
B.: Warsaw PaCt Activity, which: has now subsided throughout Eastern
Europe, is scheduled to resume the beginning of next month.
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The Turkish military junta has apparently decided on at least
a trial period of civilian government. It announced yesterday
that the armed forces have returned to their "basic duty."
The step was taken, however, over the opposition of a group
within the military which is highly reluctant to surrender
control to a coalition of civilian parties.
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Brazil is continuing discussion with Moscow on the resumption of
diplomatic relations-begun under Quadros-but is setting conditions
which include restrictions on travel and limitations on the number
of Soviet personnel.
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