THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 23 JANUARY 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996790
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 23, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
23 JANUARY 1964
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1. .Cyprus
2. Tanganyika
a. The situation continues to
deteriorate; widespread violence may
be imminent.
b. Both Greek and Turkish
Cypriots are accusing each other
of fomenting incidents,
c. in
Nicosia a marked increase
in anti-American, as well as anti-
British feeling--presumably among
Greek Cypriots--throughout the
island.
a. What actually went on or
is still going on in Tanganyika
remains a mystery.
b. Most observers think the
troop mutinies, ostensibly for
higher pay and Africanization of
the officer corps, are only part of
the story.
c. Nyerere, has finally shown
himself to our Ambassador and the
British High Commissioner but made
none too forceful a presentation
to them.
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3. Nationalist
China - France
d. The Ambassador points out
that Nyerere is dealing with an
army which is now an uncertain
quantity, predominantly officered
by untested men.
f. Faced with the possibility
that the troubles in Tanganyika and
Zanzibar may spread to Kenya and
Uganda, President Kenyatta is said
to have revised his attitude toward
the presence of British troops in
Kenya overnight.
a. The Chinese Nationalist
Foreign Minister has strongly im-
plied to Ambassador Wright that
Taipei will have to break relations
with Paris.
b. He said that France and
the Chinese Communists will be able
to make conditions untenable for
the Nationalists in Paris and force
them to break relations.
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c. The only question) he said,
is whether Taipei should try to stay
on in Paris and lose its relations
and also its dignity or whether it
should withdraw promptly and just
lose relations.
d. Wright comments that the
letter De. Gaulle sent to Chiang
announcing., his intentions tends
to support the Nationalist view
that De Gaulle will simply not
allow Taipei to frustrate his plans
by not breaking relations.
4. India a. Lal Bahadur Shastri was
appointed to the cabinet yesterday,
b. His title, minister with-
out portfolio, is designed to avoid
?the touchy succession question, but
there is little doubt that he will
function as de facto head of govern-
ment both now, and in the parliament
when it reconvenes early next month.
c. Shastri's appointment also
constitutes tacit admission by the
Congress Party high command that
Nehru's convalescence will be pro-
longed.
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5. Bolivia
a. Members of the American
community have been instructed to
stay close to home because of the
explosive atmosphere generated by
the nominating convention of the
MNR.
b. Most of the activity at
the convention centers on the
struggle between Federico Fortun
and Air Force General Rene Barrientos)
for the Vice-presidential nomination.'
c. With Paz' renomination
seemingly in the cards, Vice-Presi-
dent Lechin and his leftist sector
have not attended recent sessions
Paz claims Barrientos is plotting
with Lechin.
d. The Lechinists may well
bolt the MNR, hold their own conven-
tion, and proclaim Lechin's candi-
dacy for President in the June
eleations.
e. The demonstrations in sup-
port of him which
planned for 16 January,
then postponed to 20 January,
have again been postponed. No new
date has been set.
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6. Saudi Arabia - a. Faysal, impressed by the
Egypt reception Nasir gave the Saudis at
last week's Arab conference, is
willing to discuss Yemen with the
Egyptians.
7.. Panama
b. A Saudi Foreign Ministry
official has asked privately that
our embassy in Cairo sound out
Egypt on sending a delegation to
Saudi Arabia for this purpose.
c. yet to see any
give in either Faysal's or Nasir's
positions on the crucial question
of Egyptian troop withdrawal.
a. The prospects of continued
economic deterioration and the politi-
cal chaos which could result from
Chiari's overthrow or resignation
appear to have led Panama finally
to take some initiative of its
own toward breaking the deadlock.
b. Panamanian representative
Boyd at the UN has presented Ambas-
sador Stevenson with a proposed
statement approved by Chiari,
c. It reads that both govern-
ments agree to renew relations and
begin negotiations within 30 days
leading toward a treaty "which will
resolve the differencesbetween Panama
and the US as a result of the exis-
tence of the inter-oceanic canal."
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8. USSR-Cuba
a. The TASS summary of the
Khrushchev-Castro communique issued
yesterday made no mention of specific
Soviet or Cuban moves to exploit the
Panama crisis.
b. ?The two leaders expressed
support for the Panamanian people's
"just demand" for establishing
their sovereignty over the Canal
Zone and for their right to revise
or abrogate the "unequal agreements"
imposed by the US.
c. The summary contains the
usual reaffirmation of Castro's
"five points" of November 1962 (the
last of which called for the evacua-
tion of the Guantanamo naval base)
as the basis for "normalizing" the
Caribbean situation, but it does
not mention Guantanamo specifically.
d. The language of the communique
also suggests that Castro has swerved
more to the Soviet side in the USSR's
struggle with China.
9. Malaysia a. Sukarno has issued his
cease fire order.
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A. Syria
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Military officers plotting against President
B. Mexico Foreign Minister Tello told the press
Monday that the construction of the Tehuantepec isthmus
canal is not practical at this time. He said that
if the canal is ever built, the sovereignity, adminis-
tration, defense and all other aspects of running the
canal must rest with the Mexican Government.
Ghana Embassy Accra has a report that Nkrumah is
preparing to deport a number of American technicians
on grounds that they are CIA agents.
D. East Germany Although Walter Ulbricht still dominates
the party and government,Erich Honecker, Politburo
member and party secretary for security affairs, is
playing an increasingly important role in East Germany.
The coverage given Honecker by East German media seems
designed to suggest he is Ulbricht's heir.
F. USSR-Cuba
Cuban-Soviet sugar
agreement announced yesterday
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