THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 21 FEBRUARY 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: February 21, 1964

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21 FEBRUARY 1964
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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST, 21 FEBRUARY 1964
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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST --21 FEBRUARY 1964
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. CYPRUS:
A. MINOR INCIDENTS ARE STILL OCCURING ALL OVER THE
SLAND. AS SOON AS ONE IS EXTINGUISHED, ANOTHER LIGHTS UP.
B. HIGH COMMISSIONER PICKARD SAYS THE BRITISH ARE
HAVING A "HELL OF A TIME" KEEPING THE LID ON. THEIR TROOPS
WERE FIRED UPON FOR THE FIRST TIME YESTERDAY BY GREEK
CYPRIOTS.
C. THE UK SEEMS TEMPORARILY TO HAVE REPLACED THEUS
AS THE CHIEF WHIPPING BOY OF THE CYPRIOT PRESS.
D. WHETHER THIS IS JUST PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE ON THE
BRITISH TO MAKE THEM MORE AMENABLE TO MAKARIOS'POSITION, OR
WHETHER IT IS THE START OF A CAMPAIGN FOR THE REMOVAL OF
BRITISH BASES, REMAINS TO,BE SEEN,
E. THE EMBASSY HAD A REPORT YESTERDAY FROM A GOOD SOURCE
THAT GREEK CYPRIOTS WERE WORKING IN GREAT SECRECY ON A PAPER
ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT IF THE UK WERE FORCED TO GIVE
UP THE BASES.
F. IN ANY EVENT, AMBASSADOR WILKINS NOTES THAT CON-
TINUATION OF THE CRISIS IS BOUND TO LEAD TO ECONOMIC DIFFI-
CULTIES FOR GREEK AND TURKISH CYPRIOTS ALIKE AND MAY CAUSE
THE GREEK CYPRIOTS TO TURN TO THE SOVIET BLOC FOR HELP.
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2. GREECE:
A, EMBASSY ATHENS REPORTS THE NEW CABINET TO BE A
ODERATE ONE.
B. PAPANDREOU HAS ALLAYED SUSPICION THAT HE WOULD
PPOINT EXTREMISTS TO KEY POSITIONS, IN SO DOING HE MAY
VE MOLLIFIED THE CONCERN OF THE ARMY AND PALACE OVER HIS
ECISIVE VICTORY.
C. WITH KING PAUL OUT OF ACTION, PAPANDREOU'S RELATIONS
ITN THE PALACE MAY BE ANOTHER STORY.- THERE IS NO LOVE LOST
BETWEEN HIM AND THE QUEEN.
, GREECE-TURKEY:
? A. EMBASSY ATHENS THINKS IT SIGNIFICANT THAT THE NEW
PREMIER PLANS TO DISCUSS CYPRUS WITH MAKARIOS' RIVAL GENERAL
GRIVAS. PAPANDREOU MAY BE TRYING TO MAKE GOOD ON HIS ASSUR-
ANCES THAT HE WOULD DO HIS BEST TO CALM DOWN THE GREEK EX-
TREMISTS ON THE ISLAND.
B. NOTHING CONCRETE HAS EMERGED FROM THE RUMORS OF A
"SUMMIT MEETING" BETWEEN PAPANDREOU AND INONU.
C. THE FEELING IN ANKARA SEEMS TO BE THAT SUCH A MEET-
ING WOULD REQUIRE A LOT OF PREPARATION IN ORDER TO HAVE ANY
CHANCE OF SUCCESS.
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D. THERE WAS AN _UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
INONU TODAY, THE MOTIVATION IS SO FAR UNKNOWN.
4. .PANAMA:
-A. CINCSOUTH HAS EXPRESSED HIS CONCERN ABOUT THE FAST
DEVELOPING COMMUNIST POTENTIAL IN PANAMA.
B. HE REPORTS THAT, WHILE THE COMMUNISTS DO NOT NOW
HAVE SUFFICIENT ARMS OR MONEY TO SEIZE CONTROL OF THE GOVERN-
MENT, THEY HAVE ADOPTED A COURSE. OF ACTION WHICH COULD QUICKLY
CORRECT THE ORGANIZATIONAL WEAKNESSES WHICH .HAVE PLAGUED. THEM
" IN THE PAST.
C. THE COMMUNISTS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE
FOR RECOVERY OF SOVEREIGNTY AND HAVE BEGUN TO ESTABLISH SUB-
COMMITTEES' THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY,
D. THEIR TASK HAS BEEN MADE EASIER BY THE FACT THAT
ALMOST EVERY NEWSPAPER, RADIO, AND TELEVISION OUTLET HAS A
COMMUNIST OR LEFTIST NATIONALIST ON ITS STAFF,
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E. CINCSOUTH CONCLUDES THAT THE TIME
BUILD AN ORGANIZATION THAT CAN BRING OFF A
MUNIST INFILTRATED AND CONTROLLED GROUP
VIOUSLY ASSUMED.
5. COSTA RICA - PANAMA:
A.
OMMUNISTS MET IN COSTA RICA
CTIVITIES AGAINST US POLICY IN PANAMA.
IS
IT WILL TAKE TO
COUP BY A COM-
THAN .PRE-
SHORTER
CENTRAL AMERICAN
TO PLAN FURTHER
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B.
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OF SABOTAGE THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AMERICA, INCLUDING ATTEMPTS
TO BURN US EMBASSIES AND BUSINESS FIRMS AND TO KIDNAP IM?
PORTANT AMERICANS.
C. PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES IN COSTA RICA ARE SUPPOSED
TO GET UNDERWAY
6. LAOS:
A. NEW FRICTIONS ARE REPORTED AMONG THE NEUTRALIST
LEADERS.
B. PREMIER SOUVANNA IS BACKING A PLAN OF GENERAL AMKHA,
THE CHIEF OF HIS MILITARY CABINET, TO ESTABLISH A UNIFIED
HEADQUARTERS TO COORDINATE RIGHTIST, MEO AND NEUTRALIST FORCES
IN THE PLAINE DES JARRES.
C. NEUTRALIST COMMANDER KONG LE SEES THE NEED FOR A
COORDINATED OPERATIONAL COMMAND BUT FEARS AMKHA IS OUT TO
GET HIM REMOVED FROM LEADERSHIP OF THE NEUTRALIST FORCES.
D. KONG LE, WHO THINKS AMKHA'S PLAN IS FRENCH INSPIRED,
IS GOING TO SET UP A JOINT BASE WEST OF THE PLAINE WITH MEO
COMMANDER VANG PAO.
E. THIS SORT OF MANEUVERING IS NOT GOING TO HELP MUCH
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TBE PATHET LAO.
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7. CONGO:
A. THE ANTI-ADOULA COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL LIBERA-
TION BASED IN BRAZZAVILLE, HAS ESTABLISHED A BRANCH COM-
MITTEE IN BURUNDI TO FOMENT DISORDERS IN THE EASTERN CONGO,
PARTICULARLY IN THE KIVU AREA,
B.
PAMPHLETS DESIGNED TO
INCITE MUTINY ARE CIRCULATING IN ARMY CAMPS THERE.
C. THE COMMITTEE HAS YET TO DEMONSTRATE ITS CAPABILI-
TIES, BUT IF IT COULD WHIP UP AN UPRISING IN THE TURBULENT
KUVU AREA THE CONGOLESE ARMY WOULD BE SPREAD PRETTY THIN.
D. THE ARMY IS CURRENTLY BEING USED IN AN ATTEMPT TO
QUELL THE REBELLION IN THE KWILU REGION OF WESTERN CONGO.
8. NOTES:
A, ZANZABAR: AMBASSADOR LEONHART, WHO FOUND KARUME
MORE ARTICULATE AND INTELLIGENT THAN HE EXPECTED HIM TO BE,
WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL IN PERSUADING HIM TO RECONSIDER PETTER-
SON'S OUSTER, KARUME CLAIMED HIS PEOPLE WERE AGITATED OVER
THE FAILURE OF THE US AND UK TO RECOGNIZE THE NEW REGIME,
"SOME PEOPLE HAVE GUNS, SOME HAVE SPEARS. THEY HAVE CON-
FLICTING VIEWS. WHICH GROUP SHOULD I TURN TO?"
B. SOMALIA: THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED RADIO IS STILL
ROADCASTING CHARGES THAT THE US AND UK ARE GIVING MILITARY
SUPPORT TO ETHIOPIA IN ITS BORDER WARFARE WITH SOMALIA, THESE
ALLEGATIONS ARE BEGINNING TO SINK IN ON PUBLIC OPINION, OUR
AMBASSADOR REPORTS HIS SERIOUS CONCERN WITH THIS TREND, WHICH
IF UNCHECKED, COULD ULTIMATELY LEAD TO A BREAK IN SOMALI-US
RELATIONS.
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C. MALAYSIA: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER RAZAK HAS TOLD THE
RITISH THAT THE WHOLE CABINET IS UP IN ARMS OVER INDONESIA'S
LAN TO RESUPPLY ITS GUERRILLA FORCES BY AIR, THE CABINET
INSISTS THAT ACTION BE TAKEN TO PREVENT THIS AND HAS FORMALLY
REQUESTED THE BRITISH TO SHOOT DOWN ANY INDONESIAN AIRCRAFT
THAT ENTERS MALAYSIAN TERRITORY,
D. VIETNAM:
E. AUSTRIA: CHANCELLOR GORBACH MAY RESIGN NEXT WEEK,
THE LOSER IN AN INTER-PARTY STRUGGLE WITH JOSEPH KLAUS, WHO
REPLACED HIM AS PEOPLE'S PARTY CHAIRMAN LAST UPTEMBER.
KLAUS WOULD HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME TRYING TO NEGOTIATE A NEW
COALITION AGREEMENT WITH THE SOCIALISTS, WHO HAVE BEEN PART-
NERS WITH THE PEOPLE'S PARTY IN GOVERMENT FOR 18 YEARS.
HE HAS BEEN ACCUSING GORBACH OF BEING OVERLY SOLICITOUS OF
SOCIALIST PARTY VIEWS.
F. IRAN:
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