THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 20 MARCH 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996902
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 20, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
20 MARCH 1964
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1. Cyprus
a. An uncertain calm returned
to Cyprus this morning after yesterday's
off-and-on fighting.
b. Turkey, reacting predictably,
has warned once again that it would
have to intervene if these outbursts
were not halted. The Turks realize
that these warnings are wearing a bit
thin; they asked us to tell the Greeks
that Turkey is in "dead earnest."
c. Still, it seems to us that
the Greek Cypriots have been adroit
in bringing the situation on the is-
land to a boil then shutting off the
fire before it boils over and Turkey
comes in.
d. Greek Cypriots have demon-
strated in some areas in favor of
union with Greece.
e. However, his foreign minister,
Kyprianou, told Charg?elcher on
Wednesday that he was coming to the
view that enosis and a voluntary emi-
gration of Turkish Cypriots was the
best solution.
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f. Kyprianou is flying to New
York today to discuss the terms of
reference of the UN force. Makarios
is said to want a stronger affirma-
tion of the role of the Cyprus Govern-
ment than called for in U Thant's
draft.
g. While the Greek Cypriots
would like to carry out joint police
patrols with the UN force, the
Turkish Cypriots want the UN to dis-
arm the police and take over admin-
istration of the island.
h. The UN force is now set to
be activated late Saturday or Sunday.
Its three-month assignment will date
from then. We suspect the problem
will last a good deal longer.
2. North Vietnam a.
Hanoi is indeed concerned over
the. Laotian
border
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C.
North Vietnamese regulars are being
deployed to this area to protect
strategic transport routes.
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equally concerned with its sea approaches.
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3. Cambodia -
South Vietnam
a. Any chance for an early
reconciliation between Saigon and
Sihanouk went out the window with yes-
terday's action near the border.
b. The South Vietnamese were
trying to pin down a Viet Cong band
and by all reports did strike across
the ill-defined border. The ICC is
investigating.
c. Sihanouk, however, is not
waiting for the results. He told a
provincial audience today that he sees
"no hope" for the talks with South
Vietnam, because, as he put it, Khanh
could be deposed by the US at any time.
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4. -Libya
d. Sihanouk added that he will
bring the wreckage of the US-piloted
light plane downed yesterday to
Phnom Penh for "exhibit." This will
prove difficult for the Prince since
the plane crashed in South Vietnam
and has been brought to the Saigon
airport.
e. He is also making much of
reports that US military men were in
the area.
f. Even before the border inci-
dent, Sihanouk, offended by a Saigon
press reference to him as a "child,"
had said there was little use in a
'South Vietnamese delegation making the
trip, Today's meeting was cancelled,
g. Pressures to accede to
Sihanouk's renewed call for a "Geneva"
conference are likely to become over-
whelming.
a. The Libyan Government has
handed us a second note which says
that when it asked for negotiations
it meant that they should be directed
toward "terminating" the base agree-
ment and "designating a date for the
evacuation of US troops."
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5. Cuba
b. The foreign minister says
the Libyans anticipate starting their
talks with the British around 20 April
and want to talk to us the following
week.
a. Havana is trying to prop
world sugar prices at their current
high level by leaking misleading
information on its current crop among
Western sugar buyers.
b.
c. This is way out of line with
information
that the pace or procuction so tar tias
year is somewhat ahead of last year.
d. We incline to the view that
this year's crop will end up about
the same as last year's. Production
has been hampered by labor shortages
and transportation problems
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6. France
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7, RB-66 Aftermath
a. Lawyer Vogel yesterday
seemed to be backing off his as-
sertion of the day before that the
US pilots will be tried for spying
in an East German court.
b. He told a US officer that
a decision on the subject has not
yet been reached. For what it is
worth, he said he had the "impression"
that the East Germans were anxious
for a ?big propaganda trial and were
negotiating with the Soviets for the
go ahead.
c. Our impression is that
Lawyer Vogel, a slippery one in past
encounters, may feel that he went
too far in his first remarks. There
is, of course, the possibility that
there has been a change of signals
following the strong line taken by
the US.
d. In Stockholm today Gromyko
said the fate of the fliers was an
"East German problem."
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NOTES
A. Panama A Communist_led student congress which opens
today can be expected to ring all the changes on anti-
Americanism in Panama. On the diplomatic side Panama
has been probing sentiment in the OAS for a meeting at
the foreign minister level.
C.
Guatemala Although student leaders have signed a state-
ment that no violence is planned in connection with
today's celebrations, armed extremist and Communist
students may still try to provoke something. The
government has made no secret of its readiness to use
all necessary force to keep order.
D. East Africa The meeting of East Africa's "big three"
on Zanzibar, scheduled for early in the month, never
came off. We now learn that it was shelved in favor
of .a larger, more ambitious meeting, sometime in April.
This one will involve leaders from Kenya, Tanganyika,
Uganda, Zanzibar, Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias.
Both Zanzibar and Southern Rhodesia will be on the agenda.
E. British Guiana The long-standing struggle between
Jagan and the Trade Union Congress may erupt into another
general strike, this time over Jagan's attempts to wean
sugar workers away from a congress affiliate. This Jagan
drive is apparently meeting with some success and congress
leaders are threatening to Call their workers out. Jagan's
effort to crush the congress through legislation last
year led to a damaging two and a half month general strike
punctuated by much violence.
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Somalia?Ethiopia The Somalis quite plainly intend to
go right on making trouble for the Ethiopians in the
Ogaden despite their agreement to open discussions with
Ethiopia next week in Khartoum.
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USSR
a. The precision photography
obtained by Keyhole missions flown
12-14 March demonstrates to our
satisfaction that the KM-7 camera
can give us point target photographs
of extremely high quality.
b. The mission contributed a
wealth of additional useful detail
on previously photographed activities
and facilities. For example, we can
now say with confidence that at
most ICBM sites the missiles are kept
in nearby ready buildings. It would,
therefore, take three-four hours to
ready these missiles for launching.
c. We can also see that there
are four launch silos atjIRBM hard
sites rather than the two or three
we had estimated earlier.
d. We may conceivably be able
to distinguish types or classes of
vehicles in military parks.
e. The mission confirmed our
suspicions that construction work at
the anti-missile missile sites around
Leningrad was stopped last year before
completion.
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