THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 27 MARCH 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: March 27, 1964

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THE WHITE HOUSE
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INTELLIGENCE aIECKUZT, 27 MARCH 1964
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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCECHECKLIST--.27 MARCH 1964
1. BRAZIL:
A. NAVY MINISTER SYLVIO MOTTA HAS RESIGNED AFTER SOME
600 LEFTIST ENLISTED NAVAL AND MARINE PERSONNEL BROKE DIS?
CIPLINE AND RALLIED IN RIO TO DEMAND RADICAL REFORMS,
B. HE HAS BEEN SUCCEEDED BY MARINE COMMANDER ARAGAO
WHO EARLIER IN THE DAY RESIGNED RATHER THAN CARRY OUT ORDERS
TO ARREST THE INSUBORDINATE PERSONNEL WHO ARE STILL BARRI?
CADED AT THEIR MEETING SITE,
C. LEFTIST LABOR ORGANIZATIONS HAD BEGUN TO MOBILIZE
SUPPORT
THERE HAS
BEEN NO VIOLENCE, HOWEVER, AND THE DEMONSTRATION APPARENTLY
HAS BEEN CONFINED TO RIO.
D. THE SITUATION IS QUITE LIKE THE ARMY SERGEANT'S
REVOLT OF SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. BOTH INCIDENTS POINT UP THE
UNRELIABILITY OF THE PRESENT ARMED FORCES AS A BULWARK AGAINST
POLITICAL EXCESSES.
E. HOWEVER, A GROUP OF HIGH?RANKING OFFICERS,
ORGANIZING AGAINST POSSIBLE EXTRA?LEGAL MOVES BY GOULART.
THEY PLAN TO PRESENT HIM WITH A FORMAL WARNING AGAINST PUR?
SUING AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL COURSE. IN PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES,
HOWEVER, THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE OR WILLING TO ACT DECISIVELY
SHOULD GOULART IGNORE THEM.
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F. THERE ARE SIGNS THAT GOULART IS PLANNING FURTHER
NATIONALIZATION AND EXPROPRIATION DECREES,
2. CYPRUS?TURKEY:
B. IN TURKEY, INONU'S GOVERNMENT IS HEADING INTO A
SHOWDOWN WITH THE OPPOSITION JUSTICE PARTY OVER INOWS TAX
BILL.
C. THE JUSTICE PARTY APPEARS DETERMINED TO DEFEAT THE
MEASURE AND MAY BE ABLE TO MARSHAL ENOUGH STRENGTH IN PARLIA?
MENT TO DO SO.
D. INONU THREATENS TO RESIGN IF HE DOES NOT GET THE
BILL PASSED,
3. USSR:
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4. SINO?SOVIET DISPUTE:
5. FRANCE?SOUTH VIETNAM:
A. GENERAL KHANH HAS ASKED DE GAULLE TO MAKE A PUBLIC
STATEMENT DISAVOWING NEUTRALISM AS A CORRECT COURSE UNDER
PRESENT CONDITIONS. IN RETURN HE PROMISES TO LIFT ECONOMIC
RESTRICTIONS AND APPOINT AN AMBASSADOR TO PARIS,
B. THE TROUBLE IS, THE QUAI TELLS US, THE REQUEST WAS
PUT IN TERMS SMACKING OF AN ULTIMATUM AND THIS WILL NOT GO
DOWN WELL WITH THE GENERAL.
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6. LIBYA:
A-; THE UK HAS ACCEPTED LIBYA'S PROPOSAL TO BEGIN. DIS?
CUSSIONS ON THE BASE QUESTION THIS WEEKEND,
7. NOTES:
A SOUTH KOREA ? JAPAN: PRESIDENT PAK HAS RECALLED KIM
CHONG? PI L FROM TOKYO AS DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST AN ACCOMMODA?
TION WITH JAPAN CONTINUED INTO THE FOURTH DAY AND THREATENED
TO GET OUT OF HAND. TALKS ON THE CRITICAL FISHING ISSUE PRE?
SUMABLY WILL CONTINUE BEHIND THE SCENES, BUT THEIR CHANCES
FOR SUCCESS, ALREADY SLIM,ARE NOW EVEN SLIMMER.
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B. HAITI: DUVALIER APPARENTLY IS GETTING READY TO PRO?
CLAIM HIMSELF PRESIDENT FOR LIFE AND ESTABLISH A DYNASTIC
SYSTEM BY WHICH HIS SON WILL SUCCEED HIM. CURRENTLY, HE IS
BUSY PREPARING THE GROUNDWORK, MAKING ESPECIALLY SURE THE
ARMY WILL BE IN NO POSITION TO OPPOSE HIM.
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C. SPAIN PANAMA: OUT OF DEFERENCE TO US, IT SAYS, AND
IN ORDER NOT TO COMPLICATE OUR PROBLEM WITH PANAMA, SPAIN HAS
TURNED DOWN AN URGENT PANAMANIAN REQUEST FOR A $10 MILLION
LOAN WHICH THE PANAMANIANS SAID WAS NEEDED TO "FORESTALL
STRIKES AND PREVENT CHAOS."
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D. CUBA:
DRAFTEES UNDER
CUBA'S COMPULSORY
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MILITARY SERVICE
LAW ENACTED LAST YEAR
CALLED
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ARE BEING
UP. THE CONCURRENT DISCHARGE OF MILITARY
PERSONNEL,
HOWEVER,
SUGGESTS THAT THE OVERALL SIZE OF CUBA'S ARMED FORCES
#ILL NOT CHANGE MUCH.
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E. JAPAN ? COMMUNIST CHINA: JAPAN AND COMMUNIST CHINA
ARE CLOSE TO AN AGREEMENT TO EXCHANGE NEWSMEN. AN OFFICIAL
OF PEIPING'S PRESS AGENCY IS NOW IN JAPAN WITH FULL POWERS
TO CONCLUDE SUCH AN AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN'S PRESS ASSOCIATION.
THOUGH UNOFFICIAL, THE PROJECT HAS JAPANESE GOVERNMENT
BLESSING,
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