THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 24 OCTOBER 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959504
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 24, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
24 OCTOBER 1964
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1. USSR
a. After his first interview
with Kosygin yesterday, Ambassador
Kohler described the new premier's
manner as "confident, unworried,
and affable."
b. Kosygin said the new gov-
ernment hopes to retain all exist-
ing channels of communications
with President Johnson and continue
"friendly and confidential conver-
sations."
c. Kosygin carefully parroted
the official statements already made
by the new leaders, suggesting to
Kohler that for the present they
will indeed stick to the "collec-
tive" approach.
d. He repeated earlier as-
surances that no domestic or inter-
national policy changes are con-
templated. The government will
remain the same, he said, except
that the former chairman has "re-
tired."
e. The new premier came down
hard on the question of Soviet UN
arrearages, particularly emphasiz-
ing a determination not to pay any
part of the expenses of the Congo
operation.
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2. Czechoslovakia
3. Yugoslavia-USSR
a. We continue to see reper-
cussions in Eastern Europe of Khru-
shcheV's departure.
b. On 17 October the Prague
regime published plans for a lib-
eral economic reorganization which
goes much further than Moscow's
experiments along the same line
announced several days later.
c. The Czech decision, taken
without waiting to see how events
developed in Moscow, suggests Prague
wanted to reassure its people that
there would be no change in policy.
The announcement also demonstrated
Prague's determination to run its
own affairs.
d. The Czech press and radio
have not muffled their praise of
Khrushchev.
a. Yesterday Belgrade finally
published its first official reac-
tion to the change in Moscow.
b. The Yugoslays mention re-
ceiving a reassuring note from the
USSR, but go on to say they are
somewhat concerned that the new
Soviet leadership is associating
itself with earlier anti-Yugoslav
policies,
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4. USSR
c. They are particularly up-
set by repeated statements that the
Soviet party reaffirms the decisions
of the 21st Party Congress as well
as the 20th and 22nd. At the lat-
ter two,Moscow was on a pro-Yugoslav
zig, but at the 21st it was zagging.
a. In Moscow the new leaders
have apparently begun to react
to the ferment their coup has
kicked up among the European par-
ties.
b. Delegations from the
French, Italian, and Austrian
Communist parties are to visit
-Moscow within the next few days.
c. A Soviet VIP flight
landed in Warsaw on 23 October,
and another possible VIP flight
arrived in Bulgaria the day before.
A high-level Soviet mission,sub-
stituting for the late Marshal
Biryuzov, arrived in Yugoslavia
on the 20th.
d. Suslov may have been
on the flight to Poland. He was
the only top Soviet official ab-
sent from yesterday's funeral serv-
ices for Biryuzov in Moscow.
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5. USSR
e. There have been, however,
no VIP flights which would sub-
stantiate rumors of a Soviet mission
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f. As a footnote to all of
this, we note that there are ten-
tative signs of some degree of
military alert in Poland, Czecho-
slovakia, and East Germany. This
activity may reflect general un-
easiness, but we see no indications
that these regimes expect serious
trouble.
a. On the domestic front,
the Soviet party goes forward with
making Khrushchev an un-person.
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6. Communist China
c. Material already in
print but not yet released should
be discussed with party officials,
the decision to destroy being made
on the basis of such factors as
the value and number of copies.
d. Portraits of the former
chief were to be removed from sale
and taken down from display. His
published works, however, were not
to be removed from libraries and
definitely not turned over for re-
duction to pulp.
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7. South Vietnam
a. General Minh says the
new Chief of State will be chosen
today.
b. He claims he is not sure
he will accept it if it means leav-
ing the army. Ambassador Taylor
thinks the temptation will be too
much for the general to resist.
c. ?Minh says, surprisingly,
that he and Khanh have agreed on
a list of candidates for the pre-
miership. It includes Mayor of
Saigon,Huong, Interior Minister,
Vien, and Vu Van Mau.
d. The signals have been
switched somewhat on theacquit-
tal of the 13 officers involved
in last month's coup attempt.
e. Taylor reports that they
will all be placed under 30-60 days'
house arrest. In addition,Generals
Phat, Duc, and Lam and five of the
colonels will resign.
f. Presumably, this reversal
will allay some of the suspicion
among the Buddhists that-Khanh had
staged the coup himself.
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UN-China At the UNESCO meeting in Paris, the
vote on Chinese representation was not
as close as expected. Most of the nations
which may change their positions are appar-
ently holding off until the General Assembly.
C. USSR A Soviet nuclear submarine patrol in
the eastern Atlantic
D.
One or two nuclear submarines may have been
among those which monitored NATO Exercise
Teamwork,' in the North Atlantic last month.
Bolivia- Student rioting struck La Paz yes-
terday; as it had Cochabamba the day before.
Communists and rightists both led the out-
break in protest primarily against President
Paz, although they also disapprove of Vice
President Barrientos. More disorders could
occur today,.
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France De Gaulle is showing no ill-effects
from his long ,South American tour. He is
again in full charge of the government and
meeting a busy social and diplomatic sched-
lule. His performance is increasing the odds
favoring A run for re-election next year.
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