THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 21 OCTOBER 1961

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005991996
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 21, 1961

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PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
1. SOVIET PARTY CONGRESS -- INTRABLOC PROBLEMS:
A. KHRUSHCHEV'S ATTACKS ON THE ALBANIAN LEADERSHIP HAVE
PRECIPITATED A CRISIS IN INTRABLOC RELATIONS WHICH HE PROBABLY DID
NOT EXPECT. THE ALBANIAN PARTY YESTERDAY, APPEALING
TO THE RADICAL FACTION IN THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT OVER THE
HEADS OF ITS LEADERS, BITTERLY DENOUNCED KHRUSHCHEV ? IT CHARGED
THAT HE AND "HIS FOLLOWERS" HAD "SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED" THE UNITY 0
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM BY ANTI-MARXIST.ACTIONS AND PRAISED CHOU
EN-LAI FOR HIS REBUKE OF KHRUSHCHEV THE DAY BEFORE. THE
ALBANIANS CLAIM THEY WILL DOCUMENT THEIR CHARGES.
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B. THE ALBANIAN RESPONSE PUTS THE CHINESE IN A DIFFICULT
POSITION: THEY MUST EITHER PUBLICLY HUMBLE THEMSELVES BY ABANDONING
THE ALBANIANS, OR SHATTER THE CAREFULLY REBUILT FACADE OF SINO-SOVIET
UNITY -- THIS TIME PERHAPS FOR GOOD -- BY A BITTER POLEMIC WITH
KHRUSHCHEV ON THE MOST CONSPICUOUS ROSTRUM AVAILABLE IN THE COMMUNIST
WORLD. ANOTHER MEETING OF COMMUNIST PARTIES AFTER THE CONGRESS
APPEARS TO BE REQUIRED.
C. MIKOYAN AT YESTERDAY'S SESSION QUOTED ALBANIAN PREMIER
SHEHU AS SAYING THAT STALIN MADE ONLY TWO MISTAKES: HE DIED TOO
SOON AND HE FAILED TO DESTROY THE PRESENT SOVIET LEADERSHIP.
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A. KHRUSHCHEV RENEWED HIS ATTACK ON THE ANTIPARTY GROUP PARTLY
BECAUSE HIS CENTRAL COMMITTEE REPORT COVERS DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE
LAST REGULAR PARTY CONGRESS IN 1956; THE ABORTIVE ATTEMPT
TO OVERTHROW HIM IN 1957 WAS PERHAPS THE PRINCIPAL DOMESTIC
POLITICAL EVENT OF THE PERIOD. SIMILAR ATTACKS BY LESSER RANKING
PARTY OFFICIALS AT THE CONGRESS SUGGEST
HOWEVER, THAT THE REAL INTENT
IS TO DEMONSTRATE AGAIN--AND MORE VIVIDLY-- HOW MUCH BETTER
OFF THE SOVIET PEOPLE HAVE BEEN UNDER KHRUSHCHEV THAN UNDER STALIN.
THE VARYING DEGREES OF VIRULENCE PROBABLY REFLECT THE INDIVIDUAL
SPEAKERS' DESIRE TO CURRY FAVOR WITH KHRUSHCEV.
B. IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT ANY MEMBERS OF THE ANTIPARTY GROUP
WILL BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL FOR THEIR PAST CRIMES, ALTHOUGH MALENKOV
AND KAGANOVICH AT LEAST WILL PROBABLY BE DEPRIVED OF THEIR
PARTZ CARDS--THEIR LAST REMAINING VESTIGE OF RESPECTABLILITY.
INITIATIVES TAKEN BEFORE A CONGRESS, HOWEVER, CAN BUILD UP A
MOMENTUM OF THEIR OWN, AS THE "SECRET SPEECH" OF 1956 LED TO
THE EVENTS IN HUNGARY AND POLAND LATER THATYEAR, AND WE WOULD NOT
RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE INVECTIVE OF THE LAST FEW DAYS COULD
DEVELOP INTO MORE WIDESPREAD ACTION AGAINST OFFICIALS WHO
SERVED UNDER MALENKOV.
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3. NOTES:
A. THE NUCLEAR DEVICE TESTED YESTERDAY AT NOVAYA ZEMLY, 50X1
MAY HAVE BEEN DELIVERED BY A MEDIUM OR SHW(7_
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RANGE MISSILE
LREPARING FOR MAJOR DEMONSTRATIONS ON 1 NOVEMBER. THESE MIGHT BREAK
B. WE ARE BEGINNING TO GET INDICATIONS THAT ALGERIAN MOSLEMS ARV
OUT AS EARLY AS TOMORROW, HOWEVER, IN REACTION TO FRENCH SUPPRESSION50xi
OF ALGERIAN RIOTS IN PARIS THIS WEEK.
D. EMBASSY DJAKARTA SPECULATES THAT SUKARONO MAY HAVE CHOSEN 50X6
TOGO TO VIENNA FOR TREATMENT IN ORDER TO MEET DUTCH_EMISSARIES THERE
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CASTRO IS GETTING
E. PERU'S CALL FOR FOR AL OAS ACTION AGAINST
A COOL RECEPTION IN LATIN A ERICAN.
F. PORTUGAL IS BUILDING UP MILITARY STRENGTH IN MOZAMBIQUE IN
ANTICIPATION OF TROUBLE AFTER TANGANYIKA BECOMES
INDEPENDENT ON 9 DECEMBER. ALMOST HALF THE PORTUGUESE ARMY IS NOW
STATIONED IN ANGOLA AND MOZAMBIQUE.
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G. COMMUNIST CHINA HAS NOT SHELLED THE OFFSHORE ISLANDS SINCE
A SEPTEMBER, ONE OF THE LONGEST LULLS SINCE 1958. PEIPING
4ROBABLY HAS THE UN VOTE IN MIND. THE NATIONALISTS HAVE DONE A MODERATE
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H. EMBASSY ACCRA, REPORTING ON SENATOR GORE'S CONVERSATION WITH
NKRUMAH, SUGGESTS THAT THE LATTER HAS BEEN "POSSIBLY SOBERED, AT LEAST
TEMPORARILY,"
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TWO LATE ITEMS
A. SUKARNO HAS ANNOUNCED A GENERAL, AMNESTY FOR INDONESIAN REBELS
CAPTURED SINCE THE 1958 UPRISING. THIS I INCLUDE POPE,
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B. DISTURBANCES CONTINUE IN MOST CITIES OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
THE BALAGUER REGIME IS REACTING STRONGLY, BUT THE DIRECTION OF EVENTS
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