THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 3 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959070
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 3, 1964

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-THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
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ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
3 APRIL 19M
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Brazil a. Goulart has finally gone,
but no one knows exactly where.
b. Best guess is that he has
taken refuge in his ranch on the Uru-
guayan border whence he could easily
slip into exile.
c. His last defense crumbled
yesterday when 3rd Army troops in
Porte Alegre declared for the rebels.
d. A number of leftists have
taken asylum in various Latin American
embassies or crossed into neighboring
countries to escape the fairly sweep-
ing scythe wielded by the military.
e. Many of those remaining, in-
cluding several high officials in
Goulart's regime, have been arrested.
Among these is the head of PETROBAS,
the government petroleum monoply.
f. President for thirty days
Mazzilli is forming his cabinet. His
three military ministers are all anti-
Communist and pro-Western, and his
other appointments to date are moderates.
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g. The general atmosphere through-
out Brazil appears to be one of relief,
?though some pro-Goulart demonstrations
have taken place in Recife and one or
two smaller cities.
Ii. The transport workers strike
was broken with the arrest of its
leaders, and Rio is moving ?bhck to
normal.; a holiday mood prevailed there
yesterday.
i. One cloud, however, has al-
ready appeared on the horizon. A
Rio broadcast claims Sao Paulo gover-
nor de Barros is threatening to break
with the new regime over some of Maz-
zilli's appointments.
j. The big problem now will be
to get the country through the inter-
regnum period until a new president
is elected for the full term in 1965.
k. None of the strong contenders
will want to serve out the remainder
of Goulart's term as this will dis-
qualify them from running again.
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1. Cyprus
a. Makarios is still pressing
the UN peacekeeping force to re-
establish freedom .of movement through-
out the island.
d. Turkey has
request to withdraw
the Nicosia-Kyrenia
could provoke early
the Greek Cypriots.
rejected Makarios'
its troops astride
road and this
countermoves by
e. There is a strong likelihood
that Makarios will shortly announce
unilateral abrogation of the 1960
Treaty of Alliance among Cyprus,
Greece and Turkey which provides for
the stationing of 950 Greek and 650
Turkish troops on Cyprus.
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2. USSR-Cyprus
g. The movement to bring former
underground leader George Grivas back
to Cyprus from Greece seems to be
gaining strength.
h. Several thousand Greek stu-
dents paraded through Nicosia yester-
day iW his cause. Also a special
committee to promote his return has
been formed
a. Moscow, alive to the possi-
bility that the drive to bring Grivas
back and promote union with Greece
may develop into something big, is
putting pressure on Makarios to re-
sist it
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c. The USSR has been all for
the efforts of the Greek Cypriots to
consolidate power on the island since
the Communist party of Cyprus, com-
posed of Greek Cypriots, would stand
to gain by this.
d. For example, it is not incon-
ceivable ?that by 1970, the Communists
might be able to gain control legally
through elections.
e. On the other hand, Cyprus
as a province of Greece would come
under the strong anti-Communist laws
promulgated by Athens.
3. Panama a. The current calm in Panama
may be short lived.
b.
Panamanian revolu-
tionaries are preparing for armed
violence in the near future to keep
the pot boiling.
C.
who have been
the USSR have
training
Panamanians
in Cuba and
returned home.
d. The banana workers strike,
now ten days old and embracing some
5,000 workers, may provide a ready
made occasion to stir up trouble in
the interior. Pro-Communist agitators
are doing their best to incite the
workers to violence.
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4. Soviet Space
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e. In Panama City, demonstra-
tions are planned for this weekend,
in connection with the anniversary
of the ill-starred rebellion five
years ago which Castro supported.
These too may be used to trigger vio-
lence.
f. Should these fires get
started, it would take a while to
put them out as the Panamanian na-
tional guard would be spread pretty
thin.
? a. We are puzzled by the Soviet
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announcement calling the 2 April deep
space probe "Zond - 1" (Sounder - 1)
and making no mention of its obvious
Venus probe mission.
b. The probe clearly was aimed
at Venus--there was no place else
for it to go judging from the time
and the place from which it was in-
jected into space.
c. We think therefore that the
announcement was a deliberate de-
ception, probably to cover malfunction
of the probe.
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d. There is a remote possi-
bility that the Soviets are hedging;
? i.e., not committing their prestige
on this probe until they can determine
if it is successful.
e. The Soviets have been some-
what less than frank about these mat-
ters in the past. They called their
27 March Venus probe a Cosmos satellite
after the vehicle went into parking
orbit but failed to put out a probe.
5. South Vietnam a. General Khanh remains sus-
picious of civilian politicians;
b. He and his Defense Minister,
General Khiem, have been expressing
concern in recent weeks about efforts
of the Dai Viet Party, to recruit
followers in the armed forces.
c. They seem to feel that such
activity could eventually make the
Dai Viets, who have several ministers
in the government, a threat to the
military leadership.
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6. North Vietnam
e. There are also continuing
rumors of friction between Khanh and
Nguyen Ton Hoan, vice premier for
pacification and leader of the southern
Dai Viet faction.
f. Differences over the extent
of Hoan's authority were supposedly
ironed out some weeks ago.
g. The other Dai Viet faction
is only lukewarm in support of Khanh.
h. Khanh's suspicion is also
bringing him into conflict with the
advisory Council of Notables. The
council is resisting his indirect pres-
sures for its dissolution.
a. in North
Vietnam some fairly
extensive military and civil defense
preparations against outside attack.
b. These measures
appear de-
signed primarily to cope with aerial
bombardment.
c. At Hanoi's Gia Lam airfield,
planes were dispersed and the guard
force was strengthened. Additional
anti-aircraft batteries were deployed
around the southern part of the city.
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the major urban centers.
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8, UK
a. The Director, of the Conserva-
tive Party Research Department is
advising the Prime Minister to post-
pone the general election until the
fall.
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NOTES
A. USSR-Communist China The Soviets have counter-attacked
Peiping in publicizing a speech made by Suslov to the
Party Central Committee meeting in mid-February and a
Central Committee decision, taken at that time. Suslov
said Peiping's behavior required the Soviet party to
come out openly and strongly against the incorrect views
and dangerous actions of the Chinese. He said the
party decision demanded a "decisive repulsion of their
splitting activities."
B. Congo The government is giving big play to its dis-
rriirriy of a Brazzaville based plot to murder key officials
in Leopoldville. National Liberation Committee (CNL)
agitator Frederic ?Boende and several of his followers
were arrested last Monday(
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