THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE REVIEW 25-28 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959142
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 28, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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1. Laos: Souvanna-embarked on Tuesday on a new
attempt to reach a political solution to the crisis.
We are not so sure the coup group, which still
has a firm hold on Vientiane, will let the premier
slip from its grasp.
The right-wing generals are still working to
get Souvanna to reorganize his government and the
army; the sooner the better.
The Pathet Lao has rejected out of hand Phoumits
call for absentee ministers to report for duty in
Vientiane, but since the coup Souphannouvong has
spoken in favor of renewed tripartite talks
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2. Cyprus; The UN seems to be increasingly_ignored
by the combatants as they move, inexorably it seems,
toward a final showdown.
The Turkish Cypriots fa0p a concerted Greek
Cypriot effort to clean them out of their last re-
maining strongholds, and they see themselves now in
a "life-or-death" struggle to preserve what little
they. still hold.
They. feel the UN is powerless in the situation,
and.are counting ultimately on Turkish intervention
to save them.
Inonu said on Monday, that whatever happens on
the Kyrenia road, Turkey would not let the island fall
from its hands.
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3. Zanzibar-Tanganyika: The new United Republic
of Tanganyika and Zanzibar became official with the
exchange of ratifications on Monday.
Babu has accepted a post (one of three economic
planners) in the new government. He had restrained
his more hot-headed followers on the island, and,
although they are still armed, the possibility of
violence and open opposition to the union has receded
for the moment.
The initial test of Nyerere's ability to control
the situation will probably arise over the issue of
German representation.
Tanganyika has been looking to West Germany for
substantial aid while the East Germans have been
extremely active in Zanzibar.
African reaction to the new union has been
generally favorable. Nkrumah, however, sees it as a
personal setback in that Nyerere's stature was given
a boost and an East African federation brought nearer
?to reality.
4. Yemen-Egypt: With Nasir still on the scene, the
Yemeni government was suddenly reconstituted on Monday,
but not, apparently, in the way the Egyptians would
choose if they had any alternative.
Sallal is still President, but a popular,
Egyptian-baiting Yemeni with suspected Baathist con-
nections has been charged with forming .a new govern-
ment under a revised constitution. At long last,
provision has been made for a broader political and
legislative base for the government.
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This is a substantial Egyptian concession--
one which they have long tried to forestall.
Prince Faysal is likely to take this., as he
has Nasir's trip, for what it is--.a sign of weak-
ness. He is thus also likely to reject Nasir's
overtures on settling their differences over Yemen.
5. South Korea: Student demonstrations have died
down for the time being, but pressures on Pak are
building up, both from within the government and from
his many opponents on the outside. Something will
have to give soon.
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The prescription most generally offered is for
Pak to get rid of Kim Chong-pil and begin to clean
up his regime. Kim, who has been through all this
once before, says he,will not resign as party boss
but will leave the country if Pak asks him to.
France - Sino-Indian Border:
The Chinese Communists have encouraged mediation
proposals, which give them a chance to appear reason-
able, but they have refused to accept binding arbitra-
tion and still do. Nehru would be reluctant to reject
the idea outright but has political problems to con-
tend with on this issue and will probably stall.
, We think De Gaulle is trying to demonstrate the
validity of his proposition that, if the Chinese can
be brought out of isolation, they willbehave.
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7. Malaysia: Rahman's Alliance Party, running on
a. "to hell with Sukarno" platform, gained a resounding
vote of popular approval in elections last weekend.
,He picked up an additional 15 seats from the
opposition and now controls 89 of the 104 seats in
Parliament. He has the state assemblies almost
completely sewed up, controlling 248 of the total of
282 state assembly seats.
Burma: Ne Win and: Burma's Buddhist leaders are
inching ever closer to direct opposition. .The
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country's most influential organization of Buddhist
monks is trying to unite all Buddhist groups in
refusal of Ne Win's demand that they register.
British Guiana: Opposition leader Forbes
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Burnham has returned from a trip to the turbulent
west coast of British Guiana convinced that Jagan
is trying to create so much racial violence that
elections will be impossible.
Brazil-Cuba:
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a break in relations with Cuba
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Cuba:
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that 'very shortly" the only.. Soviet personnel in
would be in Havana,.Camaguey, and near Santiago.
Cuba
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12. USSR:
13. - Rumania: The Rumanian party has issued a.major
statement of policy. On first reading it appears to
be no less than a-Rumanian "declaration of independence"
from the USSR. While it represents a serious defeat
for Khrushchev, it does not line Bucharest up with
Peiping, but rather places it on the road ofnational
Communism;
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