THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 26 OCTOBER 1961

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992001
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 26, 1961

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
26 OCT 1961
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WATCH COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS--25 October 1961
No Sino-Soviet bloc country intends deliberately to initiate
direct military action in the immediate future.
South Vietnam: Communist forces continue to increase their
efforts to undermine the Diem government by s.:,botage and terrorism
and to expand the Viet Cong reas of military control in South
Vietnam.
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1. Soviet Party Congress a) Abuse of Albania and of Khrushchev's
defeated "Stalinist" opposition continue
to be central themes at the meeting,
which has now passed the mid-way point.
? KhruShchev appears intent on putting
the ?Chinese Communists--the indirect
target of his anti-Stalinist invective--
in their place, even at the cost of
an ?open display of Bloc disunity.
Peiping seems to have been caught
by surprise by the bluntness of Moscow's
challenge, but we do not expect the
? Chinese to give much ground.
bl Gromyko's foreign policy speech
yesterday was a carbon copy of Khrushchev's
Speech on the opening day of the Congress.
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feeling.
2. Nasir jumpy over
coup possibility
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had begun a security screening of his
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Nasir, who suspects
that one regiment would be enough to
bring off a coup, has since formed an
emergency regiment for his own security.
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A. Both Thailand and Cambodia have taken steps to increase their
military readiness. These appear so far to be precautionary
moves on both sides.
? The Bundestag vote on the Chancellor is now scheduled for 30
October.i
. Yesterday's nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
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