THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 30 MAY 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959207
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 30, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--30 MAY 1964
1. LAOS:
A. THERE WERE NO BIG DEVELOPMENTS ON THE GROUND YES?
TERDAY.
B. KONG LE'S NEUTRALIST FORCES, ALONG WITH THE ME0
GUERRILLAS, STILL HOLD THE HILLS TO THE WEST AND NORTH OF
THE PLAINE DES JARRES. AS YET THE PATHET LAO HAVE MADE NO
SERIOUS EFFORT TO DISLODGE THEM.
D. SOME 200 PATHET LAO HAVE REMAINED IN THIS AREA
E. T-28 AIR STRIKES AGAINST THE COMMUNISTS HAVE BEEN
HELD DOWN THE LAST TWO DAYS BY POOR WEATHER.
F. WHILE PRINCES SOUVANNA PHOUMA AND SOUPHANNOUVONG
TRADED BRICKBATS, HANOI AND PEIPING WERE ACTING VERY MUCH AS
IF THEY THOUGHT SOUVANNA HAD BEEN IRRETRIEVABLY LOST TO THEM.
HANOI PULLED ITS AMBASSADOR OUT OF VIENTIANE AND JOINED THE
CHINESE IN BRANDING SOUVANNA A "RIGHTIST STOOGE" AND NO PRIME
MINISTER AT ALL.
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G. WORD THAT THESE ASIAN COMMUNISTS ARE TOYING WITH
PEIPING.
IS NOW CIRCULATING IN
H. THERE WAS LITTLE MOVEMENT ON THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT
YESTERDAY. THE FRENCH HAVE NOW OFFICIALLY INFORMED US THEY
WILL NOT TAKE PART IN THE PROPOSED CONSULTATIONS IN VIENTIANE.
FOR THEIR PART THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS STATE THAT THEY WILL
ONLY BE SATISFIED WITH A 14?NATION CONFERENCE IN PHNOM PENH.
2. CONGO:
A. THE PERFORMANCE TO DATE OF THE SO?CALLED ELITE
CONGOLESE ARMY UNITS RECENTLY RUSHED INTO KIVU WILL DO LITTLE
TO BOLSTER SAGGING GOVERNMENT FORTUNES THERE.
B. ONE SUCH COMPANY, SENT TOWARD REBEL?INFESTED COUNTRY,
TURNED AND FLED YESTERDAY WHEN AN INSIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF
REBELS HOVE INTO SIGHT. JUST TO THE SOUTH OF THIS ACTION
ANOTHER INSURGENT BAND EASILY OVERCAME A GOVERNMENT GARRISON.
C.
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D. THE NEWS FROM NORTH KATANGA IS BETTER. GOVERNMENT
TROOPS LANDED AT ALBERTVILLE YESTERDAY, AND AT LAST REPORT
HAD RE?ESTABLISHED CONTROL--AT LEAST FOR THE MOMENT.
E. UNLESS THE CONGOLESE ARMY DOES BETTER BEFORE THE
DEPARTURE OF ALL UN FORCES BY THE END OF JUNE, THE ANTI?
ADOULA INFECTION IS BOUND TO SPREAD. REPORTS FROM STANLEY?
VILLE, FOR EXAMPLE, STATE THAT ADOULA'S ENEMIES ARE ALREADY
ACTIVE AGAIN THERE.
F. MOBUTU HAS STILL NOT SHOWED UP IN THE CONGO TO
RALLY HIS DISPIRITED CHARGES.
G. TSHOMBE, HOWEVER, MAY BE LESS RELUCTANT. HE LET IT
DROP THIS WEEK THAT HE DOES NOT INTEND TO STAY IN SPAIN
"INDEFINITELY." NOW, WE HEAR, HE IS ABOUT TO RECEIVE A
SPECIAL EMISSARY FROM SPAAK.
3. RUMANIA:
A. THE ROUND OF ANTI?KHRUSHCHEV2 ANTI?SOVIET RALLIES
IS HAVING AN EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT ON THE RUMANIAN MAN IN
THE STREET,
B. ACCORDING TO WHAT THE US LEGATION HEARS, THE
RUMANIANS HAVE REACTED WITH "ELATION, INCREDULITY AND AD?
MIRATION" FOR THE WAY THE GOVERNMENT IS EXPRESSING ITS INDE?
PENDENCE.
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C. GRATIFYING AS THIS MUST BE, THE GOVERNMENT IS STILL
A BIT DISTURBED SINCE THE RESPONSE IN SOME CASES HAS BEEN
STRONGER THAN WAS DESIRED.
D; THE LEGATION FEELS THAT THIS COULD LEAD THE AUTHOR?
ITIES TO BEAT A TACTICAL RETREAT TO TAKE SOME OF THE EDGE
OFF. WE WOULD NOT EXPECT, HOWEVER, THAT THEY WILL GO SO FAR
AS TO ABANDON THEIR PROUD NEW INDEPENDENT COURSE.
E. THAT COURSE IS ALREADY HAVING AN IMPACT IN OTHER
EAST EUROPEAN STATES. WE HEAR, FOR EXAMPLE,. THAT VOICES ARE
BEING RAISED IN HIGH CZECH CIRCLES IN FAVOR OF SOME PUBLIC
SHOW OF INDEPENDENCE FROM THE USSR.
4. CYPRUS:
A. HAVING BEEN HANDED A LIVE ISSUE WITH THE CAPTURE OF
THE ERRANT AIRMAN, THE GREEK CYPRIOTS HAVE STIRRED UP AN
ANTI?BRITISH CAMPAIGN.
B. IT HAS INCLUDED "GET OUT OF CYPRUS" DEMONSTRATIONS
IN ALL MAJOR CITIES AND THE HARASSMENT OF BRITISH TRAFFIC AT
CHECKPOINTS ALL ABOUT THE ISLAND. UN OFFICIALS ARE FEARFUL
THAT THIS WILL LEAD TO EVEN MORE SERIOUS TROUBLE.
C. SO FAR THE US HAS NOT BEEN INVOLVED IN THE AGITATION
AGAINST THE BRITISH THOUGH THIS HAS HAPPENED IN PREVIOUS CASES,
D. THERE IS MOUNTING CONCERN IN ANKARA OVER THE IMPLICA?
TIONS FOR TURKISH SECURITY OF THE ACQUISITION OF MORE WEAPONS
BY THE GREEK CYPRIOTS,
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E. AS MATTERS NOW STAND, THE GREEK CYPRIOTS HAVE ENOUGH
SMALL ARMS FOR A FORCE OF 35,000. RECENT ACQUISITIONS INCLUDE
LIGHT TANKS AND LIGHT AIRCRAFT. ARTILLERY IS EXPECTED FROM
CAIRO MOMENTARILY.
F. IN CONTRAST TO THIS THE TURKISH CYPRIOTS, THOUGH RE?
CEIVING SOME ARMS AND MEN, PROBABLY CAN EQUIP NO MORE THAN
10,000 AT THIS TIME.
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5. NOTES:
A. USSR: THREE,
POSSIBLY FOUR, ICBM'S WERE FIREDI.
FROM
TYURATAM LAUNCH PADS
FIRST
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REPORTS INDICATE
THAT ONE OF THESE FIRINGS WAS A SUCCESSFUL
FLIGHT TEST OF THE NEW SS-9. ANOTHER MAY HAVE BEEN THE OTHER
NEW ROCKET VEHICLE
THAT HAS BEEN UNDER TEST RECENTLY.
THREE
TYURATAM FIRINGS
--THE RANGE MAY
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HAVE BEEN PUTTING
ON A DEMONSTRATION FOR VISITING
FIREMEN.
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B. SOUTH VIETNAM: THE MEETING AT DALAT HAS BROKEN UP
AND KHANH HAS TOLD THE PRESS THAT THE NAGGING PROBLEM OF THE
FOUR GENERALS HAS BEEN SOLVED. HE DID NOT SAY,
HOW THIS WAS DONE.
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C. PANAMA: ROBLES WAS OFFICIALLY DECLARED PRESIDENT?
ELECT YESTERDAY. ARIAS AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE CRYING "FRAUD,"
AND THREATENING TO TAKE STEPS. SO FAR THE NATIONAL GUARD HAS
EASILY HANDLED THE SITUATION.
D. INDIA: NO ACTION WAS TAKEN YESTERDAY TO FIX ON
NEHRU'S SUCCESSOR. DESPITE INTENSE MANEUVERING, ESPECIALLY
BY RIGHT?WING SUPPORTERS OF MORARJI DESAI, SHASTRI'S SELEC?
TION, POSSIBLY TODAY, APPEARS LIKELY.
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