THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE REVIEW 11-14 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959093
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 14, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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1.
Cyprus: Things are not much better on the
island. Though the fighting over the Kyrenia pass
has let up temporarily,there was shooting across the
green line in Nicosia on 14 April and the streets
were cleared once more by sporadic fighting.
In Athens, after three days of talks between
Papandreou and Makarios the former issued a policy
statement on Cyprus. The key passage said the only
solution was full and unrestricted independence allow-
ing the Cypriots to determine their own destiny.
In this manner the two leaders glossed over the
possibility of union with Greece.
Meanwhile it is still not clear whether General
Grivas will be returning to Cyprus with Makarios'
blessing. r
The Turks, for their part, seem to be growing
more unhappy every day about the Cyprus sithation and
to be blaming us for their frustration. They continue
to take measures aimed at bringing pressure on Athens,
although without much success. Further deterioration
of the Turkish Cypriot position could eventually lead
to a no-confidence vote against the government in
Ankara.
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2. Zanzibar: Demonstrations against our embassy,
encouraged andorganized by the regime, continued over
the weekend. Though Karume told our charge that his
government had nothing against Americans and did not
want them to leave, we do not put much faith in his
statement. It has become quite clear that he does
not speak for Zanzibar..
In another disquieting development Babu has been
quoted by a journalist as saying off the record that
Zanzibar absolutely would not join an East African
federation. East African leaders had hoped this
device could be used to turn Zanzibar back toward the
West.
3. Brazil: Castello Branco's
for Wednesday afternoon. There
cabinet appointments, but there
Leitao da Cunha will be kept on
4.
inauguration is set
is no word yet on new
are reports that
as foreign minister.
Branco has told the press that priority attention
must be given to curbing inflation, solving the external
debt problem, and establishing an authentic trade union
movement.
He is under strong pressure to break relations
with Cuba but is still reserving judgment.
USSR:
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5. Sino-Soviet Dispute: Khrushchev is still urgently
trying to line up support for his plan to hold another
conference of world Communist parties for a showdown
with the Chinese.
After a ten-day stay in Hungary, he has returned
to Moscow for talks with a delegation from Poland
headed by Gomulka. Both countries though sharing
wholeheartedly Khrushchev's views about the Chinese
have to date been somewhat less than efithuSiaStic for
his confrontation tactics.
Indonesia-Malaysia:
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In Indonesia, Sukarno is trying to crack down on
chronic dissidence in the SoUth Celebes, an area
traditionally hostile to Djakarta's rule.
7. Laos: After four months of wrangling over pre-
liminaries, the three factions of Souvanna's government
are scheduled to meet this Thursday in the Plaine des
Jarres to discuss a whole range of unification problems.
Souvanna has only just returned from Hanoi and
Peiping where he claims to have been impressed by
assurances of respect for Laotian neutrality and ter-
ritorial integrity.
He is also expressing optimism that the Pathet
Lao will allow his government full access and control
throughout the country. Until the Communists' real
intentions are made clear, Souvanna will probably
again be inclined to see the rightists--and ourselves--
as the main villains in the piece.
This, in turn, will strengthen his opposition to
any close collaboration between Phoumi's and Khanh's
forces.
8. Kashmir: India, which only recently freed the
popular Kashmiri leader, Sheik Abdullah, in the hope
of calming communal tension, is now probably sorry it
did. The Sheik lost no time making his views on self-
determination known.
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Nehru's heir, Shastri, told Parliament
that "there can be no freedomfor preaching
of independence or for Kashmir going out of
Should New Delhi lock up Abdullah again the
really be in the fire.
9. UK-Egypt Yemen:
on Saturday
some kind
India."
fat would
10. Egypt: Nasir, at least for the time being, is
carrYW-Uut his promise to halt anti-US propaganda.
In the past several days the Cairo press has made no
comment on the US air base in Libya, nor has it ex-
ploited our abstention on the UN resolution deploring
the British air attack on Yemen.
Cairo also has not yet mentioned reports carried
by other Arab newspapers on he possible sale of US
tanks to Israel.
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12. South Korea: To take some of the steam out of
criticism of his regime's poor economic showing,
President Pak has ousted six economic ministers. Rest-
less tudents, lured by the siren sound of North
Korea's claims for economic progress, have been talking
up reunification as the answer to their country's problems.
13. Cuba: The strength of Soviet military personnel
in Cuba isstill estimated to be around 7,000. The
last substantial reduction took place last fall.
Since that time we believe Soviet military personnel
leaving Cuba have probably been replaced for the most
part by new arrivals.
by the end of July,we expect that the Soviet
military presence in Cuba will have been reduced to
a training and advisory group of perhaps 1,000-2,000.
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14. British Guiana -? UK: The British Labor Party
is currently studying the question of how to handle
British Guiana.
advice from a number of quarters to
grant early independence to the Jagan government
without first holding elections based on proportional
representation.
15. Haiti: Duvalier seems at last to be having some
succag-Tisi his long effort to get arms for his civil
militia upon which he relies to stay in power.
The dictator, meanwhile, is calling himself.
"chief of revolution" rather than "president for life."
Our embassy thinks he may be reserving this distinction
until he is ready to make some sweeping changes in the
government's structure.
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