THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 5 MARCH 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996872
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 5, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
5 MARCH 1964
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1. Cyprus
a. Thant now has authority to
proceed to set up a UN peacekeeping
force following passage of the Secu-
rity Council resolution yesterday.
b. Sweden, the key country in
forming the force, has not yet decided
whether to participate. One hopeful
sign yesterday was that all Swedish
press commentators, though stressing
their apprehensions, concluded that
Sweden simply could not leave the UN
in the lurch.
c. In Ireland, Foreign Minister
Aiken gave our ambassador the im-
pression that his country would not
participate in the force.
d. Thant's plan to appoint
Indian General Gyani as force com-
mander was leaked to the press before
consultation with the Turks./
e. Thant told Ambassador
Stevenson in strictest confidence
yesterday that he planned to desig-
nate UN official,Rolz-Bennett,as
Cyprus mediator.
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2. Greece
f. In Thant's view this would
be the best way to exert his own in-
fluence in the situation?something he
proposes to do.
a. Slogans carried by demonstrators
in Athens and Thessalonika are becoming
more sharply anti-American; some reflect
heavy Communist influence.
b. Meanwhile, newspapers of all
shades are attacking US policy.
c. The present bitterness, which
Embassy Athens terms as bad as any during
the 1955-59 Cyprus crisis, is caused by
what the Greeks regard as Washington's
pro-Turkish attitude. Press treatment
of recent joint US-Turkish naval exer-
cises in the Aegean Sea has also con-
tributed to the resentment.
d. The government, responding to
public pressures, has cancelled per-
mission for VOA use of official Greek
radio facilities. The press has charged
that the VOA broadcasts are unfair to
the Greek Cypriots.
e.
that the attitude of military leaders
is 'hardening against the US. We are
being accused either of following blindly
behind
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3. South Vietnam
a. General Khanh faces a diffi-
cult task in his attempts to harness
and control disparate religious and
political groups.
b. He has appointed Le Van Tat,
a general of the Cao Dai forces, as
chief of Tay Ninh province where the
the Cao Dai sect controls about a third
of the population.
c. Khanh's move risks creating
discontent among some civilians and
military officers who fear a resurgence
of the Cao Dai. The sect maintained
a large autonomous army until sub-
dued by the Diem regime in 1955.
d. A captured Viet Cong officer
claims the Communists view government
efforts to rally the Cao Dai as a
threat to their major base in Tay Ninh
Province, which is adjacent to Cambodia.
The Communists are intensifying their
own efforts to sow dissension among
Cao Dai factions.
e. Meanwhile, Khanh's reshuffling
of military commanders continues to
cause some dissatisfaction.
f.
Khanh's reinstatement of Diem's
former commander of the marine brigade
has driven morale to an all-time low.
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4. USSR-
Germany
a. A minor procedural matter
between Allied and Soviet military
authorities in Germany could mush-
room into a big dispute.
b. Last January the Soviets
directed the Allies to remove the cur-
tains from military vehicles used by
the three Western military liaison
missions accredited to the Group of
Soviet Forces in Germany. No deadline
was specified.
c. The Allies responded by
demanding that Soviet Military Liaison
Mission vehicles to West Germany be
painted khaki and inscribed with the
Soviet national insignia by 10 March.
d. The Soviets have already said
they will not paint their vehicles.
US officials in Bonn feel that the Allies
cannot retreat from their 10 March dead-
line. They are concerned that any
Soviet refusal to compromise could result
in a confrontation similar to that of
March 1962.
e. At that time, East German per-
sonnel fired on a US vehicle and detained
it for 26 hours. The US retaliated by
confining Soviet liaison personnel to
their Frankfurt quarters, whereupon the
Soviets imposed similar restrictions on
US personnel in Potsdam.
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5. Sino-Soviet
relations
f. The impasse was subsequently
resolved in talks between top-ranking
military leaders.
the USSR is
getting ready for another showdown with
China.
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6. USSR
7. Saudi Arabia- a. The talks in Riyadh between an
Egypt-Yemen Egyptian delegation and Saudi Crown
Prince Faysal have resulted in agree-
ment to resume diplomatic relations.
b. The joint statement at the
conclusion of the talks implied that
little progress was made in resolving
differences over Yemen, but the fact
that Faysal will meet with Nasir in Cairo
late next month for further talks is a
hopeful sign.
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8. France-
USSR
c. In Yemen, President Sallal
has announced plans to visit Moscow
late this month. Sallal hopes to receive
further economic aid and possibly mili-
tary equipment.
d. The USSR has not started any
projects since the airport at al-Rawdha
near Sana was completed last fall. Since
then, the number of Soviet personnel in
Yemen declined from 1,000 to around 400.
a. Speculation on the purpose of
Edgar Faure's visit to Moscow this month
is beginning to roll in.
b. Faure has been credited with
laying the groundwork for the resump-
tion of diplomatic relations between
France and Communist China.