THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 24 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959132
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 24, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--24 APRIL 1964
1. SOUTH VIETNAM:
A. VIET CONG MILITARY ACTIVITY, WHICH HAS BEEN RISING
STEADILY SINCE LATE FEBRUARY, IS STILL GOING STRONG.
B. FOLLOWING LAST WEEK'S FIVE?DAY BATTLE IN CHUONG
THIEN PROVINCE; ?THE VIET CONG LAUNCHED A SERIES OF COOR?
DINATED ACTIONS AGAINST GOVERNMENT OUTPOSTS ALONG THE
MEKONG RIVER.
C. THEY ALSO STEPPED?UP HARASSMENT OF RIVER AND ROAD
TRAFFIC AROUND SAIGON.
D. ON 22 AND 23 APRIL, VIET CONG FORCES AMBUSHED
GOVERNMENT TROOPS IN war NGHIA PROVINCE, WEST OF SAIGON,
INFLICTING SIZABLE LOSSES; AMONG THE CASUALTIES WERE ONE
AMERICAN KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED.
E. THE GOVERNMENT'S REACTION TO THE MAJOR VIET CONG
ATTACKS HAS BEEN SWIFT BUT COSTLY.
F. MORE THEN 1,000 GOVERNMENT CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED
LAST WEEK--THE HIGHEST WEEKLY TOTAL RECORDED IN THE PAST
THREE YEARS, BY COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE WEEKLY CASUALTY
RATE WAS APPROXIMATELY 250 IN 1962 AND 390 IN 1963.
G. THE VIET CONG, TOO, HAVE SUFFERED HEAVY LOSSES--
660 KILLED OR CAPTURED LAST WEEK.
H. HOWEVER, THEY ARE STILL DOING WELL IN THE ARMS
DEPARTMENT. THEY CONTINUE TO CAPTURE THREE WEAPONS FOR
EVERY ONE LOST, THE RATIO THAT HAS PREVAILED THROUGHOUT THIS
YEAR,
2. LAOS:
A. THINGS HAVE SETTLED DOWN FOR THE TIME BEING,
B. THE COUP GROUP IN A STATEMENT YESTERDAY SAID THAT
SOUVANNA'S GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO EXERCISE ITS DUTIES.
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C. HOWEVER, THEY CALLED UPON THE PREMIER TO "REWORK
AND EXPAND HIS GOvERNMENT," ACTING UPON'RECOMMENDATIONS OF
THE COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. THIS COMMITTEE IS ALSO TO
"OVERSEE THE EXECUTION OF GOVERNMENT TASKS."
D. THE TRESS THIS MORNING SAYS SOUVANNA HAS AGREED
TO IRESE TERMS AND WILL STAY ON.
E. THE PATHET LAO OBVIOUSLY ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE THIS
AND IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN HOW THEY WILL REACT.
F. THEY MAY WELL WAIT THINGS ?OUT A BIT AND SEE HOW
SOUVANNA CHARTS HIS COURSE AND IF HE HAS ANY FREEDOM OF
MANEUVER.
G. IF WORST COMES TO WORST THEY CAN ALWAYS ACTIVATE
THEIR OWN SHADOW GOVERNMENT IN THONG SALY.
3. ZANZIBAR:
A. KARUME AND HANGA ARE REPORTED TO HAVE AGREED TO
TRANSFER BABU AND HIS TWO PRINCIPAL LIEUTENANTS TO INNOCUOUS
POSTS, BUT THEY DO NOT WANT TO MOVE TOO FAST.
B. THE TANGANYIKANS ARE NOT GOING TO PRESS THEM HARD
ON THIS. THEY ARE FEARFUL OF ROCKING THE BOAT AND ARE ALSO
A BIT SENSITIVE ABOUT SOVIET BLOC REACTION.
D. BABU WILL PROBABLY BE RETURNING TO THE ISLAND BEFORE
UNION WITH TANGANYIKA CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED. WHEN HE GETS BACK
ALL BETS WILL BE OFF AGAIN.
4. YEMEN:
A. NASIR WENT TO YEMEN YESTERDAY FOR THE FIRST TIME.
WE DO NOT KNOW THE PURPOSE OF HIS VISIT.
B. IT MAY BE SIMPLY TO CHEER UP THE EGYPTIAN TROOPS
THERE AND SPUR THEM ON TO GREATER' EFFORTS AGAINST THE ROYALISTS.
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C. ON THE OTHER HAND NASIR MAY WANT TO LOOK OVER THE
YEMENI GOVERNMENT FIRST HAND TO SEE IF ANY RESHUFFLING WOULD
IMPROVE IT. HE HAS NEVER BEEN TOO HAPPY WITH SALLAL.
D. IN HIS FIRST SPEECH, THOWEVER, NASIR WAS OFF ON A
DIkkhRENT TACK. HE ?SWORE TO EXPEL BRITAIN FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE ARAB WORLD AND TO "CONFRONT ZIONISM, STOOGE OF
IMPERIALISM."
E. SALLAL2 PLAYING THE GOOD HOST, REFERRED TO NASIR AS
"THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD."
5, BRITISH GUIANA
A. VIOLENCE BROUGHT ON BY THE PROLONGED SUGAR WORKERS'
STRIKE MAY EVENTUALLY REQUIRE THE INTERVENTION OF BRITISH
TROOPS.
B. THE STRIKE IS TAKING ON A MORE PRONOUNCED POLITICAL
AND RACIAL CAST. THERE WERE ?SEVERAL SERIOUS INCIbgNTS THIS
WEEK BETWEEN EAST INDIANS AND NEGROES.
C. THE POLICE BELIEVE THAT SOME OF THIS IS THE WORK OF
A TERRORIST GROUP ADVISED BY SIX TO EIGHT CUBAN?TRAINED
YOUTHS.
D. OUR CONSUL FEARS THAT EVEN IF THE STRIKE ENDS THE
VIOLENCE WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN LATER
THIS YEAR.
6. NOTES:
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D. CONGO: THE REBELLION IN KWILU PROVINCE IS STILL
ON AND OUR AMBASSADOR THINKS IT MAY CONTINUE ALMOST INDEFINITELY,
FOUR CONGO ARMY BATTALIONS ARE TIED DOWN THERE LEAVING THE
ARMY HARD-PRESSED TO CONTAIN DISORDERS ELSEWHERE.
E. CHINA: PEIPING HAS ALREADY BOUGHT ALMOST FOUR MILLION
TONS OF GRAIN THIS YEAR AND WILL PROBABLY EQUAL LAST YEAR'S
MARK OF 5.9 MILLION TONS (WORTH ABOUT $350 MILLION). OVER
HALF OF THE GRAIN WILL COME FROM AUSTRALIA AND CANADA AND A
LARGE SHARE OF THE REMAINDER FROM ARGENTINA AND MEXICO.
F. CUBA?US: CUBA HAS HANDED A NOTE TO THE UN SECRETARY
GENERAL SAYING IT WILL NOT TOLERATE US OVERFLIGHTS. ACCORDING
TO PRESS REPORTS THE LETTER DID NOT SPECIFY WHAT THE CUBANS
WOULD DO ABOUT THE FLIGHTS. WE DO NOT YET HAVE THE TEXT.
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