THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 14 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959091
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• 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 CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
14 APRIL 1964
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1. Cyprus
a. Shooting broke out across
the green line in Nicosia this
morning, killing at least one
civilian and wounding several
others. Sporadic gunfire continues
throughout the capital, clearing
the streets.
b. Meanwhile, fighting at
the Kyrenia pass has let up tem-
porarily as Greek Cypriots gather
strength either for an assault or
a battle of attrition. The battle
lines are not yet altered.
c. The outnumbered Turkish
Cypriots remain firmly entrenched
on the heights. The UN is rein-
forcing its troops in the area.
d. At the conclusion of his
talks with Makarios yesterday,
Papandreou issued a statement
supporting Makarios' abrogation of
the Treaty of Alliance. The move,
he said, simply confirmed the
actual situation anyway, as the
treaty had proved to be inappli-
cable.
e. The only solution, Papan-
dreou said, was complete indepen-
dence and self-determination for
the Cypriot people. The UN, he
suggested, could guarantee minority
rights.
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2. Brazil
f. There was no mention of
union with Greece or the role, if
any, envisaged for Grivas. Papan-
dreou has privately told Ambassador
Labouisse that he preferred to
keep Grivas out of the act as he
was a divisive factor. Union with
Greece, Papandreou believes, will
follow as a matter of course after
"full independence" is achieved,
and there is no point in unneces-
sarily provoking the Turks by
raising the subject now.
a. Castello Branco's inau-
guration is set for 1500 on Wed-
nesday in Brasilia.
b. There is no word yet on
new cabinet appointments, but
there are reports that Leitao da
Cunha will be kept on as foreign
minister.
c. Castello Branco has
indicated to the press that he
feels priority attention must be
given to curbing inflation, solving
the external debt problem, and
establishing an authentic trade
union movement.
d. Strong pressure is being
brought on Castello Branco to break
relations with Cuba, and he is
likely to do so eventually, but
not until he has looked into the
matter carefully himself.
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3. Laos
a. The three factions of
Souvanna's humpty-dumpty govern-
ment are scheduled to meet this
Thursday in the Plaine des Jarres
to discuss a whole range of
national unification problems.
b. It has taken four months
to get this much agreed upon.
About the only thing that one can
reasonably expect from the talks
is a possible agreement hence-
forward to hold cabinet meetings
in the apolitical royal capital
at Luang Prabang. There has been
talk of this for eight months.
c. Souvanna himself is
scheduled to visit France and
Britain, beginning next week--
which would suggest that he,too,
does not anticipate much real
progress at this session at least.
d. He has just returned
from Hanoi and Peiping where he
seems to have been Impressed by
assurances of respect for Laotian
neutrality and territorial integrity.
e. These "assurances," he
assumes, mean North Korean troops
will be pulled out and will no
longer use Laos as a corridor to
South Vietnam. He admits, however,
the matter was discussed only in
general terms in the context of
"separating" the Laotian problem
from the Vietnamese and other
Southeast Asia issues.
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4. Cuba
f. Souvanna seems now per-
suaded that the Pathet Lao will
allow his government full access
and control throughout the country,
and until their real intentions
are again made clear, Souvanna
will probably again be inclined
to see the rightists, Phoumi2and
ourselves as the villains.
g. So far, at least, the
upshot has been to strengthen his
opposition to any close collabora-
tion between Phoumi and South
Vietnamese forces.
a. An unusual military build-
up has been under way this past
week on the Isle of Pines.
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c. Photography shows the
presence of two FROG launchers
and a FROG transporter at the SAM
site on the island.
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a. The Sino-Soviet dispute
has repercussions on the ICC in
Vietnam
the Poles are not pushing
matters in the ICC raised by the
North Vietnamese, and relations
between them are described as
distinctly cool.
C.
Observations by the
US Embassy officers
tend to corroborate these views.
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NOTES
B. South Korea President Pak is making scapegoats of
six economic ministers to take some of the steam out
of criticism of his regime's poor economic showing.
Restless students have been making invidious comparisons
lately with North Korea's rapid progress and have been
talking of reunification as the answer to the country's
ills.
C. British Guiana-UK The British Labor Party is studying
the question of policy for British Guiana. No final
decisions have been made yet, but opinion seems to be
shaping up in favor of granting early independence to
the Jagan government without first holding elections
based on proportional representation.
D. Southern Rhodesia With the relatively moderate Prime
binister Field now out, the right-wing militant whites
in his party have control. With Ian Smith as prime
minister,they will press harder for full independence.
Britain has been unwilling to grant this until the
country's 3.7 million Africans have better political
prospects.
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