THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 29 JUNE 1961

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k Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 29 JUNE 1961 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04 : CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 L-1 I r Li 1 1ITiI r ?=1 r7-1 r ' Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 1. Cuban air force dependence on lloc extended. A contingent of Cuban air force radio operators are slated for 4 6-month training course in RussianreqUiPment. 50X1 Shipment of Soviet-made transport aircraft will probably soon supple-. 50X1 ment the MIG fighters recently delivered. . Iraq-Kuwait a) Most Iraqis are astonished at Qasim!s audacity--many probably 50X1 hoping he can get Away with it, many others worried that he has taken on more than he can handle; b) Several Iraq government officials have expressed their frank opinion that Qasim is crazy; c) As of 28 June, no evidence of abnormal military activity in Baghdad area; d) Most likely Qasim objectives for the present are to establish juridical claim to Kuwait and to buttress himself as Arab nationalist; e) But even if he does not move militarily now, Qasim--half cuckoo and half fox--will be watchful for international crisis likely to tie British hands. 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 .? P=1 F FA L7-1 r 1-1 1-F?l? r-D Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04 : CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 3. Austria favors UN member- ship for Communist China ii 50X1 50X1 TL- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 50X1 1? A. 1 -1 I- I -1 F7.1 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 NOTES De Gaulle, speaking in Lorraine, and Debre, in Paris, yesterday repeated intent to partition unless rebels unbend in Evi n talks. 50X1 Bonn has reportedly decided to offer food supplies to East Germany. (West German press) C. Nkrumah, f ced with impending financial crisis, will ask for a 280 million doll r Soviet loan during his July visit to Moscow according to high Ghana official Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 50X1 50X1 50X1 ?I I --A C 1-1 L ' Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 WATCH COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS-728 June L _ 1 A. No Sino-Soviet Bloc country intends to initiate hostilities a- gainst the United States or its possessions in the immediate future. B. No Sino-Soviet Bloc country intends deliberately to initiate direct military action against US forces abroad, US allies, or areas peripheral to the Bloc in the immediate future. C. BERLIN: The Watch Committee sees no indications which would lead to a different conclusion from that of the Berlin Committee of USIB on 27 June. 50X1 LAOS: The CommuniSts will maintain their pressures on the Boun Oum government to accede to the establishment of a "neutralist" coalition government favorable to them while they continue small- Scale military operations against government forces and the consolidation of their military position. The ability of the Royal Laotian Government to maintain its cohesion and determina- tion to resist is becoming increasingly eroded. Ti--- T- C---L Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 r I, I- r--1 I Fit r Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3 50X1 Khrushchev's 28 June speech in Moscow - We summarize it 50X1 as follows: It contained the usual mixture of threats and inducements which he still.hopes will bring the West to make concessions on Berlin and Germany. at the bargaining table. Khrushchev served notice that urgings of Western "hotheads" for .mobilization and , other military measures will not deter the USSR ,from signing a, sep- arate peace treaty with East Germany and warned that Moscow is "taking the necessary meaSures to counter any Western moves to declare a mobilization. Khrushchev, on the .other_hand, complained that the West is distorting his proposals on-Berlin and Germany and stressed his readiness to reopen negotiatkons, He &intended Soviet proposals would protect West Berlin's: right to choose its own social and economic system under international guarantees. He also sought to minimize the consequences of a separate treaty by again stating "there will be no blockade-of West Berlin of any kind" and no "restrictions" on access, provided that interested powers reach an agreement with East Germany. Khrushchev also hinted that a second meeting with President Kennedy might be !'useful," although he did not link this directly to the Berlin qUestion, 50X1 THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE Pre.e;e1=n+ (.11.11%, C?mr.rct+ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04: CIA-RDP79T00936A000100110001-3