THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 26 SEPTEMBER 1961

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September 16, 2015
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September 26, 1961
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04 : CIA-RDP79T00936A000200390001-2 50?)6(1 .; ? 26 SEPTEMBER1961 (CHECKLIST) (COPY) 1. COMMUNIST REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT'S UN ADDRESS. A. MOSCOW HAS NOT GONE BEYOND A BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENT, BACKPAGED IN PRAVDA REPEAT PRAVDA, NOTING THE GENERAL TOPICS RAISED IN THE SPEECH. OF MORE INTEREST IS THE NEWSPAPER'S REPRINTING, IN THE SAME ISSUE, OF A RECENT ARTICLE ON THE PRESIDENT BY JAMES WECHSLER IN THE NY POST REPEAT NY POST. AMONG THE PASSAGES IN THE ARTICLE IS THE FOLLOWING: "COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA TRIES TO EQUATE ALL AMERICAN ACTIONS WITH VICIOUS INTRIGUES OF WALL STREET IMPERIALISTS...IF KHRUSHCHEV BELIEVES THIS DOCTRINAIRE NONSENSE THEN HE IS A MADMAN AND WE ARE ALL DOOMED;" B. CHINESE COMMUNISTS DISMISS THE SPEECH AS THE "USUAL EMPTY PROPA- GANDA;" C. THE EAST GERMANS HAVE CONCENTRATED ON CONDEMNING THE STATEMENTS ON THE GERMAN PROBLEM, BUT POLISH, RUMANIAN AND CZECH,QCOMMEWARIES HAVE CENTERED THEIR CRITICISMS ON US DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS. THEY NOTE TBE PRESIDENT'S EXPRESSED WILLINGNESS TO NEGOTIATE, BUT DENY SEEING ANY SIGNS OF A DEPARTURE FROM STANDARD US FORMULATIONS; D. BELGRADE,HOWEVER, HAS SUGGESTED THAT THE SPEECH DESERVES CAREFUL STUDY AND NOTED A "POSITIVE" APPROACH TO DISARMAMENT; E. THE CUBANS OUTDO THE BLOC, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE CHINESE, IN UNCONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM; F. INITIAL INDIAN COMMENT SAYS THE ADDRESS IS REGARDED BY MANY AS A STRIKING REFLECTION OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION'S FLEXIBILITY AND FAIRNESS THE PRESIDENT'S FRIENDLY REFERENCES TO THE BELGRADE CONFERENCE ARE NOTED. 50X1 2. CONGO: A. THE CEASE-FIRE IS STILL IN EFFECT IN KATANGA BUT REMAINS FRAGILE. FOUR ETHIOPIAN JETS, FOR THE UN, INTENDED TO NEUTRALIZE TSHOMBE'S TWO JETS, ARE EXPECTED INLLEOPOLDVILLE MOMENTARILY 50X1X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04 : CIA-RDP79T00936A000200390001-2 50 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04 : CIA-RDP79T00936A000200390001-2 50X10 x1 C. IN ELISABETHVILLE, THE PROBLEM OF THE 30,000 RESTIVE BALUBA REFUGEES HAS BEEN EASED SOMEWHAT BY AN AGREEMENT ON REPATRIATION BETWEEN 50X1O TSHOMBE AND THE UN. 3. WARSAW PACT EXERCISES. YESTERDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF WARSAW PACT EXERC ISES , TO BE HELD IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 50X1 WE REGARD SUCH A MOVE AS PART OF A PLAUSIBLE CONTINGENCY PLAN AND AS A FURTHER MOVE IN MOSCOW'S EFFORT TO IMPRESS THE WEST. 4. LONDON ALARMED BY GHANA'S ANTI-BRITISH TREND. THEIR PREVIOUS CALM HAS BEEN DISRUPTED BY NKRUMAH'S RECENT ACTIONS AND THEY ARE NOW FEARFUL FOR THE SAFETY OF BRITISH SUBJECTS. 50X1 50X1 5. A. SOVIET 50X1 AT THE LA., WILL TAP? CALLY CONTINUE TO INSIST ON THE TROIKA IN TALKING TO OTHER DELEGATIONS, 50X1 THE PLAN WAS NOT LIKELY TO GO THROUGH. THE SOVizao 50X1 ACCEPT THE IDEA OF A ..v4LE ACTING SECRETARY BUT WILL TRY FOR A WATERED-DOWN AUTHORITY. B. ATTEMPT UNLESS THERE. 50X1 ANOTHER COUP 50X1 SUCCEBD SOON IN CAPTURING THE SECRET ARMY LEADERS r Declassified in in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04 : CIA-RDP79T00936A000200390001-2 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04 : CIA-RDP79T00936A000200390001-2 bOX1(1 C. SUKARNO APPARENTLY FEELS HE HAS A FAIRLY FIRM,COMMITMENT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL VISIT TO INDONESIA. RETURNING TO DJAKARTA RECENTLY, HE INDICATED AS MUCH TO OUR AMBASSADOR, WHO NOW EXPECTS THE INDONESIANS TO FOLLOW?UP ON THE INVITATION, D. THERE WAS SUCCESSFUL SOVIET TEST VEHICLE LAUNCH TO THE KAMCHATKA AREA LEST EVENING. E. YESTERDAY ADENAUER TOLD A BRITISH TV AUDIENCE HE IS THINKING OF RETIRING. "I HAVE NO INTENTION OF HAVING FOUR MORE YEARS. I HAVE HAD ENOUGH." 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/05/04 : CIA-RDP79T00936A000200390001-2 50X1