THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 21 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959125
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 21, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
21 APRIL 1964
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Laos
LATE ITEM
a. The crisis is not over.
Although the principals are milling
around in typical Lao fashion,
the troops commanders in Vientiane
have still not been brought under
control.
b. In talks held with the
King yesterday at Luang Prabang,
Souvanna, Phoumi, and the troop
leaders were unable to reach any
agreement on the formation of a
new government.
c. The King refusedto accept
Souvanna's resignation and said
he would recognize--at least for
the time being--the continued
existence of the coalition govern-
ment.
d. Although Souvanna told
newsmen from the balcony of his
villa this morning that his coali-
tion government continues to func-
tion, the right-wing leaders still
have him under house arrest.
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e. Phoumi's position is also
uncertain. He still appears to
retain the loyalty of most of the
rightist commanders outside the
capital and is talking of a counter-
coup.
g,
force might
ultimately be required to over-
throw the coup group.
h. In the capital itself,
coup leaders have improved their
troop dispositions.
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j. Thonglith may be moving
to take over leadership of the
rightist forces.
k.
Thonglith is tough and
ambitious. Thonglith, violently
anti-neutralist and anti-Communist,
has little understanding of the
international issues involved.
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1. Cuba
a. Castro's speech on Sunday
was his first strong attack on the
Johnson administration.
b. In others since the first
of the year, he had adopted a
careful, almost conciliatory atti-
tude toward the US.
c. Castro said he intended
to deliver another note to the
United Nations denouncing various
"provocations and violations"
against Cuba by the US.
d. He detailed various al-
leged provocations by US personnel
at the Guantanamo Bay naval base
and referred in pissing--as he has
occasionally in the past--to US
violations of Cuban airspace.
e. These actions by the US,
Castro charged, demonstrate its
"increasing aggressiveness," and
he called on the Cuban armed forces
--including "oar surface-to-aik
missiles"--to be prepared for any
eventuality.
f. These last remarks do
not seem to be in themselves a new
departure in Cub n policy. The US
press is overplaying them.
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2. Turkey
3. Syria
g. Castro also attacked the
Brazilian revolution at length,
an indication that he regards it
as a serious setback for Cuba.
a. Student groups, inflamed
by some of their professors and
by elements of the press, may
soon stage demonstrations against
the US in Istanbul and Ankara.
b. Some of this no doubt
results from a calculated effort
by the government to put pressure
on Washington.
C.. On the other hand, there
is also strong emotional reaction
to what the Turks construe as US
failure to support them over
Cyprus.
d. We still do not think,
however, that under present cir-
cumstances the Turks would pull
out of NATO or expel US bases.
a. The Baath regime is
facing the most serious threat
since a Nasirite coup failed last
July.
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b. It now appears that
government security forces had
more difficulty than they bar-
gained for in quelling last week's
disturbances in Hama.
c. Popular antagonism to
the regime is growing 9 as is con-
servative opposition to its
socialization programs.
d. Most of the merchants
in Damascus have closed down their
shops in protest against the gov-
ernment. People there are stock-
ing food supplies in anticipation
Of trouble.
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NOTES
A. South Vietnam: There is friction between Deputy
Prime Minister for Social and Cultural Affairs,
Do Mau,and Defense Minister Khiem, Do Mau has
been highly critical
of his
the military security service, who
by Khiem.
successor as
chief of
was appointed
B. Brazil Ambassador Gordon reports the contrast
between the tone of his first private talk with
? Castello Branco and that of recent Goulart
audiences was as day and night. Branco was
"alert, attentive, intelligent and responsive."
C.
D.
Congo Adoula continues to talk of reshuffling
his cabinet. Defense Minister Anany, one of the
candidates for removal, has threatened to mount
a coup rather than be forced out.
Adoula was planning to keep
Anany on in a lesser post.
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E. South Korea The demonstrations continued again
today. Police used tear gas to break up a
protest made by 2,000 students demanding the
release of those arrested yesterday.
F. Iraq The Iraqi Kurds have now split into two
Traions. The militant wing, under the con-
trol of young, left-wing leaders of the Kurdish
Democratic Party, wants to continue the fight
for more automony. The other faction under
Barzani, the long-time Kurdish leader, wants
an early agreement with the government.
G. Nationalist China - Congo (Brazzaville) Taipei
finally severed relations with Brazzaville on
17 April after the Congolese foreign minister
once again explicitly denied the existence of
the Nationalist Government. Peiping has been
confident the Nationalists would eventually pull
out.
R. USSR A Moscow broadcast this morning says
that "peace-loving forces" in the US greeted
with deep satisfaction the Soviet and US
decisions to reduce production of fissionable
materials for weapons. It cites favorable
American references to both the US and Soviet
announcements and quotes Fulbright's statement
that this is a "hopeful development."
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Preliminary analysis
of Khrushchev's
statement on a cut
in the production of
materials for nuclear
weapons.
a. The two plutonium reac-
tors on which Khrushchev says he
is going to halt construction are
probably the ones at Tomsk.
b. We had estimated that
these reactors, which are dual-
purpose (electric power as well as
plutonium production), would be-
come operational in 1966 or 1967
with a capacity of about 1,500
megawatts each.
c. It is not clear from
Khrushchev's statement whether the
Soviets intend to stop construction
on the reactors as plutonium pro-
ducers or stop work altogether.
? d. Any suspension of con-
struction should be evident in
future photography.
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