THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 28 APRIL 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959139
• 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 28, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
28 APRIL 1964 50X1
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1. Cyprus
a. As in earlier Greek
tragedies, the various parties
continue to move inexorably
toward disaster.
b. Yesterday Dr. Kuchuk, the
Turkish Cypriot leader, sent a
message to communities at various
points on the island, pointing
out that the Greek Cypriots had
not changed, that the UN was
helpless, and that the whole matter
had reached the point of "life or
death."
c. He ordered the closing of
roads in all villages, the erection
of barricades, and the preparation
of ambushes. He also directed that
preparations be made for attacks
"everywhere." Units were not to
attack without further orders,
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e. We do not know whether
Kuchuk has Ankara's go ahead on
this or whether he is preparing to
embark on a last-gasp effort to
provoke Turkish? intervention. Some
Turkish Cypriots in recent days
have given the impression that they
fully expect Ankara to step in.
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f. Turkish forces in the
Iskenderun area were stirring again
yesterday.
h. The Greek Cypriots seem
elated with the way things are
going. Their units, under the
personal direction of Interior
Minister Georkatzis,are edging
closer to St. Hilarion Castle,
the main Turkish Cypriot strong-
hold covering the Kyrenia pass.
Press reports say that the UN force
is making no attempt to stop them.
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2. Laos
a. We are finding it as hard
as ever to read the Laotian situa-
tion.
b. Although the crisis which
began ten days ago is clearly
unresolved, the coup leaders seem
for the moment to be easing their
pressure on Souvanna to revamp
his cabinet.
c. They are very much in
control of Vientiane, however.
While their guards surround both
Souvanna's and Phoumi's residences,
in a typical Lao arrangement
neither entry nor exit is in any
way impeded.
d. Phoumi emerged yesterday
from a meeting with Souvanna with
a statement calling on all ministers--
i.e.,the Pathet Lao--to return to
Vientiane and take over the "full
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resign, Phoumi added.
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3. Tanganyika-
Zanzibar
f. PhouMi had nothing to say
about the coup group's insistence
that the peculation, graft and
corruption of the past be ended.
This deMand seems directed largely
at Phoumi.
a. Instruments of ratifica-
tion were exchanged yesterday
afternOpn in Par-es-Salaam, making
the new United Republic of Tangan-
yika and Zanzibar for all practical
purposes official.
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b. President Nyerere then
named five Zanzibaris to positions
in the new nation's first cabinet.
Of these, only the Moscow-trained
Hanga received a post of signifi?
cance, that of Minister of industry,
Mines and power.
c. Karume is now presi-
dent in charge of administering
Zanzibar. Babu has accepted 4
minor post in the, new regime,
which will require him to live in
Dar-es-Salaam.
d. One dejected Babu fol-
lower says he is solacing himself
with the thought that it was worth
losing 300,000 people for the sake
of gaining 10 million.
e. Though things have so far
gone smoothly, we are not sure
that Nyerere and company are com-
pletely out of the woods. His
political organization at home
is fragile and he must in the days
ahead dispose of 4 number of
knotty Zanzibari problems such as
what to do with the Soviet arms and
the large bloc missions operating
on the island.
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4. UAR - Yemen -
Saudi Arabia
f. Also,many Zanzibari
extremists were led to believe,
as did Karume at one point, that
they were agreeing to a federa-
tion, not a surrender of Zanzibar's
sovereignty.
g. African reaction has been
generally favorable. Nkrumah,
however, sees it as a personal set
back in that Nyerere's stature
was given a boost and an East
African federation brought nearer
to reality.
b. Nasir was probably trying
to force Faysal and the Yemeni
royalists into resuming negotia-
tions-with Cairo.
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c. The Egyptian leader may
be feeling a new sense of urgency
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tion in the already nebulous con-
trol which the weak Sallal govern-
ment exercises over internal affairs
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5. South Korea
6. France-NATO
a. While the student demonstra-
tions have died down for the time
being, the Pak regime is still face
to face with a political crisis of
major proportions.
b. Ambassador Berger believes
that the pressures on Pak are build-
ing up, both from within the gov-
ernment and from his many opponents
on the outside, and that something
will have to give soon.
c. The general prescription
offered is for Pak to get rid of
Kim Chong-pil and begin to clean
up his regime, Kim, who has been
through all this once before, says
he will not resign but will leave
the country if Pak asks him to.
d. Pak is shying away from
this, but Berger thinks he will
have to yield in the next few
days. Kim's going would entail
a major shakeup in the ruling
party and probably the government.
a. The foreign office has
announced that French naval officers
attached to NATO commands in the
Mediterrean and the English Channel
are being withdrawn.
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b. Further restrictions on
French participation in NATO may
come out of today's meeting of
Defense Minister Messmer and. his
top aides.
c. One result could be.the
withdrawal of the few remaining
French units now earmarked for
NATO. Another could be the
reduction of French officers still,
on the NATO staffs to a liasion
capacity only.
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D. Burma Ne Win and: Burma's Buddhist leaders
are inching ever closer to direct opposition.
The country's most influential organization of
Buddhist monks is trying to unite all Buddhist
groups to refuse Ne Win's demand that they
register. Several minor Buddhist organizations
have already announced that they willnot comply.
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E. British Guiana Opposition leader Forbes
Burnham has returned from a trip to the tur-
bulent west coast of British Guiana)
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that "very shortly" the only Soviet personnel
in Cuba would be in Havana, Camaguey, and near
Santiago.
G. Rumania .The Rumanian party has issued a
major statement of. policy. On first reading it
appears to be no less than A Rumanian."declara-
tion,of independence" trOm the USSR, While
it represents a serious defeat .f or Khrushchev,
it dOes not line Bucharest up with Peiping,
"but 'ratherplaces it on the road of national
Communism./
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