THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 7 OCTOBER 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959469
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 7, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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7 OCTOBER 1964
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2, USSR
a. During Khrushchev's mid-
September discourses on "terrible
weaponry," he mentioned spending a
day with military experts looking
at "small arms, infantry and tank
armament, and close range rockets
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3. Turkey
a. Anti-Westernism appears.
to be on the rise. Influential
papers and student organizations
are calling for a more "independent"
foreign policy and for improved
relations with the Balkan satel-
lites and Communist China.
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4. Congo
b. The government ,embittered
over the Cyprus situation, seems
to be giving this campaign at least
tacit approval.
c. Peiping and Moscow are
doing their best to help the trend
along,and Bulgarian-Turkish rela-
tions have been improving.
a. Tshombe, still unwanted
at the nonaligned conference, lan-
guished yesterday in virtual house
arrest in Cairo.
b. A tragicomedy enacted in
Leopoldville upon Tshombe's depar-
ture has been further compounded.
After ?a foul-up over UAR passports
for his entourage, Tshombe called
a UAR:Aiplomat "forty kinds of
filthy beast," Nasir closed down
the UAR Embassy, and Congolese
troops detailed to protect'the UAR
and Algerian chanceries zealously
undertook to blockade them.
c. According to today's
Cairo press,,Tshombe was told he
could notl leave Cairo unti12.this*
"siege" was lifted.
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5. Laos
d. Meanwhile, Robert Roths-
child, a key aide ?to Spaak, has
TshomWs acceptance in principle
for bringing in Belgian advisers
in foreign, financial and interior
affairs, who would operate as a
"Council of Administrative Recon-
struction" directly responsive to
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mulling over Rothschild's plan.
a. As the rains end and the
mud dries, Communist forces may be
stirring.
b. Sizable truck movements
are reported on the main supply
artery from North Vietnam to the
Plaine des Jarres.
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6. North Vietnam
c. Observers in Vientiane
are somewhat concerned lest Laotian
generals be encouraged by their
recent limited successes to bite
off more than they can chew.
a. The International Red
Cross has received from the North
Vietnamese Red Cross a letter for
his wife from US Navy Lieutenant
Alvarez--shot down during the August
strikes on North Vietnamese naval
bases.
b. Red Cross officials say
this is their first such communica-
tion from the North Vietnamese Red
Cross. They hope it may ultimately
lead to a release of prisoners.
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NOTES
B.
USSR-Somalia The first Somali military trainees
returned from the USSR in mid-August, and Somali
forces would now appear to be ready for the first
big gulp of Soviet arms due under the year-old
$35 million agreement.2
D. South Vietnam General Khiem is apparently, due
to leave Saigon today on his twice-postponed
"thank you" trip to Europe. Some Vietnamese
say that he has been reluctant to leave because
his astrologer had failed to supply, him an
auspicious day on which to,start.
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F.
Italy Christian Democratic factions have
papered over their differences and reaffirmed
support for the center-left Moro government and
its program. While this fends off an immediate
government crisis, the other three partners in
the coalition government remain skeptical of
Christian Democratic intentions and of Moro's
ability to implement the program.
G. West Germany - EEC A year-end crisis within
the'Common Market over the unification of grain
prices is shaping up. Paris wants a decision
in December, but Bonn is procrastinating.
/Already, there
are charges that the German farmer is to be
Sold "down the river."
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