THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 14 OCTOBER 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959483
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 14, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
14 OCTOBER 1964
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1. South Vietnam
a. Although there are still
many bridges to cross, the High
National Council now plans to have
a provisional government installed
by 27 October.
b. They want to fix on a
chief of state by next Tuesday.
The chief of state would then desig-
nate a prime minister who would in
turn form his own government. Both
steps of course would require coun-
cil approval.
c. Under this plan the crea-
tion of a national assembly would
be deferred for several months.
d. The largest obstacle to
this essentially sound scheme is
the mutual distrust which still
exists between Khanh and the coun-
cil.
e. Khanh fears the council
will come up with a government the
military cannot accept; the council
fears Khanh will not be willing to
give way to another when the time
comes.
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2. Congo
f With Ambassador Taylor,
Khanh continues to reiterate that
he really wants to be army com-
mander so that he can "purify"
the armed forces and keep them out
of politics for good.
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3. Laos
a. The Laotian Air Force has
begun the scheduled series of air
strikes against selected targets
in central and southern Laos along
the infiltration corridor to South
Vietnam.
b. As is usual in Laos, the
Communists seem to have had advance
knowledge. They warned yesterday
that, should "massive air attacks"
be carried out, "a disastrous war
would again occur in Laos."
c. The attacks could fore-
close further talks between the
Laotian princes in Paris. Souvanna
Phouma is there now waiting for
Souphannouvong to show up. The
latter, however, is in Hanoi and
will probably return to Laos.
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4. USSR-US
d. King Savang yesterday gave
his full support to the corridor
clearing operations. He made clear
that,if renewed military pressure
from the Communists results, he
assumes there will be a prompt US
response.
a. As added detail on the
incident yesterday morning over La
Perouse Strait becomes available,
it appears less likely that the US
aircraft was fired on by a Soviet
aircraft or surface vessel.
c. There were no Soviet sur-
face vessels in the vicinity at
the time.
d. All of this suggests that
the damage to the patrol plane may
have been caused by a mechanical
failure in the plane itself.
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5. Cyprus
c. Food stocks in the Turkish
community are low and unemployment
high. The people, looking tired
and beaten, seem to want Ankara to
resolve the problem one way or an-
other.
d. However, they still refuse
to give ground on the Nicosia-
Kyrenia road and now want the Greek
Cypriots to give up control of a
road elsewhere before they will
yield.
e. There is a danger that
Makarios, back from his triumphs
at Cairo, will take reprisals if
he is thwarted on opening the
Kyrenia road.
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6, Japan -
Communist China
7. Communist China
a. Foreign Minister Shiina
considers the normalization of re-
lations between Tokyo and Peiping
will be Japan's "highest priority"
foreign policy task next year.
b. This may reflect a feel-
ing in the foreign office that
Peiping could win a majority vote
at the UN in the next few months.
Domestic pressures on the Japanese
Government to make a move would
then rise sharply.
a. The Chinese Communists,
who are trying hard to become self-
sufficient in petroleum products,
this year will import less than
15 percent of their requirements.
They imported some 45 percent in
1961 and 25 percent last year.
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b. The principal deficiency
now holding back Peiping's petro-
leum industry is a lack of modern
reining technology. The Chinese
have contracted for Italian and
German help in this field.
c. Even after the Italian and
German experts depart, however,
China will still have to import
its aviation fuels and high-grade
lubricants.
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NOTES
B. Pakistan - Communist China Though Pakistani
officials say that they have no "present"
plan to build a road across the passes to
Sinkiang, they admit that the reopening of
the caravan route in the area is under active
consideration.
C. Brazil
Goulart is fast losing interest in
conspiring to return to power in Brazil.
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E. Mozambique-Tanganyika Further trouble may be
coming along the border. The Portuguese have
reacted to a recent upsurge of terrorism and
sabotage, sponsored by the extremist wing of
the Mozambique nationalists, by operations to
clear the nationalists from the border area.
The Tanganyikans have sent reinforcements(
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