THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 4 JANUARY 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996754
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 4, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--4 JANUARY 1964
1. CYPRUS:
A . NO SERIOUS INCIDENTS WERE REPORTED YESTERDAY FOL-
LOWING AGREEMENT BY LEADERS OF THE TWO CYPRIOT COMMUNI-
TIES TO JOIN THE GUARANTOR POWERS FOR TALKS IN LONDON.
B. THE TIMING OF THESE TALKS IS OPEN, BUT THE BRIT-
ISH ARE PRESSING FOR THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE CONVENING.
F. IN TURKEY, I NONU S NEW COALITION, WHICH HAD
BEEN UNDER ATTACK FOR ITS HANDLING OF ME CYPRUS CRISIS
GOT ITS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE FROM THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
THIS FORESTALLS FOR THE TIME BEING THE THREAT OF A MILI-
TARY TAKEOVER.
2. CUBA-SPAIN:
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3. INDONESIA:
A. THE INDONESIANS, WITH A STRONG SECOND FROM THE
CHINESE COMMUNISTS, ARE TRYING TO ROUND UP BACKING FOR
ANOTHER AFRO-ASIAN CONFERENCE ALONG THE LINES OF THE 1955
CONFERENCE IN BANDUNG.
C., SUCH A "SECOND BANDUNG" CONFERENCE WOULD BE IN
DIRECT COMPETITION WITH THE "SECOND BELGRADE" CONFERENCE,
A MEETING OF NON-ALIGNED STATES TITO AND NASIR ARE TRYING
TO ARRANGE.
D. NEHRU, NORMALLY UNENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT SUCH AFFAIRS,
IS SUPPORTING THE TITO-NASYR VERSION, PERHAPS BECAUSE IT
WOULD EXCLUDE THE CHINESE.
4. COMMUNIST CHINA - JAPAN:
A. PEIPING IS TRYING TO AGGRAVATE TOKYO'S RELATIONS
WITH TAIPEI, ALREADY BADLY STRAINED, BY ITS FAMILIAR TACTIC
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OF PLAYING ON JAPANESE BELIEFS ABOUT THE VAST POTENTIAL OF
THE CHINA MARKET. ?
B. IN RECENT WEEKS THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS HAVE RE-
VERSED THEIR FIELD AND NOW SAY THEY WILL EXCHANGE TRADE MIS-
SIONS WITHOUT INSISTING ON DIPLOMATIC STATUS.
D. THE JAPANESE, WHO ARE USED TO THIS TREATMENT,
WILL PROBABLY TEMPORIZE ON THE TRADE MISSION WHILE AL-
LOWING PRIVATE JAPANESE FIRMS TO LOOK INTO THE TRADE OFFERS.
5. NOTES:
A. USSR:
B. FRANCE-US: DE GAULLE TOLD REPORTERS ON THURSDAY
THAT HE WOULD PROBABLY BE STOPPING AT MARTINIQUE AND
GUADELOUPE ON HIS RETURN FROM MEXICO IN MARCH. HE PROB-
ABLY WISHES TO ENCOURAGE SPECULATION THAT HE IS AVAILABLE
FOR A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN.
C. UAR-YEMEN:
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D. INDONESIA?MALAYSIA: SUKARNO HAS STARTED THE NEW
YEAR BY ORDERING AN INTENSIFICATION OF THE INDONESIAN EF?
FORT TO DESTROY MALAYSIA. WE ARE NOT SURE WHAT ADDITIONAL
MEASURES HE HAS IN MIND, BUT HE HAS TALKED ABOUT STEPPING
UP BORDER PATROLS AND PERHAPS PAYING A PERSONAL VISIT TO
INDONESIAN BORNEO.
E. THAILAND?CAMBODIA: THE THAIS, WHO ARE VIOLENTLY
OPPOSED TO SIHANOUK'S 14?NATION CONFERENCE TO GUARANTEE
CAMBODIAN NEUTRALITY, ARE TOYING WITH THE IDEA OF COUNTER?
ING BY CALLING FOR A PURELY SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONFERENCE
WITHOUT CHINESE OR US ATTENDANCE. WE DOUBT THAT SIHANOUK
WOULD ACCEPT.
F. ALGERIA?TANGANYIKA: A CONSIGNMENT OF ALGERIAN
ARMS HAS ARRIVED IN DAR?ES?SALAAM. THE ARE, WHICH BEN
BET LA PROMISED PRESIDENT NYERERE LAST JULY, ARE LARGELY
FOR THE TANGANYIKAN ARMY BUT SOME MAY END UP IN THE HANDS
OF REFUGEES FROM MOZAMBIQUE
BASED IN TANGANYIKA.
G. ETHIOPIA:
AND SOUTH AFRICA WHO ARE NOW
OUR EMBASSY IN ADDIS ABABA REPORTS THAT HAILE SELASSIE
HAS FOR SOME TIME BEEN PLAYING WITH THE IDEA OF RECOn?
NIZING COMMUNIST CHINA AND COULD REGARD THE NEGATIVI, US RE?
PLY TO HIS LATEST REQUEST FOR MILITARY AID AS THE EXCUSE.
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