THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 24 JANUARY 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996792
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 24, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
24 JANUARY 1964
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l. Chinese recog-
nition problem
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2. Cyprus a. Both sides are getting
ready to fight it out.
b. Yesterday's bombing of two
Turkish mosques in Nicosia has
heightened tension in the already
overcharged situation.
c. The number of shooting in-
cidents is increasing in outlying
villages as Turkish Cypriots flee
mixed communities to consolidate
themselves in preponderantly Turkish
villages.
d. The Turks are reportedly
now planning to set up their own
government and plan to hold elections
soon.
e. In London, meanwhile, Sandys
has played one of his few remaining
trumps. He has presented his closely
held plan for a compromise solution
individually to the conference par-
ticipants to think over.
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3. East Africa
f. Consideration is also being
given another proposal, this one by
the Greeks, that an "allied" peace
force be sent to Cyprus to keep peace,
disarm irregulars, and work toward
withdrawal of Greek and Turkish units.
g. By "allied," the Greeks say
they mean the present British force
in Cyprus plus a substantial US con-
tingent, possibly an Italian one and
perhaps a French one too.
h. To get this idea past Makarios,
the Greeks suggest it be worked out
outside NATO councils.
a. The spirit of disobedience
among Tanganyikan troops has spilled
over into neighboring Uganda.
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4. Morocco-
Algeria
d. Zanzibar insurrectionist
leaders, Prime Minister Babu Mohammed
and President Karume, were in the
country at the time.
e. The situation in Tanganyika
seems to be settling down, though
uneasily, with President Nyerere
looking ever more like a mere front
for strongman Kambona.
a. The uneasy truce between
Algeria and Morocco continues, but
both sides seem more intent on pre-
paring their forces for renewed hos-
tilities than on trying to reach a
settlement by other means.
b.? The border demilitarization
commission has been unable to com-
plete its work, in large part because
Moroccan forces refuse to pull back.
c. An exchange of ambassadors
between the two countries is being
held up by Algerian insistence that
the commission must complete its
work first.
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5. ?Southeast Asian a. While he was in Kuala
Summitry Lumpur, Sihanouk got the Tunku's
? agreement to try to arrange a sum-
mit meeting involving Cambodia,
? Thailand, andSouth Vietnam.
b. To hear the Malaysian ambas-
sador here tell it, the Tunku was
persuaded to do this in view of
Sihanouk's "extreme keenness" to nor-
malize relations with his two neigh-
bors.
c. Meanwhile, with a Maphilindo
ministers' meeting now clearly in
prospect for early February in Bang-
kok, attention is turning to how and
under whose auspices the cease-fire
in Borneo is to be policed.
d. The Thais are working on
this in consultation with U Thant.
e. There are rumors in Moscow
that Sukarno will visit there shortly.
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6. USSR
7. Spain-Cuba
a. Pravda last week listed
nine Soviet industrial facilities
which will now begin tooling up to
produce chemical equipment.
C, Another reflection of the
seriousness of the Soviet agricul-
tural situation is seen in the 1963
economic plan fulfillment report just
released.
d. From it, we learn that the
number of pigs in the USSR was re-
duced during the year by one half
through distress slaughtering.
e. Also, state procurement of
grain was 20 percent below 1962--
the lowest level since 1957.
a. Spain's Information Minis
ter Fraga Iribarne tells us the
ships-for-sugar deal with Cuba is
going through.
b. Spanish opinion, he says,
strongly favors trade with Cuba
despite any possible US retaliation.
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8. Cuba-USSR
USSR
? c. He,himself,is so strongly
opposed to our economic policy
toward Cuba, that he and a number
of other ministers would, he says,
resign if Franco were to go along
with us.
a. We see the recent long-term
Soviet-Cuban sugar deal as advanta-
geous to both parties.
b. The USSR will pay a price
(six cents per pound) which is well
below current world prices, although
these are expected to decline.
c. Moscow apparently also no
longer has to pay Cuba in dollars
for some of this sugar.
d. For Cuba, the pact provides
an element of stability and still
allows for the sale of substantial
quantities at higher prices in
Western markets.
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10 . USSR
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NOTES
A. Indonesia The Indonesian Government is moving with
police and military units to prevent the further
take over of British-owned properties by Communist,-
led labor unions and to throw the unions out of those
enterprises already taken over.
B. Soviet air routes to Latin America Our embassy in
Mexico City points out that a likely consequence of a
US civil air agreement with the Soviets will be the
extension of Soviet civil air routes through Cuba,
not only to Mexico, but elsewhere in Latin America.
C. South Africa - US Ambassador Satterthwaite expects
the South Africans to give us notice soon that they
want to terminate the tracking station agreement
they have with us.
D. Panama Panama is threatening to charge us with
? economic aggression too if Alliance for Progress
contracts are allowed to lapse as a result of the
break in relations. The contention is that these
? contracts remain in effect despite a break.
E. Ecuador A large antigovernment demonstration is
being cooked up by student groups intent on provok-
ing security forces to intervene.
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F. Cambodia-US Sihanouk is still at it. Ambassador
tohien in Paris has learned that before departing
for Kuala Lumpur, Sihanouk gave the French press
agency a note in which he said "we absolutely do
not want American aid, since it, as everything shows,
would remain conditional. We will not undertake
in any case negotiations toward renewal- of this aid.
We no longer want MAAG nor USAID here."
G. Czechoslovakia ?The Czech party central committee
to decide on a severe austerity program to revive
the country's halting economy (one of the poorest
showings in the bloc last year).
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