PROGRAM OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES 1 APRIL - 30 SEPTEMBER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00904A000500010103-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: March 30, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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30 March 1959
ONBU.M FOR THE DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: Program of National Intelligence Estimates
1 April - 30 September
This is the regular quarterly exercise. US1B
n should be completed at tomorrows meeting to
permit publication of the approved program at the begin
ning of the Second Quarter.
aspect the Program to be approved by the
other usa members as it stands. Array had earlier
proposed that an estimate be done on Communism and
related problems in Africa as a whole, but the Army
representative appeared to be satisfied by our argument
that the problem could be more effectively dealt with in
the context of the West African estimate now in prepara-
tion and the proposed estimate (Item No. 15) on Central
and East Africa.
We do, however, have one additional proposal to
put forward, namely, that an Sly on Laos be scheduled
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mop-
'i'bis recommendation. which is strongly supported
Far .mast Division, DD/ Pp is based on the following con-
last estimate on Laos, ME :$-!i7, was a
short-range paper published in August 1957 and to now
out of date.
b. A number of recent developments warrant close
Phoui government, which. was recently
granted sweeping powers by the l Tstionsl Assembly,
remains preoccupied with political maneuvering and
has failed to initiate a. countrywide program which
dercut Ccea in=Ist proselytizing and organ-
power of the reformist CDN1 which, in cooperation
with the army, in challenging the control of Phoui
lag activities in the countryside.
(2) There has been a rapid rise in the political
and the other old-line conservative
The US is currently at adds
over plans for improving the training of the !,so
Army, which is reportedly deteriorating rapidly
in effectiveness.
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(4) Laos is being subjected to stepped up pressures
from North Vietnam and Communist China.
FOR THE BOARD OF NATIONAL IBTIMATES
NT
Assistant Director
National Estimates
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