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This is the President's Intelligence Checklist for 11 September 1961, a Central Intelligence Agency daily briefing sent as a White House outgoing message. It reports on Berlin developments and Warsaw Pact military preparedness, and on Soviet missile tests from Tyura Tam that the CIA judges to be part of ICBM development. It also covers Adenauer's electoral decline, the easing Bizerte crisis, Indonesian disappointment with the Belgrade conference, and short notes on Iran, Afghanistan, Ghana, Katanga, Iraq, Tibet and Cuba. It contains no UFO material.
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# THE WHITE HOUSE OUTGOING MESSAGE PRECEDENCE CLASSIFICATION 50X1 INFO: CITE:___ PRESIDENTS INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST ## 1. BERLIN DEVELOPMENTS. A. THE WARSAW PACT MEETING LAST WEEK, ATTENDED BY DEPENSE MINISTERS AND MILITARY CHIEFS, WAS DESCRIBED AS DISCUSSING MEASURES TO INCREASE MILITARY PREPAREDNESS. WE THINK MOST SATTELITES HAVE ALREADY FOLLOWED THE SOVIET LEAD IN DELAYING THE RELEASE OF CONSCRIPTS AND RECALLING SOME RESERVISTS. THEY MAY NOW TX HOLD THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE WARSAW PACT MANUEVERS, AND PERHAPS ADDITIONAL SOVIET FORCES MAY BE MOVED INTO EASTERN EUROPE. B. KHRUSHCHEV'S SPEECH IN STALINGRAD YESTERDAY STRONGLY REITERATED SOVIET WILLINGNESS TO NEED NEGOTIATE, BUT CONTAINED NO SUGGESTION OF ANY CHANGES IN SOVIET POSITIONS. C. STATEMENTS BY EAST GERMAN LEADERS CONTINUE TO SUGGEST THAT THE DRAFT PEACE TREATY WILL BE PUBLISHED THIS WEEK. D. ALL BLOC COMMENT, HOWEVER, CONTINUES TO PLACE THE PEACE TREATY SIGNING LATER IN THE FALL. GOMULKA, COMMENTING ON PAGE 1 OF 6 50X1
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.