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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 DATE FROM: TO: INFO: PANIC BUYING BY POLISH HOUSEWIVES, TOLD THE POLES NOT TO "WORRY ABOUT A WAR BEFORE DECEMBER, WHEN WE WILL SIGN PEACE WITH EAST GERMANY." 50X1 50X1 F. FOUR YOUNG POLES TURNED UP AT THE US EMBASSY IN WARSAW SATURDAY CLAIMING THEY WERE BEING TRAINED AND FITTED WITH WEST GERMAN UNIFORMS TO STAGE AN INCIDENT RELATING TO THE AIR CORRIDORS IN EAST BERLIN ABOUT 17 SEPTEMBER. 2. SOVIET MISSILE TESTS. THE FOUR RANGE INSTRUMENTATION SHIPS ARE NOW TAKING UP POSITIONS IN THE "CLOSED" AREA ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY BY THE USSR, ABOUT 6500 NAUTICAL MILES FROM TYURA TAM. 50X1 WHILE THE SOVIETS HAVE MADE THEIR USUAL CLAIM THAT THEY ARE TESTING BOOSTERS FOR SPACE VEHICLES, WE BELIEVE THESE TESTS, LIKE THOSE IN JANUARY AND JULY OF LAST YEAR, ARE PART OF THE ICBM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, PROBABLY EXTENDED-RANGE TESTING OF PAGE 2 OF 6
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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.