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The President's Intelligence Checklist

Central Intelligence Agency · 1961-09-19 · 6 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the President's Intelligence Checklist for 19 September 1961, a Central Intelligence Agency daily briefing released in 2016 with redactions. Its main item covers the Congo crisis after Hammarskjold's death: Irish troops at Jadotville had surrendered, fighting had spread in Katanga, and UN forces were only holding positions. It also covers Algerian rebel leaders meeting Ambassador Walmsley and notes a Soviet fighter incident in the Berlin air corridors. It does not discuss UFOs.

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There was another minor incident in the Berlin air corridors
yesterday afternoon, when a Soviet_fighter dived in front of
a US Air Force transport. "
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The press reports that Communist guerillas in South Vietnam
attached and burned a provincial capital 60 miles north of
Saigon Monday, apparently the largest action they have yet’
undertaken. We have no official confirmation, '
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Nkrumah is back in Accra, and the situation there appears to
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have told the Soviets they are not prepared to sign a German
peace treaty which is already prepared and about which no
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.