Bywum Daie a a nmoouceo AT THE mom moms d- I n DECLASSIFIED r whammy - - DEPARTMENT OF STATE EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT 7224 SECRET October 9 1964 THE STAFF MEETING 9 15 a m Friday Mr Ball presided l Mr Hughes - Concerning the U S attach s' return to Moscow Mr Ball thought we should make sure the press has the right story and Mr Greenfield said that we had denied that they were returning only briefly Negative press reactions to the Grewe visit have come in from EurOpe CIA reports a French underground nuclear test to occur in the Sahara in November Douglas-Home has brought the ChiCom question into the British election campaign saying that ostracism is no answer The Muslim League in Pakistan has had meetings attended by Ayub in which charges of US and Indian covert support to the Opposition have been made The subject has also appeared in the press NEWSWEEK was planning a story on discord over CIA activities in Viet Nam but Mr Greenfield said that it was under control The ChiComs have passed out reports that they will explode an atomic bomb either before or after the end of October Castro reacted irrationally and with threats to shoot down a U-Z when he learned in the presence of the Canadian Ambassador of attachment of Cuban assets in Quebec by Canadian air line ' 2 EUR - Mr Tyler a The West German press played down and thus far the communist press has not mentioned yesterday's FRG cabinet meeting in Berlin Foreign policy will be debated in the Bundestag next week 3 IO - Mr Sisco The Security Council meets today to recommend Malawi membership Later Zambia and Malta will bring the total to 115 Pressure is building up for postponement of the Article 19 issue and the SYG and Secretariat are talking about a Johnsonu Khrushchev meeting to resolve it 4 AF - Mr Williams - Kenneth Kaunda is coming to the U S November 14-16 and wants to see the President A a Mr Porter SECRET REPRobuceo DECLASSIFIED - 4 Auh o tymm j __h EHMMIsz u u SECRET -2- 5 A - Mr Porter - Budget Bureau hearings begin next week but only CU and ID assistant secretaries are involved 6 ARA - Mr Adams Indications are fairly definite that a Cuban landing of unknown size occurred in Venezuela US surveillance flights will be maintained after this evening as search Operations for reasons We are urging the Venezuelans to take note of the Cuban formation of a committee to liberate Venezuela Ambassador Bunker is hOpeful that an OAS meeting will be possible soon on admission of new members 7 - Mr Johnson a Among steps to salvage the coffee agreement situation we have obtained Customs cooperation in voluntarily reporting coffee imports and certain exports to the international coffee bureau 8 Governor Harriman - Bill Jorden is following up statements between the Secretary and Shastri on the Indian atomic capability As a result of discussion at the Assistant SecretariesI meeting a committee has been formed to work out government-wide policy on ChiCom advances eSpecially in Africa 9 - Mr Greenfield - The UPI editorsl meeting recently decided to make one more try for Pak compensation in the closing of UPI offices before going to court Grant G Hilliker Deputy Executive Secretary SECRET This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu