THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 22 JUNE 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992389
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 22, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
22 JUNE 1962
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1. Communist China
2. Laos
a. We have seen no evidence
of further ground deployments during
the past 24 hours, but there has been
a further movement of jet fighters
in the direction of the East China
Sea coast.
b. We have uncovered what may
be a new clue to Chinese Communist
intentions. It appears
/that plan-
ning for the recent troop movements
by the railroad authorities con-
cerned may have begun last February.
Although this partial evidence does
not permit a firm conclusion, it is
enough to throw some doubt on the
conjecture that the Chinese Communists
have been reacting to recent rumblings
from Taiwan.
The AP is reporting from Vientiane
this morning that the three factions
are once again completely at odds on
the National Assembly issue after
Phoumi doubled back on an agreement
reached yesterday. We are up in
the air until we learn more. It had
seemed that this snag had been removed
by a compromise arrangement under
which the National Assembly was to
vote full powers to the King, who
in turn was to invest the government
tomorrow without reference to the
Assembly.
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3. Congo
4. Algeria
The Congo negotiations are
again suspended. Tshombe broke them
off yesterday after making his charges
that central government forces had
attacked in Katanga. This has all
the earmarks of a Tshombe invention
to justify his returning to Elisabeth-
ville. UN officials are, however,
trying to put ascare into him, and
seem to have had some effect, by tel-
ling him that they will have the full
backing of "military powers" if fight-
ing resumes. The UN chief has, in
fact, called on New York headquarters
to be in a state of readiness and
has ordered his troops in Elisabeth-
ville to be prepared for any eventuality.
OAS destruction goes on in Oran
and Bone, but Algiers is returning
to something like normality. Our
Consul General in Algiers believes
that the moderate leaders of the
Provisional Algerian Government are
now less worried about the OAS than
about the challenge posed by the
radical nationalists headed by
Deputy Premier Ben Bella and backed
by the Liberation Army. The French,
it is suspected, are trying to give
the moderates maximum time for
maneuver by keeping their forces
in place along the Tunisian and
Moroccan borders, thereby blocking
the Liberation Army's access to
Algeria.
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5. Thailand-Cambodia
6, Indonesia
Thai anger over the temple
affair is for the moment focused
mainly on the French because of
the support French legal advisors
provided for the Cambodian side.
The Thai ambassador to Paris has
been called home. Ambassador Young
believes that the Thai attitude
will complicate the Geneva conference
and any possible operations by the
French military mission in Laos.
a. Ambassador Jones suspects
that the Indonesians are stalling on
setting a date for the reopening of
talks with the Dutch until Soviet
Marshal Vershinin, who is now visit-
ing Djakarta, leaves on June 30.
The thought is that the Indonesians
do not want to give offense to
Moscow by announcing resumption of
the US-sponsored talks while the
Marshal is in Indonesia.
b. There are indications/in
Indonesian that the
USSR is about to deliver from 6 to
10 more TU-16 jet medium bombers to
Djakarta. This would round out
the number delivered at 30.
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NOTES
A. Press dispatches from Khartoum report that Sudan has ratified
the air agreement giving the USSR landing rights and onward
flight privileges into Africa. There is no official confirma-
tion yet, but we would assume the reports are true.
B.
conference of the Casablanca powers--UAR, Morocco, Mali, Guinea
and Ghana--veered noticeably in a pro-Western direction. Nasir,
Toure and Keita, in particular, are said to have questioned
the Soviet bloc's intentions in Africa.
C. Sporadic bomb explosions in Guatemala City mark the revival
of unrest there, plotting against
Ydigoras remains endemic. Opponents of the government based
in Mexico are buying arms and supplies with funds provided
in part by Cuba.
D. The Cambodians are so far holding the lid down on their reaction
to the South Vietnamese border incursion. They have made no
mention of the participation of "white men" in the action.
E. Couve de Murville has told Secretary Rusk that the French have
no wish to press for a reorganization of NATO until the question
of Britain's membership in the EEC has been settled.
F. Yugoslavia is facing another shortfall in its grain crop this
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that the wheat and rye crop will total only 2,800,000 metric
tons, 1,200,000 tons below domestic requirements.
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