THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 17 JULY 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995809
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 17, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
17 JULY 1962
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1. Laos
2.? Algeria
Phoumi drew a flat refusal when
he asked Souphannouvong yesterday to let
a company of Royal Army troops into the
Plaine des Jarres to match the Pathet
Lao contingents already in Vientiane'
and Luang Prabang. Phoumi says he will
let the issue stew for a couple of days,
but has, in the meantime, sent a cable
to Souvanna in Geneva urging him to
return to break the impasse.. Governor
Harriman has been instructed to see
Souvanna as soon as possible to
register US displeasure at this dis-
play of bad faith.by Souphannouvong.
Reports persist that the chiefs
of the Algerian military districts are
still huddling midway between Algiers
and Oran. We have no good informa-
tion on what is going on, but, with the
military scales weighted heavily on
the Ben Bella side, we fail to see how
the meeting can produce anything
palatable to the Ben Khedda forces.
The scurrying back and forth between
the two camps by political leaders,
the latest being former provisional
government premier Ferhat Abbas,
provides what hopes remain that a
facade of unity can be constructed,
at least until elections are held.
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3. Peru
4. Indonesia-Netherlands
5, South Vietnam
The word in Lima is that a military
cabinet will be installed today in place
of the civilian cabinet which resigned
en masse yesterday after President Prado
had rejected the military's demands that
he nullify the elections. Despite this
refusal, we have been told by a member
of the outgoing cabinet that Prado
has agreed to call new elections
unless Haya de la Torre's APRA party
and General Odria can get together
on a coalition to be headed by Odria.
As of now, the government is neither
fish nor fowl, being eomewhere between
the constitution and a military dictator-
ship.
Under prodding from Ambassador
Jones, Subandrio has eased away from
a demand for the direct transfer of
administration over West New Guinea
to Djakarta. He now says merely that
he hopes the transfer can be "accelerated,
and declares that he will not be carrying
any ultimatums in his pocket when he
leaves for Washington tomorrow.
It is becoming increasingly ap7.
parent that the Viet Cong is hard At
work building a full-blown military
structure, using cadres of North
Vietnamese regulars s a nucleus.
The center of their activity is in
Intersector 5, which has the twin
advantages of rugged terrain and
closeness to the trails feeding in
from Laos.
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6. Cuba
7. Burma
The Cuban press is again busy
working up a propaganda lather over
the US base at Guantanamo. Even
though the theme is old hat, Havana
has vowed frequently to take the
issue to court before an international
body at an "appropriate time," and, given
his domestic troubles, Castro may
have decided that the time for such
a diversion has arrived.
Ne Win left for Europe on schedule
last Saturday, indicating that he would
be gone at least a month. Hardly less
puzzling than the departure itself, was
his decision to name as his fill-in
Brigadier Aung Gyi, who has not seen
eye-to-eye with Ne Win on many aspects
of his authoritarian program. On top
of this, there is every sign that the
problem which has most plagued Ne Win,
the insurgency of Burma's ethnic:
minorities, is going from bad to worse.
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A7 Khrushchev is planning to leave soon for his vacation place on
the Black Sea, possibly remaining there into September. This,
together with the six weeks he took early this year, would con-
firm the pattern of longer and longer rest periods
B. Nasir is expressing alarm at growing Communist involvement in
Syria and we think he has some grounds for his concern.
C. The Thais withdrew their police unit from the Preah Vihear -
temple yesterday, relinquishing it to Cambodia.
D. The Brazilian subsidiary of a US utilities company is again
embroiled in a property dispute with a State government. The
company's contract expires today, but it has asked for a court
order blocking seizure until its compensation claims have been
met. With elections not far off, there is little doubt that
the local government is looking for political dividends, and this
in turn may bring federal intervention on the issue.
E. Our Embassy in Cairo is quite pleased by the moderate, positive
tone of the draft wind-up declaration of the Cairo conference.
From all indications, Cuban attempts to get in some nasty
licks went nowhere.
F. The Shah of Iran's visit to Kabul, where he will begin efforts
to mediate between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been offici lly
announced, with a beginning date of July 26.
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