THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 11 AUGUST 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995873
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 11, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--11 AUGUST 1962
1. ARGENTINA:
A BLOODLESS COUP IS UNDERWAY. REBEL GENERAL FEDERICO TORANZO
MONTERO WAS CLOSETED WITH GUIDO RSHEMEMOVII EARLY THIS MORNING,
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BUT .41WANDIDATE FOR CHIEF
OF STAFF, ANTI-PERONIST LT. GEN OSSORIO ARANA, ACCOMPANIED HIM,
AND IT WOULD APPEAR.-THAT HE WILL'BECOME-TW,THIRD CHIEF OF STAFF
IN AS 'MANY DAYS TO TAKE OFFICE. WE DOUBT TEE REBELS WILL STOP AT
THIS. THEY HAVE STRONG ARMY AND NAVY BACKING (Bvr APPARENTLY NOT
AIRFORCE) AND THEY APPEAR INCLINED TO GO ALL THE WAY, .THE POPULA-
TION IS TAKING IT ALL IN STRIDE.
2, HAITI:
A. THE HAITIAN CRISIS REMAINS IN SUSPENSE.
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WE HAVE TWO DES-
TROYERS PATROLLING 10 MILES OFF SHORE AND A COMPANY OF MARINES
AT GUANTANAMO HAS BEEN READIED FOR IMMEDIATE MOVEMENT TO HAITI IF
REQUIRED TO ASSIST IN EVACUATION OPERM4eNtilr 03
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C. AMBASSADOR THURSTON, MEANWHILE, ADVISES WE ANNOUNCE SUS?
PENSION OF US MILITARY ASSISTANCE, JUSTIFYING THIS ON THE GROUNDS
OF DISARRAY IN THE HAITIAN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. HE FEELS THIS
WOULD HAVE THE VIRTUE OF ANTICIPATING RATHER THAN REACTING TO ANY
ANTI?US MOVE DUVALIER MAY MAKE.
3. GERMANY/BERLIN:
AS MONDAY'S ANNIVERSARY OF THE BERLIN WALL NEARS; COMMUNIST
MEDIA ARE MAKING MUCH OF ALLEGED 'PROVOCATIONS" IN WEST BERLIN,
A SOVIET NOTE DELIVERED (YESTERDAY CHARGES US WITH RESPONSIBILITY
FOR THIS. THROUGHOUT, THE TONE SUGGESTS STAGE SETTING FOR A DE?
FENSIVE SHOW OF FORCE ALONG THE WALL ON MONDAY,
4. USSR SPACE EVENT:
THE SOVIETS LAUNCHED THEIR THIRD MANNED SPACE VEHICLE FROM
TYURATAM AT 0430 EDT THIS MORNING. WE CANNOT BE SURE AS YET BUT
EARLY INDICATIONS ARE THAT IF ALL GOES WELL DURING THE FIRST FEW
ORBITS, THE VEHICLE WILL STAY IN ORBIT FOR SEVERAL DAYS. RECOVERY
WILL MOST LIKELY TAKE
LAUNCH TIME,
5. INDIA/CHINA:
NEHRU
PLACE AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME OF DAY AS
HAS DECIDED NOT TO PUSH FURTHER
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ON THE CHINESE BORDER PROBLEM AND WILL NOW SEEK A DISENGAGEMENT OF
FORCES IN THE LADAKH AREA. HE HOPES THEN TO ENGAGE THE CHINESE IN
PROLONGED TALKS OVER THE BORDER ISSUE. MENON, WHO SEES OBVIOUS
POLITICAL DANGER TO HIMSELF IN ANY MILITARY -SETBACK, TOLD NEHRU
THAT THE INDIAN POSITION IN LADAKH IS UNTENABLE. NEHRU HAS INDI?
CATED TO AMBASSADOR GALBRAITH THAT HE EXPECTS TALKS WITH THE
CHINESE THIS FALL,
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6. BRITISH GUIANA:
JAGAN IN BRITISH GUIANA IS TRYING TO ROUND UP FOREIGN HELP
TO CREATE A "NATIONAL" (I.E., PRIVATE) ARMY MADE UP OUT OF THE
EAST INDIAN POPULATION TO OFFSET THE PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO POLICE
FORCE WHICH HE MISTRUSTS. SO FAR HE HAS GOT A FIRM OFFER OF
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FROM ISRAEL BUT THE BRITISH ARE DENYING
VISAS TO ISRAELI SPECIALISTS.
7, NOTES:
A,
FOR SAYING THAT ANY VIETNAMESE HAVE
REVISED THEIR ESTIMATE ACCORDINGLY
B. THE SOMALI GOVERNMENT PLANS
MECHANICS TO THE USSR FOR TRAINING,
TURN IN TWO YEARS WITHOUT POLITICAL
VERY SOLICITOUS IN ITS ATTENTION TO
THERE IS NO BASIS
PULLED OUT OF LAOS AND HAVE
TO SEND SOME 50 PILOTS AND
CONFIDENT THAT THEY WILL RE?
INDOCTRINATION. THE USSR,
SOMALIA, IS ENGAGED IN A
VARIETY OF ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE PROJECTS THERE TO THE TUNE OF
$52 MILLION.
C. PORTUGUESE TROOPS ARE GETTING NOWHERE IN THE ANGOLAN
HINTERLAND AND CONTINUED HARASSMENT BY REBELS IS TAKING ITS TOLL
ON THEIR MORALE, IN LUANDA, RUMORS .ABOUND AND TENSION BETWEEN
WHITES AND AFRICANS THERE IS NEAR THE BREAKING POINT.
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