THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 20 AUGUST 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995887
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 20, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
20 AUGUST 1962
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I. Laos
It looks very much as though the Geneva
Agreement is coming up to its first hur-
dle over the problem of insuring the with-
drawal of foreign troops.
a. At a cabinet meeting in Vien-
tiane last Friday, Souvanna joined Sou-
phannouvong in contending that there
are no foreign troops in areas under
their control and therefore no need for
ICC inspection teams there.
b. Ambassador Unger has regis-
tered his concern over this development
with Souvanna. He fears, however, that
the most that Souvanna will concede is
one post to check on each of the three fac-
tions.
c. There had been no question
about the attitude of the Pathet Lao,
who want to shield the infiltration routes
into South Vietnam, but Souvanna has
done some backtracking. Besides indi-
cating that he had no illusions about the
presence of North Vietnamese forces,
he had said as recently as last Monday
that he favored having several inspection
posts in Pathet Lao territory.
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2. Berlin
d. There is some embryonic evi-
dence that Chinese Communist combat
forces have moved into Phong Saly prov-
ince, in northern Laos, alongside the
Chinese road-building crews who have
been there for several months. 50X1
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a. West Berlin demonstrators,
still venting their anger over the killing
at the Wall on Friday, blocked .a Soviet
bus carrying a guard unit from the So-
viet war memorial back to East Berlin
for nearly 12 hours, from last night un-
til early this morning.
b. General Watson has proposed a
meeting of the four Berlin corimlaridants
to deal with the situation, offering to lift
his ban on. the Soviet Commandant's entry
into the US sector of Berlin. The Soviet
reply has not yet been received.
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3. Congo
a. The fighting in northern Katanga
has stopped.
b. Information on what touched off
the flurry is sparse and tendentious, and
a clear picture is hard to come by. Some
of the clues suggest that jumpiness or
overeagerness on the part of local mili-
tary leaders, who are at best under only
wispy control from either Leopoldville or
Elisabethville, was to blame.
C. The UN command seems to think,
however, that the Tshombe government
was testing its reaction, and is trying to
improve its ability to act if further trou-
ble comes. A redeployment of UN forces
in northern Katanga has begun. The UN
in New York is expected to ask for some
US airlift support for additional move-
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4. Brazil
President Goulart and the Brazilian par-
liament have agreed to temporize on their
differences, and the edge has been taken
off the conflict between them.
a. Under a formula worked out on
Friday, of which we have only an outline,
the Congress will grant the executive
some, but not all, of the special powers
it asked for.
b. Goulart and his prime minister
do not, however, get immediately the
plebiscite they want to determine whether
the country should revert to a presidential
system. The Congress agrees merely to
take the matter up when it reconvenes in
September.
c. At last report, the bargain had
not yet been cleared with all party leaders,
but the chances seemed good that it would
go through, thereby at least postponing a
head-on collision between Goulart and
parliament.
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A. West New Guinea
B. Pakistan-Afghanistan
C. France
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Indonesia's General Nasution has
made ?a strong plea for US help in bring-
ing about the direct transfer of security
responsibility from the Dutch to the In-
donesian Army. Such a move in the early
stages of a new administration would, he
argues, curb the role of Indonesian civil-
ians among whom there is likely to be a
good admixture of Communists.
The Shah of Iran, who wants to con-
tinue his efforts to bridge the differences
between Pakistan and Afghanistan, has in-
vited their foreign ministers to meet in
Tehran for one or two days en route to
the General Assembly session next month.
The Pakistanis have indicated they will
accept; there is no word yet from Kabul.
The Secret Army Organization is be-
ginning to stir again in metropolitan
France. The French police, on the
strength of captured OAS documents,
think that the terrorists are leading up
to a new outburst, featuring assassina-
tion attempts, commencing next month.
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D. Cambodia
E. East Germany
The Cambodian government on Sat-
urday released the US AID officer whom
it had been holding incommunicado for
nearly two weeks, and he has left the
country.
The VIP plane customarily used by
Ulbricht returned to East Berlin from
Moscow on Friday, probably signifying
that he has completed the business which
took him to the Soviet Union on the first
of this month. 50X1
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