THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 1 SEPTEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995909
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 1, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST-71 SEPTEMBER, 1962
1. SOVIET VENUS PROBE:
'A VEHICLE WAS PUT INTO PARKING ORBIT FROM TYURATAM
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IF THIS HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED WITH PRECISIONi
THE VEHICLE WOULD
REACH THE VICINITY OF VENUS ABOUT
7 DECE R
APPROXIMATELY
A WEEK AHEAD OF THE up laws ppm.
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2. ALGERIA:
A. WE THINK IT LIKELY STILL THAT THE CONTENDING FACTIONS
PREFER THE "BATTLE OF COMMUNIQUES" NOW IN PROGRESS TO A SETTLE-
MENT BY ARMS. THE QUESTION IS WHETHER EITHER SIDE CAN UNBEND
ENOUGH TO PERMIT A PEACEFUL OUTCOME.
B. THE MOSLEM POPULATION IS MAKING IT UNMISTAKABLY CLEAR
THAT IT IS FED UP WITH THE DE ILITATING DISPUTE. A MASS MEET-
ING IN ALGIERS YESTERDAY THREATENED A GENERAL STRIKE IF FIGHT-
ING BEGINS. LARGE NU
ENOUGH.
C. THERE ARE SOME INDICATIONS. THAT THE BEN BELLA: PEOPLE
AND LEADERS OF WILAYA IV ARE MAKING A LAST ATTEMPT
TO NEGOTIATE AN ACCOMMODATION. MILITARY FWES LOYAL TO BEN
BELLA, SOME OF THEM PROBABLY EQUIPPED WITH HEAVY WEAPONS, ARE
CONTINUING THEIR MOVEMENTS INTO THE ENVIRONS OF ALGIERS,
ERS ROAMED THE STREETS SHOUTING PBARAKAIr__
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3. CUBA:
A. THE STATE OF TENSION IN THE CUBAN ARMED FORCES
/ YESTERDAY BE-
CAME VISIBLE TO REPORTERS FOR THE US PRESS ON THE SCENE. THEIR
DISPATCHES FROM HAVANA REPORTED THAT THE CITY WAS ASTIR WITH
UNEXPLAINED MILITARY ACTIVITY AND SPOKE OF RUMORS THAT "SOME-
THING WAS GOING ON" AT THE EASTERN END OF THE ISLAND*
B. IT APPEARS THAT THE REGIME HAS
INE INVASION SCARE IN
US BASE AT GUANTANAMO
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HAVE BEEN TOLD TO STAY INDOORS TODAY BECAUSE OF AN INVASION
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IS BEING MOVED THROUGH NORTHERN ORIENTE PROVINCE.
4, CONGO:
A. WITH TSHOMBE'S RESPONSE TO THE UN'S RECONCILIATION
PLAN ALMOST READY FOR DELIVERY, THE BEST INDICATIONS ARE THAT
HE WILL ANNOUNCE HIS ACCEPTANCE WITH "RESERVATIONS." IN SO DOING,
HE WILL BE OVERRULING THE EXTREMIST WING OF HIS GOVERNMENT, WHICH
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WANTS A FLAT REJECTION, TSHOMBE'S CHOICE OF THE MORE COOPERATIVE
STANCE
IS BASED ON THE EXPECTATION
THAT KATANGAN "INDEPENDENCE" CAN BE READILY RESTORED ONCE UN
FORCES HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN--LATE THIS YEAR
B. WHILE TSHOMBE MAY THUS PLAN TO TURN HIS AMIABLE SIDE
TO THE WORLD, UN PERSONNEL IN ELISABETHVILLE REPORT THAT THEY
ARE UNDER INCREASING HARASSMENT FROM THE KATANGANS AND THAT THE
SETTING IS REMINISCENT OF LAST DECEMBER WHEN FIGHTING BETWEEN
THE TWO ERUPTED, THE NUMBER OF MERCENARIES IN THE CITY HAS ALSO
BEEN RISING.
5, BERLIN:
A. THE SOVIETS ARE TRYING TO BUILD A CASE FOR THE CONTEN?
TION THAT THE WESTERN RIGHT OF ACCESS TO THE CITY IS CONTINGENT
ON THEIR RIGHT OF ACCESS TO WEST BERLIN,
B. THE SOVIET COMMANDER IN EAST GERMANY
TOLD HIS US AND -
BRITISH COUNTERPARTS THAT HE WOULD RETALIATE AGAINST "YOUR VEHICLES
WHICH PASS ON COMMUNICATION ROUTES UNDER OUR CONTROL," UNLESS THE
ESCORT ON THE SOVIET WAR MEMORIAL VEHICLES WAS LIFTED,
C. WE SEE TWO POSSIBLE OBJECTIVES IN. THIS ARGUMENT: .FOR THE
PRESENT, TO INDUCE US AND THE BRITISH TO ABANDON THE GALLING
ESCORT; BEYOND THIS, .TO DISCOURAGE RETALIATION IN THE EVENT THE
EAST GERMANS TAKE STEPS TO BLOCK ALLIED MILITARY ACCESS .TO EAST
BERLIN.
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6. NOTES
A. WEST GERMANY: ADENAUER'S DISPARAGEMENT OF BRITISH
MEMBERSHIP IN A EUROPEAN POLITICAL UNION HAS BEEN GREETED WITH
DISMAY AND CRITICISM IN WEST GERMANY. FOREIGN MINISTER SCHROEDER
EMBARRASSEDLY ASCRIBED THE CHANCELLOR'S COMMENTS ON TV EARLIER
THIS WEEK TO FRUSTRATION OVER THE SLOW PACE OF INTEGRATION AND
TO A LOSS OF DEFTNESS IN "MEET THE PRESS" SITUATIONS.
B. USSR: KHRUSHCHEV TOLD U THANT WHEN THEY MET LAST TUES?
DAY THAT, ALTHOUGH HE HAD NOT MADE PLANS TO COME TO THE UNGA,
HE WOULD NOT HESITATE TO COME OR TO MEET WITH THE PRESIDENT IF
UNNAMED DEVELOPMENTS FAVORED SUCH A MEETING.
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