THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 24 SEPTEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995945
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 24, 1962

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.THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST - -24 SEPTEMBER 1962 ?
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A. THE NORTH VIETNAMESE AND PAMIR' LAO HAVE PULLED THEIR
JOINT HEADQUARTERS OUT OF KHANG KEAY.
B. WE NAVE LEARNED FROM AN ANALYSIS
THAT PART OF IT WAS MOVED IN EARLY AUGUST TO THE SAN
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NEUA AREA (A CENTER OF PATHET LAO STRENGTH) PRESUMABLY AS PART
OF THE REGROUPMENT OF COMMVNIST ELEMENTS INTO THE MORE INACCES-
SIBLE AREAS OF NORTHEAST LAOS. THE OTHER HEADQUARTERS ELEMENT .
HAS BEEN SET UP IN NORTH VIETNAM NEAR HANOI.
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C. SOUVANNA LAID IT ON THE LINE TO SOU- 50X1
PSAINOUVONG LAST WEEK JUST BEFORE THE LATTER LEFT FOR PEIPING
0*? 11* "MACKE" VIEW. NOT OILY DOES ing WANT
THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS AND NORTH VIETNAMESE OUT
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.FREEDOM OF ACCESS TO AREAS CONTROLLED BY SOUPHANNOUVONG AS
MUNI HAS GIVEN:HIM. - OTHERWISE, SOUVANNA
WILL RESIGN ON THAT DATE AND LEAVE LAOS PERMANENTLY
P. SOUVANNA MAY HAVE MEANT THIS, AND CERTAINLY MEANT IT
AS A THREAT, BUT WE ARE NOT CONFIDENT THAT SOUPHANNOUVONG WILL
Timm IT MUCH OF A THREAT.
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2: ? ARGENTINA:
A. ARGENTINA'S LATEST MILITARY?INDUCED CRISIS HAS
ENDED LIKE THE MANY BEFORE IT IN RECENT MONTHS?WITH TEE BASIC
ISSUES STILL TO BE SETTLED IN THE POLITICAL ARENA.
B. GUIDO,. STILL THE PAWN IN THE MIDDLE, WILL HAVE TO
BALANCE THINGS CAREFULLY, AND ANY SCISSORS AND PASTE ARRANGE?
MENT HE COMES UP WITH IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS CAN EASILY COME UN?
STUCK. IN A SHORT STATEMENT YESTERDAY, HE PROMISED EARLY ELEC?
TIONS, ADDING, ENIGMATICALLY, THAT ALL SECTORS WILL BE ALLOWED
TO PARTICIPATE "IF THEY ADHERE TO DEMDCRATIC PRINCIPLES."
3. CONGO:
' A. AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE CONFIRMS THE PRESENCE OF FIVE
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HARVARD (T?S) AIRCRAFT IN KATANGA. THIS US?MADE, CONVENTIONAL,
SINGLE?ENGINE, TWO?PLACE TRAINER, WHICH IS USED BY THE SOUTH
VIETNAMESE FOR GROUND ATTACK, GIVES THE KATANGESE THEIR FIRST
?' REAL, ALBEIT LIMITED, COMBAT SUPPORT' CAPABILITY. AT THE MO?
? MENT TREY ARE BEING PAINTED IN CAMOUFLAGE. ?
B. NO NEW MOVES YET By GOVERNMENT TROOPS INTO NORTH
KATANGA.
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TERIOR MINISTER WUNONGO WHO OBJECTS VIOLENTLY TO RECONCILIATION
TALKS. MUNONGO IS SAID TO HAVE TAKEN TO THE BUSH TO ROUND UP
SUPPORT. HE IS NOT LIKELY TO GET IT RIGHT AWAY FROM MERCEN?
ARIES, BUT THERE ARE TRIBAL CHIEFS. 11110 WILL GO ALONG WITH SIM.
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IF Hi SUCCEEDS, TSOOMMX MAY HAVE TO RETRENCH.
D. THE UN PLANE, IT TURNS OUT, WAS SBOT DOWN BY CENTRAL
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4. UK/COMMON MARKET:
A. WITH THE COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE BEHIND IT, MACMILLAN'S
GOVERNMENT IS NOW MORE COMMITTED THAN EVER TO BRINGING BRITAIN
INTO THE COMMON MARKET, AND TME NEXT HURDLE IS TO BRING BRITISH.
? PUBLIC OPINION AROUND. A MASSIVE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN
LAUNCHED TO STEM THE DRIFT OF OPINION WHICH HAS BEEN GOING TER
OTHER WAY. A TEST OF ITS SUCCESS WILL COKE IN NOVEMBER'S BY?
ELECTIONS.
B. SPAAK, MEANWHILE, TELLS US THE ITALIANS WERE STUNG BY
THE IMPLICATION IN DE GAULLE'S STATEMENTS IN GERMANY THAT EU?
ROPE MUST BE BUILT ABOUND A BONN?PARIS AXIS TO WHICH THEY AND
HIMILOX ARE EXPECT= TO RALLY. THE RESULT IS TEAT THEY WILL
JOIN WITH BENELUX IN TRYING TO EASE BRITAIN'S ENTRY AND WILL
DO NOME, TOWARD A POLITICAL TREATY WHICH EXCLUDES BRITAIN.
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NEPAL:
KING MAHENDRA HAS ABRUPTLY DUMPED HIS MODERATE FOREIGN
MINISTER, THE ONLY REALLY KNOWLEDGEABLE FOREIGN AFFAIRS. OF-
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LEANING HITTER RIVAL AND PREDECESSOR. THE REASON GIVEN, "TO
warm STILL MORE UNIFORMITY AND SOLIDARITY TO THE COUNCIL 07
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6. NOTES:
A. BERLIN: TWO EAST BERLINERS ESCAPED TO WEST BERLIN.
THIS WEEK END IN FAKE US ARMY UNIFORMS MADE IN EAST BERLIN.
B. CUBA: ONE OF THE MISSILE INSTALLATIONS WHICH WE MAD
THOUGHT TO BE A SA-2 SITE TURNS OUT TO BE A SECOND CRUISE-
TYPE COASTAL DEFENSE MISSILE SITE.
C. ECUADOR: AROSEMENA, BREATHING 100-PROOF FIRE FROM
HIS STRONGHOLD IN GUAYAQUIL LAST WESK END, MAY HAVE RALLIED
SOME POPULAR SUPPORT WITH HIS HARANGUE BUT FANNED KNGIONAL AN-
TAGONISMS IN THE PROCESS AND MADE CONGRESS MORE DETERMINED TO
OUST HIM.
D. YUGOSLAVIA/USSR: SOVIET PRESIDENT BRUANEV ARRIVED
IN BELGRADE THIS MORNING FOR .1.10-DAY ROUND OF TALKS AND CUE
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MDT TO SHOW THAT TRE OFF-AGAIN-OW-AMAIN FRIEED8RIP IS OFFICIALLY
Off AGAIN. IT 18 A RETURN VISIT FOR TITO'S TRIP TO THE U882 IN
1956. THE CHINESE, WITH ALBANIAN ACCOMPANIMENT, ARE puma IT
FORTISSIMO.
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