THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 5 JANUARY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 5, 1963

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THE WHITE HOUSE
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THE PRESIDENT'S IHRTILIGENCE GIECKLIST- 5 JANUARY 1963
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4 THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--5 JANUARY 1963
1, CONGO:
A. UN FORCES HAVE HALTED JUST BEYOND JADOTVILLE TO RE-
GROUP AND AWAIT FURTHER ORDERS FROM NEW YORK.
B. THE INDIAN BRIGADIER WHOSE TROOPS OCCUPY JADOT-
VILLE SAYS HIS FORWARD PATROLS HAVE SECURED THE IMPORTANT
ROAD JUNCTION 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY AND WILL PROCEED
? NO FURTHER WITHOUT EXPRESS ORDERS FROM U THANT.
C. BUNCHE ARRIVED IN LEOPOLDVILLE LAST NIGHT TO STRAIGHT-
EN MATTERS OUT. HE? DECLARED ON ARRIVAL THAT THE UN OPERATION
TO ESTABLISH FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT WOULD CONTINUE, HE HOPED WITH-
OUT RESISTANCE. SO SAYING, HE NAMED THREE OBJECTIVES: KOLWEZI,
THE RHODESIAN BORDER RAILHEAD OF SAKANIA, AND DILOLO IN THE EX-
TREME WEST ON THE ANGOLA BORDER,
D. THE BELGIANS, ALREADY SUSPICIOUS OF BUNCHE'S MISSION
(THEY THINK BUNCHE IS OUT TO GET TSHOMBE FOR THE HIGH-HANDED
TREATMENT TSHOMBE GAVE HIM WHILE IN ELISABETHVILLE IN 1960),
WILL NOT BE HEARTENED BY HIS REMARKS,
F. THE UN PLAN APPARENTLY WILL BE TO REGROUP FORCES
AT KAMINA AND MOVE TOWARD KOLWEZI FROM THE NORTH, HOPING THERE-
BY TO SAVE THE LARGE LUALABA BRIDGE (WHICH IS ON THE ROUTE BE-
TWEEN JADOTVILLE AND KOLWEZI) AND POWERHOUSES FROM DESTRUCTION.
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G. FROM HIS REDOUBT IN KOLWEZI, TSHOMBE IS ISSUING DE-
FIANT COMMUNIQUES VOWING A FIGHT TO THE FINISH. AT THE SAM50X1
TIME HE IS CALLING FOR NORTHERN RHODESIAN PRIME MINISTER
KWANDA TO MEDIATE.
H. TSHOM-
BE'S THREAT OF A SCORCHED-EARTH AND PROTRACTED GUERRILLA CAM-
PAIGN ARE BLUFF. HE SHyS AWAY FROM THE FORMER AND CANNOT SUC-
CEED WITH THE LATTER. THERE HAS BEEN NO MAJOR SABOTAGE po FAR.
I. WITH THE THREAT OF RETALIATION LIFTED BY TSHOMBE'S.
RETREAT, UNION MINIERE OFFICIALS IN ELISABETHVILLE AND JADOT-
VILLE ARE COOPERATING WITH ,THE UN.
J. UNION MINIERE, MUCH TO TSHOMBE'S DISCOMFITURE, IS IN-
TERESTED ONLY IN PROTECTING ITS PROPERTY. MERCENARIES,
RESPONDED TO UNION MINIERE'S CALL FOR PROTECTION AGAINST
POSSIBLE GENDARMERIE ACTION IN JADOTVILLE JUST BEFORE THE UN
MOVED IN.
K. OTHER MERCENARIES HAVE FADED, AND WE DOUBT THERE
ARE MANY LEFT THAT TSHOMBE CAN COUNT ON.
2. CUBA:
A. VISA WAIVER BENEFICIARIES, WHO HAVE FORFEITED HOMES
AND PROPERTY TO LEAVE CUBA AND NOW HAVE NO TRANSPORTATION, ARE
IN AN ACUTE PLIGHT.
B. THE SWISS YESTERDAY AGAIN COMPLAINED ABOUT THE RE-
GIME'S FAILURE TO PROTECT THESE PEOPLE FROM ROWDIES, WHEREUPON
CASTRO SHOWED UP AT THE SWISS EMBASSY AND AGREED THE NEXT RED ?
CROSS PLANE comp CARRY US NATIONALS AND PROBABLY CUBAN FAMILY
MEMBERS ON THE RETURN VOYAGE TO MIAMI.
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C. CASTRO ALSO REPEATED HIS INTEREST IN RESUMING PANAM
FLIGHTS, WHEN IT WAS POINTED OUT. TO HIM THAT PANAM PROBABLY
WAS NOT INTERESTED IN PESO INCOME, HE PROPOSED INSTITUTING
CUBANA FLIGHTS TO MIAMI OR DUAL CUBANA-PANAM SERVICE ON A 50-
50 BASIS.
D. CONSTRUCTION OF BARRACKS AND OTHER PERMANENT BUILD-
INGS IS NEARING COMPLETION AT THE ARTEMISA SOVIET ARMORED
GROUP ENCAMPMENTS, SEVENTEEN TENTS REMAIN OF THE APPROXI-
MATELY 120 OBSERVED TWO WEEKS AGO, AND THE BARRACKS ARE NOW
PROBABLY OCCUPIED.
F. .THOSE TWO CROCODILES, SHIPPED LAST WEEK AS TOKENS
OF CASTRO'S WARM FRIENDSHIP FOR THE NORTH KOREANS
3. COMMUNIST BLOC:
A. MOSCOW HAS MADE IT OFFICIAL THAT KHRUSHCHEV WILL
BE HEADING THE SOVIET DELEGATION TO THE EAST GERMAN PARTY
CONGRESS WHICH CONVENES ON 15 JANUARY.
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B. EAST EUROPEAN LEADERS WILL PROBABLY FOLLOW SUIT.
THE CHINESE HAVE BEEN WANTING ANOTHWINTRA-BLOC CONFAB TO
'THRASH THINGS OUT, AND THEY MAY TRY?TO GET IT BY SENDING A
HIGH-LEVEL DELEGATION TOO. ;-
C. THE SOVIETS, HOWEVER, ARE KNOWN TO OPPOSE ANOTHER
CONFERENCE, AND KHRUSHCHEV PROBABLY HOPES THE EAST GERMAN
MEETING WILL AFFORD HIM AN UNIMPEDED OPPORTUNITY TO RE-
ESTABLISH THE SOVIET VIEW OF THINGS AS THE STANDARD:OF ORTHO-
DOXY FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT.
IL WE DO NOT EXPECT ANYTHING NEW ON THE GERMAN OR
BERLIN QUESTIONS.
4. 'BRUNEI:,
B. THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI HAS LET IT BE
KNOWN HE IS READY TO REOPEN NEGOTIATIONS WITH MALAYA ON
TERMS FOR BRUNEI'S ACCESSION TO MALAYSIA.
C.
PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS HAVE BECOME
MORE COOPERATIVE OF LATE, NO DOUBT BECAUSE OF CONCERN OVER
INDONESIA'S INVOLVEMENT AND INTENTIONS. THIS SHOULD EASE
PHILIPPINE-UK TALKS WHICH GET UNDER WAY IN LONDON LATER
THIS MONTH.
5. PERU:
A. THE RULING J611% HAS DECLARED A NATION-WIDE "STATE
OF SIEGE" IN WAKE OF CONTINUED COMMUNIST VIOLENCE WHICH MOST
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RECENTLY CAUSED SEVERAL DEATHS AND DAMAGE NEARING A MILLION
DOLLARS IN THE SUGAR?PRODUCING AREA ALONG THE NORTHERN COAST.
B. ALTHOUGH THE APRALED SUGAR WORKER UNIONS HAD COME
TO AGREEMENT WITH PRODUCERS FOLLOWING A STRIKE LAST MONTH,
COMMUNIST AGITATORS HAVE MOVED IN TO PREVENT A RETURN TO WORK.
C.
FURTHER COMMUNIST VIOLENCE
AND SABOTAGE IS PLANNED IN THE SUGAR?PRODUCING AREAS.
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6. NOTES:
A. YEMEN: VICE PRESIDENT BAYDANI'S EGYPTIAN CONNECTIONS
AND HIS? OWN SCHEMING BEHAVIOR HAVE APPARENTLY MADE HIM PERSONA
NON GRATA IN YEMENI GOVERNMENT, MILITARY, AND TRIBAL?RELIGIOUS
CIRCLES
B, LAOS: KING SAVANG AND PARTY (OF 18 TO 20) PLAN TO
BE IN WASHINGTON FROM 25 TO 28 FEBRUARY. THE PARTY INCLUDES
SOUVANNA, POSSIBLY PHOUMI OR SOUPHANNOUVONG? AND ALL SHADES
OF THE LAOTIAN RAINBOW. THEY LEAVE 11 FEBRUARY BY SOVIET
VIP PLANE FOR MOSCOW, WILL BE ARRIVING HERE FROM OTTAWA, AND
ARE LOOKING TO US FOR A RIDE FROM WASHINGTON TO WARSAW.
C. JAPAN: JAPAN'S PROPOSED INCREASE IN DEFENSE EXPENDI?
TURES, IT TURNS OUT WILL NOT KEEP PACE, PROPORTIONATELY
WITH OVERALL BUDGET INCREASES AND, IN FACT, IS LIKELY TO BE
NULLIFIED BY HIGHER EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE COSTS.
D. SYRIA: A CLIQUE OF SYRIAN OFFICERS IS PLANNING TO
OVERTHROW AZM'S CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT AND INSTALL A MILITARY
JUNTA
CONSERVATIVES DOMINATE THE CONSPIRACY,
BUT THE GROUP INCLUDES ELEMENTS MORE CONCILIATORY TOWARD NASIR.
E. SOUTH KOREA: AN OPPOSITION PARTY IS FORMING UP
AROUND FORMER PRESIDENT YUN PO?SUN AND OTHER LEADERS OF THE
FORMER CHANG REGIME. THE GROUND? RULES BEING WHAT THEY ARE,
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WE po NOT EXPECT Tiwta TO GET FAR.
F. USSR; THE SOVIETS ARE NOT HAYING MUCH LUCK GETTING
THEIR SPACE PROSES INTO TRAJECTORY.
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