THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 7 JANUARY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996124
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 7, 1963

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THE WHITE HOUSE
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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--7 JANUARY 1963
1. CUBA:
A. THE SOVIETS HAVE AGREED TO THE DRAFT JOINT STATE-
MENT AS IT STANDS.
B. THE SOVIETS PROBABLY WILL HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE.
C.
CASTRO,HASITOLD
CUBAN OFFICERS
THAT CUBAN FORCES MUST RELY MORE
ON THEIR OWN RESOURCES AND CREATE "THEIR OWN. FORMS OF COMBAT,"
D. AS OF YESTERDAY,. 21 BLOC, SHIPS WERE EN ROUTE TO CUBA,
NONE CARRYING MILITARY EQUIPMENT, SO FAR AS WE KNOW ALTHOUGH
SOME CARGOES SUCH AS TRUCKS, FOODSTUFFS AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS'
ARE PROBABLY. INTENDED FOR MILITARY CONSUMERS. ?EIGHTEEN OF
THE SHIPS ARE SOVIET: .TEN.FREIGHTERS AND EIGHT TANKERS.
E. ANOTHER TWENTY-TWO BLOC SHIPS, :INCLUDING TWENTY'SO-
VIET ?FREIGHTERS, ARE CURRENTLY IN CUBAN PORTS.
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OF PINES
COUR PRISONERS ON THE ISLE
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MORALE GOOD. THEIR TREATMENT HAS IMPROVED AND THEY HAVE BEEN:,.
GIVEN BETTER QUARTERS.
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G. ONE OF OUR NAVAL PATROL PLANES WAS BUZZED BY TWO
MIGS YESTERDAY TWELVE TO FIFTEEN MILES OFF THE NORTHWEST
COAST OF CUBA.
2. PERU:
A. QUICK ACTION BY PERUVIAN SECURITY TROOPS HAS SO
FAR NETTED OVER 1,000 COMMUNIST LEADERS, PRO-COMMUNIST
SUBVERSIVES AND SUSPECTS. COMMUNIST PARTY HEADQUARTERS HAS
BEEN'SEIZEDi ALONG WITH ITS PRESSESrAND PUBLICATIONS.
B. ONLY ELEVEN APRISTAS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED SO FAR,
AND THEY WILL PROBABLY BE RELEASED,
C. THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF FURTHER DISORDERS.
D. .THE RULING JUNTA SAYS THE STATE OF SIEGE WAS WAR-
RANTED BY DISCOVERY OF A PLAN FOR TERROR, SABOTAGE, AND ULTI-
MATE OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERNMENT WHICH, A DETAILED OFFICIAL
COMMUNIQUE SAYS, WAS BEING ENGINEERED FROM MOSCOW, PRAGUE
AND HAVANA.
E. JUNTA CHIEF PEREZ GODOY IS CALLING A CONFERENCE
OF ALL PARTY LEADERS TODAY TO BRIEF THEM ON THE COMMUNIST
THREAT. HE WILL PROBABLY TRY TO ASSURE THEM THAT THE GOVERN-
MENT'S ACTION IS DIRECTED SOLELY AGAINST THIS THREAT AND ELEC-
TIONS WILL BE HELD AS SCHEDULED NEXT JUNE.
F. WHERE ALL THIS WILL LEAVE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE JUNTA
AND APRA IS NOT CLEAR. APRA IS NOT UNHAPPY SO FAR, BUT THE
JUNTA CONTINUES TO REFER TO IT AS THE PRINCIPAL ENEMY, AND APRA,
HAS NO REASON TO TRUST THE PRESENT LEADERSHIP.
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3. CONGO:
A. TSHOMBE IS STILL TALKING AND ACTING AS IF HIS BUB-
BLE HAD NOT BURST, BUT MOST OF THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN THE
KATANGAN MESS SEEM TO REALIZE IT1HAS, INCLUDING EVEN SOME OF
TSHOMBE'S TRIBAL SUPPORTERS.
B. TSHOMBE HIMSELF IS STILL IN KOLWEZI. ALTHOUGH HE
SAYS HE WOULD LIKE TO RETURN TO ELISABETHVILLE, THE UN, GUL-
LION, AND DEAN THINK IT MIGHT BE JUST AS WELL IF HE WERE TO
STAY WHERE HE IS,AT LEAST UNTIL HE GIVES ASSURANCES OF UN
FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT THERE AND ELSEWHERE IN KATANGA.
D. ,UN OFFICIALS ARE NOW WORKING ON WAYS AND MEANSr OF
GETTING A FORCE INTO KOLWEZI WITH A MINIMUM OF DESTRUCTION.
THEY PLAN TO PROCEED WHETHER OR NOT ASSURANCES ARE FORTHCOMING
FROM TSHOMBE, THE NEXT MOVES BEING TO ESTABLISH CONTROL IN THE
PAN HANDLE AREA SOUTHEAST OF ELISABETHVILLE AND GET A FORCE
ASSEMBLED AT KAMINA READY TO MOVE ON KOLWEZI FROM THE NORTH.
E. OUR MILITARY PEOPLE BELIEVE THE BEST MOVE WOULD BE
TO PARADROP A REINFORCED BATTALION TO GAIN CONTROL. 9F KOLWEZI
AIRFIELD, THEN FLY IN REINFORCEMENTS.: THIS, THEY BELIEVE WOULD
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REDUCE THE THREAT OF DESTRUCTION, WOULD BE QUICKEST, AND
WOULD GET AROUND THE SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF BRIDGING EQUIPMENT.
F. JADOTVILLE IS QUIET, ORDER HAS RETURNED, AND THE
BEHAVIOR OF THE INDIAN FORCE THERE HAS BEEN EXEMPLARY. THERE
HAS BEEN SOME TROUBLE WITH THE BALUBA POPULATION THERE WHICH
HAS BEEN ACTING AS IF THE UN ArIcTogy WERE THEIRS AND HAS
TAKEN TO BEATING UP WHITES.
G. ADOULA IS LOSING NO TIME ESTABLISHING WHAT PRESENCE ,
HE CAN IN ELISABETHVILLE. HE HAS SENT NEARLY A HUNDRED OF-
FICIALS THERE SO FAR TO GET A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT,ADMINISTRA-
TION GOING.
H. HE IS ALSO DETERMINED TO ESTABLISH AN ARMY PRESENCE
THERE._,. BUT SEES THE NEED TO UNP HAND-PICKED, WELL-DISCIPLINED
SOLDIERS, OF WHICH HE HAS AT MOST FEW. THERE IS DANGER THAT
GOVERNMENT TROOPS WOULD JOIN WITH THE BALUBAS AGAINST,EURO-
PEANS AND TSHOMBE SUPPORTERS.
I. ARRANGEMENTS ARE AFOOT. TO RECONVENE THE KATANGAN
ASSEMBLY. IF IT RE-ELECTS TSHOMBE AS PRESIDENT, ADOULA HAS
SAID HE WILL TREAT WITH HIM AS SUCH.
J. MEANWHILE, ADOULA HAS ANNOUNCED HIS FORMULA FOR RE-
INTEGRATION: I) PUBLIC SERVICES SECRETARY KALALA HAS BEEN
SENT FROM LEOPOLDVILLE TO TAKE OVER ADMINISTRATION TEMPORARILY
2) GENDARMES WHO JOIN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FORCES BY A CERTAIN
DATE WILL RETAIN RANKS; 3) ALL CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FOREIGN EX-
CHANGE REGULATIONS WILL NOW APPLY TO KATANGA; 4) A NEW HEAD
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OF THE KATANGAN BANK WILL BE NAMED; 5) ALL KATANGAN MONEY
WILL BE CALLED IN AND REPLACED BY THAT OF THE CENTRAL GOV?
ERNMENT.
4. INDIA?USSR?CHINA:
A. THE INDIAN AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW TOLD KOHLER OVER
THE WEEK END THAT THE MIG-21'S FOR INDIA ARE ON THEIR WAY.
B. PRESUMABLY THIS REFERS TO THE FIRST SIX OF TWELVE
PROMISED BEFORE BORDER WARFARE FLARED UP LAST SEPTEMBER.
C. DELIVERY OF THESE AIRCRAFT (MORE ADVANCED THAN
ANYTHING THE CHINESE HAVE) COMES AT THE LOWEST POINT YET
REACHED IN THE SINO?SOVIET QUARREL AND WILL BE PARTICULARLY
RESENTED BY THE CHINESE.
D. A CHINESE COMMUNIST SPOKESMAN IN HONG KONG SAID
FLATLY LAST FALL THAT SOVIET DELIVERY OF THESE AIRCRAFT TO
INDIA WOULD PRECIPITATE A MAJOR CRISIS BETWEEN PEIPING AND
MOSCOW.
E. AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE LAST WEEK OVER LADAKH, INCLUD-
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ING SUPPLY ROUTES IN ADJOINING AREAS OF TIBET AND CHINA,. SHOWED
LITTLE OF MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE.
F.
THE PRESENCE OF
CHINESE ARMORED RECONNAISSANCE GROUPS IN THE LADAKH BORDER
AREA. (ONE UNIT, WITH AT LEAST FOUR TANKS AND FIVE OTHER VE?
HICLES, WAS SPOTTED.) SUPPLY CACHES WERE NOTED ALONG ROUTES
IN TIBET LEADING TOWARD LADAKH AND NEPAL, BUT NO MILITARY
MOVEMENT WAS SEEN.
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5. LAOS:
A. ANOTHER OF OUR CHARTER AIRCRAFT, DROPPING RICE TO
THE ME0 IN PHONG SALY PROVINCE, WAS SHOT DOWN SATURDAY,
ALMOST CERTAINLY BY THE PATHET LAO, AS THEY CONTROL THE AREA.
B. NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY HURT, AND THE US PILOT AND
THREE OTHERS ABOARD (ONE CANADIAN TWO LAOTIANS) HAVE BEEN
RECOVERED.
6, BRAZIL:
A. GOULART'S REFERENDUM ON RETURNING STRONG POWERS TO
THE BRAZILIAN PRESIDENCY GETS UNDER WAY TODAY. IT IS TOO
EARLY FOR RETURNS YET, BUT THERE IS LITTLE QUESTION THAT A
SUBSTANTIAL MAJORITY WILL APPROVE.
B. GOULART HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT TO THE PRESS PLEDG?
ANTI?INFLATIONARY ACTION AND SPEAKING HIGHLY OF THE ALLIANCE
FOR PROGRESS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY, AND "THE NOBLE AMERICAN PEO?
PLE WITH WHOM THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE ARE UNITED BY TIES OF TRA?
DITIONAL FRIENDSHIP."
7. YEMEN ? SAUDI ARABIA:
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8. NOTES:
A. USSR-COMMUNIST CHINA: THIS MORNINGS PRAVDA DEVOTED
TWO FULL PAGES TO YET ANOTHER POLEMIC AGAINST THE CHINESE. IN
REBUTTAL TO PEIPING'S MAJOR STATEMENTS OF THE LAST WEEK.
PRAVDA GIVES THE IMPRESSION THAT MOSCOW HAS ACCEPTED THE
INEVITIBIgITY OF A "SPLIT" IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST
MOVEMENT AND IS TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BLAME WILL BE
ON THE CHINESE.
B. YUGOSLAVIA-UK: THE BRITISH EXPECT KHRUSHCHEV WILL
VISIT YUGOSLAVIA IN LATE MARCH; THEY PLAN TO COUNTER IT BY
INVITING YUGOSLAV VICE-PRESIDENT RANKOVIC TO LONDON SHORTLY
THEREAFTER.
C. INDONESIA-USSR: DJAKARTA IS ARRANGING WITH MOSCOW
FOR SOVIET INSTRUCTORS TO HELP PLAN FOR AND STAFF AN INDO-
NESIAN NAVAL STAFF COLLEGE WHICH IS BEING SET UP.
D. CUBA-CAMBODIA: SIHANOUK, IN A NEW YEARS MESSAGE TO
CASTRO, WISHES?HIM "SUCCESS IN THE STRUGGLE TO SAFEGUARD THE
INDEPENDENCE OF VALIANT CUBA."
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