THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 15 JANUARY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996138
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 15, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
15 JANUARY 1963
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1. Indonesia
2. Laos
a. Egged on by the Soviets,
Sukarno appears determined to keep
the Borneo pot simmering.
b. On Saturday, he ordered
that border incursions by the Brit-
ish "or others" be resisted by force
and told his service chiefs he has a
"guarantee" of Soviet support should
there be a clash.
. The week before
Indonesian
army commander Jani told his staff
he had alerted, the ground. forces on
Borneo and was sending commando rein-
forcements.
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3. Togo a. The coup leaders say they
are ready to step aside for civil
rule. Their final choice for head
of a new government apparently re-
? mains former Prime Minister Grunitsky,
who returned from Dahomey yesterday--
? after first turning them down.
b. Grunitsky (German father,
African mother) is conservative and,
as premier (1956-1958),? favored close
ties with the French. He is probably
being backed from Dahomey.
c. He is not yet a safe bet,
with Nkrumah presumably still sup-
porting Meatchi, Grunitsky's former
agriculture minister just back from
exile in Ghana.
4.
Yemen
a. Vice President
Baydani
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hold on his
job is none too sure,
the hostile
currents
bUAl
surrounding President Salal are in-
creasing in strength the
sectarian frictions among the Yemenis
are growing.
(Cont d)
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5. Syria
6. Cuba
a. The regime has survived
another coup attempt.
b. On Sunday night a group of
conservative army officers tried a
coup but failed for lack of support
from their own garrisons.
c. We think their move was
unrelated to the recent violent
demonstrations, but they may have -
tried to take advantage of the un-
rest.
a. Shipping tabulations show
that calls by non-bloc vessels con-
tinued to drop off after the quaran-
tine. (Pre-quarantine-76 monthly
average; October-60; November-34;
December--21.)
b. On Sunday Cuba's Communist
newspaper Hoy editorialized another
plea for bloc unity (akin to Cas-
tro's plea two weeks ago), a piece
of fence-straddling which will not
be pleasing to Moscow.
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c. Nonetheless, we continue
to see signs that the USSR is bending
every effort to keep the regime going.
d. Those inflammatory Havana
broadcasts continue; targets last
week were Venezuela and. Peru.
what may, however, ?become
Castro's most effective subversive
means--training of many young Latin
Americans for action in their own
"national revolutions."
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7. Congo
a. We have so far seen no
reaction from Leopoldville to
Tshombe's messages of yesterday.
b. U Thant and Bunche are
anxious to make the most of the op-
portunity, but would prefer to have
some troops in Kolwezi before dick-
ering further with Tshombe.
c. Spaak considers the devel-
opment a breakthrough. It could be.
d. As recently as Friday, how-
ever, Tshombe Appeared to be thinking
of a long period of resistance.
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g. The Portuguese meanwhile,
fearing new rebel attacks on Angola
from Katanga, are taking urgent mil-
itary measures to secure the border.
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NOTES
A. Burundi Belgium may cut off its aid to Burundi
if Burundi goes ahead with today's scheduled exe-
cution of five men convicted for the assassina-
tion of the prime minister and King's son in late
1961. It is not yet clear where the little coun-
try would then turn for help--East or West.
D. Indonesia We think the Soviets have shipped four
of their KOMAR guided-missile patrol boats to In-
donesia within the last two weeks; the Indonesians
are to receive a total of twelve by the end of the
year. Thus far, aside from full, members of the
Bloc, Cuba and the UAR are the only other countries
to receive these craft.
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