THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 8 FEBRUARY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996181
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: February 8, 1963

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THE PRESItIENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
8 FEBRUARY 1963
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1.
Iraq
2. Venezuela
a. The revolt
against Qasim began this morning.
b. It is being led by Army of-
ficers, many of them members of the
Baath party. Qasim virtually jarred
the conspirators into action by under-
taking within the past few days to
purge army ranks of officers suspected
of opposing him and by arresting a
number of Baath party leaders.
c. Baghdad radio is in the
hands of the insurrectionists. It
claims that Qasim has been killed.
(A background summary on the
revolt is, included Separately.)
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a The Venezuelan Communist
decides. ast
month to throw all of its capabilities
for armed action behind the attempt
to topple Betancourt.
b. The party has set up a uni-
fied command over its guerrilla and
terrorist operations within a cover
organization which calls itself the
Armed Forces of National Liberation.
(Cont 'd)
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3. Cuba-
Latin America
c. The government may, how-
ever, have already succeeded in
throwing sand into the newly created
subversive machinery. Following
yesterday's terrorist raid on the
US Chamber of Commerce office in Car-
acas, the police broke into National
Liberation headquarters and captured
quantities of arms, a membership
list, and documents relating to the
Communist scheme of action.
a. The head of Brazil's ortho-
dox Communists is planning a trip
to Moscow, Prague and thence to Cuba,
chiefly to protest that the Cubans
and Communist Chinese have been by-
passing the regular organization in
dealing with revolutionary groups
in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin
America.
b. The Brazilian Communist
head, Luiz Carlos Prestes, intends
to make the case that the militant
irregulars supported by Castro, be-
sides undercutting the orthodox Com-
munists, are stirring alarm in Latin
America and thus playing into the
hands of the US.
(Cont 'd.)
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4.
Cuba
5. Indonesia
a. The KHIMIK ZHELENSKY be-
lieved to be carrying a? military
cargo, reached Cuban waters yester-
day. I
a. U Thant's special represent-
ative in Indonesia asserts that the
Indonesians have agreed to drop their
demand that the transfer of West New
Guinea to them take place before I
May, as scheduled.
b. The Indonesians are con-
tinuing, however, their inflammatory
propaganda against Malaysia. The
official Indonesain news agency de-
clared this morning that 10,000
tribesmen from Indonesian Borneo
will enter North Borneo to join the
rebel struggle against the British.
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6. West Germany
a. Reviewing yesterday's Bundes-
tag debate on the Franco-German treaty,
the US Embassy in Bonn discerns a
strong consensus for the rapproche-
ment with France. What doubts there
are stem from the desire to prevent
relations with France from hindering
progress toward European unity or
disturbing US-German relations.
b. It was also apparent that
Adenauer's critics failed to mount
an effective attack in the debate.
Erhard's performance is falling con-
spicuously short of his boldly pro-
fessed intentions.
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A. Peru Constitutional guarantees have been restored
after a month's suspension and the political parties
are beginning to make preparations for the election
promised for late spring.
C. Chile The Chilean government has officially informed
our Embassy that it is cancelling its barter deal
with Cuba which would have bought Cuban sugar in
return for Chilean agricultural products. The Embassy
observed that President Alessandri has been giving
a display of "constructive leadership" since his
Washington visit.
D. Paraguay
Paraguayan exiles in Argentina have been concentrat-
ing at several points al ng the border between the
two countries and may attempt armed attack in order
tn diQrunt Sunday's Paraffuavan elections.
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8 February 1963
MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT : Background on Revolt in Iraq
1. The Baath was formed in Syria in 1954 by
Michel Aflaq and Akram al-Hawrani. It is "social-
istic," pan-Arab, anti-West, anti-Communist, and
the most widely organized political party in the
Arab world today. However, it is rent with dis-
sension and divided into pro- and anti-Nasir fac-
tions. In Iraq, the party pays lip service to
Nasir's pan-Arabism, but it has no wish to see
Iraq's identity submerged in a Nasir-controlled
state. While anti-Communist, the Baath could not be
expected to reverse present policy toward Moscow
in such fields as arms procurement and trade. How-
ever, the Baathists would favor a more neutral
policy between the Soviet Bloc and the West than
has Qasim.
2. Several of the key leaders of the present
revolutionary group have been identified as Baath-
ist army officers.
3. The move against Qasim was sparked by a
number of factors. Qasim has attempted persistent-
ly to crush the Baath. (The Baath in October 1959
nearly succeeded in killing him and he was hos-
pitalized for two months.) His strongly pro-
Communist policies, his unsuccessful 20-month old
campaign against the Kurds, his bitter feud with
Nasir, and the loss of face caused Iraq by his in-
sane antics were further incentives to revolt.
4. The USSR has suffered a setback in Iraq.
There is little doubt that the new revolutionary
regime will do its best to crush the Communists for
good. A blood bath is likely. Street fighting be-
tween Communists and anti-Communists is going on in
Baghdad now.
5. The Arab World: Nasir will be given a
great boost by the success of the coup--he will do
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his best to capitalize on this. Instability is like-
ly to increase in Syria and Jordan as pro-Nasir ele-
ments are heartened. An accommodation with the re-
bellious Kurds in Iraq will be attempted and probably
also a reconciliation with Kuwait.
6. If the revolution succeeds, however, the
Baath will not, at least at the outset, be completely
dominant. The immediate outgrowth is likely to be
a provisional coalition government bringing together
a variety of anti-Communist nationalist elements.
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