THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 9 MARCH 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996230
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 9, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
9 MARCH 1963
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1. Syria
a. We still do not know the
composition of the revolutionary
command which has appointed a 20-
man civilian cabinet--a mixture of
Baathists, pro-Nasirists, and middle-
of-the road Arab nationalists.
b. We expect one of these
groups--most likely the Baathists--
to try to take charge, and the co-
alition may not last long. Salah
al-Din Bitar--Premier and Foreign
Minister--is one of the cofounders
of the Baathist party.
c. Bitar was Foreign Minister
in several left-wing cabinets prior
to the union with the MR.
d. The regime has declared its
solidarity with the "liberated" Arab
states of Iraq, UAR, Algeria, and
Yemen and has declined offers of
military assistance from Iraq and
the UAR
/Resistance,
such as it was, ended yesterday noon.
e. Former Prime Minister Azm
has sought asylum in the Turkish
embassy in Damascus.
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2. Haiti
f. Jordan has declared a state
of emergency
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tential troublemakers are being
rounded up. Both King Husayn and
Prince Faysal cannot but feel even
more uneasily that they are next.
a. The latest (and likeliest)
of many plans to overthrow Duvalier
is that of a small band of some
twenty plotters who intend to cap-
ture him in the palace on 15 March
or as soon thereafter as possible.
b. Clement Barbot, able and
ruthless former secret police chief
and confidential secretary to Du-
valier, is probably behind the plan.
Barbot escaped into hiding last
August after nine months house ar-
rest preceded by a year and a half
in prison.
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3. Afghanistan
a, King Zahir apparently has
triumphed in a showdown with Prime
Minister Daud, although we do not
yet have official confirmation of
reports that Daud and his cabinet
have resigned.
b. Daud and Foreign Minister
Naim are said to have been offered
the choice of leaving the country;
or remaining as respected senior
citizens. Daud addresses the nation
today.
c. A. caretaker cabinet of
civil servants will probably take
over until the King decides on a
Successor government which will be
responsive to his wishes.
d. With the king in control,
Afghanistan's relations with the
bloc will probably become more cau-
tious and correct. Zahir is also
likely to make more of an effort to
resolve Afghan-Pakistan differences.
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4. Cuba
c. The? Soviet passenger ship
Baltika, which just completed a voy-
age from Cuba to the USSR carrying
some 190 Cubans and more than 200
Soviet personnel, is again on its
regular run back to Cuba. It is ex-
pected to reach Havana around 22
March.
d. The Soviet passenger ship
Admiral Nakhimov has probably now
WFFIVUU in Havana. It is the largest
of the passenger ships on the Cuban
run, having a troop-load capacity of
nearly 5,000.
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5, Yemen-UAR-
Saudi Arabia
a. Ambassador Bunker returns
to Washington this afternoon with
word from Prince Faysal that he
will agree "in principle" to stop
aiding the royalists if he can be
assured the UAR will get out.
b. Nasir will probably balk
at the form Faysal wants these as-
surances to take--to wit: a cessa-
tion of attacks on Saudi territory,
a cease-fires and withdrawal of UAR
forces and equipment from the field
to marshalling areas.
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6. Cambodia
e. After a difficult, week-
long push southward from Marib, UAR
and Yemeni troops claim to have
secured the border village of Harib.
This is in the poorly-demarcated
border area adjacent to the British-
protected Sheikdom of Beihan and we
expect border incursions and clashes
to increase.
Peiping refused to
provide foreign exchange assistance.
The Chinese would only offer techni-
cal help and some future barter
trade.
b.
Cambodia will be
receiving six MIG-17s from the USSR
within about a month. Cambodia will
be sending personnel to the USSR for
pilot and maintenance training.
c. Sihanouk is making it clear
that his deference to the Bloc on
foreign policy questions is not matched
by softness toward Communists at home.
Annoyed by leftist exploitation of
student rioting while he was away,
he has launched a sharp attack on
domestic leftists and is proceeding
with a government shakeup, having dis-
missed his cabinet which included some
left-wingers.
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A. Britain--Common Market Efforts to find some kind of
interim economic tie between Britain and the Common
Market have ended.
B. Laos-Soviet Bloc At ?the end of its visit in Warsaw,
the Laotian royal party subscribed to a highly unneu-
tral communique toeing Moscow's foreign policy line
all the way. It went well beyond anything Polish For-
eign Minister Rapacki was able to get out of the Yugo-
slays when he was in Belgrade last fall.
C. Brazil-France Brazil has started disbanding the na-
val task force it had kept patrolling coastal waters
since the start of the "lobster war" with France last
month.
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SOVIET PURCHASE OF WESTERN SHIPS
in the current depressed shipping
markets, the Soviets should have no trouble acquir-
ing secondhand ships, and Liberty-type ships are
almost certainly available in and around Panama.
Since one of the
main purposes of purchasing ships for the Cuban
trade would be to avoid US restrictions, immediate
transfer of the ships to Western flags is not likely.
the Soviets had purchased four Liberty shins
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The purchase of a considerable number of
Liberty ships would be sound economics for the
Soviets insofar as the Cuban trade is concerned.
At current prices, a Liberty ship would cost the
?Soviets the equivalent of only 6 to 8 months ex-
penditure for the charter of a ship for the Cuban
trade.
The use of Liberty ships would also enable
the Soviets to withdraw from the Cuban run a
number of their largest and newest ships now
occupied almost exclusively with the Cuban trade.
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