THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 15 MARCH 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996240
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 15, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
15 MARCH 1963
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LATE NOTES
Yemen-Saudi Arabia The Saudis have told Ambassador
nart of a message from a Saudi official just north
of the border with Yemen reporting that "enemy forces"
had crossed the border and burned one village.
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1. Cuba--Shipping
2. Cannaregio
a. The Soviet passenger ship
Maria Ulyanova, which arrived Monday
evening, sailed yesterday morning.
a. The Italian freighter en-
tered the Orinoco River yesterday
and has been boarded by a party from
the Venezuelan destroyer General
Flores.
b. Further clarification of
the seemingly suspicious behavior
of the Cannaregio Tuesday indicates
it reflected a navigation problem
caused by fog. ?The barges reported
alongside were there for bunkering.
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3. Common Market- a. EEC officials are saying
US that US insistence on interim
guarantees of continued access to
EEC markets for American agricul-
tuisal exports could result in the
indefinite postponement of trade
? and tariff negotiations under the
? Trade Expansion Act. They argue
that US inflexibility on this point
may lead other countries to assert
preconditions or may be used by
"certain" groups in the EEC as an
excuse not to proceed with the ne-
gotiations.
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4. France-Algeria
5. Somali Republic a. The Prime Minister, reluc-
tant to lose British aid, evidently
would like to delay announcing the
formal break with the UK approved
yesterday by Parliament. However,
he would be risking political suicide
unless there were further British
concessions affecting the status of
the bordering district of Kenya.'
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6. USSR-Iraq
b. The fever in Mogadiscio
will rise even higher when it is
learned that two Ethiopian battalions
in the Congo are slated for recall--
to a largely Somali-inhabited area.
c. The US Embassy has reports
of increasing pressure on the govern-
ment to "seek arms anywhere" in
order to counter British and Ethio-
pian power in the area.
a. There has been a further
cooling of relations between Baghdad
and Moscow. Yesterday, the Iraqi
Embassy in Moscow,was treated to
the first-ever protest demonstration
staged against a "non-aligned" embassy.
b. ?We have heard of more Iraqi
statements on moves by Baghdad to
reduce Soviet aid and ?resence.
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7. Egypt - Saudi a. There seems no doubt that
Arabia - Yemen Egyptian aircraft bombed Saudi ter-
ritory on Tuesday.
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8. Congo
a. Ambassador Gullion reports
some disturbing deductions: less
than a quarter of the known Katangan
gendarmerie, less than half of its
arms, and only a small part of its
vehicles have been accounted for;
its radio net still functions.
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9. Syria
10. USSR
a. Further trouble may be
brewing over the issue of relations
with Egypt.
b. Nasir's clandestine radio
yesterday broadcast an attack on
the new Syrian regime and a call
for immediate restoration of the
Egyptian-Syrian union.
c. Syrian military authorities,
probably fearing that pro-Nasir de-
monstrations might snowball, on Wed-
nesday refused to permit the return
from Cairo of five exiled Syrians
who had been cabinet ministers in
the union.
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NOTES
B.
USSR Khrushchev made
day that he considered
cialist realism in the
minds. Apparently he
it clear in his speech last Fri-
modernistic deviations from so-
arts to be the product of sick
meant what he said.
Valentin Ovechkin, an
established,and previously favored author, was com-
mitted to a mental institution several months ago
shortly after criticizing Soviet agricultural policy
and warning against a new personality cult.
C. Haiti Duvalier is using the presence of a Czech
trade mission for blackmail. He has let the US em-
bassy hear that the 'Czechs are offering to undertake
economic development projects--while the US lets "Hai-
tian children" go hungry.
D. Argentina Chances for a showdown between military
factions over the form of Peronist participation in
the June election may be mounting--a full-scale mili-
tary alert went into effect yesterday.
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. South Korea General Pak Chong-hui has used a coup
plot exposed a week ago as a pretext for arresting
other military leaders opposed to him and shows signs
that he may renege on his promise to transfer the gov-
ernment to civilian control. In what appears to be a
staged maneuver, the entire cabinet offered its resig-
nation today after shouldering "moral responsibility"
for the plot.
F. Kuwait
Baath planning for coups all over the Middle East:
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