THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 13 APRIL 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996293
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 13, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST-13 APRIL 1963
1. USSR:
A. THURSDAY, MOSCOW. ADDED THE WORDS "BUILDING SOC IAL ?
I SM" TO ITS MAY DAY SLOGAN ON YUGOSLAVIA FIRST ISSUED ON
MONDAY, THEREBY GIVING YUGOSLAVIA THE SAME STATUS AS OTHER
BLOC COUNTRIES.
B. ALTERING SUCH A SLOGAN ONCE I S SUED IS UNPRECEDENTED.
C. WE ARE TEMPTED TO SEE THIS.AS A FURTHER SIGN OF
DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP?PERHAPS EVEN TO THE
EXTENT THAT OTHER LEADERS SAW KHRUSHCHEV S ABSENCE ON VACA?
T ION AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO INDICATE DISAGREEMENT WITH SOME OF
HIS POLICIES AND THAT IT TOOK HI M THREE DAYS TO REASSERT HIS
POSITION.
.D. AT THE LEAST, MAKING THE CHANGE DR IVES HOME KHRUSH?
CHEV S INTENTION TO INSIST ON THIS FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINAL
POSITION IN THE DIALOGUE WITH PEI PING .
2. BRITISH BORNEO:
A. ON THURSDAY NIGHT A POLICE STATION IN SARAWAK THREE
MILES FROM THE INDONESIAN BORDER WAS ATTACKED BY 60 ARMED
AND UNIFORMED MEN. AFTER INFLICTING SEVERAL CASUALTIES AND
SEIZING ARMS AND AMMUNITION, THEY VANISHED. THEY WERE NOT
IDENTIFI ED
B. THUS FAR THIS IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.?
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3. YEMEN:
A. DOMESTIC EGYPTIAN BROADCASTS THIS MORNING BEGAN
CARRYING THE NEWS THAT EGYPTIAN FORCES WOULD SOON BEGIN RE-
TURNING HOME--"IN PHASES AS SOON AS THE AGREEMENT IS IMPLE-
MENTED." HEADLINES SAY FAYSAL HAS "ADMITTED HIS COMPLETE
DEFEAT."
B. U THANT IS NOW SEIZED WITH THE NEED FOR MOVING
QUICKLY TO CARRY OUT THE UN'S ROLE. PROVIDED HE GETS AP-
PROVAL FROM YEMEN'S SALLAL AND CAN SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISH
"CONSULTATIONS" WITH UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS STARTING
ON MONDAY, HE THINKS BUNCHE OR ANOTHER UN REPRESENTATIVE
MIGHT PROCEED TO THE AREA THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK.
4. BRAZIL:
A.
POSSIBLE ACTION AGAINST GOULART.
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C.
TBE NEXT CONFLICT BETWEEN PRO? AND
ANTI?COMMUNISTS IN THE GOVERNMENT COULD ARISE IN RIO
5. BRAZIL?USSR:
A. A "TRUSTWORTHY BUSINESS SOURCE" OF THE US EMBASSY
IN BRAZIL HAS HEARD THAT BRAZIL WILL CANCEL ITS TRADE AGREE?
MENT WITH THE USSR BECAUSE IT HAS LEARNED THE RUSSIANS ARE
DUMPING BRAZILIAN COFFEE IN TBE UK.
B. WE ARE DUBIOUS. WE HAVE THUS FAR BEEN UNABLE TO
FIND EVIDENCE OF SOVIET COFFEE DUMPING
6. CAMBODIA?USSR:
A. THE FIRST SOVIET MILITARY FOOT MAY SOON BE IN THE
CAMBODIAN DOOR.
B. A CAMBODIAN DELEGATION NOW IN MOSCOW IS WORKING OUT
DETAILS FOR MILITARY AID.::
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? E. TALKS ON ECONOMIC AID HAVE LED TOA-sovIgT PROPOSAL
FOR,A.FOVR 11.11zIoN 100144AR CREDIT FOR EXPLOITATION OF GOLD
AND OTHER MINERAL DEPOSITS--A PROPOSAL WgIckil OFFERS PROSPECTS
FOR COLLISION WITH A FRENCH MISSION RESEARCHING Go4p DEPOSITS.
F. NEXT STOP FOR THE cAmpopTAN DELEGATION 14 PRAGUE.
7. LAOS:
A. SKIRMISHING CONTINUES IN THE PLAINE DES JARRES, WITH
MOST OF THE RECENT FIGHTING ASSOCIATED WITH EFFORTS BY CUT-
OFF NEUTRALIST ELEMENTS TO REACH KONG LE'S BASE AREA NEAR
THE PLAINE DES JARRES AIRFIELD.
B. ICC EFFORTS TO GET TO THE PLAINE DES JARRES ON FRI-
DAY WERE FRUITLESS.
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C. THERE IS GROWING COOPERATION BETWEEN KONG LE 'S
NEUTRALIST FORCES AND THE MEO GUERRILLAS AND PHOUMI'S LAO-
TIAN:ARMY TRoops4 ALTHOUGH THE LATTER HAVE NOT YET INTER-
VENED OPENLY.
D. IN THE YANG VIENG-AREA NORTH OF VIENTIANE, FIGHTING
HAS BEEN. THREATENING BETWEEN KONG LE'S UNITS AND DISSIDENT
.NEUTRALISTS SUPPORTED BY THE PATHET LAO./
8. NOTES:
A. USSR: THE SOVIETS THIS MORNING ORBITED A COSMOS-
TYPE RESEARCH SPACE SATELLITE FROM KAPUSTIN YAR. THIS IS
THE FIRST SUCH SHOT FROM KY SINCE LAST OCTOBER. WE DO NOT
THINK IT WILL BE RECOVERED AND SUSPECT IT MAY BE CHECKING
CONDITIONS PRIOR TO THE MANNED ATTEMPT EXPECTED LATER THIS
MONTH.
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D. CAMBODIA?SOUTH VIETNAM: SIHANOUK MAY RAISE A NEW
STORM OVER ,BORDER VIOLATIONS. PHNOM PENH CLAIMS THAT VIETNAM?
ESE ARMORED VEHICLES RAIDED ..A CAMBODIAN VILLAGE TUESDAY,
KILLING TWO AND WOUNDING OTHERS. PRIOR TO THIS AFFAIR--AND
THE DETENTION LAST WEEK OF TWO VIETNAMESE NAVAL CRAFT WHICH
HAD PENETRATED CAMBODIAN WATERWAYS--THE CRISIS OF LAST AUTUMN
HAD EASED OFF TO THE POINT THAT A VIETNAMESE MILITARY ATTACHE
WAS DUE IN PHNOM PENH ON 15 APRIL.
E. PERU: LIMA ABOUNDS WITH RUMORS THAT THE OFFICER
CORPS--STILL FEARING AN APRA ELECTION VICTORY IN JUNE--MAY
SOON FORCE FURTHER CHANGES IN THE RULING JUNTA; INDEFINITE
SUSPENSION OF THE ELECTIONS WOULD FOLLOW. APRA S THREAT TO
"FIGHT" IF THERE IS INTERFERENCE WITH THE ELECTIONS PRESUMABLY
STILL STANDS.
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