THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 6 JUNE 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996385
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 6, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST-6 JUNE 1963
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1. CUBA:
A. THE TWO LOW?LEVEL FLIGHTS YESTERDAY MORNING GOT IN
AND OUT WITHOUT ANY APPARENT REACTION FROM EITHER SOVIET AIR
DEFENSE FACILITIES OR CUBAN MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS.
B. PROCESSING OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THESE FLIGHTS
HAS BEEN UNDER WAY AT NPIC SINCE LATE YESTERDAY. AS OF 8 A.M.
TODAY NOTHING REALLY STARTLING HAD EMERGED FROM THE READ?OUT.
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2. UAR?YEMEN:
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3. COAL-STEEL COMMUNITY:
A. THE COAL-STEEL COMMUNITY IS APPARENTLY PRESSING
AHEAD WITH ARRANGEMENTS TO RESTRICT FOREIGN PRICE COMPETITION
IN ORDER TO STEM THE DECLINE IN WEST EUROPEAN STEEL PRICES.
ARE COOPERAT-
B, THE JAPANESE,
INGu. AS ARE THE?.AUSTRIANS. BRITISH INDUSTRY HAS TRIED, BUT
THERE.ARE?SOME moggIcKs IN THEIR MIDST.
SO.FAR AS. WE KNOW, COMMUNITY PRODUCERS HAVE Nor YET
MADE OVERTURES TO US. STEEL MAKERS.
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5. ECUADOR:
A. THE TWO TUNA BOAT MASTERS IN SALINAS ARE AWAITING IN?
STRUCTIONS WHETHER OR NOT TO PAY THE POACHING FINES (TOTAL
$20,688 PLUS SOME $6,000 IN COSTS).
B. THE CREWS HAVE ALSO BEEN CHARGED WITH DISOBEYING
NAVAL ORDERS, BRIBERY AND "ILLEGAL" OPERATIONS IN ECUADOREAN
WATERS.
C. UNDER ECUADOREAN LAW THE FINES MUST BE PAID BY
MONDAY OR THE BOATS WILL BE CONFISCATED.
D. ECUADOREAN OFFICIALS REALLY GOT WORKED UP OVER THIS
ONE, AND POPULAR FEELING AGAINST THE US IS BUILDING TO A
CRESCENDO.
6, NOTES:
A. SOUTH VIETNAM: THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN INVESTIGAT?
ING THE BUDDHISTS' MAIN GRIEVANCES. MEANWHILE A TRUCE OF
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SORTS IS EVIDENTLY IN EFFECT, AND AT LAST REPORTS HUE WAS
CALM, AT LEAST ON THE SURFACE.
B. USSR?SWEDEN: THE SOVIETS HAVE WORKED OUT AN AGREE?
MENT IN PRINCIPLE WITH SWEDEN UNDER WHICH A GROUP OF SWEDISH
CADET PILOTS WOULD COMPLETE THEIR TRAINING IN THE USSR WHILE
SOVIET PILOT TRAINEES GET SIMILAR TREATMENT IN SWEDEN. THE
SWEDISH AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW TOLD AMBASSADOR KOHLER THAT A
NUMBER OF SOVIET MILITARY MEN WITH WHOM HE HAS TALKED EX?
PRESSED ASTONISHMENT THE USSR WOULD AGREE TO THIS KIND OF
EXCHANGE. SWEDEN HAS HAD SUCH DEALS BEFORE WITH WESTERN
COUNTRIES, BUT IT IS WITHOUT PRECEDENT FOR THE USSR.
C. WEST GERMANY: A RECENT WEST GERMAN OPINION POLL
SHOWS A RAPIDLY GROWING CONFIDENCE IN ERHARD AND A CONCOMI?
TANT DECLINE IN ADENAUER'S POPULARITY. THE POLL ALSO INDI?
CATES THAT 61 PERCENT NO LONGER CONSIDER THE ODER?NEISEE
PROBLEM IMPORTANT AND 67 PERCENT OPPOSE THE, HALLSTEIN DOC?
TRINE. A STRONG MAJORITY PREFERS US?EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP
TOA BILATERAL US?GERMAN RELATIONSHIP.
D. CEYLON: THE CEYLONESE GOVERNMENT SUDDENLY ANNOUNCED
YESTERDAY THAT IT WILL TAKE OVER THE MARKETING OPERATIONS OF
THE WESTERN OIL COMPANIES IN THE COUNTRY EFFECTIVE NEXT JAN?
UARY. THE MOVE APPEARS TO BE IN RESPONSE TO PRESSURE FROM
LEFTISTS IN MRS. BANDARANAIKE'S PARTY WHO HAVE THREATENED TO
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DEFECT TO A NEWLY FORMED UNITED FRONT OF LEFTIST OPPOSITION
PARTIES.
E. IRAN: MARTIAL LAW RESTORED ORDER IN TEHRAN LAST
NIGHT FOLLOWING YESTERDAY'S VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS BY REACTION?
ARY RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS OPPOSED TO THE SHAH'S LAND REFORM
?AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE. RIOTING RESUMED THIS MORNING, HOWEVER,
ACCORDING TO LATE PRESS REPORTS. DISTURBANCES IN THE SHRINE
CITIES OF SHIRAZ, QOM, AND MESHED ARE SO FAR UNDER CONTROL BUT
COULD BECOME MORE VIOLENT THAN THOSE IN TEHRAN.
F. VENEZUELA: NO US PERSONNEL WERE HARMED
DURING LAST NIGHT'S RAID
BY CASTROITE TERRORISTS ON OUR MILITARY MISSION HEADQUARTERS
IN CARACAS.
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