THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 5 NOVEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996647
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 5, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
5 NOVEMBER 1963
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1. Berlin
2. South Vietnam
a. The US convoy is still de-
tained. There is nothing to indi-
cate when it will be released.
b. As yet there has been no
buildup of Communist forces noted
a. The military holds the reins
of the new provisional government
announced yesterday.
b. Executive and legislative
powers are centered in the Revolu-
tionary Military Council, whose
Chairman, General Duong Van Minh,
assumes the authority of chief of
state.
c. Governmental powers, other
than those concerned with budgetary,
tax, national defense and security
matters, are being delegated to the
provisional government whose premier
is former Vice President Nguyen Ngoc
Tho.
d. Tho's cabinet consists
mainly of civilian technicians with
experience in sub-ministerial posts
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3. Yemen
under Diem. Generals hold the key
posts of national defense, informa-
tion and public security; the latter
is in the hands of
General Ton That Dinh.
e. It looks as though some
prominent civilians, including Diem's
former Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau,
refused to participate in the new
cabinet.
f. Madame Nhu's children are
on the way to Rome and she plans to
leave for there this afternoon.
Diem's brother Can, who approached our
consulate at Hu has been turned over
to the regime after assurances that
he would receive due process of law.
Labor leader Tran Quoc Buu was re-
leased by the new government early
this morning.
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4. Algeria-
Morocco
e. Yemeni President Sallal is
in serious condition following heart
attacks on Thursday and Friday of
last week. He has been flown to
Cairo for treatment.
a. The cease-fire may finally
have come into being with the arrival
of a Malian observer at the front.
He is to be followed shortly by
another Malian and two Ethiopians.
?b. Haile Selassie has again
urged Hassan and Ben Bella to observe
the cease-fire. the
African foreign ministers ? confer-
ence would probably be convened in
Addis Ababa in about two weeks. The
conference is to appoint a commission
to fix responsibility for the hos-
tilities and to submit propos ls for
a settlement.
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5. USSR-Laos
c. Selassie arrived in Cairo
yesterday from Belgrade to discuss
the border fighting with Fasir.
a. Souvanna has told French
diplomats in Moscow that the Rus-
sians have agreed to stop sending
military shipments to the Pathet
Lao through Hanoi.
b. He said the USSR is annoyed
at the North Vietnamese practice of
appropriating these modern arms for
themselves and forwarding to the
Pathet Lao inferior and obsolete
substitutes from their own stocks.
C. The Laotian Premier also
claimed that the Soviet leaders had
shown a willingness, as they had to
Kong Lep to supply amphibious tanks,
planes, and light arms to the neutral-
ists.
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6. Communist
China
7. Yugoslavia
a. Peiping radio has announced
that the National Peoples Congress
will meet on 16 November.
b. The Congress, a large rub-
ber-stamp group roughly similar to
the Russian Supreme Soviet, used to
be an annual forum for boasting
about the government's achievements.
However, the last session in April
1962 was held for the most part in
secret.
c. Foreign Minister Chen I has
said the Congress will discuss the
success of efforts to "readjust" the
economy and "a new national economic
program." The latter may mean a
stretch out of the existing Five
Year Plan (1963-67).
d. Several top Chinese leaders,
including Mao Tse-tung, are currently
in Shanghai where they are probably
meeting to thrash out the line for
the upcoming Congress.
a. Tito got back home last
Friday and said some fairly nice
things about his US visit.
(CoWd)
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? S. Indonesia
? b. Our embassy, recalling the
early post-Cuba days when Tito focused
on the "peace-loving qualities of
Khrushchev," thinks it important that
he has come out with the public state-
ment that "Mr. Kennedy also wants
peace to be strengthened and pre-
served."
c. While noting that Tito's
views on the US are subject to con-
stant change, the embassy reports
that, as of now, his Washington trip
has helped him to get a realistic
picture of the US role in world af-
fairs.
a. First Minister Djuanda
claims his government is convinced
that British intelligence engineered
a recent series of incidents involv-
ing time bombs and grenades aimed at
strategic military installations in
Indonesia. Djuanda said news of these
incidents has been closely held.
b. He told Ambassador Jones
that the memory of foreign support
to the rebels in 1958 was still fresh
in Indammdan minds and that there
was considerable suspicion that Amer-
icans were also involved in the cur-
rent incidents.
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C. The ambassador denied US
involvement, doubted British par-
ticipation and suggested that provo-
catIon was a tore likely answer.
He reminded Djuanda of past Commu-
nist forgeries and tactics designed
to implicate the US in subversive
actions in Indonesia.
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A. Cuba-Brazil
NOTES
Cuban Ambassador Roa in Rio de Janeiro
efforts to
befriend Brazilian Ptes14ent Goulart have failed.
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