THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 30 NOVEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996695
• 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 30, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
30 NOVEMBER 1963
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1. Venezuela
2. Sino-Soviet
dispute
a. Election campaigning ended
at midnight, but boosters for the
several candidates continued to mill
about streets of Caracas in defiance
of terrorist threats to shoot anyone
who ventured out for the next three
days.
b. The terrorists, it seems,
were all but drowned out by the car-
nival air.
c. ,The FALL, meanwhile, is
trying to bargain off Colonel Chenault
for as high a price as it can, de-
mand1ng variously release of all its
comrades, of all women detained by
the government, and of the six hi-
jackers who have been returned from
Trinidad to custody in Venezuela.
a. The Chinese Communists
will have nothing to do with the
idea of bilateral talks with the
Soviets under present circumstances.
(Cont'd)
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d. Moscow, for its part, has
apparently stopped thinking about
another gathering of world Communist
party representatives.
e. The feelers it put out
after the conclusion of the test-
ban treaty were received coldly by
some of the fraternal parties. They
felt such a meeting could only make
matters worse with the Chinese.
f. Indeed, Peiping saw this
to be Moscow's purpose, and when
the idea failed to take hold,the
Chinese took it to be a setback for
Khrushchev personally.
g. Their reaction to Khrush-
chev's subsequent call for a cessa-
tion of open argument was to press
the offensive, and this they have
been doing in roundly abusive terms
since.
(Cont'd)
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3. USSR
h. The forthcoming Afro-Asian
visits by Chou En-lai and Chen Yi
have awakened suspicions that the
Chinese are in hot pursuit of a
second Bandung-type conference--a
more rewarding enterprise from their
point of view.
4. Kenya - a. The Soviet Bloc will soon
Communist Bloc gain an important propagand outlet
in Nairobi, communications hub for
East Africa.
b. Plans are for a state-
controlled news agency to be set up
by the Kenyan government when it
(Cont'd)
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achieves independence on 12 Decem-
ber. This will fall under the juris-
diction of communications minister
Oneko, who has well developed con-
tacts within the Soviet Bloc.
c. TASS has already agreed to
equip the new agency, and Kenyan re-
quests for further financial and
techincal help are being discussed
in Prague and Moscow.
d. Kenyan journalists have
been training in Prague and, on re-
turn, will find ready employment in
the new agency.
5. Czechoslovakia- a. Czech President Novotny
USSR returned from Moscow on Thursday
after signing a renewal (for another
20 years) of the treaty of friend-
ship and mutual assistance. .
b. He apparently got little
else out of Khrushchev. The final
communique was conspicuously cool.
c. There were no Soviet con-
cessions, nor were there the usual
references to Czech "progress" or
to public support for Novotny's
leadership.
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6. South Vietnam
a. The first suicide by burn-
ing to occur under the new regime
was witnessed today by bystanders
at a crowded intersection in Saigon
where a young girl went up in flames.
b. A note she left behind said
she was protesting the war of Viet-
namese against Vietnamese. At the
intersection are three villas which
house the ICC delegations.
c. There were no Buddhist
overtones.
d. Some think the Viet Cong
encouraged her, but if they did,
they did not write her script. They
would have said it is the Americans
who are fighting the Vietnamese.
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A. South Vietnam Plans are now afoot to shuffle
South Vietnam's Corps commanders so that General
Khanh, considered by General Harkins to be the best
of the lot, will take over in the crucial delta (IV
Corps) area./
H. Cuba-USSR
Soviets in Cuba,
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7,000. Some withdrawals continue.
C. Cambodia-Vietnam Sihanouk seems to feel that cut-
ting off his nose to spite his face was not enough.
Now he says he will formally recognize North Vietnam
if the US does not silence the Khmer Serei radio.
D. Indonesia-Cambodia
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E. Coal and Steel Community Coal and Steel community
members at their next meeting on Monday will prob7
ably vote to raise community steel tariffs by an
average of nine percent. Ibls would bring the tar-
iJfs of each member into line with Italy's, the
highest in the community. Only the Dutch oppose the
idea.
F.
G. Brazil-US A press report from Rio cites "well in-
formed sources" to the affect that Goulart plans
soon to invite Mrs. Kennedy to visit Brazil so that
Brazil can pay her the honors which it had planned
to render the late President.
H. Cuba-Morocco
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