THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 13 DECEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996719
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 13, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
13 DECEMBER 1963
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1. Bolivia
a. There has been no signifi-
cant movement in the Bolivian situa-
tion.
b. Paz hopes now to conciliate
the miners by offering to exile their
jailed leaders rather than try them.
c. He is also allowing Monsignor
Kennedy, a US priest who has been
working in Bolivia for a long time,
to try to negotiate a break in the
deadlock.
e. Lechin has threatened to
liquidate the hostages if the gov-
ernment forces move.
g. Yesterday's Lechinist demon-
strations in La Paz evoked little
stir.
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2. Berlin
3. Cuba-VS
a. West Germans and East Berlin
officials may reach agreement today
on arrangements for permitting West
Berliners to visit relatives in East
Berlin between 15 December and 5
January.
b. The East Germans have been
eager to get their proposal accepted
and to do so have been careful to
set no conditions the West Berliners
could not agree to. They have ac-
cepted all arrangements proposed by
the West Berliners.
c. The East Germans evidently
consider the mere fact of negotia-
tions between a member of the West
Berlin Senate and an East German
state secretary (in the Culture Min-
istry) a big step of itself.
a. The Cubans have let us know
through Swiss Ambassador Stadelhofer
that they plan a "large fishing opera-
tion" soon near but not within US
territorial waters.
b. The Cubans said they wanted
to be sure we knew what was up so
that there would be no incidents.
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4. Cuba-Chile a. The Cubans are looking to
Chile for some 100,000 tons of ni-
trates'
b. The Soviets supplied over
300,000 tons of fertilizer to Cuba
this year, but, in view of their
problems at home, may have told the
Cubans they can no longer keep it
up.
c. The Chileans are interested
5. OAS a. Mexico
is not
bothering to wait for the OAS investi-
gating committee to report; it has
already decided that Venezuela's
charge against Cuba is unfounded.
b. The arms cache, the Mexicans
say, is nothing but a "plant."
c. Brazil is inclined to feel
the same way and a number of others
will probably now be persuaded to
equivocate too.
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6. Cambodia
? a. The British and French
lined up about as expected in talks
yesterday on Sihanouk's call for a
conference to guarantee his neutral-
ity.
b. The British are lukewarm,
will go along if "terms are accept-
able."
c. The French are strongly in
favor, and worried lest rejection
by the West throw. Sihanouk to the
Chinese.
d. The Soviets have told the
British they favor a conference--
also no surprise.
e. ?The news of Sihanouk's
recall of his ambassador here hit
the conference room in Paris in time
to reinforce US arguments. It had
considerable impact on the French.
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NOTES
A. International Oil Market The members of the organi-
zation of Petroleum Exporting Countries seem deter-
mined to preserve the unity they displayed last week
in rejecting the increase in royalties offered by
the oil companies. They will be meeting again on 24
December in Riyadh to decide how best to combat the
divide and conquer tactics of the companies and make
their demand for higher royalty payments stick.
B. Thailand SEATO SEATO's Thai Secretary General, Pote
BWFWgIN7-TE-FUsigning at his government's request to
take up a job in the new administration at home. The
present Thai representative on the SEATO council,
General Konthi, is being mentioned as a possible
interim replacement for Sarasin.
C. Yemen Spinelli, the UN chief observer in Yemen,
says, on the basis of "close observation," he believes
there could be no more than 20,000 Egyptian troops
in Yemen. Nasir's own aides on Wednesday told Ambas-
sador Badeau that Egyptian strength there was 28,000--
a figure which is probably close to fact in view of
a few recent withdrawals.
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