THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 14 SEPTEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996558
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 14, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT 'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST-714 SEPTEMBER 1963
CANADA?USSR:
A,
THAT A DEAL TO SELL THE USSR ABOUT FIVE MILLION TONS OF WHEAT
AND FLOUR, TO BE DELIVERED BY NEXT JULY, WILL PROBABLY BE AN?
NOUNCED MONDAY.
B. WE DO NOT THINK THIS REPRESENTS PRE?EMPTIVE BUYING TO
DENT SALES TO COMMUNIST CHINA, J3EIPTG CONCLUDED AN AGREEMENT
WITH OTTAWA IN JULY, AND HAS OTHER SOURCES SUCH AS AUSTRAL/A,
ARGENTINA, AND FRANCE.
Q. THE SOVIETS, IN VIEW OF CROP CONDITIONS. IN THE USSR
AND EASTERN EUROPE, PROBABLY NEED THE WHEAT TO MEET DOMESTIC
ggcluiRgmws AND EXPORT COMMITMENTS TO THE SATELLITES AND UNDER?
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES. LAST YEAR SUCH EXPORTS TOTALLED JUST
UNDER 5 MILLION TONS
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E. OUR EMBASSY IN OTTAWA THINKS THIS DEAL WILL HELP
RESTORE THE EARLY LUSTER OF THE,PEARSON GOVERNMENT, AND ALSO
CREATE AN AIR OF CORDIALITY IN CANADIAN?SOVIET RELATIONS WHICH WILL
STRENGTHEN OTTAWA'S PREDISPOSITION TO ACCEPT AT FACE VALUE ANY
SOVIET PROPOSITION FOR RELAXING COLD WAR TENSIONS.
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2, CUBA7-USW
A. WE sgg SOME INDICATIONS THAT Moscow IS BECOMING
TOUCHY ABOUT SPECULATION IN THE wgsT REGARDING SOVIET-CUBAN
DIFFERENCES.
B. AN AUTHORITATIVE PRAVDA "OBSERVER" ARTICLE ON THURS-
DAY, ALONG WITH A FLURRY OF 'MOSCOW BROADCASTS,PENOUNCEDHALLEGED
US BACKING OF RECENT EXILE RAIDS.,
C. THESE BLASTS, Accompo.xgp BY REAFFIRMATIONS OF THE
USSR'S PLEDGES TO SUPPORT CUBA AGAINST EXTERNAL AGGRESSION.,
SUGGEST AN ATTEMPT To REASSURE CASTRO THAT IMPROVED us7sowgT
RELATIONS DO NOT MEAN &LESSENING OF SOVIET SUPPORT FOR CUBA.
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4. SOUTH VIETNAM:
C. THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT ANTI?GOVERNMENT FEELING IS
SPREADING TO THE COUNTRYSIDE BUT DIEM HAS ANNOUNCED MARTIAL
LAW WILL END ON MONDAY,
E. A VATICAN OFFICIAL SHOWED AMBASSADOR RHEINHARDT YES?
TERDAY A LETTER FROM THE POPE TO THE BISHOP OF SAIGON DESIGNED
TO COUNTER, AS FAR AS THE CHURCH COULD, THE REGIME'S REPRESSIVE
POLICIES.
5, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
A. BOSCH'S OPPONENTS
TO FIRM UP PLANS TO OUST HIM.
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B. THE ARMED FORCES MINISTER APPEARS TO BE LOSING HIS
RESTRAINING INFLUENCE ON MILITARY LEADERS HOSTILE TO BOSCH,
AND THE NAVY COMMANDER SOUNDED OUT OUR NAVAL ATTACHE THIS twit
ON THE US ATTITUDE TOWARD A MILITARY JUNTA.
C, OPPOSITION "ANTI?COMMUNISTS" HAVE PUBLICLY THREATENED
"DEFINITIVE MEASURES" UNLESS BOSCH ANSWERED BEFORE HE LEFT,,
THEIR DEAN!) TO "ERADICATE COMMUNISM,"
D. MUCH OF THE AGITATION ABOUT COMMUNISM COMES FROM
THOSE FAVORING A COUP, HOWEVER THERE IS colippE44BLE GENUINE
CONCERN, APPARENTLY SHARED BY BOSCH'S LONG?TIME FRIEND BETAN?
COURT, OVER HIS TOLERANCE Tow]) COMMUNISM..
6, SAUDI ARABIA:
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7. NOTES:
A. MALAYSIA: SUKARNO, IN A CONVERSATION WITH AMBASSADOR
JONES YESTERDAY, GAVE THE APPEARANCE OF TRYING TO AVOID SERIOUS
TALK ABOUT MALAYSIA, ALTHOUGH HE DID GIVE SOME ASSURANCE THAT
HIS REACTION TO WHATEVER THE UN REPORT MIGHT CONCLUDE WOULD
BE "TEMPERATE." HE MADE CLEAR, HOWEVER, THAT HE WOULD NOT
ACCEPT AS CONCLUSIVE A RESULT FAVORABLE TO MALAYSIA BASED ON
SO SMALL A SAMPLE,
B. PAKISTAN ? COMMUNIST CHINA: FOREIGN MINISTER BHUTTO
ASSURED AMBASSADOR MCCONAUGHY ON THURSDAY THAT PAKISTAN WOULD
KEEP CHINA AT ARM'S LENGTH, AND SEEK ONLY "OPPORTUNE" NON?
POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS.
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D. EGYPT: NASIR FACES A SEVERE ECONOMIC CRISIS, AND
WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO SEEK EXTENSIVE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE WITHIN
A FEW MONTHS. ALMOST $113 MILLION OBTAINED FROM THE IMF LAST
YEAR HAS BEEN EXHAUSTED WITHOUT REMEDYING THE BALANCE OF PAY?
MENTS CRISIS, AND THE CONFIDENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL
COMMUNITY IS AT AN ALL?TIME LOW.
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