THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 5 MARCH 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996222
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 5, 1963

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THE .PRESIDENT'S
:INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
5 MARCH 1963
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1. UAR-Saudi a. UAR naval units shelled
Arabia-Yemen Qizan on the Saudi Arabian coast on
Saturday.
2. Cuban economy
c. British-led forces of the
Aden Federation have clashed again
with Yemeni republicans along the
Yemen-Aden border. The Yemenis?
\withdrew after
suffering several casualties.
a. "Che" Guevara is saying
can(didly that the Cuban economy will
be in far worse condition this year
than last, which was bad enough.
He told this recently to the Swedish
Ambassador to Havana, who circuit
rides between several Middle American
posts.
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b. The Swedish envoy, visiting
Havana for the first time since last
October, said his own observation
was that, apart from food, consumer
goods are in increasingly short sup-
ply.
c. Cubans are grumbling more,
but the regime's ubiquitous security
system makes resistance difficult.
d. The Ambassador forecasts
a very poor sugar harvest for this
year. His estimate (3 million odd
tons) is close to the gloomy figure
given by
Raul Castro and Ratael Rodriguez.
e. On top of this, the USSR,
according to the Ambassador, has
been paying only four cents a pound
for sugar, although the world market
price has risen to six cents a pound
since the Soviets made their contract
in 1961.
3. Soviet forces a.
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eight truckloads of Russians and
four trucks carrying olive-green
boxes moving from Torrens, the site
of a major Soviet headquarters and
supply organization, toward the
Havana area.
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4. Syria
military supplies
moved by the Cuban army out of the
Bahia Honda area, soon after the
suspect arms carrier Khirurg Vish-
nevsky unloaded there late last week.
d. photography
revealed unidentified
gear standing alongside the barracks
at the Soviet encampments at Remedios
and Artemisa.
a. Cairo Radio's report of a
mutiny in the Syrian Army has proven
baseless--undoubtedly an attempt to
unnerve the government in Damascus.
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NOTES
A. Iraq-US The Iraqi foreign minister has asked if
the US might be willing to supply large helicopters
for troop-transport use. He made it clear that he
had in mind the possible resumption of fighting with
the Kurds. Iraq, he said, had in an order with the
USSR for 12 such helicopters, but did not now expect
to get them.
C. USSR-US-Asia The Russians have indicated that they
will try to bring two topics to the fore in the meet-
ing of the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the
Far East, which opens in Manila today.
D. Congo-Belgium Spaak is speaking of a "new era" of
friendly cooperation between the Congo and Belgium
following Adoula's visit to Brussels. The Belgians
have indicated willingness to take part under the
UN in a military training and economic assistance
program for the Congo.
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F. USSR-Austria Austria's renewed show of interest
in associate membership in EEC has drawn a sharp
reminder from Moscow that it considers neutrality
and the EEC incompatible. The Austrians had been
lulled by a long Soviet silence into thinking they
would face no serious objections from Moscow.
H. Uruguay Communist plans call for a general strike
to get under way today.
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