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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 11 JANUARY 1963

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FOIA [1]
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President's Daily Brief 1961-1969 [2]
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0005996132
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T
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8
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September 16, 2015
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September 16, 2015
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January 11, 1963
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f! Eaa EMa EMa !Ma Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 11 JANUARY 1963 -TOP-SECREJ, Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 k!= =I =a =a 11= r-"I k- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 1. India 2. Indonesia a. Indonesian Communists are making strong bid for cabinet mem- bership. Party Chairman Aidit on Tuesday dropped an implied threat that continued exclusion from the government could lead to civil war. b. We read this statement as an attempt to play on Sukarno's pre- occupation with national "unity." Also, the Communists have probably heard that Sukarnois toying with plans for a cabinet re- shuffle soon. 50X1 Few Tk Prpciriant nniv?Trin cprrpt Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 50X1 r- I Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 3. Cuba 4. Yemen c. The Soviets are having trouble sticking to the schedule for their TU-114 turboprop Moscow-Murmansk- Havana air route. a. Yemeni leaders are telling US Charge Stookey that the UAR mili- tary presence is already being re- duced, with only 8,000 Egyptian troops remaining. b. Our information does not support this claim. For The President Only?Top Secret Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 L--2 E=1 IZZ [ZM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 5, Congo a. Tshombe was back in Elisa- bethville last night, subject only to the UN curfew. He was to return today to the UN column, which was thirty miles from Sakania last night, but we have.no recent word. b. Tshombe has sent instructions to Kolwezi forbidding further destruction there. He told the press UN entry into Kolwezi can be "negotiated." c. The press corps came away? from the interview feeling that Tshombe had learned little from re- cent experience and is busy trying to push things back as far as pos- sible toward the status quo ante. d. UN "probing and edging" operations toward Kolwezi are meet- ing with little resistance. For The President Only?Top Secret Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 1 50X1 50X1 50X1 1r1 r i- - -1r F- 1 r F-1 = i--?i F r-1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 6. India Pakistan a. In talking to our embassy about the next round of talks--sched- uled to open in New Delhi on Wednes- day--Indian officials are bearish on the prospects (as are the Paki- stanis). b. The Indians are very doubt- ful about the seriousness of Paki- stani intentions and fear the Paki- stanis will stall by propagandizing and reviewing history (the Paki- stanis probably would say the same about the Indians). c. They also say the US should impress on the Pakistanis the need for "realism," i.e., not to aim to achieve too much in the way of an agreement. Adding it all up, however, Galbraith concludes that, in the pro- cess of exploring ways for keeping the talks going, a little more "give" has entered the Indian position. Fnr Thp Prpcielpnt nnlv?Tnn Sprrpt Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 F=11 r--1 F-411 E=I Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 NOTES C. Jordan We hear that an officer group--disenchanted with thepresent policy on support for Yemeni royal- ists--is planning to assassinate King Husayn. The? regime 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 may be aware. 50X1 D. Chinese Nationalists Taipei is attempting to make a ? paper victory out of the recent Communist announcement that nine Nationalist guerrilla teams had been rolled up. ? Government spokesmen claim the nine were but a ? small part of an operation which has dealt the Commu- nists "serious blows," created "great unrest" and sent morale to an "unprecedented low." ? For The President Only?Top Secret Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 tiaMr F"'" F=A rt= F=I 1=1 F=r1 In=1 r===I F==1 t==1 It=j EZZI Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 E. USSR a new medium tank, the T-62, which may soon be going to Soviet units. It has a smooth-bore gun with an armor pene- tration capability far superior to that of the gun on the present medium tank, the T-55. H. East Germany For a week the East German army has been engaged in an extensive field exercise. Almost the northern half of East Germany has been barred to Allied liaison missions until midnight Sunday to keep them from watching it. The extent of the acti7ity, is un- usual tor thlS season, but we think the East Germans may only be trying to make up for training time they lost during the Cuban crisis. For The President Onlv?Too Secret Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 50X1 ouX1 50X1 50X1 50X1 tam Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST For The President Only?Top Secret Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A001300200001-0 50X1

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