THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 22 AUGUST 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996517
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 22, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
22 AUGUST 1963
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1. South Vietnam
a. South Vietnam is outwardly
calm this morning with the army m in-
taining a tight security lid under
the martial law decree.
b. The authorities are seek-
ing to justify the crackdown on the
grounds that government troops were
beginning to be disaffected by the
Buddhist campaign. They also argue
the Viet Cong had penetrated the
Buddhist movement.
c. The well-coordinated moves
by the military throughout the
country showed good prior planning.
US officials have been told that
Diem ordered the action at the re-
quest of a group of generals.
d. Present relationships among
Diem, the generals, and Nhu are not
clear. Statements being broadcast
in the name of the military have a
strong Nhu flavor, and Nhu is known
to? have harangued the generals on
the need for firm government action.
Some of the generals could be work-
ing with him.
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2. UN-Yemen
e. The martial law commander,
Major General Tran Van Don, says
everything possible is being done
to keep a maximum number of troops
fighting the Viet Cong. The US
Military Attach 6 feels, however,
that operations will be affected by
the diversion of troofs to maintain?
ing martial law.
f. A late, unconfirmed press
report says that Tran Van Chuong,
South Vietnam's ambassador to the
US, Madame Nhu's father and a strong
critic of Diem and the Nhu's, has
been relieved of his post.
a. U Thant is rather gloomy
over the outlook for the UN obser-
vation mission in Yemen.
b. The Secretary General is
extremely sensitive about the resig-
nation of the unstable Von Horn and
his threat "to blow the lid off the
whole operation." Indian General
Rikhye who has just returned from
the Congo is to take over at least
temporarily in Yemen.
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3. Malaysia
c. Although the Saudis have
agreed to pay half of an additional
two months of the UN operation the
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UAR has not replied to the Secretary
General's request. U Thant may rec-
ommend that the Security Council
withdraw the mission if Cairo doesn t
ante up.
d, He expects in his forthcom-
ing report to the Council to criticize
both sides--the Saudis for their con-
tinued aid to the royalists; the UAR
for its laggardly withdrawal and its
bombing of Saudi villages.
ao Indonesia has stepped up
paramilitary operations in northern
Borneo,
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c. Ambassador Jones has been
instructed to register with Sukarno
our very strong disapproval of these
tactics.
d. Meanwhile, the Indonesians
are stymying the UN opinion survey,
which was to get underway today.
Djakarta wants a larger number of
observers with a broader role than
the UK or the UN envisages. The
Philippines have been persuaded to
go along with the Indonesians on
this.
e. .0 Thant is threatening to
pull the UN team out if the bicker-
ing on procedure does not stop.
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4. France
5. Haiti.
a. Duvalier is urgently seek-
ing military equipment to replace
the many items which proved unserv-
iceable in the recent fighting.
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d. There were earlier stories
of Haitian attempts to buy military
equipment from France. The French
foreign office has denied knowledge
of such an attempt.
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NOTES
A. Bolivia President Paz asked yesterday for the res-
ignation of his entire cabinet. His objective was
probably to shield certain cabinet officials from
congressional hectoring, but he may use the opportu-
nity to replace several ministers who have given his
government less than wholehearted support in the con-
troversy with the tin miners. A new cabinet is ex-
pected soon.
B. Colombia The plans of a group of Communist-inspired
Labor leaders to foment a nation-wide strike next
week could come a cropper. The general public, dis-
gruntled with the influence of the Communists in the
petroleum industry, has supported the strong line
taken by the government to counter their activities.
Co
D. Syria-Israel The border was quiet yesterday and
some of the heat appeared to be going out of the
dispute as both sides asked the Security Council to
consider the problem.1--
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E. Jordan-USSR Jordan yesterday agreed to establish
diplomatic relations with the USSR. King Husayn
has been envious of Nasir's success in getting aid
from both the US and the USSR and--though he denies
it to us--he probably has visions of emulating the
Egyptian. The king told Charge Lewis that Jordan
would remain staunchly anti-Communist but perhaps
this move would help answer charges that his country
is a western puppet.
F. Cuba Cubana plans by mid-September to pick up the
last of the three IL-18s it bought from the Soviets
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