THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 7 NOVEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996651
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 7, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
7 NOVEMBER 1963
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1,, South Vietnam
a. The generals have formed a
12-man Military Executive Committee
headed by General Minh to control
Premier Tho's provisional government.
b. They have also created a
"council of sages" from nationalist
and professional groups to advise
on the rights of citizens and the
transition to permanent government.
c. There are already complaints
from some Vietnamese political ele-
ments that the government is too tech-
nical, not representative, lacking
in political acumen ,and not able to
hold popular support for very long.
d. The generals, aware of their
own internal divisions, have formed
a small group amongst themselves to
take the collective pulse from time
to time to lessen friction and avoid
splits.
e. Diem appointees, particularly
in the police and intelligence ser-
vices, are still being sacked. The
new police director, General Mai Huu
Xuan, is hiring old associates in the
intelligence business, most of whom
once worked with the French.
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2. USSR
f. Halberstam's blow by blow
account of the coup in yesterday's
New York Times appears to be substan-
TrilTY?Forrect. We still do not
have confirmed details on how General
Ton That Dinh was brought into the
coup but Halberstam's account appears
plausible. It also serves to rein-
force the idea that Dinh will have
to be watched closely.
a. Guy Mollet left Moscow for
home highly impressed by Khrushchev;
he told the French minister he would
never again voice the criticisms of
the Soviet leader which he leveled
at the time of the Hungarian revolt.
b. Mollet came away from his
two sessions with the Soviet leaders
(one, eight and one half hours, the
other, two hours) convinced that
Khrushchev's personal power position
is absolutely solid. He felt that
others on the presidium are "small
boys responding to the master"; he
sees Podgorny not Brezhnev as the
"head boy."
c. Khrushchev, says Mollet, is
now a genuine world statesman, dedi-
cated to the cause of peace. Peaceful
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3. USSR
coexistance and detente are not just
slogans or tactical devices but are
seen by Khrushchev as imperatives of
international life in the nuclear
age.
d. Khrushchev made this impact
on Mallet without saying anything
new on specific issues and in spite
of a flat turn-down of Mallet's pet
scheme for channeling aid to under-
developed countries through inter-
national organizations.
a. A West German correspondent
in Moscow, considered reliable by his
embassy, reports
that strikes occurred
last week in the Ukrainian cities of
Krivoi Rog and Odessa.
b. At Krivoi Rog (about 160
miles northeast of Odessa) workers
sat down by their machines and re-
fused to work because of the bread
shortage. They demanded more wages
to offset their inability to buy
bread.
c. In Odessa dockworkers re-
fused to load butter for Cuba.
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4. USSR-Cuba
d, neither
police nor soldiers were used in
either case, did not know if
or how the strikes were settled.
a. We suspect that the remain-
ing Soviet military forces in Cuba
now have the status of a military
aid mission'
c. Prensa Latina, the Cuban
news agency,reports that New York
Timesman Herbert Matthews, who ar-
rived in Cuba late last month, has
been touring Oriente Province with
the director of the National Insti-
tute for Hydraulic Resources.
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5. Laos
a.
the Commu-
nists plan clearing actions
on two fronts: the first
across the northern edge of the Plaine
des Jarres through Muong Soui and
along Route 7 to Phou Khoum; the
second from Xieng Khouang Ville to
Tha Thom.
b. The Pathet Lao have recently
stepped up their efforts to assure
the security of Route 7,their major
supply artery.
c. They have captured several
key Meo positions along this road
east of the Plaine des Jarres and
have others under pressure.
d.
these moves will be designed to link
up with isolated Communist forces
near the junction of routes 7 and 13.
6. Indonesia a.
First Minister Djuanda died
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b. Delay on the appointment
of a successor to Djuanda could re-
sult in some jockeying for position
7. Communist a. De Gaulle has told Ambas-
China - France sador Bohlen in response to a direct
question that he has no intention
of setting up diplomatic relations
with Peiping "at this time."
b. He went on to say, however,
that "sooner or later" some relation-
ship would have to be worked out
with Communist China. He added that
if ever the time came when the French
were contemplating recognition the
US would certainly be informed in
advance.
c. Ambassador Bohlen comments
that De Gaulle seems to accept recog-
nition at some future date as in-
evitable, but it is Bohlen's impres-
sion that this event is quite far
in the future.
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8. Rumania-
Yugoslavia
a. The Yugoslays report that
Rumania party boss Gheorghiu-Dej
will pay them a visit within the
next ten days.
b. The rumor in Belgrade is
that he will sign an agreement on
joint Rumanian-Yugoslav construction
of a power and navigation project on
the Danube.
c. Rumania has heretofore been
the most reluctant of the Soviet
bloc states to improve relations with
Yugoslavia though it has loosened up
in other departments.
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9, East Germany - a. Walter Ulbricht's absence
Ulbricht last week from the party central
committee plenum for the first time
in many years points up the fact
that the 70-year-old leader is show-
ing signs of physical strain.
b. Last February he cancelled
an appearance at a civic celebration
and was out of public view for three
weeks. He later had a month's vaca-
tion in April-May and another month
in July-August.
10. Venezuela
c. The party plenum seems to
have been run by Politburo stalwart
Erich Honecker;
d. This would lead to the con-
clusion that Ulbricht's day-to-day
personal direction of East German
affairs is no longer quite as essen-
tial in maintaining party unity and
internal security as it once was.
a. The sabotage of the Creole
Petroleum Company's pipeline last
Monday is the eighth time in 18
months that this has happened.
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INCIDENTS
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b. President Betancourt's de-
cision in early October to augment
police forces with army units has
succeeded in reducing terrorism in
Caracas but has been less effective
in the outlying areas.
c. The attached chart records
the number of incidents in October.
We look for even more this month as
the date for presidential elections
approaches.
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NOTES
A. Rumania A Rumanian news agency official has pressed
visiting Washington Post European Correspondent
Walter Estabrook to Tgliblish a permanent news office
in Bucharest. Estabrook told legation officials
that the Post had been negotiating with the Soviet
Government for some time on opening an office in
Moscow. He said that if these talks continued to
drag on he would recommend that his paper open a
bureau in Bucharest.
B.
Dominican Republic
The pro-Castro 14 of June Political
Group (APCJ) intends to raise the flag of armed in-
surrection
While Dominican
military leaders are alert to possible APCJ moves,
we cannot dismiss the possibility that something
may get started.
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