THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 3 MAY 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992328
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 3, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
3 MAY 1962
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1. Sino-Indian border
dispute heating up
2. Americans in South
Vietnam
The Chinese Communists, in
character, have reacted sharply to
Indian Army attacks on their outposts
in northern Ladakh by charging ag-
gression and demanding that the Indians
withdraw. Peiping has also put Delhi
on notice that Chinese forces in
Ladakh had been ordered to "resume"
patrol activity, and that it is con-
templating similar action along the
entire frontier. Nehru yesterday had
already reacted strongly to a previous
Chinese note and public indignation
over the latest Chinese charges will
probably cause him to dig in his heels
with a vengeance. More--and bigger--
clashes between Indian and Chinese
forces are likely.
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a. Whatever their reasons for
releasing Sergeants Quinn and Groom,
the Viet Cong are making the most,
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Hanoi is saying that the two were
"pardoned" as an earnest of the "hu-
manitarian policy" of the Communist-
controlled South Vietnam liberation
front.
b. Recently captured documents
reveal that the Viet Cong have instructed
at least some of its people to pick
fights with Americans in order to "show
the world that US troops are actually
fighting in Vietnam."
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3. Algeria
4. Burmese Government
policy announced
Algerian leaders, their tempers
running dangerously close to the
breaking point, have officially put
responsibility directly on the French?
for the continuing OAS atrocities.
They appear to be making a last ditch
effort to keep the damper on the
outbreak of large-scale Moslem reprisals
as well as to head off demands that Al-
gerian forces take matters into their
own hands.
General Ne Win has unfolded a
rambling 28-point program billed as
a "Burmese way to Socialism." Al-
though chock-full of Communist-style
clich?promising state control of
practically everything in sight for
the good of the people, it actually
does not go beyond the goals already
set forth in the constitution and
subscribed to by all government leaders
since Burma became independent in
1948. Stripped of its gobbledygook,
Ne Win's program boils down to a
declaration advising the Burmese that
henceforth they will be living under
an authoritarian, narrowly national-
istic government of the army, by the
army--and perhaps primarily for the
army.
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5, Portugal
6, Nationalist China
a. A post-mortem of the I May
uprisings in Lisbon and Oporto bodes
ill for the future serenity of the
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the demonstrators were not only well
organized, but showed courage and
determination in facing up to the
no-holds-barred tactics used by
the police. They are thus likely
to come back another day for a re-
turn engagement--possibly on .8 May,
when more demonstrations are re-
portedly being planned for both
cities.
b. Growing jumpiness over Angola
is indicated by Lisbon's tendency to
accept at face value all sorts of wild
reports of outside interference, in-
cluding some alleging that UN forces
in the Congo are supplying the national-
with hnth men and material.
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Charg?lough spent more than an
hour yesterday urging Chinese National-
ist Vice President Ch'en Ch'eng to
reconsider his government's intentions
to raise and spend more money for
military purposes, but got nowhere.
Ch'en blandly minimized the amount
of money involved, asserted that "no
unnecessary" expenditures would be
made, and claimed that the new tax
measures had been carefully tailored
to avoid any damage to Taiwan's
economy He was also evasive on the
subject of coordinating military
planning with the US.
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7. Yugoslav-USSR relations
Their improvement is indicated
by Yugoslavia's recent acquisition of
Soviet military equipment (tanks and
helicopters), something that has not
happened since the big break. Bel-
grade officials have intimated that
they are in the Soviet market for
more hardware, but have sought to
assure us that they are motivated
entirely by economic reasons.
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NOTES
A. Pravda, noting the anniversary of the Laotian cease-fire (today),
carried an interview with Prince Souphannouvong which was almost
exclusively devoted to the old assertions that his side is as
clean as a hound's tooth, and that Laos would have long since
been happily reunited if it were not for the machinations of
those American-supported rascals in Vientiane.
The present deployment of aircraft associated with the Soviet
space program appears to point either to an imminent launching
from Tyuratam, or to an effort to recover one or more of the
three sections of Cosmos IV, which we know are still in orbit
D. The contest for the Italian presidency should be settled today.
At the moment, Foreign Minister Seni has the inside track.
LATE NOTE
Tshombe has temporarily postponed his trip to Leopoldville
in order to hold ?reliminary discussions with UN Representative
Gardiner.
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WATCH COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS--2 May 1962
On the basis of findings by its Watch Committee, the United
States Intelligence Board concludes that:
No Sino-Soviet Bloc country intends deliberately to initiate
direct military action in the immediate future.
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DOCUMENT OF INTEREST
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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