THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 17 MAY 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992341
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 17, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
17 MAY 1962
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1. Laos
a. There has been no significant
change in the military situation during
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b. About 600 Laotian army troops 50)(1
have returned to Ban Houei Sai from
Thailand and patrols ranging some 20
miles northeast of the town made no
contact with enemy forces.
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Nationalist leaders made no QUA]
irm commitments to Phoumi, and intended
to go no further than to issue a strong
statement of political support and to
offer a "reasonable amount" of rice,
sugar and cloth. With Phoumi, however,
a little encouragement can go a long
way in feeding his prejudice against
a coalition government under Souvanna.
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2. Algeria
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f. Nothing Moscow or Peiping has
said makes us think the Communists
are contemplating an early major of-
fensive in Laos or that they take
seriously the possibility of US mili-
tary intervention there.
a. The gloves are coming off in
so far as police treatment of the Euro-
pean population is concerned. At a
stormy press conference in Algiers
yesterday, French High Commissioner
Fouchet forcefully indicated his
determination to crack down on any
European connected with the OAS, no
matter how tenuous the relationship
might be.
b. Meanwhile, our Consul General,
anticipating that the next three months
will be a particularly critical period,
has ordered the unobtrusive evacuation
of American dependents.
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3. Sino-Japanese trade
relations
4. Indonesia-Netherlands
negotiations
We have recently picked up two
Japanese broadcasts saying that the
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government has decided to permit the
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chines and "complex .equipment" to Com-
munist China under a five-year deferred
payments plan. Tokyo business circles,
the radios said, happily anticipate
that trade between the two countries
will jump this year from almost
nothing to something like $80 million.
We are awaiting official confirmation
of such a decision, but are inclined
to think it has been made.
Jones has an appointment with
Sukarno tomorrow and will urge that
Indonesia return to the conference
table. The position Luns took with
Ambassador Rice yesterday will not
make it easy for him to persuade
Sukarno that the Dutch have changed
their attitude.
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5. France
6. Canada
De Gaulle, unphased by the
resignation of the Catholic Party
members of his cabinet, left Paris
yesterday afternoon without further
ado on a provincial stumping tour.
Parliamentary reaction will be in
low key for fear of provoking De Gaulle
into calling national elections at
this time. However, the resignations
point up the strength of opposition
to De Gaulle's foot-dragging on Euro-
pean unity and as the Algerian issue
fades into the background this issue
is likely to be debated with con-
siderable heat.
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Diefenbaker has virtually committeu
the Conservative Party not to accept
nuclear Weapons. His position is flow
almost indistinguishable from that of
the Liberal Party and campaign oratory
and public passions on this subject
may thus diminish. If Diefenbaker
wins the election, however, it will
now be harder for him to justify
entering into serious negotiations
with the US on the positioning of US
nuclear warheads in Canada.
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WATCH COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS--16 MAY 1962
On the basis of findings by its Watch Committee, the United
States Intelligence Board concludes that:
No Sino-Soviet bloc country intends to initiate direct military
action in the immediate future.
Laos: The apparent slowness of the Communists to exploit the
capture of Nam Tha militarily suggests that they do not intend at
this point to initiate a general military offensive to take over
all of Laos. The enemy retains the capability, however, to initiate
and carry out successfully offensive operations with little or no
warning at virtually any point in Laos. No Chinese Communist or
North Vietnam military reaction to recent US military movements
has been detected.
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NOTES
A. Panama's President Chiari
answer, like
the letter he wrote last September, will address itself mainly
to the need fnr early nep.ntiatinns for anew Canal Zone agreement.
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C. Tshombe is due in Leopoldville tomorrow for a new round of
negotiations. UN officials are mildly optimistic of their
outcome, but have taken steps to insure that military reen-
forcements will be quickly available for movement to eopold-
ville in case of an emergency.
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India
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, to work out the final details of an agreement ?for the purchase
of MIG-21s,
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instructors will be following close on the heels of the Soviet
arms now being delivered in Morocco, the king's repeated
assurances to the contrary notwithstanding.
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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