THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 29 MAY 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992351
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 29, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
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a. To show that they are in no
hurry for coalition talks, the King has
told Souvanna that 50X1
he would receive him next Monday. If
this usual Laotian pace continues,
little time will be left for anything
useful to be worked out before Souvanna's
15 June deadline. 50X1
b. Further details on Sunday's 50X1
action southwest of Nam Tha show that
although the enemy did not approach
Ban Houei Sal, the Royal garrison there
withdrew across the river and reinforce-
ments airlifted to the scene of action
to counterattack withdrew without a
fight. Evidently MAAG personnel were
the only ones to put up a fight. The
two US personnel last seen firing a
machine gun are still missing. There is
still no indication the enemy plans
to take Ban Houei Sal, although it clearly
would have no trouble doing so.
c. In the south, there has been no
change in the situation for the past
two weeks, with activity thus far confined
to the usual patrol clashes on the periphery.
of Saravane. Attopeu and Thafitek. In the
north, pro-Souvanna troops which had been
training on the Chinese side of the border
are virtual prisoners of the Chinese, who
meanwhile are stepping up their logistical
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2. USSR-African civil
air negotiations
3. Finland-USSR
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The Soviet-Sudanese civil air agree-
ment is hung up over Khartoum's refusal
to exclude employment of US crews on 50X1
flights to the USSR. Meanwhile, 5UX1
the UAR refused an urgent Soviet 50X1
request made last month for civil air
rights beyond Cairo.
Finland has been wanting to bring 50X1
its small defense establishment up to
snuff with guided missiles and modern
aircraft and will probably use its ruble
credit with the USSR to do so despite 50X1
an expected refusal from London to
modify 1947 peace treaty provisions
prohibiting Finnish possession of mis-
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Finns argue that at least token modern-
ization will make it possible for them
to decline a Soviet offer of "assist-
ance" in the event of an international
crisis.
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4. Communist China's
jet fighter strength
5. Mexican
We are revising downward our estimate
of Communist China's jet fighter capa-
bilities on the basis of a restudy
which lead us now to
believe that the Chinese Communists
may have fewer than 25 MIG-19s, rather
than the 85 previously estimated, and
perhaps no MIG-21s. Aircraft which
we had thought
to be MIG-21s are ap-
parently MIG-19s, and many of those
we had thought to be MIG-19s evidently
are lower-performance MIG-17s with in-
tercept radars of limited range.
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6. Soviets back away from
war propaganda declara-
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Zorin attempted to justify Moscow's
about-face at today's disarmament talks
in Geneva on the grounds that events
in recent days have worsened tensions
in the world, citing West Germany, Laos, 50X1
and South Vietnam as examples. We
consider his return to an earlier Soviet
demand that governments signing the
declaration adopt legislation outlawing
war propaganda to be in line with
Khrushchev's statement to Salinger
that the USSR must maintain a hard
line during the present period of US
testing and forthcoming Soviet counter-
testing.
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NOTES
A.
Another research ship is
test area in the Pacific.
now en route
to our nuclear
B.
Castro is no longer permitting
visits to
the "invasion" prisoners.
and has suspended deliveries of food and medicines sent by the
Families Committee. This is apparently an attempt to get the
committee to pay the $2,600,000 for the first 60 prisoners re-
leased in April.
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the industrial slump in China.
it was clear that eve' at shnwniare enterprises,
production was "at a very low -ebb."
D. The Italian's got nowhere last week endwhen they tried to Sell De
Gaulle on the Spaak-Fanfani comoromign formula for European political
integration. 50X1
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E. Another West African state, this time Dahomey, has trooped to Moscow
in pursuit of military equipment. Official word is the French are
being stingy, but there is also growing sensitivity to charges
that the government is too pro-Western. 50X1
F. Contrary to a number of indications we have been receiving that
the Portuguese were going to take a tough line on the Azores base
negotiations, the Portuguese Army Chief of Staff has told General
Norstad that he anticipated no particular difficulties.
G. Late press reports from Manila say that at a luncheon to ay
Macapagal voiced strong support for Phoumi and was sharply
critical of US Laotian policy.
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DOCUMENT OF INTEREST
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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