THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 6 JUNE 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992361
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 6, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
6 JUNE 1962
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1. Algeria
2. Congo
3. Soviet Bloc
conclave
The OAS may finally be running
out of steam. It has extended its
"truce" until midnight tomorrow and is
bound to be affected by a final dramatic
appeal from Gen. Jouhaud calling on it
to give up the fight. Jouhaud was to
have been put to death last night; we
have no word yet as to whether De
Gaulle succumbed to the strong pressures
on him to commute the sentence to life
imprisonment.
The Tshombe-Adoula talks continue--
in a desultory way--with a few procedural
questions agreed, but nothing substantive.
Adoula has spoken favorably of Tshombe
for the first time, but is convinced
he will not sign a meaningful final
communiqu?An important form of
pressure on Tshombe to do so went by
the boards last week when Union Minibre
decided to raise dividends, to resume
payments to the Katangan Government,
and not to make any payments in escrow
or otherwise to the central government.
Tirana has issued an official
statement complaining ?that Albania was
not invited to the top-drawer Bloc
economic council meeting which got
underway today in Moscow. China,
North Korea and North Vietnam have
apparently not sent observers, as
they have normally done in the past.
Delegations from Eastern Europe are
heavily larded with top economic plan-
ning and foreign trade officials.
There are no defense or foreign affairs
personnel present.
For The President Only?Too Secret
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4. Mao Tse-tung
We have been watching for some
time signs of Mao Tse-tung's declining
energies and competence. He has not
yet assumed the sinecure position of
"honorary chairman" of the party
created for him in 1956; he probably
feels that to do so at the present
low point in his party's fortunes
would entail too serious a loss of
face. Nevertheless his own references
to weakening powers, his generally
unimpressive (and increasingly rare
public performances
/suggest that for
practical purposes the 68-year-old
leader is already out of the picture.
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NOTES
A. The three princes meeting gets under way tomorrow with fair
prospects for agreement on several major issues. Phoumi may
prove tractable at the outset hoping Souphannouvong will snarl
things up.
B. The French National Assembly today defeated by a wide margin a
motion to censure the Pompidou government for its Algerian policy.
It was promoted by rightwing and Algerian deputies who had hoped
for support from those dissatisfied with De Gaulle's European
pOlicies.
C. Heavy publicity being given recent incidents between South Koreans
and US troops has whipped up popular feeling against the US and
has resulted in new pressure from Seoul for early negotiations on
a status of forces agreement.
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E. A gastroenteritis epidemic in Honduras, apparently from con-
taminated milk, has already claimed the lives of over 65 children
and threatens to reach even more disastrous proportions. Am-
bassador Burrows has asked for urgent US Navy and AID assistance.
F. Our embassy in Moscow reports that the Soviet government has now
-made teletype lines available on a rental basis to all Western
news agencies having Moscow bureaus. Soviet telecommunications
officials, meanwhile, have hinted that Moscow would welcome dis-
cussions with us in diplomatic channels concerning VOA broadcasts
and the problem of Soviet jamming.
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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