THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 25 JUNE 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992393
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 25, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
25 JUNE 1962
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1. Communist China
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a. The military buildup in the
Taiwan Strait area seems to have been
completed, at least for the time being.
The Communists are apparently now in
the process of positioning their forces
in the area, but the pattern of deploy-
ment is not yet clear. There are fresh
indications that civilians are being
evacuated from the coastal area around
Amoy and suggestions that similar
activity is going on at Changsha, an
air base 400 miles to the northwest.
b. Peiping's propaganda over the
weekend hammered away on the theme that
a US-supported Nationalist invasion is
at hand, and called on its people to
meet force with force. Its ambassador
in Warsaw took a similar line with
Ambassador Cabot on Saturday.
The Chinese
are trying hard to give the impression
that their concentration in Fukien
is simply a reaction to the threat
of impending major Nationalist opera-
tions; we are not willing to accept
this as the whole story,
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c. Moscow yesterday finally spoke
out on developments in the Taiwan Straits
by publishing a strictly no-comment TASS
report repeating Peiping's charges against
Taipei and the US.
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2. Laos
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a. Souvanna departed forj'rance
yesterday, and SouphannouvOng, who is
to be in charge of the government during
the interim, has taken off for the Plaine
des Jarres
Thus, pending a final settle-
ment at Geneva, the picture in Laos is
likely to look pretty much the way it
did before the new government was created.
b. We are skeptical that the Pathet
Lao will honor the countrywide cease
?fire proclaimed yesterday by the new
government. We believe they will con-
tinue ?to conduct "mopping up" operations
in areas they dominate
c. Yesterday's statement by the
Pathet Lao Minister of Information
protesting the deployment of US troops
in Thailand as a threat to Laotian
neutrality lends credence to the thought,
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that
the Communists are planning to demand
the withdrawal of these forces as a
condition for a final settlement at
Geneva.
d. Ambassador Brown did not get
very far on Saturday when be pressed Sou-
vanna for a decision to release American
prisoners held by his side. Souphannouvong,
it seems, is the man to see.
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3. Indonesia-Netherlands
4. Congo
Prospects for an early resumption
of negotiations over West New Guinea have
probably been set back by Sukarno's
brush-off on Saturday of U Thant's as-
surances that the Dutch have accepted
the Bunker proposal in principle, and
by his renewed insistence that The
Hague publicly declare its willingness
to turn over the disputed territory
to Indonesia. Nor was yesterday's air-
drop on the south coast of West New
Guinea calculated to help matters.
Under these circumstances, we cannot
help but entertain suspicions that
Sukarno is determined to get in a
good lick against the Dutch before
returning to the conference table.
A Tshombe-Adoula communiqu?s
supposed to come out today or tomor-
row announcing agreement on procedures
for ending Katanga's secession. Old
Congo hands, however, want to see it
before they believe it. Moreover,
they (and we) are dubious that Tshomb4--
once he gets back to Elisabethville--
will implement in good faith any
agreement that may result from the
current talks.
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5. USSR-UAR
Cairo received an unpleasant
jolt last week when Moscow flatly
turned down its request for an addi-
tional large economic development
loan.
be watching for reactions to this
among the other non-aligned states.
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NOTES
A. We note buried deep in accounts of Nehru's bitter speech in
Parliament on Saturday, a statement that he personally felt that
money would be better spent on unmanned missiles than on aircraft
that would become obsolete in "three or four years." We suggest
that it is barely possible that Nehru sees in this argument
a plausible excuse for backing away from the MIG deal without
incurring a loss of face.
B. In Turkey, the stage seems to be set for an announcement today.
that Inonu has succeeded in pulling together a new coalition
government after five weeks of bargaining.
C. Belgrade is sending an economic delegation to Moscow next month
with a mandate "to discuss further expansion of economic co-
operation."
D. There were several explosions in Algiers this morning, raising
fears that the tenuous OAS-Moslem truce there has again broken
down.
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