THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 19 JULY 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995813
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 19, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
19 JULY 1962
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1. Peru
a. Civilian elements of all
persuasions are now working on plans
for a general strike in reaction to
the military coup, but we see little
chance that they can pry the military
loose.
b. The junta has announced that
there will be no new elections until
next June.
c. Venezuela is taking the lead
In calling for an OAS foreign ministers'
meeting on the situation. So far,
Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, and
the Dominican Republic, in addition
to the US, have suspended relations
with Peru.
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2. Nationalist China
3. Indonesia
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Taipei is virtually convinced that
one reason for the Chinese Communists
buildup in the Taiwan Strait was to
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put off stride by Peiping's moves and
are not sure where they go next. Al-
though there is no good indication of
a shift in operational planning, there
are definite signs of a lull in prepara-
tions for military action against the
mainland.
a. Subandrio may stick-to his promise
to Ambassador Jones not to confront
the Dutch with an "ultimatum" calling for
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in West New Guinea, but this may tire:
out to be a semantic distinction.
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later gave Subandrio orders to press
hard on this point and to break off
the talks in a week unless he gets
satisfaction.
b. Meanwhile, it has been an-
nounced that the Indonesians will
play host soon to Mikoyan. He is due
in Djakarta on Friday at the head of a
team of top foreign office and economic
specialists. We assume that he will
arrive with some economic enticements
for the Indonesians, already way behind
in their payments for military equipment,
if he gets the right assurances from
them on the direction of their foreign
policy.
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4. Congo
a. UN Congo chief Gardiner flew
into Elisabethville late yesterday
for a direct confrontation with Tshombe
over the previous day's UN-Katangan
clashes, but at last word was getting
the run-around from Tshombe. No
further shooting incidents have been
reported from Elisabethville, but the
UN was planning to bolster its garrison
by 400-500 men yesterday.
b. Ghana, for one, is reacting
warily to the request for arms assist-
ance put out to the Casablanca powers
by Foreign Minister Bomboko aefor?
he left New York.
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c. BoMboko has returned directly
to Leopoldville, foregoing his arms
seeking ,tour because, of the uncertain
political situation at home.
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5 Cuba
a. Raul Castro is back in
Havana after two weeks in Moscow,
where we believe he was seeking more
and better military equipment. The
red carpeti was out for him when he
arrived in Moscow, but he left u -
heralded, a pretty good sign that
the visit was unproductive.
b. In Costa Rica, meanwhile, a
group of Cuban exiles have a B-26 bomber,
smuggled out of the US and fitted out
with a supply of bombs from Guatemala,
and are talking in seeming earnest
about a raid on Havana. They have
selected an oil refinery and an electric
power plant as targets.
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WATCH COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS-18 July 1962
No Sino-Soviet Bloc country intends to initiate direct military
action in the immediate future.
We see no indications that the Chinese Communists intend to
launch an assault against the major Offshore Islands in the immediate
future.
The Viet Cong are improving their capabilities and stepping up
their preparations for an increased military effort.
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NOTES
A. The Shah has asked Asadollah Alam, very much the Shah s own
man, to try to form a new Iranian government.
C. The Albanians, who
Moscow for several
affairs unsettling
contain himself no
on Khrushchev for
pressure tactics.
have been getting the silent treatment from
months, seen' to be finding this state of
Earlier this week,- Premier Shehu could'
longer and launched, A new and biting. attack
bullying Albania with political and economic
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