THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 25 JULY 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995843
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 25, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
25 JULY 1962
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1. Soviet nuclear tests
2. Algeria
We are now beginning to see flight
? activity indicative of impending nuclear
tests in the Soviet Arctic. We expect
these tests to begin on or shortly after
5 August, after which Moscow has declared
that an area in the Barents and Kara Seas
will be hazardous to shipping and air-
craft (until 20 October). The wording of
the Soviet announcement is similar to that
used before beginning the 1961 Arctic test
series; the first shot in that series
occurred on the first day of the announced
period. There may be tests elsewhere
earlier as in last ye r's series.
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Ben Bella has things all but sewed
up. Word has gone out for the 72-man
National Revolutionary Council to re-
assemble. It will almost certainly
approve the 7-member Ben Bella cabinet which
it endorsed in June before Ben Khedda and
his followers pulled out of the meeting.
Ben Khedda, facing facts, has said that
when this is done he will relinquish
authority to Ben Bella's group. Ben
Bella and entourage have, meanwhile, set
off on a triumphal cross-country tour.
His spokesmen are letting it be known that
national elections which had been set for
early next month will be postponed for
some time until "things get organized."
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3. Indonesia
4. Angola-Portugal
a. Sukarno has worked himself into
a position where he must make some
spectacular announcement concerning West
New Guinea in his National Day (17 August)
harangue. Should the talks fail to provide
him with something that will enable him to
say the Dutch have agreed to turn over
administration of the area by 1 January,
he will probably feel impelled to announce
that Indonesian troops have landed in
force. Preparations for the latter con-
tingency continue apace.
b. Mikoyan, who returned to Moscow
three days early, evidently got pretty
short shrift from the preoccupied
Indonesians.
?a. Portuguese aerseas minister
Moreira may quickly lose his resolve for
reform in Africa. The prospect of change
has got his governor general in Angola in
hot water with entrenched business inter-
ests. The conservatives argue that reforms
can only follow eradication of the nation-
alist guerrillas.
b. The Communist influenced faction
of this movement has been given a major
boost (at the expense of Holden Roberto's
rival organization) by the recent escape
from Portugal of its honorary president,
Agostinko Neto, widely revered symbol of
Angolan nationalism.
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5. Congo
U Thant has returned from his European
trip talking of getting the UN out of the
Congo by January, when funds for the opera-
tion will run out. He professes to be
unhappy at UN interference in Congolese
internal affairs, but we think his real
motive is a new-found conviction that he
would get no support in Europe for a
military solution. We suspect he will
shortly throw responsibility ?to the
Security Council by asking it for a new
mandate.
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NOTES
A. Soviet, Chinese and North Vietnamese propaganda plays up the
Laos agreement as a demonstration of the value of negotiation,
but both Peiping and Hanoi go beyond the Soviet line to argue,
specifically with reference to South Vietnam, that further ?
military pressure will be necessary before any peaceful consul-
tations are productive.
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B. Considering the participants involved, it is no surprise that 50X1
matters between India and China were not improved by discussion
of them at Geneva between Menon and Chen Yi.
the Indians were set back on their heels by Chen's tough 50X1
talk.
C. The West German aid effort in India is going sour and is being
pointed at by influential West Germans as a good example of why
foreign aid generally is a bad idea.
D. Something besides talk of food shortages and more work will have
to highlight tomorrow's ninth anniversary of Castro's revolt
against Batista if the occasion is to be any less dismal than
May Day. Turning the spotlight on Guantanamo is one possibility.
E. Ambassador Galbraith reports his suspicion that the MIG deal
is going forward.
F. We expect the Communists in Peru will exploit the advantage
they gained out of Monday's general strike failure by trying
to wrest control of organized labor from Haya's followers.
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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