THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 27 JULY 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995847
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 27, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
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1. West New Guinea
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2. South Vietnam
a. There is not much time left
to reach a neacefu1 settlement?
a military
move is virtually certain if Subandrio
comes home without Dutch agreement to
turn over West New Guinea by the end
of the year. Ambassador Jones believes
the Indonesians are, in fact, wound-up
and ready to cut loose with a Sunday
punch within a matter of days once they
conclude they are not likely to get
their way at the conference table.
b. Dutch intentions may be clari-
fied tomorrow when the government briefs
the parliamentary committees on defense
and foreign affairs on the West New
Guinea situation.
By putting various bits and pieces
of evidence together, we have been able
to come up with a picture showing the
Viet Cong military machine in the proc-
ess of raising its field formations from
the battalion level to the regimental.
The process so far does not appear to
have gone beyond the formation of staffs
and the tightening of operational coordi-
nation over independent battalions. How-
ever, the pattern we now see is the same
as that which preceded the formation of
regimental-size units in the Viet Minh
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3. Communist China
4. EEC Developments
a. The high level of communica-
tions between military headquarters in
Peiping and the Sinkiang Military Region
to the west, regarded as unusual when
first detected earlier this month, now
seems to be the normal routine. It is
pretty. certain that this activity is re-
lated to the shadow-boxing with the In-
dians in Ladakh, but so far still falls
short of indicating an intention to es-
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b. In the Taiwan strait area,
the Fukien coast was hit this week by
the year's first typhoon. Arriving well
ahead of schedule, it nonetheless ush-
ered in a period lasting until mid-
September, during which the weather will
discourage the launching of major am-
phibious military operations.
Austria and Sweden, who want to be
in the Common Market but are unwilling
to accept the supranational controls
that go with full membership, plead their
case today to become associate members.
They have been promised a full hearing,
but their papers will languish in the
pending file until Britain's membership
in the organization is resolved. The
current round of talks in Brussels on
this issue took an important step for-
ward yesterday when the British agreed
to use as a basis for negotiations the
EEC draft on the issue of Commonwealth
exports of temperate zone agricultural
products.
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5. Congo
Adoula's government, feeling badly
in need of a morale booster, may be
getting ready for a desperation move
against Katanga in hopes of providing
some sort of "victory." Leopoldville
in recent days has been beefing up its
forces around Kabolo in north Katanga.
Tshombe's forces in this area are out,-
numbered, but we are still not sure
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that the Congolese have either the
starch or the skill to carry off a suc-
cessful operation.
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NOTES
A. Portugal has recognized the Peruvian junta; Argentina plans to
do the same next week, and Uruguay apparently is headed in the
same direction.
B
some Viet Minh troops in northern Laos have started moving
in the direction of the North Vietnam border.
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