THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 4 AUGUST 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995861
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 4, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST---4 AUGUST 1962
1. NETHERLANDS-INDONESIA
A, SUKARNO HAS PUT HIS OK ON THE MIDDLEBURG AGREEMENT.
IN PASSING THE WORD TO JONES IN DJAKARTA YESTERDAY SUBANDRIO
WAS SPILLING OVER WITH ELATION AND HIGH PRAISE FOR EVERYONE
CONCERNED. HE LABELED THE OUTCOME AN OUTSTANDING DIPLOMATIC
VICTORY FOR THE US AS WELL AS FOR INDONESIA, WITH MUCH CREDIT
ALSO DUE BUNKER AND THE UN FOR THEIR ROLES. WHEN EXPRESSING
APPRECIATION FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S SUPPORT, HE OBSERVED
JOCULARLY THAT IN ALL HIS CAREER HE HAD ONLY BEEN "THREATENED"
TWICE, ONCE BY MAO AND CHOU EN LAI IN PEIPING, ONCE BY PRESI-
DENT KENNEDY IN WASHINGTON.
B. DUTCH ACCEPTANCE OF THE AGREEMENT IS ALL BUT ASSURED,
VAN ROIJEN WAS SCHEDULED TO REPORT TO THE CABINET IN THE HAGUE
YESTERDAY, AND CABINET MEMBERS WERE IN TURN TO GO BEFORE THE
RELEVANT COMMITTEES OF THE DUTCH PARLIAMENT TODAY, A MEETING
OF THE FULL PARLIAMENT WOULD THEN PROBABLY FOLLOW.
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2. DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
THE BRITISH AT GENEVA YESTERDAY REGISTERED DEEP CHAGRIN
AT WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE NEW US POSITION ON A TEST
BAN, AND DELEGATE GODBER4AS GETTING READY TO FLY TO LONDON
FOR A TRY AT PERSUADING MACMILLAN TO INTERCEDE WITH PRESIDENT
KENNEDY, THEY UNDERSTAND FROM WHAT THE BRITISH EMBASSY HERE
HAS TOLD THEM- THAT THE US WANTS A MINIMUM OF ONE FOREIGNER
PER 8-HOUR SHIFT AT=CONTROL.POSTS IN THE USSR, WHICH WOULD,
THEY CONTEND, VITIATE THE POLITICAL VALUE OF THE WEST'S ACCEPT-
ANCE OF THE "NATIONAL STATIONS" CONCEPT,
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3, VIETNAM
THERE IS GATHERING EVIDENCE THAT NORTH VIETNAMESE ELEMENTS
ARE MOVING INTO SOUTH VIETNAM BY WAY OF LAOS AND CAMBODIA AT
AN INCREASING RATE. WE HAVE RECEIVED A NUMBER OF REPORTS ON
THE SIGHTING OF WELL-EQUIPPED COMMUNIST UNITS IN THE NEIGHBOR-
HOOD OF THE SOUTH VIETNAM - LAOS BORDER--REPORTS WHICH LOOK
FAIRLY GOOD AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF SIMILAR INDICATIONS
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HAVE A VIET CONG CAPTIVE, TAKEN LAST MONTH, WHO SAYS HE ENTERED
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4. ups
THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS TOUCHED OFF AN HOURS-LONG DIPLO-
MATIC FRACAS IN VIENTIANE YESTERDAY BY TRYING TO OUTFACE THE
NATIONALIST AMBASSADOR AT AIRPORT CEREMONIES FOR THE RETURNING
SOUVANNA PHOUMA. JUST AS SOUVANNA REACHED THE ALREADY-ACCREDITED
NATIONALIST ENVOY IN THE RECEIVING LINE, TWO CHINESE COMMUNIST
REPRESENTATIVES BROKE THROUGH THE LINE, GRABBED SOUYANNAIS
HAND, AND DECLARED THAT THEY STOOD FOR BOTH THE LEGAL GOVERNMENT
OF CHINA AND THE THOUSANDS OF CHINESE IN LAOS, BOTH SOUVANNA
AND THE NATIONALIST STAYED UNRUFFLED AND PICKED UP THE PROTOCOL
THREAD FROM THERE, THERE WAS MORE FUSS AFTER THE CEREMONY WHEN
A ROYAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL HELD UP THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS FOR
TWO HOURS ARGUING OVER WHETHER THEY HAD A RIGHT TO HAVE NATIONAL
FLAGS ON THEIR AUTOMOBILES,
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B. THE SOUVANNA GOVERNMENT STILL INTENDS TO SERVE THE
PRINCIPLE OF NEUTRALITY BY RECOGNIZING THE COMMUNISTS AS WELL,
AS THE NATIONALISTS, AND THERE IS NO TELLING NOW WHETHER
EITHER WILL BE ABLE TO SWALLOW THE "TWO-CHINA'S" PILL.
5. WEST GERMANY
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DEFENSE MINISTER STRAUSS HAS TOLD OM CHARGE DI BONN (AND
ADENAUER HAS ECHOED MUCH THE SAME SENTIMENTS TO GENERAL
EISENHOWER) THAT HE IS SATISFIED THAT WHAT GENERAL TAYLOR
WROTE IN HIS BOOK DOES NOT IMPLY ANY' UNWILLINGNESS ON THE PART
OF THE US TO USE THE NATO DETERRENT IN CASE OF ATTACK AGAINST
ITS EUROPEAN ALLIES. HE IS CONCERNED, HOWEVER, THAT MOSCOW
MAY GET THE IDEA THAT THE US IS REDUCING ITS RELIANCE ON THE
NUCLEAR DETERRENT, THUS WEAKENING ITS CREDIBILITY.
6. NOTES
, A. THERE ARE FURTHER HINTS FROM MOSCOW THAT KHRUSHCHEV
INTENDS TO BE ON HAND FOR THIS FALL'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION.
A RUMOR THAT HE MAY AGAIN TRY TO
MANEUVER OTHER HEADS OF STATE INTO FOLLOWING SUIT.
B. HELSINKI HAS ANNOUNCED THAT PRESIDENT KEKKONEN WILL
VISIT THE SOVIET UNION THIS COMING OCTOBER. THE FINNS ARE
GIVING THE NEWS A MATTER-OF-FACT TREATMENT BY WAY OF CONTRAST
WITH THE CRISIS ATMOSPHERE WHICH SURROUNDED KEKKONEN'S JOURNEY
LAST NOVEMBER.
C. REPORTS HAVE BEEN REACHING US OFFICIALS IN HAITI THAT
A MILITARY COUP AGAINST PRESIDENT DUVALIER IS CLOSE AT HAND.
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OUR EMBASSY, wupuT NECESSARILY GIVING THESE PARTICULAR RE?
PORTS FULL VALUE,. THINKS THAT SUCH A MOVE COULD COME "WITH
LITTLE OR NO NOTICE" WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
D. ELEVEN SOVIET MERCHANT SHIPS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO
HAVANA AND WE STRONGLY SUSPECT THEY ARE CARRYING ARMS. SUCH
A DELIVERY WOULD NOT BE FAR SHORT OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF
ARMS DELIVERED IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1962.
E. ALL COLOMBIAN ARMY UNITS HAVE BEEN PLACED ON ALERT
BECAUSE OF APPREHENSION THAT EXTREMISTS ARE AIMING TO USHER
IN THE NEW ADMINISTRATION (THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION
TAKES PLACE NEXT TUESDAY) WITH AN OUTBURST OF TERROR.
F. BRUSSELS SAYS THAT IT HAS BEEN UNABLE TO GET RWANDA'S
AGREEMENT FOR A PIECEMEAL WITHDRAWAL OF BELGIAN TROOPS. WITH?
DRAWAL HAS BEGUN AND WILL BE COMPLETED BY 31 AUGUST. IF BEL?
GIAN CIVILIANS FOLLOW CLOSE BEHIND, AS MOST HAVE SAID THEY
WILL, RWANDA WILL FACE ANYTHING FROM ADMINISTRATIVE CONFUSION
TO CHAOS.
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