THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 28 SEPTEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995953
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 28, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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28 SEPTEMBER 1962
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Site of unidentified activity, Santo Cruz
possiblymissile related. del Norte
MISSILE ACTIVITY IN CUBA SEPTEMBER 62
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? Confirmed surface-to-air missile (SAM) site
? Possible SAM site, exact location unknown
A Support facility for processing equipment
Airfield with MIG aircraft
o Probable coastal defense cruise-missile site
Effective air defense perimeter (estimated
radius 20-25 nautical miles)
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1. ?Cuba
2, Warsaw Pact
a. Latest photographic reconnais-
sance confirms two more surface-to-air
missile sites in Cuba and possibly a
third still in the early stages of con-
struction. This makes a total of 13 con-
firmed sites, The new sites are in
Oriente Province, but none are within
range of normal aircraft lanes serving
Guantanamo.
b.
coastal defense cruise-missile site
near Banes is now operational, with a
missile observed on one of the two
launchers.
there has been a
new wave of arrests and executions
a. Warsaw Pact exercises began,
unannounced, on Tuesday with maneuvers
by Soviet and Satellite forces in
Czechoslovakia and East Germany./
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3. Yemen
b, Last year's exercises were
announced in advance, presumably to
give weight to Soviet pressures at the
time on Berlin, The absence of any
announcement this year suggests there
will be no attempt this time to relate
the exercises to the Berlin problem.
a. Prince Hasan is heading home
to marshal loyal tribes in the north
and have it out with the rebels.
b. Meanwhile, the rebel army
command has acted swiftly to consoli-
date its gains. It controls the
major, centers of Sana, Taiz, and
Hudaydah and other towns, but progress
in the tribal countryside, particularly
in the north, will be a harder, longer
task, Yemen's two strongest tribes in
the north have not declared their
loyalty to the rebels.
c. We have identified
officer in the rebel group,
Abdullah al-Sallal. He was
of Imam Badr's bodyguard at
of the coup--which makes it
certainty that Badr, as the rebels
claim, has been killed. The rebels
say that Badr was buried in the
debris when the castle was demolished.
a key
Brigadier
commander
the time
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Spaak on
EEC
Cairo's transparent
delight with the turn of events be-
trays a complicity in them which we
do not doubt. However, the key men
in the UAR-sponsored Free Yemeni
Movement have yet to show.
e. If the rebels can make it
stick, they may, like Qasim, prove
more independent than Cairo would
like.
f. We have had no direct word
from our legation in Taiz; Ambassador
Hart in Jidda will try today to make
contact with them.
a. With pressure mounting on the
EEC members to reach a decision soon
on the application of the smaller,
European countries, Spaak--who has
long been cool to admitting Sweden,
Switzerland, and Austria--is now
having second thoughts about Denmark,
Norway, and Ireland as well.
b. Spaak thinks that these
countries want to join purely for
commercial reasons, and that their
presence in the EEC would obstruct
progress toward political union
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North Vietnamese Withdrawal from Laos
A Summary Review
1. Souvanna has made virtually no progress toward effective
government in Laos.
2. Phoumi is cooperating with Souvanna, up to a point, hop-
ing to woo him to the conservative side. This strategy
is having some effect as Souvanna is increasingly criti-
cal of Souphannouvong's intransigence. Neither Phoumi
nor Souphannouvong, however, have given up control of
any territory, nor have they shown a willingness to inte-
grate their forces. The Pathet Lao have not even per-
mitted Souvanna to enter most of their territory.
3. There has been no major fighting. However, the Commu-
nists continue trying to mop up the Meo guerrillas, ?and
there have been some skirmishes in the south.
4. The most immediate issue, and the key to any progress '
by Souvanna, is the withdrawal of North Vietnamese forces.
Our most recent estimat
that:
concludes
The Communists will almost certainly seek to re-
tain as many North Vietnamese forces and mili-
tary advisers in Laos as they can do with safety.
Souvanna will almost certainly be unable to pre-
vent Communist use of southern Laos as a corridor
for assisting the Viet Cong effort in South Viet-
nam.
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5. Designation of checkpoints where the International Con-
trol Commission would observe foreign troop withdrawal
was delayed until 23 August as a result of Pathet Lao
refusal to concede the presence of North Vietnamese
forces. Although Souvanna had indicated a preference
for several checkpoints in Pathet Lao territory, he---
and Phoumi--compromised on Nhommarath, which, in fact,
belongs to Kong Le rather than the Pathet Lao. The
Plaine des Jarres and Vientiane were the other two
checkpoints established (Pakse and Savannakhet were es-
tablished later).
6. So far, the only overt North Vietnamese withdrawal has
been the 15 "technicians" who left through the Plaine
des Jarres checkpoint on 27 August. Five additional
North Vietnamese are scheduled to leave from Nhommarath
shortly.
7. We are reasonably convinced, however, that some North
Vietnamese troops have withdrawn
to more inaccessible regions along the east-
ern border. The following is a boiled-down summary of
evidence upon which our conclusions are based:
- 25-31 July: Twenty-two Soviet airlift shuttle flights
were noted between North Vietnam and Nam Tha, pos-
sibly carrying out North Vietnamese personnel and
equipment.
-early August: A North Vietnamese battalion, composed
of troops from Yang Vieng, the Plaine des Jarres,
and Tha Thom, moved through Ban Ban and into North
Vietnam over Route 7.
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-early August: The joint North Vietnamese - Pathet Lao
headquarters at Khang Khay was split up, part with-
drawn to North Vietnam and part regrouped in the
Pathet Lao stronghold in Sam Neua province.
-mid-August: Some 200 North Vietnamese at Tchepone air-
field reportedly were changing into Lao uniforms.
-20 August: North Vietnamese troop withdrawal from Nhom-
marath was completed. Twenty-five trucks carrying
North Vietnamese troops were seen going east on
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Route 12.
-23 August: Agreement reached on Nhommarath as a check-
point.
-25 August: Soviet airlift suspends resupply flights.
-late August: Several reports were received that North
Vietnamese were concealed along Route 7 between Ban
Ban and the North Vietnamese border.
-3 September: North Vietnamese forces reportedly were
moving east from Kham Keut to new positions between
Ban Nape and the North Vietnamese border.
-10 September: Soviet airlift resumes resupply flights.
-14 September: Souphannouvong admitted that "some" North
Vietnamese were still in Laos but said they would be
withdrawn by the end of the month.
-15 September:
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namese had not moved out of Savannakhet and Kham-
mouane provinces but rather were "still with the
Pathet Lao and, under Pathet Lao cover, are staying
concealed from the local inhabitants."
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-23 September:
Souvanna expressed
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determination to
press for complete North Vietnamese withdrawal.
-26 September: North Vietnamese military communications
facilities continue to operate in the Nam Tha -
Muong Sal area, east of Tha Thom,
and at Tchepone.
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NOTES
A. USSR We are puzzling over the comparatively near miss
which occurred yesterday when an ICBM vehicle launched
from Tyuratam at about 10 in the morning our time came
within 500 miles of Cosmos IX which the Soviets had
aunched ear ier in the day, also from Tyuratam.
B.
C. Ecuador The move to impeach Arosemena fell flat in
Congress yesterday, largely because most legislatOrs
dislike Vice President Varea even more. The rightists
will now try to do what some had recommended be done
in the first place, replace Varea before trying to get
Arosemena.
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