THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 13 NOVEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996037
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 13, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
13 NOVEMBER 1962
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1. Cuba
a. Yesterday's photography
showed assembly work proceeding on
the IL-28s at San Julian; six are
completely assembled. The nine '
IL-28s at Holguin remain in their
crates,
d. Sunday's photography detected
a fifth coastal defense cruise-missile
site west of Mariel.
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2. Cuba-USSR
b. Mikoyan finally emerged in
public at Havana University last
night. There he gave out a broad-
brush statement reiterating Soviet
support for the Cuban regime, and
describing Castro's five demands as
a "program for peace in the
Caribbean."
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c. Correspondents in Havana are
being told that Mikoyan will be in
town for the rest of this week.
d. We have reason to believe
that the Cuban UN representative had
a long huddle with Kuznetsov yesterday.
e. Under Secretary Gilpatric
apparently touched a sensitive Soviet
nerve or two in his TV appearance on
Sunday.
f. Moscow's propagandists, who
seldom need a verification text to go
on, are expressing "regret" over the
program, alleging it is an indication
the US may "heat up the situation once
more."
g. With the USSR's missiles
heading home, Soviet propagandists
are also once again playing up the
theme that their side has done its
part, and that it is now up to the
US to keep its end of the bargain.
h. All this is mild compared to
Chinese Communist outpourings.
Peiping is now blasting away at those
"Titoists" (pro-Khrushchevites in the
Chinese lexicon) who are crowing over
the "triumph of wisdon and peace" in
the Cuban affair.
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3. Cuba-Latin
America
a. We have indications
that Brazil, as part of
its proposal for a denuclearized
Latin America, is sounding out other
Latin American countries on the idea
of letting a "neutralized" Cuba back
into the OAS. From what we have seen.
the reaction is negative.
b. Ydigoras announced on Saturday
that he would recognize and keep a
Cuban "government in exile" if Castro
did not immediately expel ex-president
Arbenz from Cuba. There are exiles
hanging around in Guatemala who could
play the part.
c. The Chilean government has
decided not to break relations with
Cuba, despite strong domestic pressure
for such a move.
d. In Peru yesterday, stones and
Molotov cocktails were thrown at a
Lima TV station,presumably in protest
against its showing a USIA film on
Cuba. Only minor damage was done.
4. Yemen a. More trouble is stirring for
the republican regime.
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b. Yesterday's news that Sana's
police and soldiers are feuding in the
south is followed by word that more
tribes, unfurling royalist banners,
have risen in revolt. Some of these
are southern tribes; others, closer
to the government's home base, are
operating in the mountains 30 miles
northwest of Sana.
C,. As of Friday, UAR aircraft
were keeping up their bombing attacks
against the royalists in the north.
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5. Congo
h. In Cairo, Nasir has raised the
ante for withdrawing his military
forces in Yemen. He has indicated
that an end of Saudi and Jordanian
support for the royalists is not
enough.
1. That is prerequisite, he
asserts, but so also is an end to
"infiltration from Bayhan" (a
reference to Aden), Badr's going into
exile, and Saudi recognition of the
republican order of things.
A late press report
from Cairo says that four Jordanian
Hawker. Hunters defected this morning.
We can confirm that at least two did.
k. Perhaps playing tit-for-tat,
Amman is claiming that the Egyptian
consul general in Addis Ababa has
come over to its side.
a. Saturday's bombing of Congolese
troops in north Katanga has touched off
a bitter exchange of charges and counter-
charges between Leopoldville, Elisa-
bethville and the 'UN,
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b. Tshombe flatly denies his
planes have done any bombing. The
charge, he says, is a "program of
psychological preparation" dreamed
up by the UN to justify a "fresh
offensive."
c. Fighting on the ground,
sharpened in recent days, seems as
indecisive as ever.
d. At Kongolo, five battalions
of Mobutu's finest have Tshombe's
garrison surrounded and outnumbered
three to one, but after more than a
week of trying, have not been able
to deliver the coup de grace. It
may be that the recent bombings have
chilled the Congolese off for awhile.
e. While the bombing seems to
have stopped, we have some evidence
that Katanga planes are flying men
and supplies into Kongolo.
f. Adoula needs to win the
Kongolo battle soon if he is to
keep the back seat drivers in
parliament quiet.
g. Meanwhile, reports indicate
that Elisabethville, anticipating
some sort of a UN military initiative
in the Jadotville-Kolwezi area, is
reitforcing its positions in those
towns by sending in more combat
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h. Our Elisabethville consulate
has sent in a word of caution to go
slow on accepting predictions (bandied
about in UN circles in recent days)
that Katangan forces will cave in the
moment the UN flexes 7s muscles.
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6. India
a. Now that Krishna Menon has
been retired to the sidelines, we
expect Nehru to reshuffle his cabinet
with an eye to straightening out
India's defense setup.
b. The man most likely to take
the defense ministry if Y. B. Chavan,
a tough Bombay politician. His
previous performance as chief minister
of one of India's state governments
suggests he has the ability to get
the department untangled.
c. It also looks as though
Nehru is planning to establish a new,
powerful ministry of supply. One of
its functions will be to put some
steam into India's defense production
operation.
d. There is a good Chance that
Menon is about to lose Another job.
Nehru told newsmen yesterday he was
"ndt dead.sure,,7 but he doubted Menon
would be returni g to New York to
head up the Indian delegation at the
UN.
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7. Laos
a. According to one of his
advisers, Souvanna started drafting
his letter of resignation on Friday.
He is said to be ready to hand it
in Momentarily after giving Souphannou-
vong one last chance to cooperate.
? b. Our Vientiane embassy,
inclined to believe this, comments
that it sees no indication that
either the left or the right can be
induced to take actions required to
prevent the fall of the government
in the near future.
C. Phoumi, meanwhile, has called
his generals into conference in
Vientiane to work out what to do next.
We do not know what they have in mind,
but there is a feeling in the air that
from now on it will be every man for
himself.
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B. Cuba Shipping As expected, a conference of Western
shipowners meeting in London turned down a resolution
that they voluntarily take their ships out of the Cu-
ban trade.
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