THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 23 NOVEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996053
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 23, 1962

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DELHI STANDS!JOqCOMMITThL ON THE CHINESE PROPOSAL
ON WITHDRAWAL AND NEGOTIATICNS. IT WILL PR OBAEtY
REMAIN SO FOR 414 OTHER DAY OR TWO UNTIL IT FEELS IT BETTER UNDERSTAND
THE, IMPLICATI (NS Or THE PRCPOSAL AND UNTIL THE SEPARATE STRANDS
0F11(NXING WITHIN THE GO/ERNMENT MEET IN SOME ?MID Cr CONSENSUS.
LT HCUGH NEH EV APPEARS TO PE SOMEWHAT LESS SKEPTICAL OF CHINESE
INTFY4.1TTOW THAN SOME CF HIS AIDES, HE KNOsiS HE IS WALING ON EGGS.
JUST BEFORE THE CHINESE PR CP OSAL WAS MADE, HE MD SENATOR MANS-
FIELD THAT APART FROM HIS OW CO4WICTIO4S HE COULD NOT STAY IN
OFFICE A WEEX IF HE NEGOTIATED WITH THE CHINESE NOW.
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ENCOURAGING, P CP ULAR ANTA GEN ISM TOWARD INDIA.
B. PRIVATELY, HOWEVER, F OREM./ MINISTER MOHAMMAD AL! HAS TOLD
OUR AMBASSADOR THAT HIS GWERNMENT INTENDS TO HOLD BASICALLY TO
ITS PRESENT F OREIGN POLICY ORIENTATION, INCLUDING MEMBERSHIP IN
ROTH CPI TO AND SEATO, HE SAID THAT AYUB WOMD SO INFORM A CLOSED
SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMELY. HE HIM-SELF WOULD SPEAK IN. OPEN
SESSION AND WORD HAVE TO DO SOME JUGGLING."
C. HE WENT CH TO SAY THAT THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT HAS NO
TLIUSIOlf ABOUT CHINESE RUTHLESSNESS, THAT THERE COULD BE NO REAL
FRIENI7SHIR BETWEEN THEM, "SINCE OIL AND WATER DO Nat MIS,"
%JT THAT PAKI ,TAN CANNOT AFFORD TO RUB THE CHINESE THE WRONG WAY NOW.
D. IT IF ALSO EVIDENT THAT PAKISTAN AIMS TO XEEP THE PRESSURE
ON T IN MANS E OR NEGOTIATIONS CN KASHMIR. THEY SEE A BORDER .
AGREEMENT WITH THE CHINESE, 04 WHICH DISCUSSIONS ARE IN PROGRESS,
A PART OF TH IS SCM ENE.
CuBA
A. ORDE S TO CUBAN MILITARY' UNITS TO FIRE ON "ENEMY" AIRCRAFT
WERE CANrELLED YESTERDAY "UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE," THE BAN ON CIVIL
F1.1 GHTS OVER CUBA WAS .LIFTED AN H OUR LATER.
B. SUBSEPUENT INFORMATION MMES IT APPARENT THAT THE TWO
JETS FIRED ON BY CUBAN ANTIAIRCRAFT UNITS LAST MONDAY WERE NOT
OURS. THE JIHArY CUBANS MUST HAVE BEEN FIRING AT THEIR OWN OR
-O 'FT PLANES,
C. WITHIN A MATTER CF HOURS AFTER A PRESS REPORT ON WEDNESDAY
THAT NIKO W; HAD STONED A NEW ECONOMIC AID AGREEMENT WITH THE CUBANS
HAVANA WAS OUT WITH A STATEMENT SAYING THE STORY WAS "COMPLETELY
FALSE" AND THAT "IN THE COURSE CF THE TALKS CARRIED OUT DURING THE
DEvELOWENT CF THE PRESENT CRISIS, CUBA HAS NOT SIGNED ANY AGREEMENT
WITH THE GO/ERNMENT CF THE SOVIET tfilIal." THIS SOUNDS AS THOUGH
THE CUBANS DON OT LIKE THE /MPL ICATICN THAT THEY HAVE BEEN BOUGHT
OFF BYMIVOYAN.
D. YESTERDAY 'S. HIGH-LEVEL PHO1OAPHIC MISSION REVEALED NO
NANrc IN THE STATUS CF THE NINE IL-28 CRATES STANDING AT THE
HOLMIN AIRFIELD. ONE HIM-LEVEL MISSION WAS FLOWN ON WEDNESDAY
0%FR ORIENTE PROJINCE WITH NO SIGNIFICANT RESULTS,
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BEEN ERR! TN 0/1.1TARY ' ?IJ PLIES FOR USE IN
NEMP4 WERE DUE IN CAIRO YESTERDAY.. COUNTING THESE, THERE HAVE
BEEN SJ SIH F L I GH IS SINCE THE YEMENI REV MT BEGAN.
THE TYPE WHICH HAVE
A. TENS I 01 IS RN IMG H ICH WITHIN THE SEVEN-MAN COUNCIL OF
F TA IF WV A M CN TH BEE ORE THE SCHEDULED ELECT/ON OFA DOMINICAN
PREFT DEN T AND CcFmFss. THE DOMINICAN FOREIGN MINISTER DESCRIBES
THE STT?ATICto AS "EXPLOSIVE."
B. THE SCURCE TENSION IS THE GRASPING AMBITIONS OF TWO OF
THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, INSERT AND AMIAMA. THESE TWO, THE ONLY SURVIVORS
OF T HE TEAM WH ICH ASSASSINATED TRUJILLO, HAVE ALREADY ESTABLISHED
INWIENCE OVER THE P (LICE AND ARE REACHING FOR THE ARMY. PRESIDENT
PO'NELLY IS BEN G URGED TO CURB THEM BUT FEARS THAT IF HE DOES HE
WILL ENDANGER THE ELECTIONS SCHEDULED FOR 20 DECEMBER AND POSSIBLY
HIS Owt4 SAFETY.
C. AMBASSADOR MARTIN SAYS 7 AMIAMA AND INSERT t "WE HAVE
WARD THE? STEAL AND WE KNOW THEY LIE, BUT OUR MOST SERIOUS COMPLAINT
ABOUT THEM IS OUR CF /MICR CF THEIR FUTURE INTENTIONS?TO NULLIFY
REP TSUI TAME DEM Cr RACY."
NUCLEAR TEST
? A. M CPC OW SEEMS TO BE READYING A "COMPROMISE" PROPOSAL 611 A
4.1CLEAR TEST BAN TO LAY BEFORE THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE WHEN IT
noms IN GII4EV A 0.1 MONDAY. HINTS HAVE COW FROM SOVIET DIP-
LOMATS AND THE SWIFT PRESS THAT THE PR OP OSAL W ILL CALL FOR A
MORATORIUM OF FIXED AND LIMITED DURATION ON UNDERGOUND GESTS
WHILE TREATY NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE.
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AMONG MERIIIAM r ADVISERS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAVE OF ANTI-
AMERICANISM ROLLING ACROSS GHANA'S PRESS. HE SUSPECTS THAT THEIR
RippOSE IS TO PRO-VO..E A US REACTION wHICH WOULD ENVENOM US-GHANAIAN
PE LA TI 0 kS BEY 04D CUR IN G.
B. NY RUM AH, STILL HIGLY WROUGHT-UP F OLLOW PIG THE ATTEMPTS
ON HIF LIFE, MAY, MAHONEY THINS, BE IN NO CONDITION TO UNDERSTAND
W HA TI HAPPEN G,
LAOS
A ? PH CUM I IS ON THE WAY TO NOSC CW--W ITH A ST OPER TO SEE
MARSHAL SPRIT N BAN aecx?FOR DrscussIms ag ECONOMIC AID.
B. HE LEFT RADIATING OPTIMISM OVER HIS FUTURE RELATIONS WITH
SOuVANNA AND WITH A 910W CF SUSCEPTIBILITY TO US ADVICE WHICH LEFT
A FRA SSA DOP 'NP SOIEWHAT SURPRISED AND A SHADE ON THE SXEPTICAL
IF .
C. PRINCE SaiPH ANN OW CN G HAS, MEANWHILE, RETURNED TO VIENTIANE
AFTER A TWO-E(N TH ABSENCE DURING WHICH SOUVANNA HAS BEEN LEFT
(XIESFING AROUT THE PROSPECTS FOR PATHEL LAO COMERATION,
NOTErt
A AZORES BASE AGREEMENT ? THE PORTUGUESE HAVE GIVEN US A
GLTMPFE OF THEIR PRICE TAG ON RENEWAL OF THE AZORES BASE
AGREEMENT umIrm RU1S IT ON 31 DECEMBER. BESIDES RENT, WHICH
THEY HAVE NEVER ASE ED F OR BEFORE, THERE WILL BE s?P CLIT /CAL"
r t;InTTI OPC BPI THESE HAVEN OT BEEN SPELLED OUT.
C.. YuGcr-L OVAIA-USSR T/T-O'S VISIT TO MOSCOW, IN THE wORES FOR
MANY MONMS, IS PRESENTLY SET FOR EARLY NEXT MONTH.
D. CONGO ? ADOULA P CETI IC AL ENEMIES ARE CONTEMPLATING
ANOT HER MOM"! CT CENSURE AGAINST HIM IN THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES,
TO BRING HIM DOW IF THEY CAN, BUT IN ANY EVENT, TO PROVIDE A
CURRENT MEASURE CPP OSITION STRENGTH.
F. COYMUNIFT.CHINA-SO/IET. BLOC -- OUR EMBASSY IN MOSCOW HAS A
!PORT FROM SOVIET SOURCES THAT PEIPING HAS CANCELLED. ITS
TPA TT A GRFEMFg TS WITH ? EAST GERMANY AND CZECH OSL. OVAX IA EFFECTIVE
IMMEDIATELY. THE CHINESE, ACCORDING TO THIS ACCOUNT., HAD RATED
THOSE TWO, GE ALL THE EAST EURTEANS, AS MOST LIKELY TO LEND SOME
SUPPORT IN THE DIUTE WITH MOSCOW, BUTc:HAD RECEIVED NONE.
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