THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 15 DECEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996090
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 15, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--15 DECEMBER 1962
1. NORTH KOREA ? USSR:
A . THE SOVIETS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO WOO THE NORTH KOREANS
AWAY FROM ME CHINESE BY A NUMBER OF DEVICES. EVEN THOUGH
THE NORTH KOREANS AT THE CZECH PARTY CONGRESS SUPPORTED THE
CHINESE THERE (AT LEAST PASSIVELY) , WE SUSPECT THE KOREAN
DELEGATION, WHICH WAS IN MOSCOW LATE IN NOVEMBER, STRUCK SOME
SORT OF BARGAIN.
2, SINO? SOVIET DISPUTE:
A. PEIPING HAS RESPONDED TO KHRUSHCHEV BY PUBLISHING A
STATEMENT IT SUBMITTED TO A CLOSED SESSION OF THE CZECH PARTY
CONGRESS LAST WEEK.
B . THE STATEMENT PROTESTED ATTACKS BY CONGRESS PARTICI?
PANTS ON THE CHINESE AND ALBANIAN PARTIES AND WARNED THAT THEIR
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CONTINUATION COULD LEAD TO A SINO?SOVIET "SPLIT." THE CHI?
NESE BLAMED THE SOVIETS FOR THE PRESENT DISARRAY IN THE BLOC
AND THE "EVEN MORE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES WHICH MAY FOLLOW."
THEY ASKED FOR ANOTHER CONFERENCE OF COMMUNIST PARTIES SUCH
AS WAS HELD IN 1957 AND 1960 TO COMPOSE DIFFERENCES.
C. MOSCOW, WE ARE SURE, WOULD OPPOSE THIS. THERE IS NO
REASON TO THINK CHINA WOULD BE ANY MORE WILLING THEN THAN
NOW TO SUBMIT TO THE VIEWS OF THE MAJORTIY.
D. THE SOVIETS AND EAST EUROPEANS WILL, HOWEVER, PROBABLY
FEEL CALLED UPON TO REPLY EVEN MORE EXPLICITLY.
3. CONGO:
A. WE DO NOT YET KNOW THE REACTION IN LEOPOLDVILLE TO
TSHOMBE'S INDICATED WILLINGNESS TO HAVE UNION MINIERE'S FOR?
EIGN EXCHANGE PAID TO THE UN MONETARY COUNCIL.
C. THE 54700?MAN INDIAN BRIGADE IS DUE TO GO HOME IN
FEBRUARY, AND INDIA HAS NOTIFIED THE UN THAT IT WILL NOT BE
REPLACED'. THE FORCE MAKES UP ABOUT HALF THE UN CONTINGENT
IN KATANGA AND ABOUT ONE THIRD OF THE ENTIRE UN CONGO FORCE.
D. THE ONLY NEW FORCE SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN THE CONGO
(1,800 INDONESIANS) WILL BEGIN ARRIVING IN KATANGA EARLY
NEXT WEEK.
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4. BELGIUM:
A. THE BELGIUM PUBLIC, NEVER OBJECTIVE ON THE SUBJECT,
IS WORKING ITSELF INTO ALATHER, OVER KATANGA,AND AMBASSADOR
MACARTHUR FEELS THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THE LEFEVRE GOVERN?
MENT WILL FALL IF HOSTILITIES BREAK OUT IN KATANGA.
B. SPAAK HIMSELF IS IN A PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT POSITION
BECAUSE OF HIS COURAGEOUS CONGO POLICY.
5. CUBA?USSR:
A. WE HAVE THE FIRST RUMBLINGS OF AN UPHEAVAL IN CASTRO'S
GOVERNMENT.
D. THE ARRIVAL IN CUBA OF TWO ADDITIONAL SOVIET FISHING
TRAWLERS EXPANDS THEIR FISHING FLEET (BASED IN HAVANA) TO TEN
VESSELS, INCLUDING TWO LARGE FISH FACTORY TRAWLERS.
E. SOME OF THESE HAVE CONDUCTED THE FIRST SOVIET FISH?
ING OPERATIONS EVER CARRIED OUT IN THE GULF OF MEXICO-.
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6. IRAQ:
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B. A YEMENI DELEGATION HEADED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY REGIME 1S
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MINISTER OF DEFENSE HAS BEEN MAKING THE ROUNDS OF VARIOUS ARAB
CAPITALS, TRYING TO BROADEN SUPPORT.
7. UK ? COMMON MARKET:
A. LATEST GALLUP POLLS SHOW THAT BRITISH SENTIMENT FAVOR?
ING COMMON MARKET ME
ERSHIP IS RECOVERING FROM LAST JUNE S
LOW OF 36 PERCENT. ,IT NOW NEARS 50 PERCENT, WITH ABOUT HALF
THE REMAINDER UNDECIDED,
B. .HOWEVER, THE NOVEMBER BY?ELECTIONS AND RESPONSES TO
OTHER POLL QUESTIONS SHOW THE COMMON MARKET STILL NOT A DOM?
INANT FACTOR IN DETERMINING BRITISH VOTING PATTERNS, TWO
THIRDS OF THOSE POLLED SAID THEY WOULD VOTE FOR THEIR PARTY
REGARDLESS OF ITS STAND ON THE ISSUE,
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C. NEVERTHELESS, PROTRACTED NEGOTIATIONS WILL PROBABLY
PROVE TO BE A LIABILITY TO THE CONSERVATIVES'.
9. NOTES:
A. USSR: TSARAPKIN, AT GENEVA, SAYS THE USSR PLANS TO
DECLARE ANOTHER UNILATERAL MORATORIUM ON SOVIET NUCLEAR TEST?
ING, TO GO INTO EFFECT AT THE FIRST OF THE YEAR.
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C.
THERE WERE 3,000 NORTH VIETNAMESE NEAR MUONG PHINE WHO IN?
TENDED TO INFILTRATE INTO SOUTH VIETNAM, THE MUONG PHINE
AREA IS A CONVENIENT STOPOVER FOR? NORTH VIETNAMESE ON THEIR
WAY TO JOIN THE VIET CONG, BUT WE THINK THE 3,000 FIGURE IN
THIS CASE IS AN EXAGGERATION.
D. MOSCOW HAS ACCUSED THREE MORE US OFFICIALS OF
ESPIONAGE IN THE pENKOVSKY-CASE. THEY ARE CAPT. ALEXIS H.
DAVISON AN ASSISTANT? AIR FORCE ATTACHE AND ALSO THE .EM?
BASSY'S DOCTOR; SECOND SECRETARY ROBERT K. GERMAN; AND
HUGH MONTGOMERY, A SECURITY OFFICER..
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