THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 27 DECEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996108
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 27, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST-27 DECEMBER 1962
1. PAKISTAN/INDIA/COMMUNIST CHINA:
A. YESTERDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PAKISTAN AND COMMUNIST
CHINA HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT "IN PRINCIPLE" ON THEIR COMMON
BORDER WAS TIMED TO COINCIDE WITH THE OPENING OF TALKS ON
? KASHMIR.
B. IT ALSO COMES ONLY FIVE DAYS BEFORE PREMIER BANDARA?
NAIKE OF CEYLON IS DUE TO ARRIVE IN PEIPING WITH THE NEUTRAL?
IST PROPOSALS ON THE SINO?INDIAN BORDER CONFLICT.
? C. THE INDIANS HAVE HAD TIME ONLY TO REGISTER SURPRISE
AND "REGRET" AT THE NEWS. IT IS LIKELY, HOWEVER, THAT THEIR
RESENTMENT WILL BE TURNED MAINLY TOWARD THE PAKISTANIS AND
THAT THIS WILL HAVE AN UNHEALTHY EFFECT ON THE KASHMIR NEGO?
TIATIONS.
D. THE INDIANS ARE THINKING OF INVITING MACMILLAN TO
NS\NEW DELHI FOR TALKS ON THE CHINESE PROBLEM, AND ARE WONDERING
CAUTIOUSLY WHETHER THE PRESIDENT MIGHT ALSO BE PERSUADED. A
TRIP BY NEHRU TO WASHINGTON AND LONDON IS ALSO UNDER CONSIDERA?
TION.
? 2. CONGO:
A. YESTERDAY CAME AND WENT WITHOUT ACTION BEING TAKEN
BY THE GOVERNMENT TO RECESS PARLIAMENT. THE LONGER THE DELAY,
THE MORE TIME ADOULA'S OPPONENTS WILL HAVE TO ORGANIZE A
? COUNTERMOVE WHICH COULD LEAD TO PUBLIC DISORDERS.
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B. GULLION DESCRIBES THE DELAY AS "ANOTHER HAIR-RAISING
EXAMPLE OF CONGOLESE CARELESSNESS." GENERAL MOBUTU, imosE
TROOPS HAVE BEEN STANDING BY SINCE SUNDAY TO PROVIDE SUPPORT,
IS IRATE AT THE DELAY.
C. ONE REASON GIVEN FOR THIS HOLD-UP IS THAT PRESIDENT
KASAVUBU WOULD LIKE TO EXTRACT A CERTAIN PIECE OF LEGISLATION
FROM PARLIAMENT BEFORE IT IS RECESSED.
D. IN ELISABETHVILLE, THE UN HAS ISSUED ORDERS TO STOP
ALL EXITING CARS TO PREVENT THE DEPARTURE OF TSHOMBE OR OTHER
TOP KATANGAN LEADERS.
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3. CUBA:
A. THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS ARE MAKING SURE THAT CASTRO IS
CONSCIOUS OF THEIR SYMPATHY AS HE APPROACHES THE FOURTH ANNI-
VERSARY OF HIS RISE TO POWER.
B. PEIPING IS ORGANIZING A 10-DAY NATIONWIDE "SUPPORT
CUBA" CAMPAIGN WHICH WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED BY A "MAMMOTH RALLY" ON THE
ANNIVERSARY, 2 JANUARY.
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4. NOTES:
A. FRANCE:? COUVE DE MURVILLE HAS TOLD OUR PARIS EMBASSY
THAT THE NASSAU AGREEMENT WILL HAMPER BRITAIN'S ENTRY INTO
THE EEC. MACMILLAN HAS REVEALED, ACCORDING TO COUVE, THAT HE
HAS NOT YET DECIDED TO BE "REALLY EUROPEAN."
B. SYRIA: THE CABINET HAS DECIDED TO LIFT THE STATE OF
EMERGENCY WHICH HAS BEEN IN EFFECT EVER SINCE THE SPLIT WITH
EGYPT IN SEPTEMBER 1961, IN ORDER TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR PARLIA?
MENTARY ELECTIONS IN JULY. THE ARMY WILL PROBABLY HAVE THE
ROLE OF REFEREE DURING AN UNEASY PERIOD OF POLITICAL CONTEN?
? TION BETWEEN THE MODERATE RIGHT AND A COMBINATION OF COMMUNISTS
AND OTHER ANTI?NASIR LEFTISTS.
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