THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 31 DECEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996114
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 31, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--31 DECEMBER 1962
1. CUBA:
A. THE TEN TACTICAL MISSILE TRANSPORTERS WERE STILL
ON THE PIER AT MARIEL ON FRIDAY AND WE HAVE YET TO SEE ANY
FURTHER SUGGESTIONS OF SOVIET GROUND FORCE WITHDRAWAL. PHO-
TOGRAPHY OF THURSDAY AND FRIDAY SHOWED CONTINUING CONSTRUC-
TION AT TWO OF THE FOUR ARMORED ENCAMPMENTS.
E. THE SOVIETS APPEAR TO BE SENDING ONLY .A MEDIUM-
LEVEL GROUP TO THE 2 JANUARY CELEBRATION IN HAVANA, ALTHOUGH
IT INCLUDES SEVERAL CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS. THE "PUBLIC"
DELEGATION IS HEADED BY THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF ,
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SCIENCES, WHILE A MILITARY DELEGATION IS HEADED BY MARSHAL
KRYLOV, THE COMMANDER OF THE MOSCOW MILITARY DISTRICT. SO?
VIET PUBLIC RELATIONS TYPES HAVE ALSO SENT COSMONAUT POPO?
VICH (THREE DAYS IN:ORBIT IN AUGUST).
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2.
COMMUNIST
A.
CHINA:
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LARGE PERMANENT MILITARY BARRACKS AND
WAREHOUSE AREAS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED IN SOUTHERN YUNNAN
PROVINCE NEAR THE BORDERS WITH NORTH VIETNAM, LAOS AND BURMA.
THE LARGEST OF THESE INSTALLATIONS IS AT SSUMAO WITHIN FIFTY
MILES OF LAOS,
B. WE THINK THAT THESE GARRISONS COULD POSSIBLY HOUSE
AS MANY AS 100,000 TROOPS, BUT WE HAVE ESTIMATED ONLY 35,000
TROOPS TO BE STATIONED IN THE BORDER AREA.
C. WE HAVE NOT YET DETERMINED WHEN CONSTRUCTION OF
THESE FACILITIES WAS UNDERTAKEN, THERE HAS BEEN NO OTHER
EVIDENCE OF AN INFLUX OF GROUND FORCES INTO THE AREA AND THE
BARRACKS MAY NOT BE COMPLETELY OCCUPIED.
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. USSR/INDONESIA:
A.
SOVIET PERSONNEL HAVE BEEN TRAINING
THE INDONESIAN AIR FORCE IN ITS NEW GEAR
4. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
A. THE EPISODE INITIALLY ANNOUNCED AS A "PEASANT
REVOLT" ON FRIDAY NEAR THE HAITIAN FRONTIER ACTUALLY IN-
VOLVED THE VIOLENT DISPERSAL OF SOME 1,200 MEMBERS OF A RE-
LIGIOUS CULT.
B. THE TROUBLE BROKE OUT WHEN A CULTIST MOVED ON A
POLICEMAN WITH A MACHETE, SOME FIFTY WERE KILLED AND ALMOST
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700 TAKEN PRISONER. THE ARMED FORCES ARE NOW MOVING TO DIS-
BAND OTHER BRANCHES OF THE CULT WITH AS LITTLE BLOODSHED
AS POSSIBLE.
C. THERE IS NO PROOF THAT THE CULTISTS WERE INSPIRED
OR USED BY TRUJILLOITES, PRO-CASTROITES, OR OPPORTUNISTS IN
THE PRESENT INTERIM GOVERNMENT. ACCORDING TO RADIO HAVANA,
HOWEVER, THEY WORSHIP ONE LIBORIO, WHO WAS "MURDERED" BY US
MARINES IN 1922.
5. INDIA/PAKISTAN:
C.
POST-MORTEMS FROM KARACHI SUGGEST THAT
- BOTH SIDES THOUGHT THE TALKS AT RAWALPINDI WENT "REASONABLY
WELL."
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6. CONGO:
A. DESPITE U THANT'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT UN FORCES--
WHICH CONTROL ELISABETHVILLE, KIPUSHI, AND KAMINAVILLE--
HAD COMPLETED THEIR OPERATION, THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT
UN FORCES IN KATANGA, PERHAPS MOVING SOMEWHAT FASTER THAN
NEW YORK WOULD LIKE MAY NOW TRY TO MOVE ON TO JADOTVILLE,
BOTH GULLION, IN LEOPOLDVILLE,
AND US CONSUL DEAN, IN ELISABETHVILLE, FELT YESTERDAY THE
UN SHOULD CONTINUE ITS ACTION.
B. TSHOMBE, FROM SALISBURY; IS SAID TO BE RETURNING
TO KATANGA WHERE HE HAD CLAIMED HE WOULD CONTINUE THE FIGHT.
MANY OF HIS ADVISERS FAVOR A DESPERATE RESISTANCE. WE DOUBT,
HOWEVER, THAT HE CAN REVERSE THE SITUATION MILITARILY IF THE
UN S:MOMENTUM IS MAINTAINED.
C. HIS FORCES ARE SCATTERED AND THERE ARE SOME SIGNS
THAT THE MORALE OF MERCENARIES IS. NOT NOW OF THE BEST. HOW-
EVER, THERE MAY BE GUERRILLA ACTIONS. WE QUESTION WHETHER
THE OFT-THREATENED SCORCHED-EARTH POLICY WILL BE CARRIED OUT.
D. CONGOLESE ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN LEOPOLDVILLE HAS AN
AMBITIOUS PLAN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION BY OCCUPY-
ING TOWNS IN NORTHERN KATANGA; BUT ITS PRESENT CAPABILITIES
ARE AT BEST QUESTIONABLE. MEANWHILE, ADOULA'S ENTOURAGE .XS
TRYING TO GET HIM TO ISSUE A MODERATE STATEMENT OFFERING KA-
TANGAN LEADERS AN AMNESTY.
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E. OUR LATEST ON THE DECREE RECESSING PARLIAMENT IN
LEOPOLDVILLE IS THAT IT WILL BE MADE PUBLIC TODAY. WE SHALL
SEE.
F. ELISABETHVILLE HAS BEEN QUIET, BUT THE BALUBAS--
CELEBRATING THE UN VICTORY AS THEIR OWN--ARE RESTLESS AND
TRIBAL DIFFICULTIES MAY YET ERUPT.
G. BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SPAAK, OUT OF BED FOR
THE CRISIS, MAY BE IN DEEPER TROUBLE AT HOME AS A RESULT
OF SEVERAL INCIDENTS IN ELISABETHVILLE INCLUDING THE KILLING
OF A BELGIAN WOMAN. ANOTHER EPISODE, SHOULD IT GET OUT,
COULD ALSO CAUSE DIFFICULTY--UN CIVIL CHIEF MATHU IN ELISA-
BETHVILLE, WHO HAS BEEN UNDER CONSIDERABLE STRAIN, WAS DRUNK
DURING THE CONFRONTATION WITH TSHOMBE THURSDAY NIGHT.
H. SPAAK THINKS A CONFERENCE IN LEOPOLDVILLE BRINGING
TOGETHER ADOULA AND TSHOMBE UNDER UN AUSPICES WOULD BE THE
ONLY MEANS OF WORKING OUT A MEANINGFUL CONGO CONCILIATION.
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. NOTES:
A. USSR: THE COSMOS SATELLITE SENT UP FROM TYURATAM
ON THE 22ND WAS BROUGHT DOWN YESTERDAY--STAYING UP FOUR DAYS
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LONGER THAN ANY PREVIOUSLY RECOVERED SPACE VEHICLE. ITS PRE-
CISE MISSION HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED.
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. B. COMMUNIST CHINA: PEIPING CONTINUES TO REQUIRE
LARGE QUANTITIES OF WESTERN GRAIN, SIGNING CONTRACTS RE-
CENTLY WITH AUSTRALIA CANADA AND FRANCE. IMPORTS FOR THE
FIRST HALF OF 1963 ARE EXPECTED TO TOTAL SOME 3.5 MILLION
TONS--ABOUT THE SAME AS THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR.
C. WEST GERMANY: BONN HAS YET TO DECIDE ON ITS
"POSITION" ON THE NASSAU PLAN.
BRAZIL:
OULART IS MUCH EXERCISED BY WORD OF A PLOT AMONG MILI-
TARY OFFICERS--INCLUDING MINISTER OF WAR GENERAL KRUEL--TO
THROW HIM OUT AND SET UP A "MODERATE RIGHTIST MILITARY DIC-
TATORSHIP" EITHER THIS WEEK OR JUST AFTER ANNOUNCEMENT OF
THE NATIONAL PLEBISCITE ON 20 JANUARY. SHOULD THIS MOVE-
MENT AMOUNT TO ANYTHING, WE WOULD HOPE TO HEAR MORE OF IT.
E. LAOS:
KONG LE IS NOW MOVING HIS TROOPS IN THE PLAINE
DES JARRES INTO POSITIONS PROM WHICH THEY COULD "BREAK OUT"
TO JOIN LAOTIAN ARMY TROOPS TO THE SOUTH. WE CANNOT CONFIRM
THIS, BUT KONG LE HAS BEEN INCREASINGLY VOCAL ABOUT THE: PATHET
LAO. HIS SUPPLIES HAVE BEEN ALL BUT CUT OFF BY THEM, DESPITE
SOUVANNA'S EFFORTS.
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F. CENTRAL AMERICA; THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
ARE PLANNING A CONCLAVE IN EARLY FEBRUARY, BEFORE PRESIDENT
KENNEDY'S VISIT-, "IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH AND ANALYZE THE
POINTS TO BE DISCUSSED."
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