THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 29 MARCH 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996267
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 29, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
29 MARCH 1963
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1. Cuban exile
raids
refugee groups are plan-
ning further raids within the next
week or two. They will hit Soviet
shipping if they can.
d. The Cubans have put special
security measures into effect at the
port of Mariel. A Soviet ship,
carrying explosives for blasting
operations. 7ut in there
e. Most indications are that
the L-66 group, an offshoot of Alpha-
66, carried alit Wednesday's attack
on the Baku.
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2. Soviet forces
in Cuba
h. The Soviets have sent a
formal protest on the Baku incident
to our Embassy in Moscow.
a. Readout from yesterday's
reconnaissance missions reveals
that the four tank-like vehicles
which were shown to have been removed
from their places at the Holguin camp
on 25 March have since been returned.
3. Change in a. The firing of Marshal
Soviet military Zakharov as Chief of the General
command Staff has been confirmed by the
Soviet press. Characteristically,
the Soviet press reveals the change
merely by identifying a new man in
the job.
b. We think it likely that
Zakharov and probably other members
of the military hierarchy as well
have not been seeing eye-to-eye with
the party leadership on the shaping
of military policy.
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4. ?Syria-UAR
C,.. Within the military estab-
lishment itself there has been long
and earnest debate over the question
of balance-of-forces, This would
inevitably at some point cut across
the question of budget allocation.
d. The party only recently
issued a stern reminder that it,
not the military, would call the
policy tune. The admonition pub-
licized in the journal which speaks
for the political apparatus of the
armed forces, said that "only the
party...is able to cope with the
defense of our fatherland, and with
military affairs in general,"
e. The new chief of staff,
Marshal Biryuzov, has been commander
of Soviet Rocket Forces, This fact
may provide the answer as to how
the balance-of-forces discussion
has ended.
a. The Syrian Ambassador to
the US, recently back from Damascus,
has given State in confidence a
pessimistic forecast on the prospects
for his government's holding out
against Nasirist pressure.
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5. ,Bouth Korea
b. He states that the Baath
party has lost ground heavily, and
the army is now; dominated by of
sympathetic to Nasir,
c. The Baathists? the Ambas-
sador believes, have no choice but
to come to terms with Nasir whose
aim is to gain full control of Syrian
foreign policy and defense.
a, Ambassador Berger held a
long session with General Pak yes-,
terday to discuss ways out of tne
political impasse.
b. Pak said that behind-the-
scenes discussions between the
government and members of the civil-
ian opposition are in progress.
Berger believes, however, that Pak
is more interested in developing a
split in the civilian front than in
reaching a workable agreement on
means to restore representative
government.
c. Civilian leaders, for their
part, show signs of wanting the
present stalemate to continue in the
expectation that the military junta
will collapse before long under the
pressure of UB disapproval,
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6. Latin America
7, Saudi Arabia
a. The Czechs seem to be run-
ning interference in a Bloc effort
at deeper economic penetration in
Latin America.
b. A Czech negotiating team
in La Paz is described as working
"day and night" to secure a Bolivian
go-ahead for the construction of a
showpiece antimony smelter.
c, In Brazil, the Czechs are
on the verge of raising their com-
mercial mission in Recife to consu-
lar status, Other Bloc representa-
tives have been beating .?teady
path to the area since the instal-
lation of a pro-Communist State
governor in January.
a. Dissatisfaction with the
Saudi regime has cropped out into
the open in the northern region of
the country.
b. Disturbances arising from
demands for free land distribution,
occurred in the town of Hail earlier
this week.
. c. ?The outbreak was halted
only after several planeloads of
troons
fired on the
demonstrators, wounding several per-
sons,
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8. Test-ban a. The Soviet delegation has
negotiations indicated that it intends to turn
down the compromise proposal on
on-site inspection drafted by the
nonaligned group.
b.
/the pro-
posal--calling for 91-35 inspections
over a period of seven years--would
allow the US to use up a large num-
ber of inspections during the first
year and then "dump" the treaty.
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NOTES
A. Israel-Syria Tension is again rising in the de-
militarized zone along the Israeli-Syrian border.
Syrian troops have fired on Israelis engaged in
planting trees in disputed territory. Israeli
fishing operations close to the Syrian shore of
Lake Tiberias may provoke further incidents.
B. Turkey The rearrest of ex-President Bayar has
failed to pacify restless students who have again
demonstrated in Ankara against the Inonu govern-
ment.
C. France-Mexico The French are holding out to the
visiting Lopez Mateos an offer of a $150 million
line of credit. The Mexicans have given tentative
agreement. Specific French projects under the
credit are to be worked out subsequently, but it
is understood that there will be heavy emphasis on
the petrochemical field.
D. Venezuela Guerrillas operating in western Vene-
zuela, near important oil installations, are so far
frustrating the government's two-month-old efforts
to eliminate them.
E. Soviet space vehicle Cosmos 13, the satellite
launched on 21 March, was recovered earlier this
morning while on its 127th orbit.
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F. Guatemala The Guatemalan air force
patrol all border areas to prevent the
entry of "unauthorized" flights.
G. Brazil Governor Lacerda is making his ban on the
holding of the pro-Castro rally in Rio de Janeiro
stick. The meeting is continuing in rather pallid
fashionin an adjoining town just outside Lacerda's
jurisdiction.
Canada As the election campaigns enters its final
stages our Embassy in Ottawa hazards the prediction
that, no party will achieve a parliamentary majority
but that the Liberals will gain a plurality.
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