THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 15 APRIL 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996295
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 15, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST?Li APRIL 1963
2. ECUADOR:
B.
DISSATISFACTION WITH THE AROSEMENA
REGIME IS SO WIDESPREAD THAT SOME MOVE AGAINST IT SEEMS MORE
AND MORE LIKELY,
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3. CUBA:
A. CUBAN SOLDIERS ARE TO GET LEANER RATIONS.
B. THOUGH THE MILITARY HAVE BEEN BETTER FED THAN CIVIL?
IANS WE HAVE SEEN SIGNS IN RECENT MONTHS OF FOOD SHORTAGES
4. ARAB STATES:
A. IT IS INCREASINGLY CLEAR THAT THE VAUNTED ARAB
FEDERATION IS A LONG WAY FROM BEING AN OPERATING ORGANIZATION,
B. IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS EVEN TO DRAFT A MUTUALLY
ACCEPTABLE CHARTER AND STILL MORE TIME TO EFFECT WHATEVER
CONSOLIDATION CAN BE AGREED ON,
C. NEVERTHELESS, CAIRO WILL EXTRACT THE MAXIMUM PROPA?
GANDA JUICE FROM THE AGREEMENT REACHED THUS FAR AND IS AL?
READY USING THE "TRIPARTITE ARAB UNITY" SLOGAN TO CLOBBER
JORDAN AND SAUDI ARABIA,
5. INDONESIA:
A. THE LONG?AWAITED SOVIET?INDONESIAN TALKS ON HOW
INDONESIA IS TO PAY ITS DEBT TO THE USSR BEGAN IN DJAKARTA
ON FRIDAY.
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C. THE RUSSIANS MAY HAVE DECIDED TO MOVE FAST TO TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF MALINOVSKY'S VISIT AND TO STEAL SOME OF THE
THUNDER FROM LIU SHAO?CHI'S VISIT.
6. LAOS:
A. THE "CEASE?FIRE" SOUVANNA OBTAINED YESTERDAY AT THE
MAINE DES JARRES MAY ALREADY HAVE BEEN BREACHED.
B. KONG LE REPORTED EARLY THIS MORNING
THAT HIS TROOPS HAD BEEN ATTACKED ON THE ROAD BETWEEN XIENG
KHOUANG AND THE PLAINE DES JARRES; A DISSIDENT NEUTRALIST
BROADCAST CLAIMS THAT RIGHTIST TROOPS "COMMANDED BY US OF?
FICERS" SHELLED KHANG KHAY LAST NIGHT.
C. :KONG LE, IN A pRgss INTERVIEW YESTERDAY, HAD SAID
HE "MUST ATTACK AND REGAIN" POSITIONS LOST TO TBE PATHET LAO
AND THE DISSIDENT NEUTRALISTS UNLESS A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT
PROVIDES FOR THE RETURN CW HIS UNITS. ,HE WILL BE MOST RE?
LUCTANT TO ACCEDE TO SOUVANNA'S REQUEST FOR A RECONCILIATION
WITH COL, DEUANE, THE DISSIDENT NEUTRALIST LEADER WHO HAS
SERVED AS THE PATHET LAO'S INSTRUMENT IN THE RECENT RUCKUS.
D. LAO ARMY UNITS AND THE MEOS ARE CONTINUING DEPLOY?
MENTS WHICH WOULD ENABLE THEM TO SUPPORT KONG LE, PARTICULARLY.
IN HARASSING PATHET LAO LINES OF COMMUNICATION IN AND INTO
THE PLAINE DES JARRES.
E. THE PATHET LAO ARE INCREASINGLY SUSPICIOUS OF THIS
COLLABORATION. IN A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED SUNDAY, PATHET LAO
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GENERAL SINGKAXYDEMANDED THE IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF "IM?
PERIALIST FORCES" WHO HAVE PENETRATED "LIBERATED TERRITORY"
IN THE PLAINE DES JARRES AND NORTH OF VIENTIANE-.
F. AMBASSADOR UNGER, NONETHELESS, DID SEE SOME HOPE
YESTERDAY IN THE CONTINUED PROGRAMTO SHORE UP KONG LE, THE
SOMEWHAT FIRMER LINE FROM SOUVANNA, AND THE GROWING AWARENESS
OF THE COMMUNISTS THAT THEY RISK:UPSETTING THE GENEVA ACCORDS.
UNGER THINKS COMMUNIST ACTIVITY DESIGNED TO "WEAKEN, DIVIDE,
,AND EVENTUALLY DISINTEGRATE THE KONG LE NEUTRALIST FORCES"
MAY RETURN TO A "SLOWER, STEADIER" LEVEL.
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