THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 16 APRIL 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996297
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 16, 1963

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THE WHITE HOUSE
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'S INTEI.LIGEIIcE CHECKLIST, 16 ?IL 1963
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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--16 APRIL 1963
1. CONGO:
A. ADOULA HAS NEARLY COMPLETED THE FORMATION OF A NEW
CABINET, THE CABINET LIST, STILL TENTATIVE PENDING ACCEPTANCE
BY ALL OF THOSE CHOSEN, REMAINS WELL WEIGHTED ON THE MODERATE,
PRO?WESTERN SIDE.
2. USSR?YEMEN:
A. MOSCOW MAY BE SHIPPING ADDITIONAL MEN AND SUPPLIES
INTO YEMEN, WHERE IT IS ALREADY REPRESENTED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED
MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PERSONNEL.
B. THE SOVIET PASSENGER SHIP GRUZIYA--
RECENTLY ENGAGED IN TROOP WITHDRAWALS FROM CUBA--WAS PREPAR?
ING TO ENTER THE SUEZ CANAL.
IT DECLARED FOR THE YEMENI PORT OF HODEIDA WITH
1,200 TONS OF GENERAL COMMERCIAL CARGO AND 446 PASSENGERS,
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3. BRAZIL:
A. THE EXTREME LEFT, LED BY GOULART'S BROTHER?IN?LAW
BRIZOLA, IS MAINTAINING PRESSURE TO DRIVE GOULART AWAY FROM
COLLABORATION WITH MODERATE ELEMENTS AND TO DENY THE COUNTRY
EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT,
4. LAOS:
A. NO NEW FIGHTING HAS BEEN CONFIRMED SINCE YESTERDAY
MORNING.
B. SOUVANNA, NOW IN LUANG PRABANG ON CEREMONIAL BUSINESS,
PLANS TO RETURN TO THE PLAINE DES JARRES ON FRIDAY, BUT
HE HAS, MEANWHILE, LEFT IN SUSPENSE THE CRUCIAL QUESTION OF
WHAT POSITIONS KONG LE WILL RETAIN IF A NEW SETTLEMENT CAN BE
PATCHED TOGETHER. KONG LE CONTINUES TO INSIST ON THE STATUS
QUO ANTE BUT OUR EMBASSY IN VIENTIANE SEES SOME DANGER THAT
SOUVANNA WILL BARGAIN AWAY POSITIONS VITAL TO KONG LE IN RE?
TURN FOR PEACE.
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C. THE PATHET LAO SEEMS TO BE FOLLOWING A LINE DESIGNED
TO PLACE COL. DEUANE, LEADER OF THE DISSIDENT NEUTRALISTS,
ON A FOOTING OF BARGAINING EQUALITY WITH KONG LE, AN OUTCOME
WHICH COULD BE AS DAMAGING TO NEUTRALIST STRENGTH AS THE LOSS
OF TERRITORY.
D. COOPERATION BETWEEN NEUTRALIST AND ROYAL ARMY?AS
WELL AS NEO?ELEMENTS HAS DEVELOPED FURTHER, TO THE POINT
WHERE IN SOME AREAS THE RESULT IS VIRTUAL INTEGRATION,
5.? CUBA:
C. HAVANA RADIO HAS CONFIRMED REPORTS THAT CASTRO WILL
VISIT MOSCOW "SOMETIME THIS YEAR."
6. NOTES:
A. COMMUNIST CHINA?SOMALI REPUBLIC: PEIPING, TAKING
? ADVANTAGE OF THE RUPTURE BETWEEN THE SOMALIS AND THE BRITISH,
IS TRYING TO MOVE ONTO TBE SCENE WITH OFFERS OF ARMS AID AND
OTHER ASSISTANCE, THE SOMALIS ARE ON THE VERGE OF PICKING
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UP A SMALL CHINESE DOWN PAYMENT, CONSISTING OF FUNDS FOR SUP?
PORT OF THE SOMALI SECESSIONIST CAMPAIGN IN NORTHERN KENYA.
B. HAITI: PLANS FOR THE OVERTHROW OF DUVALIER HAVE
EVIDENTLY NOT DIED WITH THE MISCARRIAGE THAT OCCURRED LAST
WEEK. SEVERAL OF THE INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE PLOT, IN?
CLUDING TWO OF THE RINGLEADERS ESCAPED ARREST AND MAY TRY
AGAIN WHILE THEY ARE STILL AT LARGE.
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