THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 1 MAY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996323
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 1, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
1 MAY 1963
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1. Laos
a. The military situation has
taken no new major turn. Skirmishing
continues, and Kong Le is continuing
his efforts to build up a force
around Kieng Khouang.
b. Both Kong Le and yang Pao,
the Meo leader, claim Vientiane is
too chary with supplies. yang Pao
says that if his Meos do not get
more ammunition, they will have to
pull back from along the roads, thus
giving the Pathet Lao freedom of
movement into the Plaine des Jarres.
c. Souvanna came away from his
session at Khang Khay with Souphan-
nouvong yesterday with little more
than a Pathet Lao proposal for mixed
civil and military commissions to
arrange a cease-fire. Kong Le, how-
ever, is still saying he will not
even talk to the Pathet Lao before
his lost positions are restored.
d. In talking yesterday to
Ambassador Unger, Soviet Ambassador
Afanassiev--who claims to be only
"partially informed" on the Harriman-
Khrushchev talks--appeared to agree
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2. _Cuba
that a cease-fire in the Plaine ?des
Jarres on the basis of a return to
the status quo ante would be "logical."
e. Unger feels the Communists
may be giving some thought to a de
facto partition. Souphannouvong has
dropped remarks about a two-way divi-
sion as a "temporary device to restore
peace." Polish ICC member Thee has
spoken along similar lines.
a. Raul Castro, filling in
for Fidel, will mount the rostrum
today for what is being billed as
Cuba's biggest May Day yet.
?Further comment on Cuba's
creaking economy
the very poor quality of oil
used to lubricate heavy machinery
and to fuel merchant ships, Particu-
larly since the turn of the year.
lard is so short that
loading for Cuba is asked
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every ship
to pick up
c. Lord Home told Secretary
Rusk yesterday that the British
"are doing what they can" to keep
their ships away from Cuba and are
"speaking to the shipping people."
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3. Jordan
Five of ten companies involved (40
ships) have withdrawn from the Cuban
trade and a sixth is doing so. One
of the remaining companies has 19
ships on charter to the USSR--break-
ing the contract would involve "mil-
lions of pounds compensation."
d. The preliminary scan of
yesterday's photography showed no
change at three Soviet armored
camps; the fourth and the Torrens
headquarters area were obscured by
clouds.
e. Monday's photography reveals
the launch positions and guidance
area of the Campo Florida cruise mis-
sile site (a few miles east of Havana)
to be vacant, with a convoy of mis-
sile related vehicles drawn up near-
by. It has been considered A train-
ing site and a display in today's
parade--possibly with Cubans aboard--
may be forthcoming.
a. Stringent security precau-
tions remain in effect and the situ-
ation is outwardly calm. Propaganda
from Baghdad, Cairo, and Damascus
portray conditions in Jordan as
seething, but the Baathi press in
Damascus on Monday changed its line
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4. Yemen
5. Soviet Bloc
and commented grudgingly that the
"Jordan rulers may be able to delay
their grim future for some time."
a. The Saudis told Ambassador
Hart "positively" but not "officially"
on Monday that all aid to the Yemeni
royalists had ceased and that "noth-
ing" had crossed the border for two
days. UAR military action now against
Saudi Arabia would mean "real war
between us in Yemen."
b. U Thant, nervous about So-
viet reaction and wishing to ensure
his legal and financial authority
over the UN operation, is restrict-
ing General Von Horn's present mis-
sion to one of reconnaissance.
a. Soviet/Satellite economic
planning -.seems to be running into
snags.
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b. The Executive Committee of
the Bloc's Council for Mutual Econo-
mic Assistance (CEMA) is to meet
within the next 10 or 12 days. It
concluded a meeting only last week
and it normally meets only every
other month.
c. We know that one issue in
dispute is Rumania's reluctance to
accept its allotted role in CEMA's
plans for economic integration.
d. The Polish delegate, in a
statement to the press after the
last meeting, dropped a hint that
the problem could be broader than
the specific issue of Rumania. He
said the "debates" were "pervaded
by the concern" with which members
"approached the expansion and deepen-
ing of cooperation."
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NOTES
?A. Haiti The OAS team is beginning what may prove to
EZ-i-prolonged investigation, and the situation in
both countries has simmered down. Duvalier is keep-
ing the lid on brutally tight. Bosch has proclaimed
that the Dominican Republic will "not do anything to
aggravate the status quo,"/
B. Turkey spreading
discontent and restlessness within the Turkish of-
ficer corps, particularly in eastern Turkey.
C. USSR Khrushchev, who was most critical of the
Soviet construction program in his speech a week ago,
is now moving to overhaul it. I. T. Novikov, chair-
man of the State Committee for Construction, has
had "unexpectedly" to cancel his trip here (an ex-
change for Secretary Udall's trip). He says he has
been charged with completely reworking present con-
struction plans this month. With a growing backlog
of uncompleted construction starts, we expect many
projects will be dropped or put on ice.
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D. Communist China The Chinese Communists seem deter-
mined to prevent another mass exodus of refugees to
Hong Kong this spring. Since February they have
been carrying on an intensive propaganda drive to
discourage residents of Kwangtung from trying to es-
cape to Hong Kong. They have also instituted addi-
tional controls on population movements within the
province/
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