THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 10 MAY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996339
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 10, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
10 MAY 1963
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1. Haiti
2. ..South Vietnam
a. Haitian authorities yester-
day asked Pan American to provide
45 places on today's outgoing flight
for asylees. Release of this num-
ber would, by our embassy's rough
count, empty the embassies of re-
fugees.
b. Haitian foreign minister
Chalmers, in New York for the UN
proceedings, asked to see Ambassador
Stevenson yesterday to complain of
US misunderstanding of Haiti's govern-
ment, He made much of an alleged
inability of US representatives in
Port-au-Prince to establish rapport
with a "middle-class" government.
Chalmers said he would be in Washing-
ton to see "responsible" officials
on his way home.
c. The Trujillo family contin-
gent may have departed Haiti. Our
embassy has received a report to
this effect but there is as yet no
corroboration.
a. Further disorders are ex-
pected today in Hue, 400 miles north
of Saigon, where government troops
clashed Wednesday with demonstrators,
leaving some dozen dead or wounded.
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3. Moscow Spy
trial
b. The violence developed when
government forces decided that a
large public gathering in connection
with a Buddhist religious holiday
was taking on an anti-government cast.
Co Whether or not anti-govern-
ment feeling on the part of the local
population was the cause of the out-
break, it is the result. There is,
in addition, a religious factor aris-
ing out of Buddhist-Catholic animosi-
ties.
d. Diem's brother Can runs
his satrapy over the northern part
of the country from Hue.
e. The US civilian and mili-
tary community in Hue has been
placed on alert status in anticipa-
tion of new violence.
a. The courtroom doors have
been reopened for today's session.
Sentencing is expected to take place
tomorrow.
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4. Colombia
a. The government could find
itself hard put in dealing with the
demonstrations ex-dictator Rojas
Pinilla is organizing for today.
b. Rojas now claims that he
can bring out upwards of 50,000 in
Bogota. This ambitious figure may
derive from pledges of support given
by the Communists and other extre-
mist groups exploiting Rojas in
their efforts to unseat the Valencia
government.
C? A,turnout of these dimen-
sions Would leave the_government's
security forces stretched thin.
Rural violence has drawn off several
army units from the capital area.
5. Cuba a. The Transbalt has apparently
completed unloading at Mariel.
b.
photography showed the
addition of a small number of tents
(Contsd)
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at the Cuban encampments near the
Soviet installation at Holguin.
C. Photography at the other
Soviet sites, where readable, re-
vealed no significant change.
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NOTES
A. Argentina Signs appeared yesterday that the govern-
ment is undergoing still another cabinet crisis.
There has been nothing to indicate that the threat
of a military coup has been revived. As before,
howeverl the issue turns on what can and should be
done to restrict the electoral potential of real
or suspected Peronists.
D. Bolivia The Communists and the left in general are
beginning to smart from the effects of President
Paz's moves to reduce their influence in peasant
and 'labor organizations.
7-0e Communist youth organization
group earlier this week discussed plans for violence
against the US embassy as a means of embarrassing
Paz.
E, Communist China - India The Chinese Communists, in
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war, Worked hard to drive a wedge between Gurkha and
Indian soldiers. Chinese
Communist tactics included preferential treatment
for the Gurkhas and appe ls to ethnic affinity. The
objective is to attract Nepal.
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F. Syria The government's security forces were able
yesterday to contain the pro-Nasir demonstrations
in Aleppo. There are no reports this morning of
new trouble.
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