THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 13 MAY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996343
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 13, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
13 MAY 1963
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1. Argentina
2. Haiti
a. Guido 's government has fal-
len apart under pressure of Interior
Minister Rauch's charges of corrup-
tion against four cabinet ministers.
b. All of the civilian minis-
ters and the three service secre-
taries in the cabinet resigned late
yesterday in,a successful move to
force Rauch out too.
c. We suspect the mass resigna-
tions are the result of a compromise
engineered by Army Commander in Chief
Ongania and other military commanders.
d. While the latter support
the general line of Rauch's campaign,
they apparently feel his attacks on
the ministers went too far and would
like to damp down political turmoil
until the elections in July.
a. Bosch told Ambassador Martin
on Saturday that the OAS failure
thus far to take strong action in
Haiti had humiliated him and had
given his political enemies at home
additional ammunition to use against
him.
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3, .Iraq-Syria
b. Bosch's political need for
some sort of victory over Duvalier
is almost certain to generate addi-
tional Dominican overt pressures or
clandestine efforts against the
Haitian dictator. Martin thinks a
Dominican invasion of Haiti unlikely,
however, barring any new Haitian
provocation.
d. The Dominican radio is con-
tributing to the war of nerves by
broadcasting reports that an invasion
of Haiti will take place on 15 May.
a. The Iraqi cabinet was shuf-
fled on Saturday at the same time
changes were being made in Syria and
for the same reason: to disarm pro-
Nasirites who are making headway mdth
charges both regimes are excessively
Baathist.
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4. Laos
b. In the Iraqi shakeup, the
chairman of the Iraqi Baathist party,
Deputy Premier Ali Salih Sadi, was
dropped from his government post.
c. Anew cabinet, still
heavily Baathist, has been formed
in Iraq, but Jundi's efforts in
Syria have so far failed. In both
countries, however, the real power
lies with the revolutionary? command
councils, and these are Baathist
dominated.
d. Nasir's radio is blasting
away at the new governments which
it charges are "fake national pro
unity fronts."
a. Moscow has printed a num-
ber of articles in the press since
Governor Harriman's departure which
suggest it is moving in the direction
of more blatant support for the
Pathet Lao.
b. In the complicated game the
Soviets are playing with the Chinese,
this line probably represents both
a hope that Ho Chi Minh can be per-
suaded not to align himself more
fully with Peiping and a fear that
failure to back the Pathet Lao will
give the Chinese more ammunition.
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NOTES
B. Iraq Today's talk between Kurdish representatives
and thegovernment in Baghdad may well be the last.
The government is under strong pressure from mili-
tary extremists to crush the Kurds by force. Both
sides have been preparing for a resumption of fight-
ing.
D. Cuba The Soviet passenger
senger capacity) arrived in
Holguin was the only Soviet
by photography on Saturday.
there.
ship Baltika (430 pas.-
Havana'on Saturday. .
encampment well covered
No change was noted
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F.
Saudi Arabia-US Faysal seems to have changed the
signals at the last minute and now apparently does
not want our air unit based in Dhahran.
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