THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 5 JULY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996437
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 5, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST-5 JULY 1963
1. USSR:
A
B.
C, EARLY LAST WEEK THE SOVIET NEWS AGENCY PASS PUT OUT
A REPORT THAT "LARGE CHEMICAL EXPLOSIONS" WERE CONDUCTED IN
TBE TASHKENT AREA "TO TEST THE BEHAVIOR OF BUILDINGS AGAINST
EARTHQUAKES."
D, NO DETAILS OR DATES WERE GIVEN
E, REPORTERS AT YESTERDAY'S RECEPTION IN MOSCOW TRIED
TO GET BOTH MIKOYAN AND ZORIN TO CLARIFY THE SOVIET CON?
NECTION BETWEEN A PARTIAL TEST BAN AGREEMENT AND A NONAG?
GRESSION PACT, BUT NO SOAP.
F, MIKOYAN SAID KHRUSHCHEV HAD "DIRECTLY" CALLED FOR A
"CONNECTION" BETWEEN THE TWO ACCORDS. THEN ZORIN SAID THAT
A NONAGGRESSION TREATY IS NOT A CONDITION FOR A TEST BAN
AGREEMENT, BUT THAT ITIS "PART OF THE WHOLE-."
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2. SINO?SOVIET TALKS:
A. SINO?SOVIET "UNITY" TALKS GET UNDERWAY TODAY IN MOS?
COW FOLLOWING A LAST MINUTE POLEMICAL FIREFIGHT SHOWING THAT
EACH INTENDS TO STICK TO HIS GUNS.
B. CHANCES ARE THAT A LET?UP IN THE PUBLIC DEBATE, IF ANY,
WILL LAST LITTLE LONGER THAN THE MEETING.
C, THE CHINESE SEEM INTERESTED IN THESE TALKS PRIMARILY
AS A STEPPING STONE TO A FULL?BLOWN MEETING OF REPRESENTATIVES
FROM ALL COMMUNIST PARTIES.
D.
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3, GUINEA?CUBA?USSR:
A. ANOTHER SOVIET TU-114 LANDED AT CONAKRY YESTERDAY ON
ITS WAY TO CUBA,
B, WHEN OUR EMBASSY PEOPLE ASKED TOURE FOR AN EXPLANA?
TION, HE AGAIN STOUTLY DENIED THERE WAS ANY AGREEMENT FOR
LANDING RIGHTS, EVEN FOR NON?SCHEDULED FLIGHTS, MUCH LESS
REGULAR FLIGHTS,
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C. .THE FRENCH PRESS, NOT ALWAYS RELIABLE, NOW SAYS AN
AGREEMENT FOR REGULARLY SCHEDULED FLIGHTS HAS BEEN PRO?
MULGATED
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4. USSR:
A. THE SOVIET MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE HAS ANNOUNCED A
NEW GOAL (47 MILLION TONS) FOR FERTILIZER PRODUCTION IN 1965.
B. THIS IS SO HIGH THAT A MAJOR SHIFT IN THE ALLOCATION
OF RESOURCES INCLUDING THOSE TO DEFENSE WOULD BE REQUIRED TO
MEET IT. THE FIGURE IS NEARLY A THIRD MORE THAN THE US PRO?
DUCED LAST YEAR AND ALMOST THREE TIMES SOVIET PRODUCTION IN
1962 (17.5 MILLION TONS).
C. WE FIND THIS HARD TO BELIEVE AND ARE CHECKING FUR?
THER,
5. USSR:
A. AFRICAN STUDENTS IN THE USSR CONTINUE TO CALL AT OUR
EMBASSY IN MOSCOW WITH COMPLAINTS OF THE TREATMENT BEING AC?
CORDED THEM BY THE RUSSIANS.
B. THEIR GRIPES COVER NOT ONLY LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES,
ISOLATION AND EXCESSIVE POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION, BUT ALSO
INSTANCES OF SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION.
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C. THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED SOVIET GUESTS, ARE OFTEN REFUSED
SERVICE IN RESTAURANTS OR BY TAXIS, AND ARE CONSTANTLY SUB-
JECTED TO DEGRADING VERBAL ABUSE,
D. THE SITUATION BECAME MORE OPPRESSIVE WITH THE PUB-
LICATION LAST FALL OF A STORY CONCOTED BY KOMSOMOLSKAYA
PRAVDA ABOUT A SOVIET GIRL WHO, AFTER MARRYING A STUDENT,
PRESUMABLY AFRICAN, ACCOMPANIED HIM HOME AND WAS THEREUPON
SOLD INTO SLAVERY,
6, NOTE:
CAMBODIA: SIHANOUK HAS GIVEN UP TRYING TO GET AN
AGREEMENT ON NEUTRALITY GUARANTEES, IN A HUFF, HE HAS RAP-
PED IS FOR CREATING COMPLICATIONS, THANKED FRANCE AND THE
"SOCIALIST POWERS" FOR THEIR SUPPORT1. AND SAID CAMBODIA WOULD
HAVE TO LOOK TO ITS OWN MEANS TO DEFEND ITS BORDERS WITH THE
AID OF "GREAT FRIENDLY POWERS," PRIMARILY COMMUNIST CHINA.
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