THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 24 AUGUST 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996521
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 24, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--24 AUGUST 1963
1. SOUTH VIETNAM:
A. WE CANNOT DETERMINE AS YET WHO IS CALLING THE
SHOTS IN SAIGON-DIEM OR THE NHUS.
B. GENERAL DON TOLD A US OBSERVER THAT DIEM IS MAKING
THE DECISIONS, BUT THAT HE IS ACTING THROUGH NHU.
C. NHU HAS BEEN GIVEN CREDIT
AS THE PRIME MOVER IN THE CRACKDOWN ON THE BUDDHISTS
AND THE IMPOSITION OF MARTIAL LAW.
D. GENERAL DON ALSO STATED THAT THE PALACE IS ISSUING
ORDERS DIRECTLY TO THE SAIGON COMMANDER GENERAL DINH AND TO
THE SPECIAL FORCES COMMANDER COLONEL TUNG RATHER THAN THROUGH
HIMSELF AS TOP COMMANDER.
E. AMBASSADOR LODGE THINKS--AND GENERAL DON TENDS TO
CONFIRM THIS--THE MILITARY IS NOT AT PRESENT A MONOLITHIC
STRUCTURE AND WARNS OF SERIOUS FIGHTING BETWEEN COMPETING
MILITARY ELEMENTS IF THE MILITARY SHOULD DECIDE ON A COUP.
F.
PEOPLE RECEIVED THE IMPRESSION FROM GENERAL
DON'S STATEMENTS THAT THE CURRENT UNSTABLE SITUATION MAY BE
THE FIRST OF SEVERAL AS YET UNREVEALED PHASES.
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2. MALAYSIA:
A. PRIME MINISTER LEE OF SINGAPORE AND THE TWO DESIG-
NATED LEADERS OF NORTH BORNEO AND SARAWAK ARE FED UP WITH
MALAYA'S PRIME MINISTER RAHEAN BECAUSE THEY FEEL HE HAS
BEEN TOO ACCOMMODATING TO SUKARNO.
B. LEE IS THREATENING TO DECLARE SINGAPORE'S INDEPEN-
DENCE ON 31 AUGUST REGARDLESS OF MALAYSIA, AND THE NORTH
BORNEO AND SARAWAK LEADERS nAY TAKE SOMEWHAT SIMILAR STEPS
AT THE SAnE TIME.
C. BRITISH COLONIAL SECRETARY SANDYS IS EN ROUTE TO
nALAYA FOR TALKS IN AN ATTEMPT TO HEAD OFF A nAJC2 CRISIS.
D. U THANT HAS INSTRUCTED THE UN SURVEY MISSION TO
PROCEED TODAY, HOPING THAT ALL OBSERVERS--
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PRESENT.
3. IRAQ-KURDS:
A. ALTHOUGH BAGHDAD'S OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE KURDS HAS
BEEN LORE SUCCESSFUL THAN THE QASIM REGIME'S Famous AT-
.TEMPTS, IT HAS NOT YET BROKEN THE KURDISH RESISTANCE.
B. ONLY SIX WEEKS OF WEATHER SUITABLE FOR CAMPAIGNING
REMAIN AND BARZANI HAS THUS FAR BEEN ABLE TO AVOID A PITCHED
BATTLE..
C. THE PRESSURE ON BARZANI AND THE WAVERING LOYALTY
OF INCREASING NUMBERS OF VILLAGE CHIEFTAINS HAVE LFD HIM
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TO PUT OUT SOME FEELERS FOR A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT.
BAGHDAD, HOWEVER, FEELS IT HAS HIM ON THE RUN AND APPEARS
UNINTERESTED.
4. USSR-INDIA:
5. NOTES:
A. IRAQ-KUWAIT: BAGHDAD HAS AGREED TO RECOGNIZE
KUWAIT'S INDEPENDENCE, APPARENTLY ABANDONING ITS CLAIM
TO SOVEREIGNTY OVER KUWAIT, IN EXCHANGE FOR A GIFT OF
$5.6 MILLION, A SIZABLE LOAN TO BE NEGOTIATED SHORTLY AND
A PLEDGE THAT KUWAIT WILL ABROGATE ITS DEFENSE TREATY
WITH THE UK "AT A SUITABLE TIME."
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B. BOLIVIA: OUR EMBASSY IN LA PAZ BELIEVES THAT THE
EXTREME LEFTIST INFLUENCE IN PRESIDENT PAZ'S NEW CABINET--
COMPOSED ALMOST ENTIRELY OF EITHER LONG TIME OR NEW SUP ?
PORTERS ? ?HAS BEEN CUT AND THAT PAZ WILL RECEIVE INCREASED
SUPPORT IN HIS FIGHT TO REFORM THE TIN MINING INDUSTRY.
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