THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 12 SEPTEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996554
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 12, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
12 SEPTEMBER 1963
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2. Cuba
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3. South Vietnam
a. The Viet Cong have stepped
up their activity this week, partic-
ularly south of Saigon. They may
have decided the uneasy political
situation would work to their advan-
tage.
b. However, in these encoun-
ters, which included several co-
ordinated company-sized strikes,
government forces showed up well and
inflicted heavy casualties on the
attackers--in one case 122 Viet Cong
were killed.
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C. The government, meanwhile,
is trying to keep politically dis-
affected elements under control.
The crackdown on the Buddhist clergy
and students has been accompanied
by warnings to military officers
against possible approaches by
"enemy agents." The officers are
promised rewards for reporting any
such attempts.
d. Archbishop Thuc has arrived
in New York where he hopes to see
Cardinal Spellman, Monseigneur Shee-
han and a number of Catholic journal-
ists. (
e. We were told by the new
Vietnamese chargd here yesterday
that Diem has urged Mme. Nhu not to
come here, but in any case to keep
quiet if she does.
f. Apparently this was to no
avail as she is already booked for
one week solid while here, includ-
ing engagements with NBC, CBS, ABC,
the Women's Press Club and the Over-
seas Press Club in New York.
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5, West Germany -
Portugal
6. Brazil
a. Latest press reports avail-
able to us ?as of 0845 this morning
say that a rebellion by some air force
and navy personnel in Brasilia was
quickly and easily suppressed by
army units in the city.
b. The rebels did manage to
seize temporarily the Naval and
Air Force Ministry, Brasilia's air-
port and the telephone exchange.
? c. The action was apparently
taken to protest the Supreme Court's
refusal to annul a regulation pro-
hibiting enlisted men from running
for elective office.
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NOTES
A. South Korea University students are reported plan-
ning to stage a rally in the next day or so to pro-
test failure of the opposition parties and leaders
to get together. It could quickly lead to violence,
as the atmosphere is already supercharged.
B. UAR-Yemen
C.
federation with Yemen would be ac-
ceptable only if it were part of a larger merger of
Arab states. Yemen's leaders are pushing for feder-
ation in order to be assured of continued 50X1
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picion that Cairo is not interested in the idea.
Algeria - Latin America Ben Bella is angling for
invitations to visit one or another of the South
American countries in conjunction with his trip to
the UN in mid-October. Brazil, Bolivia and possibly
Chile are most likely candidates./
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D. Rumania-USSR Russian has been dropped as a manda-
tory language in Rumanian schools this year. In-
stead, it is now an elective along with French and
English.
E. North Korea North Korea's economic plans, hereto-
fore heavily geared to capital reinvestment, are
being revised in the direction of more consumer goods.
The current seven year plan, evidently now abandoned,
had been predicated on substantial help from the So-
viets. Having lined up with the Chinese, the North
Koreans apparently now expect to have to do with out it.
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