THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 1 OCTOBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996586
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 1, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
1 OCTOBER 1963
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1, Venezuela
2. Brazil
a. Betancourt yesterday began
to move directly against the terror-
ist leaders. He was probably pres-
sured by the military who are indig-
nant over the murder of five national
guardsmen this weekend.
b. A number of high Communists
and extreme leftists have been ar-
rested. Included in yesterday's
bag were a number of congressmen
whose immunity the government has
hitherto assiduously respected.
c. Police and the armed forces
have been put on the alert in con-
nection with the round-up.
d. The government may also
have decided on a campaign of re-
prisals in kind against Castro-backed
elements. We have heard of one case
where several Molotov cocktails were
tossed at the house of a Communist
leader.
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a. Rio remains uneasy. Gou-
lart's scheduled TV and radio talk
to the nation was called off without
explanation.
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3. Dominican
Republic
b. We had speculated
that Goulart
would use the time to try to sooth
the situation.
c. The Brazilian president
did, however, ask the labor court
to postpone a decision on the legal-
ity of the bank workers strike.
d. Goulart faces a problem
here which will tax his reputed
skill at political maneuver. Labor
leaders have threatened to call a
general strike if the court rules
the strike illegal, while banks will
have to close if the strike contin-
ues,leaving employers without funds
and today is payday.
Late press has Bosch
n Guadeloupe
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4. Guinea
C.
Bosch's party and the Castroist 14th
of June movement have united under
the leadership of the latter.
a. A crisis is shaping up for
Sekou Toure as the sick Guinean
economy continues to sink.
b. The country's most press-
ing problem is a shortage of food
staples. Two food riots have already
taken place, one necessitating the
use of troops.
c. The economy has been hampered,
since Toure's break with France in
1958, by his doctrinaire insistence
on rigid and unworkable central con-
trols. Aid from the Communist coun-
tries amounts to $127 million but
has contributed little to Guinean
growth while saddling the country
with a large external debt.
d. Toure may announce further
steps to encourage western investment
tomorrow.
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5. Communist Asia
a. This year's harvests in
Communist China and North Vietnam
were again mediocre to poor.
b. A Chinese official
has said that this
crop will not be appreciably
than last year's. This is
out by what we know of grow-
ing conditions and peasant morale.
year's
better
borne,
c. It lends some substance to
the fears of Chinese peasants that
rations might sag this winter. We
do not believe, however, that con-
ditions will be anywhere near as
bad as they were in the near-disaster
years of 1959-61.
d. In North Vietnam, both the
early and late, rice, crops were sub-
standard, the result of adverse
weather and the bungling hand of
Hanoi.
e. Bad crops in earlier years
have had no visible effect on North
Vietnamese support of operations in
Laos and South Vietnam, and we see
no signs that this year's will either.
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6, ?Malaysia
a. The Indonesians have let
several chances slip by without more
stirring of the Malaysian pot.
b. Sukarno, for example, ad-
dressed 10,000 students yesterday
without once mentioning the subject,even
though he usuallygoes in for rabble-
rousing before such youthful audiences.
The Indonesians also announced yes-
terday they would rebuild the British
embassy and renovate embassy residences.
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NOTES
A. Somalia - The Bloc We do not regard Somali pros-
pects for obtaining large-scale military aid from
the Communists as particularly good. The Soviets
will probably play along with Somali Defense Minis-
ter Daud to some extent, but they are also committed
to good relations with Ethiopia and Kenya.r
B.
C. Communist China We have not noted anything unusual
in the handling of the 14th anniversary of Mao's
regime today, either from Peiping or the rest of the
Bloc. Greetings from the Soviets and the Eastern
European satellites were perfunctory.
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D. Communist China The first look at photography
taken by the Chinese Nationalists last week has
turned up, near Sian, three more SAM sites. The
pictures also show two installations hard by Lanchou
which resemble SAM sites in an early stage of con-
struction. The Sian sites, if confirmed, would
bring to 14 the number of completed SAM sites in
China. Not all of these appear to be equipped with
the launchers, missiles and electronic gear neeeded
to fire missiles.
E. EEC-USSR The EEC last week sent a note to the
Soviets offering tariff reductions on imports of
Soviet vodka, crabmeat and caviar, in exchange for
abandonment of Moscow's claim to the tariff conces-
sions community members grant each other. Some EEC
people view the offer as a first step toward a
single trade agreement between the community and the
USSR, though they recognize that this will take time.
F.
Honduras President Villeda is confident that Hon-
duras will get through its elections a week from
Sunday without a military coup.
G. Algeria We have no confirmation of press reports
that the rising against Ben Bella is growing in
strength. He is scheduled to address an important
mass meeting at noon Washington time and all employers
in Algiers have been asked to release their workers
so they can attend.
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