THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 8 OCTOBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996598
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 8, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
8 OCTOBER 1963
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1. Brazil
2. coa7pssil.
a. Goulart has withdrawn his
request for congressional approval
of a state of siege in the face of
almost certain rejection by congress.
b. One result of all this is
that Goulart will probably now have
to put off any plans he might have
had to use the special powers for a
move against Lacerda.
c. The attitude of military
leaders who had pressed for the
measure for different reasons is
not yet clear. They will probably
do nothing,as the strike wave seems
to have abated for the moment.
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b. Photography
indicate the ship
docked and unloaded in Mariel
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3. USI
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4.
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a. things were
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bad in the New Lands this year
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b. Kazakhstan, heart
of the New Lands area, harvested
less than four bushels of wheat to
the acre. This is less than half
of last year's average, which, itself
was not too good. The US averages
between 15 and 20.
c. In 1958, when the New Lands
produced a fairly good crop, the
area accounted for about one-fourth
of Soviet wheat production, but dimin-
ishing soil moisture and fertility
have steadily reduced the area's-con-
tribution since.
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5. Saudi Arabia -
Yemen
6. .Burma
d. We estimate the total
Soviet wheat harvest will be around
44 million metric tons as against
57 million tons estimated for last
year.
c. In Yemen, the remaking of
the government is proceeding, but is
being done by committee and promises
to be slow.
a. Ne Win continues to try to
suppress discontent and agitation
by force.,
b. In an ever widening vicious
circle, however; this tactic seems
to have generated more agitation
requiring further and more numerous
preventive arrests.
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c. Ne Win still fears a coup,
and has concentrated on opposing
political leaders and unreliables
among the military.
d. He has so far been cautious
in handling his religious opponents,
but criticism from that quarter, too,
is sharpening.
e. A leading Buddhist monk told
a crowd of some 10,000 in Mandalay
late last month that Ne Win should
be overthrown.
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NOTES
A. Dominican Republic A state of siege was declared
in effect in Santo Domingo last night following a
substantial flare-up between police and university
students who were demonstrating against Bosch's
overthrow. The university area has been closed off,
but the situation is still precarious.
B. France-EEC The French are putting out the line
among their EEC partners that there is no need to
hurry with preparations for "Kennedy-Round" tariff
negotiations because the US administration would
just as soon put them off until after the 1964 elec-
tions anyway.
C. Mexico-Cuba
wheat
sell
to Cuba.
Mexican
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