THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 18 DECEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996727
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 18, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
18 DECEMBER 1963
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1. South Vietnam a. Leaders in Saigon are ob-
Cambodia viously concerned over a rise in
neutralist sentiment.
2. Afro-Asian
conference
b. They have sent a special
emissary to Phnom Penh, hoping to
improve relations and dissuade Si-
hanouk from pressing his neutrality
proposals further.
c. To make Sihanouk more re-
ceptive, they have publicly renounced
the Diem regime's claim to a group
of islands in the Gulf of Siam which
have been in dispute.
a. Plans for another major
Afro-Asian neutrality conference
are beginning to shape up.
b. A meeting of foreign minis-
ters of various Aonal.igned countries
has been proposed for next month to
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3. .Cuba-USSR
settle details, and their principals
may meet late next summer or early
in the fall.
c. Peiping is clearly worried
as the conference would include India
and exclude them.
d. Pointing to the "threat"
of our prospective Indian Ocean
Task Force, the Chinese argue for
early convening of a rival conference
which they could control.
a.
Cuban training with
the SAM, coast defense cruise mis-
siles, and Komar (boat-launched) mis-
siles, is in a "very advanced stage."
b.
the Soviets had
obtained an agreement from Castro
not to use the SAM against US high-
altitude reconnaissance aircraft,
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4. France - Com- a. On returning from his un-
munist China official trip to Peiping, former.
Premier Edgar Faure recommended to
De Gaulle that France go ahead and
recognize the Peiping government.
5. Yemen
b. He had, "on his own author-
ity," discussed terms for this with
the Chinese.
c. Faure told Ambassador Bohlen
he found De Gaulle very attentive,
but, as usual, the latter gave no
indication what, if anything, he would
do.
a.
the Yemeni executive council and
all cabinet members have submitted
their resignations.
b. The move is attributed to
general indignation over Egyptian
refusal to allow the government to
be reconstituted along lines pro-
posed by Yemeni tribal and religious
leaders
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6. Iraq
a. President Arif has been
chipping cautiously away at Baathist
sources of strength in the military
with the result that the Baathists
are actively plotting to overthrow
him.
Saudi Arabia a. There has been no break in
the Saud-Faysal confrontation.
c. ?Faysal is still in control
of things, and there have been no
disturbances.
d. Saud apparently is still in
his palace.
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A. Cuba A meeting of Latin American Communists may be
held in Rio toward the end of this month to decide
on ways to counter anticipated OAS action in the
Venezuelan arms cache case.
B. USSR The Russians are having their trouble with
TOT-ne 400 African students in Moscow. This morning
they clashed with police in a demonstration protest-
ing the alleged murder of one of their number by a
Russian.
C. Turkey Inonu has failed in his bid to put together
another coalition. It may take weeks before a
new try is made.
D. Italy Moro's troubles are not over, but he got
his voteof confidence last night, 350 to 233.
Twenty-five of the Socialist left-wing splinter
group walked out before the vote--a move which sug-
gests that for the time being at least, they will
try to remain within the party.
E. USSR-US Soviet reporting of the President's UN
speech has been prompt and factual and has stressed
those portions calling for strengthening peace and
ending the cold war.
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F. Commonwealth-Malaysia The British have been try-
ing with some urgency to involve Australia and New
Zealand in the defense of Sarawak and North Borneo.
Neither country so far has conceded any need for this,
and the issue may become a sore spot in relations
between the Commonwealth members.
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