THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 13 DECEMBER 1961

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992083
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 13, 1961

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
13 DEC. 1961
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. Congo
The UN Command plans to launch its
offensive against Tshombe's main base
in Elizabethville tomorrow following
todays scheduled US airlift of Ethiopian?
reinforcements and materiel. Time for
the operation is limited, however for the
UN air force must stand down for maintenance
early next week. US officials in Katanga
suspect that the UN military are not
completely under civilian control and
intend to go beyond the limited objectives
assigned them (establishing freedom of
movement and removing the mercenaries)
in "revenge" for the September fiasco.
Our people believe, moreover, that the
UN military leaders have made a
"hopelessly unrealistic" assessment of
Katangan strength, based on "incestuous
exchange of their own views."
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2. Adenauer's position
on Berlin negotiations
3. Venezuela
The Chancellor may find it more and
more difficult to make good on his
promise in Washington last month to
support East-West negotiations limited
to Berlin in the face of general
opposition to this concept in Germany.
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Betancourt will specify today, topics
for discussion with the President.
Embassy Caracas is certain these will
A. faster action on loans;
B. military aid and more generous credit
terms;
C. commercial aviation problems.
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4. Sukarno on West
New Guinea
5. Goa: Nehru has
still not given
go-ahead signal
Jones anticipates Sukarno will not
issue an attack order in his speech
scheduled for next Tuesday but will
set the stage for an ultimate take
over should "peaceful" pressures
fail. Meanwhile muscle flexing
continues: yesterday Sukarno an-
nounced formation of a 15-member
mobilization council with himself
as head; a naval amphibious exercise
is scheduled between 12-23 December.
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now expects military action unless
Portuguese concessions are immediately
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dispositions from the Pakistanis, are
evacuating women and children and
trying to draw world attention to the
Indian threat. Spain is actively
seeking to line up support for Latin
American mediation of the dispute.
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NOTES
A. Ambassador Bruce believes MacMillan's major topics in the
Bermuda talks will be Berlin, the Congo and nuclear testing.
B. The Dominican situation remains on dead center.
C. Paraguayan exile groups may be building up to some new action
against the Stroessner regime. Although plotting is perennial
and a number of small scale rebel invasions over the last couple
of years have been turned back easily, the government is more
nervous than usual about its security, particularly the
possibility of renewed Communist controlled guerrilla attacks
on police installations in the interior.
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E. Brown reports Phoumi may now be gtying to undercut Souvanna by
reviving the old idea of persuading the King himself to accept
the Prime Ministershin.
I Meanwhile,
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the Princes are dickering over a meeting date.
F. Under the October economic agreement with the USSR, the Afghans will
get a 50-year, interest-free credit of $115 million on which re-
payment need not begin until 25 years after the money is spent;
and a two-percent $81 million credit repayable in 30 years.
G. The latest returns from Australia's complex electoral system show
that Menzie's coalition government suffered a decisive setback
in Saturday's elections which turned almost entirely on domestic
economic issues. To develop an effective working majority
Menzies, as in 1949, may have to try again with a new general
election early next year.
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H. Garcia has formally protested the Philippine election results,
and is now trying to find ways of making his protest effective.
Macapagal, meanwhile, is gaining support among the military.
The latter's likely to prove the decisive factor.
LATE ITEM
Further on Indonesia. Jones saw Foreign Minister Subandrio
today but we have not yet received his report. After the meeting,
however, Subandrio told the press that West New Guinea "has become
a problem between Indonesia and the United States and this has been
stated in a letter from President Kennedy to President Sukarno,?
Indonesia wants to know now for Certain whether there is any change in
the America attitude. Indonesia still hopes for some improvement in
this attitude."
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