THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 17 SEPTEMBER 1961

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005959041
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 17, 1961

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PRESIDENTS INTEL IGENCE CHECKL IS?
1. COMIIUNICAT IONS FROM ELI SABETHV 'LUC REMAIN ERRATIC AND
OFFICIAL REPORTING IS RUNNING WELL BEHIND EVENTS OUR LATEST I R-
UT ION SUGGESTS THAT THE MILITARY SITUATION IN KAT ANG A HAS QUIETED,
AT LEAST FOR THE TINE BEING. THE UN APPEARS TO BE MERELY HOLDING 50X1
ITS POSITIONS IN ANTICIPATION OF REINFORCEMENTS WHICH ARE TO INCLUDE
A GROUP OF MALAYAN AROUND CARS, AN ETHIOPI AN BATTALION FROM
STANLEYV LLE , AND AN INDIAN BATIIAL ION FROM LEOPOLDVILLE . AT LEAST:,
SOME OF THE MALAYANS HAVE ARRIVED, AND THE OT HKR REINFORCEMENTS
SHOULD ABR ITE WITH IN A FEW HOURS SIX F.436 JETS FROM ETHIOPIA,
REQUESTED BY HAMMARSKJOLD TO OVERCOME THE SUPER 10H Z?? OF THE 71.0.??
PLANE' MUT ONE- PILOT) KATANGAN AIR FORCE, MAY REACH KATANGA TODAY'.
UNCONFIRMED UN REPORTS INDICATE THAT UN TROOPS AT JADOTVILLE
KAN WA CONTINUE TO HOLD OUT TE UN CLAIMS THE IR ISH BATTALION
ADOTV ILLE HAS ARRANGED A TEMPORARY TRUCE WITH OPPOSING AFRICAN
ES. THE UN ALSO REPORTS TEAT THE EUROPEANS WHO HAVE BEEN
SPARKING THE ATTACKS IN ELI SABETHVI LLE ARE TAKING A LESS ACTIVE ROLE
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IN THE OPERATIONS,
MEANWHILE, THE UN IS CONTINUING TO ENTER NEGOTIA-
TIONS WITH 'MONDE , WHO APPARENTLY -REMAINS IN HIS PALACE IN
ELISARETHVILLE. SAIMARSICJOLD WITH. TEC APPROVAL OF THE .ADOULA
CABINET, HAS OFFERED TO ENTER THE NEGOTIATIONS DIRECTLY. IT THE
SAME TIME, LATE PRESS REPORTS FROM ELISABETHVILLE ASSERT THAT UN
REPRESENTATIVE 01:BRIEN. HAS OBTAINED MONDE' S AGREEMENT- TO MEET.
ACROSS THE BORDER IN. NORTHERN RHODESIA AMD THAT A CEASE-FIRE HAS
BEEN =ACM IN ELISARETHVILLE awn TO BE SEEN WHETHER
TSRONBE NILL- :ACTUALLY COME TO A MEETING, AND IF THEW IS ANY POS:
BILI?! OF AN ACCOMODATION BETWEEN HIE AND THE UN, =ITEM. OF ME
HAS YET INDICATED A .NEGOTIATING .POSITION.
ON BALANCE, THE POSITION OF THE UN APPEARS TO HAVE IMPROVED
-LOMAT, BUY SERIOUS FIGHTING COULD ERUPT AGAIN- AT ANY MOUNT.
2. BLOC. PROPAGANDA ON US UST assomprioi. SINCE YESTERDAY.' S.
FIRST BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENT ON TIM: US: STEP, THEW HAVE BEEN SEVERAL
MORE EXTENSIVE PROPAGANDA PIECES OUT OF MOSCOW DIRECTED AT WESTERN
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IVE ADVANCE IIREPARATION, PROVING US HYPOCRISY IN THE GENEVA
IAT IONS AND ausTrryING MOSCOW'S ACTION IN BEATING US TO THE
PUNCH. THE PIECES NOTE THAT THE US HAS ALL MING SOUGHT TO TAKE
ADVANNAGE OF MOSCOW BY BANNING ONLY ATMOSPHERE TESTS AND IMPLY THAT
THESE ARE MORE ESSENTIAL TO THE USSR THAN TO THE US. MOSCOW ALSO
CLAIMS THAT THE US PLANS, IN ANY CASE, TO TEST IN THE ATMOSPHERE
LATHE. THERE HAS BEEN NO FURTHER COVERAGE AS YET
AND WESTERN REACTIONS.
NEUTRALIST
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3. BERLIN SITUATION. NO SIGNIFICMIE NEW DEVELOPMENTS' HAVE
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