THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 12 APRIL 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996291
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 12, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST,12 APRIL 1963
1. USSR.:
A. MORE INFORMATION HAS COME IN ON THE SHAKEUP OF THE
SOVIET MILITARY HIGH COMMAND. IN ADDITION TO CHIEF OF STAFF
ZAKHAROV AND HIS DEPUTY, ADMIRAL VINOGRADOV, IT NOW LOOKS VIR?
TUALLY CERTAIN THAT GEN. SEROV IS OUT AS SOVIET INTRUIGENCE
CHIEF,
B. THE GENERAL IN CHARGE OF THE DEFENSE MINISTRY'S FOR?
EIGN LIAISON SECTION CROSSED SEROV'S NAME OFF OUR PROSPECTIVE
GUEST LIST FOR THE US ARMED FORCES DAY RECEPTION, SEROV, HE
SAID WITHOUT ELABORATION, COULD NOT COME.
C. CURIOUSLY, THE GENERAL WONDERED WRY WE DID NOT HAVE
ZHUKOV ON OUR LIST, HE SAID ZHUKOV'S.ONLY TROUBLE WAS THAT
HE NEGLECTED POLITICAL TRAINING IN THE ARMED FORCES BUT
7THAT WAS NOW MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AGO.'"
D. THIS CONVERSATION ALSO TURNED UP THE FACT THAT
MARSHAL N. I. KRYLOV, COMMANDER OF THE CRUCIAL (IN KREMLIN
POLITICS) MOSCOW MILITARY DISTRICT, IS THE NEW COMMANDER OF
THE STRATEGIC ROCKET FORCES, THE POST VACATED WHEN MARSHAL
BIRYUZOV BECAME CHIEF OF STAFF.
E. FINALLY, IT SEEMS POSSIBLE THAT THE RUMORS OF MALIN?
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OVSKY'S INVOLVEMENT COULD HAVE SOMETHING BEHIND THEM.
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F. MALINOVSKY FLIES FROM NEW DELHI TO TASHKENT TODAY,
2, LAOS:
A. THE MILITARY SITUATION IN THE PLAINE DES JARRES HAS
NOT CHANGED SUBSTANTIALLY, ALTHOUGH SOME FIGHTING IS AP?
PARENTLY STILL GOING ON.
B. KONG LE SEEMS TO HAVE IN MIND PULLING ALL OF HIS
FORCES FROM OUTLYING AREAS INTO THE PLAINE DES JARRES TO RE?
TAKE XIENG KHOUANG AND MAKE A STRONGHOLD OF THE AREA, HIS
CONCENTRATION TO RETAKE XIENG KHOUANG IS STALLED, HOWEVER
D. 'SOUVANNA IS AT LEAST BLAMING THE PATHET LAO FOR THE
TROUBLE DESPITE THE COMMUNISTS' EFFORT TO, REPRESENT IT AS AN
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3. HAITI:
A. A COUP PLOT TO OUST DUVALIER ABORTED
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C. THIS WILL PROBABLY TOUCH OFF ANOTHER PURGE IN THE
ARMED FORCES AND MAY WELL FORESTALL ANY FURTHER EFFORT FOR
SOME TIME TO COME.
4. CUBA:
A.
AN ALMOST COMPLETE ABSENCE OF
TENSION AMONG THE PEOPLE. SECURITY PROCEDURES SURROUNDING
CASTRO, HOWEVER, HAVE BEEN TIGHTENED AND ALL SPANISH LANGUAGE
BROADCASTS ON MEDIUM WAVE FROM THE US ARE NOW EFFECTIVELY
JAMMED IN THE HAVANA AREA.
PHOTOGRAPHY
SHOWS
NO SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY AT THE SOVIET MILITARY ENCAMPMENTS.
5. CONGO:
A. ADOULA, WITH NOT ENOUGH CABINET POSITIONS TO GO
AROUND, IS IN TROUBLE TRYING TO SATISFY EVERYONE.
B. HE CALLED IN ALL HIS MINISTERS AND STATE SECRETARIES
YESTERDAY
THERE
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IS CONCERN THAT IF GIZENGA IS RELEASED BEFORE THE OPPOSITION
IS MOLLIFIED BY A CABINET SHUFFLE, THEY MAY RALLY TO GIZENGA.
C. ?ADOULA MAY THEN HAVE TO USE FORCE TO HOLD ON.
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