THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 6 FEBRUARY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996177
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: February 6, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
6 FEBRUARY 1963
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1. Cuba
2. Congo
a. Another pre-Castro Com-
munist has turned up in a key mili-
tary post. He is Maj. Flavio Bravo,
noted in a recent Havana broadcast
as chief of operations of the Army
General Staff.
b. In April 1959, Bravo was
on the party's military commission--
charged with ensuring party control
over Castro's then disorganized
forces; he is now also a member of
the 24-man directorate of Castro's
political machine.
c. He is the second veteran
Communist we have found on the gen-
eral staff; Joaquin Ordoqui has been
chief of supply for over a year.
a. The next problem shaping
up is that of maintaining order in
Katanga when UN forces there start
thinning out--the Indians are pre-
paring now for their departure next
month. Some tribal tensions are
building up and the Balubas and other
tribal minorities in Elisabethville
are disturbed over threats by Katan-
gan gendarmes who say they will take
reprisals when the UN goes.
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3. Portuguese
Guinea
b. In Leopoldville, Adoula is
coming under increasing pressure--
his opposition is criticizing him
for allowing Tshombe to remain in
office.'
c. Tshombe himself has left
Elisabethville for Rhodesia. The
local betting is that he is, as he
claims, going for treatment of an
eye condition and that he will be
back.
a. Nationalist elements in
Portugal's West African colony are
stepping up their guerrilla campaign.
Scattered incidents of terrorism
last month culminated in the sabotage
of a tanker in Bissau harbor. ,
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4. Guinea-USSR
c. With the pot bubbling in
Angola and simmering in Mozambique,
the Portuguese may be in for a rough
year.
a. The Russians
have again managed to damage their
relations with Guinea.
b. The Guineans prevented
Soviet Embassy officials from put-
ting a Soviet girl teacher aboard an
Aeroflot plane against her will--she
said it was for "fraternizing with
Guineans."
c. This is being interpreted
as, among other things, a racial af-
front. Guinea's Minister of Educa-
tion says the Soviet Ambassador will
probably be declared persona non
grata. His predecessor was expelled
in December 1961,
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5. USSR
a. We have been estimating
that the 1962 grain harvest has
fallen far short of Soviet plans,
hopes, and claims (they claim 147
million metric tons; we think it
closer to 115 million).
b. Our estimates have been
based on such factors as weather
conditions, the state of the crops
as noted here and there by touring
Westerners, etc. However, we now
have our first direct confirmation
that statistics have been diddled
and the situation is in fact very
bad,
there was much
wringing of hands over the grain
shortage and the need to economize.
officials at the regional
and local level--in order to meet
their delivery quotas?have cut into
their stocks for feed and seed. This
in turn May result in even further
trouble in 1963.
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NOTES
A. Brazil Yesterday we noted a test of strength be-
tween conservative Ranieri Mazzilli and ultranational-
ist Leonel Brizola over re-election of the former
as President of the Chamber of Deputies. Mazzilli
won.
B. France-Spain Information emerging thus far on the
Madrid visit of General Ailleret, French Chief of
Staff, suggests that it may only be a protocol affair
in return for a visit by Spanish military chief. Munoz-
Grandes last fall.
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D.
Mexico-Poland Polish Prime
Minister
in response to
Cyrankiewicz
a Mexican
visits Mexico next month
invitation.
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E.
USSR-Yugoslavia-Chile
The Yugoslays
now turn up as
Soviet front men in the
play for Latin
America.
Chilean ambassadors here
and there are
being subjected
to "suave" Yugoslav approaches urging reestablishment
of diplomatic relations with the USSR and other Bloc
countries.
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