THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 26 SEPTEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995949
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 26, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
26 SEPTEMBER 1962
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1. Cuba
a. The port facility in Cuba,
which the Soviets contracted for yes-
terday, will be the first base for
their fishing fleets outside the bloc.
b. The Soviet North Atlantic
fishing fleet of some 500 trawlers has
operated primarily around the Grand
Banks, but has been extending'its op-
erations southward. Some of the trawl-
ers are converted for oceanographic re-
search and communications intelligence
operations.
c. We do ?not know where the base
is planned, but would expect some port
to be chosen which already has some fa-
cilities (and could be expanded later)
to permit early use by Soviet vessels.
d. Meanwhile, Panama is follow-
ing ,up Senator Smathers' idea of a Car-
ibbean region military alliance against
Cuba.
e. Panamanian delegates in New
York are promoting a meeting of the ten
countries concerned to consider the
idea and to work out an agreed position
to present at the forthcoming Washing-
ton meetings.
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2. Berlin
a. U Than?t told Ambassador Steven-
son yesterday, in connection with Khru-
shchev's idea of posting a UN observer
in Berlin, that he did not feel the UN
should un`dertake heavy responsibilities
in Berlin at present.
b. As a beginning, however, U
Thant thought that as a humanitarian
measure an observer might be useful,
perhaps assisting divided families on
both sides of the wall and carrying out
some degree of liaison between the two
sides. In any Case, he did not want to
take the initiative in the matter.
c. The subject of Berlin did not
come up during Secretary Rusk's luncheon
meeting with Gromyko yesterday.
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4. France-Algeria
5. Congo
a.
over 3,000 Europeans who have disap-
peared in Algeria since early July
as victims of Algerian reprisals.
b. Paris is trying to hush up
the matter, both to encourage refugees
to return (there are some 650,000 of
them) And to reduce the political im-
pact of the refugee issue on the Oc-
tober referendum and the later assem-
bly elections.
putting
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Ben Bella is still
government together.
a. more Katangan planes
have been spotted at the same airfield
where UN reconnaissance earlier showed
Harvards
b. The new planes,
to be Harvards, are
adjacent to the field at Kolwezi. Word
is that the Katangans have arranged to
obtain an unknown number of P-51 Mus-
tangs, but we have no confirmation.
also thought
c. Reports that the Katangan
gendarmerie has been expanded
also show that Tshombe has in mind the
possibility of an eventual military
showdown.
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REArigw OF THE SITUATION IN YEMEN
1. Seventy-one-year-old Imam Ahmad.odwite?dled of pulmon-
ary illness on 19 September.)
/He was one of the more colorful mon-
archs of the area.
2. He had ruled Yemen's 5 million citizens since 1948
by buying off powerful tribal chiefs, taking "custody"
(i.e., hostage) of their sons and ruthlessly suppress-
ing all dissidence. During his reign he survived two
coup attempts (one, in 1955, was led by his brother
whom the Imam later publicly executed in a mass be-
heading), a tribal revolt, and an assassination at-
tempt.
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4. Mohammed Badr, the late Imam's 35-year-old son and
"Crown Prince," has moved quickly to consolidate his
position as the new Imam. In a bid for support, he
has announced a general amnesty for political prison-
ers and abolished the system of hostages. There has
as yet been no overt opposition to him, but his ac-
cession is known to be resented by Yemen's powerful
northern tribes.
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5. The Imamate, which is in fact a religious office from
which the holder derives political authority as well,
has by custom been filled by tribal agreement. The
northern tribal chiefs object to the arbitrary desig-
nation of Badr by the late Imam. They would prefer
Prince Hasan, Imam Ahmad's brother, who is presently
in New York as head of the Yemeni UN delegation.
6. Hasan is adopting a wait-and-see attitude toward Badr
and has denied that he plans to return to Yemen to
lead the opposition.
7. Badr has relatively progressive ideas, by Yemeni
standards (i.e., he wants to drag the Yemeni ?out of
the eleventh century but certainly not into the twen-
tieth). But he has not shown himself to have his
father's strength of purpose.
8.
In attempting to placate the conservative tribal
ments, Badr runs the risk of exposing himself to
throw by pro-Nasir republican elements
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9. Badr, as Crown Prince, was instrumental in obtaining
economic and military aid from the Soviet bloc. This
represents economic opportunism rather than political
conviction.
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NOTES
A. French Tests The French plan several atomic tests
in. the Sahara between late next month and early .De-
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B. China-USSR The Reuters correspondent in Peiping
claims that Russian officials there have acknowledged
the two remaining Soviet consulates at Shanghai and
Harbin will be closed next month "as an economy move."
Rumors to this effect had earlier been denied by So-
viet officials in Shanghai and Peiping, but we had
thought it a distinct possibility and are now inclined
to accept it as a fact.
C, China
D. USSR Extensive Far Eastern military exercises of
the pastthree weeks have ended. They featured live
firing to Kamchatka of three medium-range missiles.
E.
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