THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 19 APRIL 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992306
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 19, 1962

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1. Congo
2. France-Algeria
Tshombd was back in Elisabeth-
ville this morning following yester-
day's seriocomic episode, which saw
him sitting in an overheated pl ne
for more than 12 hours at the Leopold-
ville airport while the Congo govern-
ment blocked his take-off. His
departure came in the early morning
hours after Nigerian troops under the 50)(1
UN cleared obstructing fire trucks
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from Congolese Army forces. While
this was going on, Adoula
was steaming up the Congo river, having
told Ambassador Gullion before leaving
Leopoldville that he and Tshombe had
agreed to resume talks on Saturday.
However, getting the two together
again will be no easy job.
a. Faced by spreading anarchy in.
Algeria and indications that oslem
patience is wearing dangerously thin,
Paris moved yesterday to crack down
on the OAS. It named a new military
commander-in-chief, Gen. Fourquet
who has been a loyal servant of De
Gaulle's policy, and dispatched the
Minister for Algerian Affairs, Louis
Joxe, to Algeria with uthority to
effect on-the-spot measures in support
of the cease fire.
b. Within the Provisional Algerian
Government, intensified politic 1 in-
fighting is helping to bring to the
surface the lways latent suspicions
concerning French good faith.
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3.
Argentina Guido!sInterior Minister, who
has been key figure in efforts to
work out a solutioavshort of A:total
ban on the,Peronists, has 1'00-00,
and the preSs:thi morning is re.7
porting heavy new pressure o Guido
from the milit ry. The compromise
plan which would oust the PerOnists
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from provincial governorships but
allow them to take their places in
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,Congress, is Still alive but is,
having tough sledding
4.
Soviet nuclear test
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:prep rationS
5. Laos
an increased tempo in Soviet activities
of a type associ ted with staging for
nuclear testing. Both the Arctic and
Central Asian test sites are involved?.
We see some indications that further
testing may be oriented more toward
missiles than in the past and we think
that preparations are far enough ad-
vanced so that tests could now begin
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Souvanna's neutralist followers
are increasingly rrorried that the
political impasse and his prolonged
absence will work for the aggr ndizement
of the Pathet Lao at his expense. Some
of the Souvanna people, expecting some-
thing worse than the longstanding fric-
tion with the Pathet Lao, h ve sent their
families to Cambodi
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WATCH COMMITTEE CONCLUSIONS.-18 April 1962
On the basis of findings by its-.Watch Committee, the United
StateseIntelligenteBoard concludes that:
? No Sino-Soviet bloc country intends deliberately to initiate
direct military action in the immediate future.
BERLIN: The Soviets continue to avoid major harassments
over access, and we see no indications that they expect early mil-
itary confrontation over Berlin.
INDQNESIA: Further small-scale clashes are likely, and both
sides Continue preparations to increase the scale of operations.
_LAOS: ?Military Activity probably will be limited to small-
scale attacks by both sides; however, a buildup of materiel for
Communist forces continues.
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A.
Soviet delegate
Moscow will accept
for further negotiations"
meantime.
NOTES
disarmament conference that
ban proposals "as a basis
there are no tests in the
Zorin has told the
the neutrals' test
--provided
B.
A Soviet ICBM as successfully launched from Tyuratam yesterday.
First indications are that it was one of the Category. C vehicleS,
hich would bringthBsaxeonthat
type
to 9 successes and at least
5 failures.
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C.
A flurry of extremist
violence and
sabotage attempts at scattered
points in Venezuela are causing the government a new headache.
Security forces are rated up to handling an outright revolt but
are having no luck against these hit-and-run tactics.
D.
India yesterday announced that it is formally protesting a
new Chinese Communist border incursion.
LATE NOTE.
A Reuters di patch just in from London says that Moscow has named
a new commander for its forces in East: Germany. This means that .
Marshal KOnev, appointed to the post last.AugUst,1 just before General
Clay a6 named, is being called home.
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE,
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Subendrlo ias told Jones the
act on the Popo case, hut
that the release can be bandied
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