THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 7 DECEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996076
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 7, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
7 DECEMBER 1962
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1, USSR-US-Cuba
2. Cuba
a, Kuznetsov still boggles
at some of the wording in our
draft declaration.
? b. He conveyed a suggestion
from Khrushchev that both sides
agree on very brief declarations
which would be presented to the Se-
curity Council. Points not agreed
would then be made in separate
statements to be issued either in
or outside the Security Council.
a. We estimate that some
4,000 Soviet military personnel
have left Cuba since early November
in connection with the removal of
missiles and bombers.
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3. Congo
a. Our people in Leopoldville
are afraid the Soviets are about to
make a dramatic reentry onto the Congo
stage with a firm offer of military
aircraft and other equipment to the
Congo government.
b. Adoula has informed both
Gullion and Gardiner of his concern
Over "reports" and "rumors" to this
effect, and Mobutuis deputy chief
of staff has told us the Soviets
are indeed drawing up a shopping
list.
c. These new reports do not
appear to have been conjured out of
nothing simply to put pressure on us,
even though Congolese officials have
been pressing their requests for US
equipment more urgently in recent
days.
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4. Argentina
d. Adoula says he would be
overruled by parliament were he to
refuse a specific Soviet offer.
e. Adoula, who is in a highly
despondent state, refuses to come
to New York for talks with the UN.
f. ?Bpaak is very pessimistic
and says he can foresee only war
and destruction of Katanga unless
some new element is introduced.
Belgium, he says, has exhausted its
possibilities.
.g. Bunches plan is to get the
cooperation of all concerned to
stop buying Katangan copper on which
duties had not been paid to Adoulats
government. Yost thinks this pro-?
posal lacks the immediate impact
which the situation in the Congo
appears to require.
a. The Argentine political
crisis subsided last night with a
firm Army declaration of support
for Guido and the principle of
elections.
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c, Guido will be closeted
today with a group of economic
,experts to settle on Alsogaray's
-replacement and decide what is to
be done about the plague of economic
troubles,
a. Royalist tribesmen are
holding stubbornly to most of the
rugged northern and eastern terri-
tory which they have controlled
from the beginning of hostilities,
but they have made no lasting pene-
trations outside of these areas,
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d. Our embassy in Jidda has
learned that the Saud family is
planning a massive
investment abroad
f. Moscow, according to press
reports, has agreed to build alar :e,
modern airport at Taiz.
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NOTES
B, Communist China Indications are the Chinese will
soon resume testing at their missile test range
(Shuangchengtzu) in West China.
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