THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 21 SEPTEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996570
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 21, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST-21 SEPTEMBER 1963
1. USSR--WHEAT:
A. MOSCOW HAS, OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, SOLD MORE THAN
$100 MILLION WORTH OF GOLD IN WESTERN EUROPE*
B. THE SALES WILL HELP COVER INITIAL EXPENSES OF THE
GRAIN DEALS. THERE WILL PROBABLY BE MORE GOLD SOLD0, WITH
THE TOTAL FOR THIS YEAR PERHAPS TOPPING THE 1961 PEAK OF
$310 MILLION.
C. THE pgss IS REPORTING SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS FOR 260,000
TONS OF WEST GERMAN FLOUR, WHICH WOULD PRESUMABLY BE MILLED 50X1
FROM GERMAN GRAIN IMPORTS.
D* THE MASSIVE GRAIN PURCHASES HAVE ALREADY LED TO
SINOSOVIET COMPETITION FOR SHIP CHARTERS.
2. USSR-CUBA:
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3. PAKISTAN:
A.
AYUB HAS AGREED 50X1
TO AN OCTOBER VISIT BY CHINESE COMMUNIST FOREIGN MINISTER
CHEN YI.
B. LAST WEEK THE PAKISTANI FOREIGN MINISTER HAD ASSURED
AMBASSADOR MCCONAUGHY THAT SUCH A VISIT WAS "NOT IN THE MILL,
NOW" BUT MIGHT TAKE PLACE EVENTUALLY.
C. PAKISTAN WILL PROBABLY CONTEND THAT CHEN Yl IS BET-
TER THAN PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI., WHOM THE CHINESE WANTED INVITED,
4. SOUTH VIETNAM:
A. VISIBLE SIGNS OF THE BUDDHIST CRISIS HAVE ALL BUT
DISAPPEARED FROM SAIGON.
B. COUP PLOTTING CONTINUES UNABATED, HOWEVER.
C. LAST WEEK VIET CONG ATTACKS REACHED THEIR HIGHEST
LEVEL OF THE YEAR, WITH MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IN THE DELTA.
THE UPSWING, PARTLY SEASONAL, COULD ALSO BE 4 COMMUNIST AT-
TEMPT TO KEEP THE SITUATION UNSETTLED.
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MADAME NHU IS IN ROME. HER FORWARD PLANS ARE UN-
CERTAIN BUT APPARENTLY INCLUDE STOPS IN PARIS AND LONDON.
IT MAY BE TWO WEEKS OR SO BEFORE SHE GETS HERE TO BEGIN "RE-
EDUCATING" US.
5, COMMUNIST CHINA:
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B.
.MANY CHINESE ALARMED OVER THE LOSS
OF SOVIET SUPPORT AND FEARFUL LEST THIS LEAD TO
DIFFICULTIES,
C.
FOOD, DESPITE IMPROVEMENTS SO
STOCK IN THE REGIME'S ABILITY
LEVELS ALL WINTER.
6, MALAYSIA:
A. MANILA MAY BE EDGING TOWARD A MORE MODERATE POSITION
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PEOPLE ARE STILL WORRIED ABOUT 50X1
FAR THIS YEAR, AND PUT LITTLE
TO KEEP RATIONS AT PRESENT
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B. THERE HAVE BEEN NO FURTHER MOVES AGAINST THE BRITISH
IN INDONESIA AND THE EVACUATION OF BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN
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NATIONALS HAS PROCEEDED WITHOUT INCIDENT.
C. DJAKARTA'S INTENTIONS WITH RESPECT TO BRITISH FIRMS
ARE CLOUDY, BUT ITS MANEUVERS SO FAR ARE REMINISCENT OF THE
INITIAL MOVES AGAINST DUTCH FIRMS WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN RE-
TURNED.
7. NOTES:
A. USSR: THE SOVIETS HAVE RELEASED EXTENSIVE SUMMARIES
OF THE PRESIDENT'S UN SPEECH. OMITTED, HOWEVER, WERE HIS
PROPOSALS TO SHARE AN EXPEDITION TO THE MOON. ONE MOSCOW
RADIO COMMENTARY WAS MILDLY CRITICAL OF OTHER ASPECTS OF THE
SPEECH.
B. BRAZIL: THE AUTHORITIES HAVE EXPOSED AN ATTEMPT
BY RETIRED ADMIRAL SYLVIO HECK, A CONGENITAL--
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--COUP PLOTTER, TO BUILD UP A STOCK OF WEAPONS IN RIO. 50X1?
AT A MINIMUM THE INCIDENT WILL MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE
CONSERVATIVE MILITARY TO CONVINCE GOULART THAT HE SHOULD TAKE
A STRONGER HAND WITH THE LEFTISTS. RUMORS PERSIST THAT SOME
SORT OF MOVE AGAINST GOULART IS IN THE WORKS.-
C. PORTUGUESE GUINEA1
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D. CUBA-UK(
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FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ARE IMMINENT HAS BEEN REINFORCING
HAITI'S NORTHEASTERN BORDER.
F. NORWAY: THE THREE-WEEK-OLD GOVERNMENT OF CONSERVA-
TIVE LEADER LYNG HAS FALLEN. ALL SIGNS POINT NOW TO A RE-
TURN TO POWER OF A MINORITY GOVERNMENT UNDER FORMER PRIME
MINISTER GERHARDSEN. HIS FLIRTATION WITH THE FAR LEFT
SOCIALISTS AND THE SCARS HE LEFT ON THE CONSERVATIVES BY TOP-
PLING THEIR FIRST GOVERNMENT IN 28 YEARS WITHOUT GIVING IT
A CHANCE WILL NOT MAKE HIS ROAD ANY SMOOTHER.
G. LAOS: THE NORTH VIETNAMESE APPEAR TO HAVE REOPENED
THEIR MAIN TRUCK ROUTE INTO THE PLAINE DES JARRES AREA.
TRAFFIC ON THE ROUTE HAD BEEN AT A VIRTUAL STANDSTILL SINCE
EARLY AUGUST AS A RESULT OF ME0 INTERDICTION OPERATIONS AND
THE RAINY SEASON WHICH IS NOW ENDING.
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