THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 4 FEBRUARY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996173
• 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 4, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
4 FEBRUARY 1963
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I. USSR-France
2. Soviet - Free
World trade
a. A French Foreign Ministry
official asserts that the new Franco-
Soviet trade agreement announced last
Saturday provides for an increase of
between eight and eleven per cent in
total trade between the two over a
three-year span.
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3. Soviet lunar
probe fails
b. Imports of Soviet petroleum
products will increase by 20 per cent.
The French say they did not agree to
supply oil pipe to the USSR. The
Russians, we know had tried hard
to get the French pipe.
c. A new long-term Soviet-
Japanese trade agreement is also
nearly ready for signature. The vol-
ume of overall trade is to be reduced,
but the Japanese have agreed to give
the Russians a substantial increase
in credit
a. What we think was a Soviet
lunar probe attempt failed yesterday.
This was the second unsuccessful try
within a month.
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4. Syria
b. The vehicle launched from
Tyuratam yesterday did not achieve
orbit. On 4 January, a vehicle was
put into parking orbit around,the
earth but was not successfully ejected
toward the moon.
c. The USSR has attempted eight
space probes since last August 25.
The vehicle launched into a Mars tra-
jectory on 1 November has been the
sole success.
a. The government of Prime?
Minister Azm has its back to the wall
again. Violent disorders have broken
out in a number of towns, demonstrating
anew the government's tenuous authority.
b. Azm is attempting to fend
off a military takeover by shoring
up his anti-Nasir political coali-
tion.
c. If the military do step in,
however, there are at least three
shades which could become dominant:
pro-Nasir officers in the middle
ranks; conservative senior officers;
or, a burgeoning pro-Communist element.
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5. ,South Korea
6. Cuba
? d. The Azm government's un-
easiness has also produced a serious
strain in relations with Lebanon
\ The Syrian-Lebanese
border has been closed.\
a. The factional struggle goes
on behind a fragile truce.
b. Backed by General Pak, Kim
Chong-pil is again emplaced in con-
trol of the junta's fledgling polit-
ical party.
c. Kim's enemies, led by re-
tired marine General Kim Tong-ha,
who precipitated the last round of
political fighting, are no more will-
ing than ever to concede Kim a monop-
oly of power.
d. General Pak's support for
Kim has cost him standing as factional
arbiter and may place him in the'line
of fire alongside Kim when the battle
breaks out into the open again.
a. The Soviet ship Kasimov,
which reached Havana on 25 Janury,
delivered some 7,500 tons of civilian
goods, including a number of trucks.
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It also
carried six helicopters to
Cuba.
part of this helicopter
fitted out with machine
ground support operations.
The Castro government seems
gotten wind of exile plans
coastal raids./
At least
fleet is
guns for
b,
to have
for new
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NOTES
A. Laos Kong Le, revealing some despair of obtaining
effective help through the three-headed Souvanna
government, has sent a direct appeal for military
provisions to our Embassy in Vientiane.
B. Pakistan-NATO ?The Pakistani suggestion that NATO
should intervene in the Kashmir problem has been
put to rest. The Belgians, after showing interest,
have decided against raising the question in the NAC.
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