THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 28 JULY 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005995849
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 28, 1962

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THE WHITE HOUSE
OUTGOING MESSAGE
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OPERATION IMMEDIATE28 July 1962
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PRECEDENCE CLASSIFICATIO
DATE
FROM:
TO:
INFO:
CIA/OCI W. O. WEBB
GEN. CLIFTON EYES ONLY
CITE.
THE PRESIDENT'S /NTELLIGRNCE CHECKLIST-28 JULY 1962
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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--28 JULY 1962
I. BERLIN/EAST GERMANY/USSR
A. OUR MISSION IN BERLIN EXPECTS THE SOVIETS AND THEIR EAST
GERMAN MINIONS TO TRY A VARIETY OF PROBES AND CAUTIOUS HARASSMENTS
IN THE COMING WEEKS. AMONG THESE, THE INSINUATION OF EAST GERMAN
OFFICIALS INTO OPERATIONS AT CONTROL POINTS ALONG ALLIED ACCESS
ROUTES TO WEST BERLIN COULD PROVE MOST TROUBLESOME. THE MISSION
NOTES THAT THE EAST GERMANS HAVE ALREADY REORGANIZED AND CENTRALIZED
BORDER CONTROLS, STAFFING ALL CHECK POINTS GOVERNING NON-ALLIED
TRAFFIC TO AND FROM WEST BERLIN WITH TESTED SECURITY (INSTEAD OF
CUSTOMS) PERSONNEL. THIS WOULD BE A LOGICAL FIRST STEP TO GRADUALLY
SUBSTITUTING GERMAN FOR SOVIET CONTROLLERS AT ALLIED CHECK POINTS.
THE MISSION BELIEVES THE START OF ANNUAL FALL MANEUVERS IN SEPTEMBER
WOULD BE A LIKELY TIME TO COMMENCE THIS KIND OF HARASSMENT.
B. AMBASSADOR THOMPSON AND HIS BRITISH COLLEAGUE ARE AGREED
THAT IF THERE IS NO MOVEMENT ON BERLIN BY THE END OF AUGUST,
KHRUSHCHEV WILL PROBABLY GO AHEAD WITH HIS TREATY PLAN. THE SOVIET
LEADER IS ALREADY LETTING IT BE KNOWN HE WILL MAKE AN "IMPORTANT
TRIP" THE LAST WEEK OF AUGUST AND FIRST FEW DAYS OF SEPTEMBER, OUR
INFORMATION IS THAT THE SOVIETS ARE CURRENTLY BUSY TRYING TO LINE
UP AS MANY NEUTRALS AS POSSIBLE BEHIND THE SEPARATE PEACE TREATY
IDEA,- WITH YUGOSLAVIA SO FAR THE ONLY ONE THAT IS SURE TO GO ALONG..
C. WORK CONTINUES ON STRENGTHENING THE INTERSECTOR BORDER IN
BERLIN BUT IT IS GOING BEYOND WHAT WOULD BE HEEDED MERELY TO DISCOURAGE
FIRE FIGHTS BETWEEN POLICE; IT IS BEGINNING TO LOOK MORE AS IF THE
COMMUNISTS WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY COULD CONTAIN ANY BREAKOUT ATTEMPT
BY THE EAST GERMAN POPULATION IN THE EVENT OF A CRISIS.
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2. ALGERIA
A. WHILE HIS TROOPS MANEUVER ABOUT TO BRING PRESSURE ON HIS
OPPONENTS, BEN BELLA HAS HIS EMISSARIES WORKING TO MAKE HIS TAKE
OVER LOOK AS LEGAL AS POSSIBLE. LATEST REPORTS THIS MORNING STILL
GIVE NO. CLEAR WORD ON TM, AGREEMENT, IF ANY, REACHED IN ALGIERS
BETWEEN THE FACTIONS. SPOKESMEN, NOT ALWAYS WELL INFORMED., ARE
MAKING THE FAMILIAR OPTIMISTIC NOISES.
B. VICE-PREMIER BELKACEM KRIM INCREASINGLY ISOLATED AND RE-
PORTEDLY SORE BECAUSE BEN BELLA LEFT HIM OUT OF HIS CABINET, RE-
TURNED FROM ALGIERS YESTERDAY TO HIS BERBER STRONGHOLD STILL SHOUT-
ING DEFIANCE ALTHOUGH HE HAS NO TROOPS POSITIONED TO OPPOSE BEN
BELLA'S ENTRY INTO THE CITY.
C. THE FRENCH ARE MAINTAINING STRICT NEUTRALITY BETWEEN THE
FACTIONS(
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3. CONGO
A. UNION MINIERE IS URGING TSHOMBE TO GET BACK TO THE CQNFERENCE
TABLE SOONEST TO AVOID CATASTROPHE-MEANING, PRESUMABLY, DESTRUCTION
OF UNION MINIERE PROPERTY. TSHOMBE, APPARENTLY UNIMPRESSED, INDI-
CATED ONLY THAT HE WILL RETURN PROMPTLY WHEN ADOULA COMES UP WITH
A "SUITABLE" FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.
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B. OUR PROPOSAL FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION IS HAVING TOUGH
SLEDDING AT THE UN WHERE MANY MEMBERS OF THE CONGO ADVISORY COM-
MITTEE ARE AFRAID THAT ADOULA'S PUBLIC POSITION IS ALREADY SO WEAK
THAT HE COULD NOT SURVIVE ANY FURTHER CONCESSIONS TO TSHOMBg.
C. U THANT HAS COME TO THE CONCLUSION, SHARED BY THE CONGO
ADVISORY COMMITTEE, TEAT THE PRESENT MANDATE IS ADEQUATE TO COVER
UN OPERATIONS, AND HE WILL NOT NOW SEEK FURTHER SECURITY COUNCIL
ACTION.
D. PORTUGAL, MEANWHILE, IS WORKING TO KEEP KATANGA SEPARATE,
BELIEVING THIS TO BE ESSENTIAL TO MAINTENANCE OF PORTUGUESE CONTROL
IN ANGOLA,
4. USSR
THE USSR SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED FROM TYURATAM AN EARTH SATEL-
LITE VEHICLE EARLY THIS MORNING (0518 EDT), BeT-11A-S?Ati?VET?Iiiii3t.
1,40-7A-NNOtHiGEMENT-7 THE ORBIT IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF COSMOS IV WHICH
WAS RECOVERED AFTER THREE DAYS, WE DO NOT KNOW YET WHETHER IT
IS pUsETED.
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NOTES
A. TENSION IS INCREASING BETWEEN priourars FORCES AND PATHET
LAO?KONG LE. DETACHMENTS; SERIOUS INCIDENTS COULD OCCUR IN
VIENTINE AND LUANG PRABANG AS PHOUMI CRACKS DOWN ON THE
ACTIVITIES OF OPPOSING FORCES IN RETALIATION FOR BEING DE?
NIED ACCESS TO THE PLAINE DES JARRES.
B. TO GET SUKARNO OFF THE HOOK, THE INDONESIANS NOW HOPE THEY
CAN SELL THE IDEA THAT ALL THE UN HAS TO DO IS "BEGIN" TO
TRANSFER ADMINISTRATION OF WEST NEW GUINEA ON I JANUARY,
C. EVIDENTLY THE 26 JULY ANNIVERSARY AFFAIR IN CUBA WAS JUST
ABOUT AS DULL AS THE MAY DAY AFFAIR. CASTRO'S SPEECH CON?
TAINED NO SURPRISES; AS EXPECTED, GUANTANAMO CAME IN FOR
HEAVY PLAY.
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