THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 22 DECEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996102
• 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 22, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST-22 DECEMBER 1962'
1. CONGO:
A. THE CONGOLESE LOWER HOUSE YESTERDAY PASSED A RESOLUTION
CALLING FOR THE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF GIZENGA. EVEN GOVERN?
MENT MINISTERS JOINED IN TO MAKE THE VOTE UNANIMOUS.
B. LEFTIST FORCES WERE ALSO TRYING TO GENERATE PUBLIC
DEMONSTRATIONS IN PROTEST AGAINST THE TRUMAN MISSION.
C. IN ANTICIPATION OF WHAT WAS DEVELOPING, GULLION TRIED
TO GET FROM ADOULA SOME INTIMATION OF WHERE HE INTENDED TO GO
NEXT. HE UNCOVERED AN ATTITUDE WHICH "WAS NEITHER DESPAIRING,
NOR DETERMINED; MERELY DETACHED."
D. THIS WAS ENOUGH TO CONVINCE GULLION THAT ADOULA WAS
TOTALLY HAMSTRUNG IN PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WOULD NOT MOVE
TO FREE HIMSELF--BY RECESSING PARLIAMENT--WITHOUT BEING PRODDED.
SECRETARY RUSK'S INSTRUCTIONS TO PROVIDE THIS PRODDING HAVE
BEEN RECEIVED BY GULLION.
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NOW EMPHATICALLY IN FAVOR OF PARLIAMENTARY HIATUS, BUT PRESI?
DENT KASAVUBU STILL NEEDS CONVINCING.
2. BRAZIL:
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THERE ARE DISTINCT.
SIGNS OF A GROWING ANXIETY AMONG THE CONSERVATIVES OVER THE
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORIENTATION OF THE GOULART GOVERNMENT.
3. LAOS:
A. SOUVANNA WAS TO FLY TO THE PLAINE DES JARRES AGAIN TODAY,
WITH SOUPHANNOUVONG ALONG ONCE MORE, FOR ADDITIONAL REPAIR WORK
ON HIS SPLINTERED NEUTRALIST ORGANIZATION.
B. WHILE HE IS TRYING TO PUT HIS HOUSE IN ORDER THERE, AN
EQUALLY SHARP INTRAMURAL FEUD HAS ERUPTED AMONG HIS FOLLOWERS
IN PRONG SALY PROVINCE, THE LONG?TIME VICEROY OF THE PROVINCE,
GENERAL KHAMOUANE, WHO HAD BEEN IN VIENTIANE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS,
RETURNED HOME YESTERDAY/
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5. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
A. OUR EMBASSY IN SANTO DOMINGO SUMMARIZES THE ELECTION
AS FREE CLEAN, PEACEABLE AND AS HAVING PRODUCED A BIG TURNOUT.
B. LATEST UNOFFICIAL RETURNS GIVE JUAN BOSCH OF THE
MODERATELY LEFTIST DOMINICAN REVOLUTIONARY PARTY A MARGIN OF
SOME 300,000 VOTES OVER HIS CLOSEST COMPETITOR, CONSERVATIVE
VIRIATO FIALLO.
C. BOSCH IS DUE IN THE US ON SUNDAY TO SPEND THE HOLIDAYS
WITH HIS STUDENT SON, AMBASSADOR MARTIN IS URGING A GET-
ACQUAINTED STOPOVER HERE IN WASHINGTON BEFORE HE RETURNS TO
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
6. AFGHANISTAN:
A. THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT IS DUG IN AS DEEPLY AS EVER IN
ITS DISPUTE WITH PAKISTAN,
B. IN A LONG SESSION WITH THE US AMBASSADOR ON THURSDAY,
PRIME MINISTER DAUD INSISTED THAT HE WOULD RATHER LOSE US AID
ALTOGETHER--MUCH AS HE VALUED IT--THAN HAVE IT SHIPPED? IN THROUGH
PAKISTAN.
C. HE SAID THERE WOULD BE NO GIVING IN TO PAKISTAN EVEN IF
THIS COURSE SHOULD PUT HIS COUNTRY'S NEUTRALITY IN JEOPARDY.
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D. THE ANSWER, DAUD CONTENDS, IS SHIPMENT OF US GOODS BY
WAY OF IRAN,
7. NOTES:
A. USSR: AFTER TWO FALSE STARTS A SPACE VEHICLE WAS
LAUNCHED FROM TYURATAM THIS MORNING. WE CANNOT YET SAY WHETHER
IT HAS BEEN PUT INTO ORBIT OR WHAT TYPE OF VEHICLE IS INVOLVED,
C. INDIA?CHINA: THE PIECEMEAL CHINESE WITHDRAWAL IN NEFA
IS CONTINUING, BUT THERE IS STILL LITTLE CLEAR SIGN OF WHAT,
IF ANYTHING, IS HAPPENING IN LADAKH.
D. SOVIET BLOC ECONOMY: PLANS FOR ACHIEVING A HIGH DEGREE
OF INTEGRATION OF BLOC ECONO IES ARE UNFOLDING WITHIN THE COUN?
CIL OF MUTUAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE. THE PROJECT IS FAR ENOUGH
ALONG AFTER A RECENT CEMA MEETING IN BUCHAREST THAT THE PARTY
FIRST SECRETARIES OF THE ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES (MINUS CHINA,
ALBANIA AND NORTH KOREA) ARE EXPECTED TO MEET SOON TO PUT THEIR
SEALS ON IT.
E. NORTH KOREA: THE NORTH KOREANS, SOUNDING MORE AND MORE
LIKE PEIPING EVERY DAY, YESTERDAY LODGED A PROTEST BEFORE THE
JOINT MILITARY ARMISTICE COMMISSION OVER AN ALLEGED US U-2
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OVERFLIGHT ON 6 DECEMBER. THEY CHARGED THAT THE FLIGHT
WAS AN EXAMPLE OF US PROVOCATION
AND CONSISTENT WITH "AMERICAN INVASION PROGRAMS."
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CUBA:
RECENT PRESS REPORTS THAT HAVANA HAS CALLED HOME THE
HEADS OF DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS THROUGHOUT WESTERN EUROPE.
G. ECUADOR: ANGRY MUTTERING AGAINST PRESIDENT AROSEMENA
IS REACHING A CRESCENDO AFTER ANOTHER DISGRACEFUL PUBLIC PER?
FORMANCE.
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