THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 13 MARCH 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996236
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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: March 13, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
13 MARCH 1963
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1. Iraq
a. A move is afoot to send
back some of the Soviet arms which
flooded in under Qasim.
b. A group of army and air
force officers has decided to recom-
mend to the defense minister that
the SAM project be cancelled and
that both the SAM's and the Soviet
technicians be sent back. They argue
not only that the deal costs too
much but that the project serves
essentially Soviet rather than Iraqi
needs.
c. Meanwhile, we see
that
arrangements tor Egyptian military
collaboration and assistance are
continuing.,
d. But Baghdad may be looking
elsewhere for economic aid.
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2. UAR - Saudi a. Radio Cairo is now moving
Arabia - Yemen to blanket out Saudi Arabia's Radio
Mecca. On Sunday, Cairo changed the
frequency on one of its transmitters
so that it almost obliterated Radio
Mecca's medium-wave broadcast signal.
b. U Thant said yesterday he
was ready to send Bunche to Saudi
Arabia today provided Faysal con-
firms his welcome without pre-condi-
tions; Ambassador Hart was told yes-
terday such an assurance was being
sent, but it had not been received
in New York last night.
c. U Thant is also floating
the idea of a summit conference--
Faysal, Nasir and Sallal--over which
he would preside. He is testing it
out first on Nasir.
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3. Indonesia
b. Sukarno is now moving to
set up his embassy in Havana (Castro
already has a man in Djakarta). To
do the job he is going to send Air
Marshal Suryadarma (former Air Force
Chief, now shunted to an adviser's
desk in the Defense Ministry) and
his wife. Sukarno may be sending
Suryadarma on the junket (six months)
as a way of rewarding an old friend,
but Mrs. Suryadarma is knee-deep in
Indonesian Communist Front activities.
c. Indonesia's oil adviser
says he thinks the Indonesians will
compromise with the western oil com-
panies if they agree to the "basic
principles" that Indonesia take over
oil distribution facilities in five
years and refineries within fifteen
years.
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4. Burma
5. Cuba--
Shipping
on Thurs-
day a long-pending agreement was
signed under which the USSR is to
sell Burma 1,000 tractors and help
build factories for agricultural
tools and machinery.
a. Pravda today carries a mov-
ing dispatch from Havana on the de-
parture from Cuba of Soviet soldiers
who have accomplished their task of
of helping the "Cuban comrades 'fully
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6. Cuba
master the powerful, modern Soviet
techniques." Pravda says four ships
have left with troopsand that a
fifth (the Nakhimov) has arrived in
Havana.
b. Pravda makes no mention of
the Maria?Maziova which docked Mon-
day night. Meanwhile, we have had no
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reports on the loading of either ship.
c. Havana, seeking to bolster
its own merchant fleet, has asked
the Soviet shipping representative
in London for information on prices
of "five steamships, destined for
scrapping." Havana described them
as of 4,600 tons each, built about
1947.
d. Cuba has acquired only a
few cargo vessels from the Bloc--
one from East Germany, two from
Poland.
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NOTES
A. Communist China A sharp jump over the last
two weeks in activity on the radio nets serv-
ing China's missile test range, combined with
increased transport flights there for several
months, leads us to believe the range may be
coming back to life. We cannot prove any opera-
tional activity there since last March.
B. India Food grain production this year is expected
to fall about 10% below the level planned, and it
seems unlikely that recent new measures to increase
production will succeed to the extent that the
Third Five Year Plan objectives--self-sufficiency--
will be met by 1966. Among the causes: inadequate
rainfall holding down rice production, and sluggish
implementation of development programs. India will
look to foreign aid to prevent serious food shortages.
C. Laos Some sort of a showdpwn may be shaping up be-
tween pro and anti-Pathet Lao elements of Kong Le's
units.)
D. Afghanistan-Pakistan A member of a "politically
prominent Afghan family" has told our embassy in
Kabul that resolution of the impasse with Pakistan is
a prime goal of the new, Afghan government; although
some continuation of the Pushtunistan campaign is
necessary for internal political reasons, he thinks
the government would be willing to tell the Pakistanis
it would abandon efforts to subvert the tribes be-
yond the Durand line. Ayub, meanwhile, has told
Ambassador McConaughy he "would do nothing to rock
the boat" and would not discourage any Afghan feelers.
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