THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 16 DECEMBER 1961

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992089
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 16, 1961

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1. CONGO:
A. PRESS REPORTING ON THE CONGO HAS TENDED TO BE OVERBLOWN.
OUR BEST INFORMATION ON THE SITUATION AS OF THIS MORNING IS THAT
THE UN YESTERDAY NEARLY COMPLETED THE ENCIRCLEMENT OF ELIZABETHVILLE
AND HAD CONTROL OF ?THE NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS BUT THE
KATANGANS WERE STILL HOLDING THE CENTRAL AREAS AND THERE WERE NO
SIGNS OF A SLACKENING OF RESISTANCE.
B. UN HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK HAS ANNOUNCED THAT A NEW UN
ATTACK AGAINST KATANGAN POSITIONS IN ELIZABETHVILLE WAS LAUNCHED
THIS MORNING. A LATE PRESS DISPATCH FROM ELIZABETHVILLE SAYS
THAT TSHOMBE HAS FLED THE CAPITAL TOWARD THE RHODESIAN BORDER.
WE ARE TREATING THE REPORT WITH RESERVE.
C. TSHOMBE HAS APPARENTLY BEEN GETTING RESUPPLIES OF ARMS
BY WAY OF RHODESIA. THERE ARE ALSO SOME INDICATIONS THAT MORE
FOUGA JETS--POSSIBLY AS MANY AS SIX--ARE IN THE BRAZZAVILLE CONGO
AWAITING DELIVERY TO THE KATANGANS.
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D. EFFORTS TO ARRANGE AN ADOULA?TSHOMBE MEETING ARE CONTINUING
WITH NO IMMEDIATE SUCCESS IN SIGHT. ADOULA LEFT LEOPOLDVILLE FOR
KIVU PROVINCE YESTERDAY AND IS NOT SCHEDULED TO RETURN UNTIL SUNDAY.
TSHOMBE'S LAST WORD IS THAT HE IS READY FOR TALKS BUT ONLY ON
NEUTRAL GROUND AND ON THE BASIS OF MILITARY POSITIONS PRESENTLY
HELD BY THE UN AND KATANGA. TSHOMBE'S AIM NOW APPEARS TO BE TO
SQUEEZE AS MUCH ADVANTAGE AS POSSIBLE OUT OF THE INTERNATIONAL
PRESSURES FOR A CEASE?FIRE.
E. NARASIMHAN, INDIAN DEPUTY TO U THANT, HAS ASSURED OUR UN
DELEGATION THAT ORDERS HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE UN MILITARY COMMANDERS
IN KATANGA TO STAY WITHIN THE LIMITS OF UN POLICY. HE ALSO SAID
THAT THE PROBLEM OF THE INDIAN DIPLOMAT RAHMAN IN ELIZABETHVILLE
HAD BEEN "TAKEN CARE OF."
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2. GOA:
A. NEHRU HAS ONCE AGAIN PUT OFF A DECISION TO ATTACK.
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B. . THE PORTUGUESE ARE CONTINUING THEIR EVACUATION OF WOMEN
AND CHILDREN FROM GOA, MEANWHILE WORKING FEVERISHLY TO BRING INTER?
NATIONAL PRESSURE TO BEAR ON NEW DELHI., THEIR NEXT moyE MAY BE
RECOURSE TO THE UN.
3. SOVIET FIGHTER DEPLOYMENT:
MOSCOW IS CARRYING OUT A RATHER SIZEABLE WESTWARD DEPLOYMENT
OF FIGHTER AIRCRAFT. THE MOVEMENT, WHICH BEGAN ON 8 DECEMBER AND
WAS CONTINUING THROUGH YESTERDAY,
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CONCERNED AT PRESENT--THERE ARE NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT INDICATIONS
THAT BLOC FORCES ARE BEING READIED FOR MILITARY ACTION. NEVERTHELESS,
THE MOVEMENT HAS MANY UNUSUAL FEATURES FOR WHICH WE HAVE NO EX?
PLANATION NOW, AN IMPORTANT KEY TO THE PURPOSE OF THE MOVE WILL BE
WHETHER THE PLANES REMAIN IN SOVIET HANDS OR ARE TURNED OVER TO
SATELLITE FORCES.
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4. NOTES:
A. GENERAL NASUTION HINTED BROADLY TO AMBASSADOR JONES YESTER?
DAY THAT THE TEMPERATURE IN DJAKARTA MIGHT RUN VERY HIGH ON THE
NEW GUINEA ISSUE BUT THAT THE BOILING POINT WOULD NOT BE REACHED
IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
B. ,BANGKOK IS RUSHING REINFORCEMENTS TO NORTHEAST THAILAND
WHERE FIGHTING HAS BROKEN OUT BETWEEN POLICE FORCES, WHO WERE
CONDUCTfNG A SECURITY ROUNDUP, AND LOCAL DISSIDENTS. SEPARATIST
SENTIMENT IN THIS DEPRESSED AREA HAS BECOME HEAVILY TINGED BY
COMMUNIST INFLUENCE SPREADING ACROSS THE BORDER WITH LAOS.
C. THERE IS FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT BRAZIL'S ATTITUDE TOWARD
CUBA IS HARDENING. A TOP FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL HAS TOLD
AMBASSADOR GORDON THAT BRAZIL HAS "DEFINITELY ABANDONED" ITS
PREVIOUS POSITION.
D. THE EAST GERMANS YESTERDAY PROTESTED TO THE US--THROUGH THE
CZECHS IN PRAGUE--AGAINST THE "UNLAWFUL PROVOCATIVE TROOP MOVEMENTS
OF AMERICAN NATO UNITS IN THE TERRITORY OF THE GDR." THE NOTE
ALLEGED THE RECENT AUTOBAHN MOVEMENTS CONFIRM "THERE ARE NO LEGAL
FOUNDATIONS ANY LONGER FOR THE PRESENCE OF US TROOPS IN WEST BERLIN."
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