THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 17 DECEMBER 1962

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• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996092
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 17, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
17 DECEMBER 1962
Tor SECRET
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Cuba
it is "widely known"
there that a "violent" debate is
raging among cabinet members and
other government and military leaders.
They are forming into two groups,
one favoring the Sino-Albanian at-
titude disparaging Soviet policy, the
other favoring an entirely new move-
ment behind Castro along extremely
nationalist lines. This would be
socialist in character without the
Communist label.
c. Castro is said to be off in
the hills trying to make up his mind
which course to favor.
d. Both tendencies, of course
are violently anti-Yankee, but, more
interestingly, neither is pro-Soviet.
e.
the question of relations with Moscow
is a hot political issue in Havana.
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2. Cuba - Soviet a. Plans are apparently being
Bloc worked out ?at the Soviet-Cuban trade
talks now going on in Moscow for the
Bloc to provide all shipping needed
to handle Cuba's trade should further
action be taken to prevent Western
ships from taking part.
3. Maldive Is-
lands
b. Western ships Would then be
chartered to replace Bloc vessels di-
verted to Cuban trade,
c. Well over three quarters of
Cuba's sugar exports were carried in
Western holds this year and more than
half of Soviet petroleum exports to
Cuba (currently running about 4,000,000
tons annually) were shipped in Western
tankers.
a. The Soviets have recently
been showing much too much interest
in the Maldive Islands
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4. Colombo Con- a. Ceylonese Prime Minister Mme.
ference Bandaranaike has dispatched an emissary
to New Delhi and Peiping with word of
the outcome of the Colombo Conference,
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b. Apparently the conference
was something of a fiasco, as was to
be expected from the divergent sym-
pathies of the participants.
c. We do not yet know exactly
what the conference came up with,
but no one seems very eager to take
credit for it.
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5. Dominican Re- a. The dominant Dominican Revo-
public lutionary Party threatened late last
week to withdraw from this Thursday's
presidential elections unless the
Church repudiated a statement by some
of its clergy that the party was Com-
munist (which we do not believe is
the case).
6. Senegal
b. has
since decided to ask for a month's
postponement instead
c. We think its candidate, 53-
year-old former exile, Juan Bosch,
stands a good chance to win. If only
for this reason, the party seems
likely to overcome its scruples by
Thursday.
a. Prime Minister Dia and Pres-
ident Senghor, long at each other's
throats over domestic policy (and con-
trol), are moving to a showdown as
armed forces and police responsive to
Dia took control of the National As-
sembly (pro-Senghor) this morning to
block a move to oust Dia.
b. Both men
hor, a Catholic in
Moslem country, is
pro-French and has
are pro-West. Seng-
a predominantly
enthusiastically
been maneuvering
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7. Brazil
for a strong presidency on De Gaulle's
pattern.
c. Dia, an economist, is closely
identified with moderate African nationa-
lists. He feels Senghor has been of obstrdet-
ing development programs in Senegal.
a. Hostility is building up between
the Goulart government and its internal
opponents.
b. Officers of the navy, generally
the most conservative, are incensed over
Goulart's award of Navy Medals of Merit
to a group of civilians including his
Communist press secretary and Governor
Brizola, his US-baiting brother-in-law.
Some 50 officers have returned their med-
als in protest.
c. Navy Minister Suzano, who favors
Goulart, has threatened to arrest three
admirals from this group.
d. The Goulart government is evidently
attempting to undermine anti-Communist Gov-
ernor Lacerda in Guanabara State by allow-
ing leftist General Alves' First Army--
rather than the governor--to distribute
emergency supplies in the face of a rice
shortage.
e. There are some indications that
a government move may also be underway
to prevent the inauguration in January
of a recently elected anti-Communist gov-
ernor in Goulart's and Brizola's home state
of Rio Grande do Sul.
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NOTES
A. Sino-Soviet Dispute The Communists have added a'
new ":ism" to their jargon: "capitulationism", which
Peiping defines as being "scared out of one's wits by
imperialist nuclear blackmail." This label was pasted
on the Soviets in a scathing People's Daily editorial
Saturday. In it, the Chinese also spoke of Lenin's
wisdom in leading the Bolsheviki out of the Second
International when they found themselves in the mi-
nority.
B. Southern Rhodesia With Prime Minister Whitehead's
policy of racial moderation now repudiated by the
colony's white voters, a period of further racial
polarization andtprobably,of violence is in prospect.
Most of the Africans boycotted the elections.
C.
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