THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 27 JUNE 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992397
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 27, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
27 JUNE 1962
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1. Communist China
a. There have been no signifi-
cant changes in the military picture
of the Taiwan Strait situation during
the past 24 hours. However, we now have
tenuous evidence that at least elements
of an eighth division.moved into the
Fukien area. during the buildup period
in addition to the seven divisions
believed earlier to have been deployed
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b. Chinese Communist propaganda
remains at a high pitch, and mass
rallies have been organized in the
big coastal cities in southeast China.
Although there has been no shift in
the line being put out, we suspect
that Peiping hopes to derive certain
secondary benefits from its allega-
tions that a US-supported Nationalist
invasion of the mainland is imminent.
The bogey of air raid, for instance,
provides stimulus to the back-to-the-
farm movement, and the call for the
"voluntary mobilitation" of workers
sounds as though higher production
norms are in the offing.
c. For the present, Taipei is
sticking to its promise not to do
anything that might be considered
?provocative, but is unlikely to
remain silent indefinitely if Peiping
keeps up its steady drumf ire of
denunciatory broadcasts.
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2. Sudan
d. Moscow has not yet made any
significant independent comment on
the Straits situation, but Soviet
propagandists are beginning to zero
in on the broader target of the overall
US military presence in Asia. The
sudden play-up of American troops in
Korea, coupled with an appeal to the
UN to do something about their removal,.
appears to have been their first salvo.
The Russians, this morning, turned their
attention to Thailand where our forces,
they say, are threatening the peace
in Southeast Asia by preparing a "dangerous
spring-board of aggression."
the Sudanese military mission
that is about to take off for Moscow
will conclude a deal involving the ac-
quisition of MIG aircraft.
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3.. Congo
4. Algeria
Adoula, embarrassed by not being
able to get very far with Tshomb6 in
three months of palaver, now faces
trouble in parliament where several
deputies are out to scalp his unpopular
foreign minister with a vote of censure.
He has sought to meet the challenge
head-on by declaring that censure would
amount to a no-confidence vote. A
touch-and-go situation seems in prospect,
but with a little luck (and a lot of
palm greasing), Adoula ought to get
over this particular hurdle. Tshombe,
meanwhile, will be playing a waiting
game.
a. There is evidence that the
Egyptians, who have influence by
virtue of their ability to provide
military hardware, have succeeded
in prevailing on Ben Bella to mute
his hostility toward "moderate"
Algerian nationalists. This fits
with other indications that the
quarreling factions have patched things
up for the moment, but it seems doubt-
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ranee, meanwhile, is urging
NATO governments to recognize the new
Algerian regime immediately after the
1 July referendum with a view to steal-
ing the march on the Communist bloc.
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5. Indonesia
6. Laos
Ambassador Bunker on Monday pro-
posed to Dutch and Indonesian repre-
sentatives that negotiations be
resumed on 5 July. Subsequent news
that The Hague is thinking of throwing
the problem into the Security Council
will probably sound in Djakarta like
the false note
and be interpreted
aimed at thwarting
able to Indonesia.
as another maneuver
a settlement favor-
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Souphannouvong is due back in
Vientiane today or tomorrow to take
up the reigns of government. Meanwhile,
several Phoumi men, who held cabinet
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their ministries. The immediate out-
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stabbing set-to's between left and
right, the outcome of which--in the
absence of Souvanna's moderating
influence--is difficult to predict.
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NOTES
A. Sarit this morning said that a final decision had not yet been
reached as to whether Thailand would carry out its threat to
boycott the Geneva conference on Laos. The tone of his comments,
however, suggests that the Thais will be in their seats when
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B. We have observed a number of flights by Soviet aircraft within
North Vietnam during the past couple of weeks which have no
relationship to the Laos airlift. We speculate that the Russians
are training Vietnamese crews and, since some of the flights have
been at night, perhaps preparing them for clandestine airdrop
missions into South Vietnam.
D. Burundi (one of the two new nations that will emerge next
Sunday from what is now the Belgian trust territory of Ruanda-
Urundi) has asked for, and probably will receive, a small
Ghanian military mission to help train its security forces.
E. The British Commission that has been studying ways and means
of creating a "greater Malaysia" by merging Malaya, Singapore,
and North Borneo into a single country has filed its report.
Details of implementation are to be worked out when the
Malayan prime minister visits London next month.
F. Dominican army have begun to talk as though
the time is about ripe for a military coup.
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