THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 20 APRIL 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992308
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 20, 1962

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'?PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--20 APRIL 1962
1. ARGENTINE MILITARY MOVES TO SUPPRESS PERONISM:
LAST NIGHT'S ACTION APPEARS TO MARK A CROSSING OF
THE RUB ICON AND A SHOWDOWN MAY COME TODAY WHEN MILITARY LEAD?
ERS CALL CIN GUIDO TO DEMAND SUSPENSION OF THE CONGRESS AND
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NEW ELECTIONS WITHIN 90 DAYS.
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SOME INFLUENTIAL ELEMENTS IN THE MILITARY ARE STILL
OPPOSED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OUTRIGHT DICTATORSHIP, AND
PREFER TO RETAINA FACADE OF CONSTITUTIONALITY IN DEALING WITH
PERONISM, THE CHANCES OF GUIDO STAYING IN OFFICE--IF NO MORE
THAN A FIGUREHEAD--ARE THEREFORE NOT HOPELESS, SO FAR THERE
IS NO CLEAR INDICATION OF HOW THE PERONISTS AND THE PRO?FRONDIZI
GROUPS WILL REACT.
2, SUKARNO ASKS FOR MORE AMERICAN AID:
HE WANTS MORE RICE TO HELP ALLEVIATE HIS ANNUALLY
WORSENING FOOD PROBLEM. (INDONESIA'S SHORTFALL FOR THIS YEAR
IS ESTIMATED AT 1.1 MILLION TONS OF WHICH ONLY 800,000 TONS
WILL BE OBTAINED FROM NORMAL SUPPLIERS; WE ARE EITHER OBLI?
GATED OR NEGOTIATING TO MAKE AVAILABLE AN ADDITIONAL 120,000.)
SUKAPN1 ALSO WANTS US TO TRANSFORM THE DJAKARTA AIRPORT INTO
A "LITTLE IDLEWILD," EXPAND LANDING FACILITIES ON BAJA (ro AT?
TRACT MORE TOURISTS), AND TO HELP FINANCE THE PURCHASE OF COM?
MERCIAL AIRCRAFT--INCLUDING SOME NEW BOEING B-720 JETS.
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3. GREATER VIOLENCE EXPECTED IN ALGERIA:
IT MAY TAKE THE FORM OF COMMANDO RAIDS BY UNITS OF
THE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT IN ALGIERS AND ORAN IN RETALIA-
TION FOR OAS ATROCITIES, OR IT MAY RESULT FROM OAS ATTEMPTS
TO LIQUIDATE NATIONALIST LEADERS WHO WILL BE EMERGING INTO
PUBLIC VIEW IN EVER INCREASING NUMBERS.
4, CONGO:
TSHOMBE--BASKING IN THE WARMTH OF THE HERO'S WEL-
COME RECEIVED ON RETURNING TO KATANGA--HAS HAD ONLY UNKIND
WORDS FOR THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, BUT ASSERTS HE WILL SOON
RESUME NEGOTIATIONS WITH ADOULA. NERVOUS UN CIRCLES IN ELIS-
ABETHVILLE, HOWEVER, ARE NOT SO SURE, AND FEAR THAT EVEN IF
TALKS DO GET GOING AGAIN, TSHO
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E WILL ADOPT THE UNHELPFUL ATTI-
TUDE THAT HE IS NEGOTIATING FROM A POSITION OF STRENGTH. IN
LEOPOLDVILLE, FINGERS ARE CROSSED IN HOPES THAT THE AIRPORT
INCIDENT WILL BLOW OVER AND THAT AT LEAST "LONG-RANGE" TALKS
WILL TAKE ,PLACE.
5. SYRIA:
UNEASINESS REIGNS IN SYRIA WHERE THERE IS APPREHEN-
SION OF A NEW OUTBREAK OF PRO-NASIRISM AND UNCERTAINTY AS TO
THE COURSE OF THE ENDLESS PLOTTING A
ONG MILITARY FACTIONS.
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6. NOTES:
A. ACTIVITY AT KAPUSTIN YAR SUGGESTS THAT THE
LAUNCHING OF ANOTHER EARTH SATELLITE IS IMMINENT.
B. THE SOVIET NAVY HAS BEEN TESTING SURFACE?TO?
SURFACE MISSILES, POSSIBLY FROM SUBMARINES, AT RANGES UP TO
650 N.M.--ALMOST DOUBLE THE RANGE OF JIM BEST PREVIOUS NAVAL
SHOTS.
C. GROMYKOS VISIT TO BELGRADE HAS SO FAR BEEN
STRICTLY ROUTINE. HIS TALKS. WITH TITO AND OTHER TOP YUGOSLAV'
OFFICIALS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN LARGELY CONFINED TO BROADBRUSH
DISCUSSIONS OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS,
D. KHRUSHCHEV'S MESSAGE TO CASTRO ON THE ANNIVER?
SARY OF LAST YEAR'S INVASION OF CUBA MAY BE SIGNIFICANT FOR
WHAT IT DIDN'T SAY--THERE WERE NO ACCOLADES OF THE "SOCIALIST"
NATURE OF THE HAVANA REGIME AND NO SPECIFIC ATTACKS ON THE US,
THE MOSCOW PRESS, HOWEVER, CARRIED SEVERAL ARTICLES CHARGING
THAT "A NEW AGGRESSION IS BEING PREPARED."
E. DEMONSTRATIONS IN JAPAN SEEM INEVITABLE WHEN
US NUCLEAR TESTS BEGIN. ATTACKS ON OUR DIPLO
ATIC AND MILI?
TARY INSTALLATIONS COULD FOLLOW, ESPECIALLY ON MAY DAY,
F. RURAL VIOLENCE, COLOMBIA'S RUNNING SORE, RE?
SULTED IN 52 CASUALTIES TO THE SECURITY FORCES IN MARCH, THE
HIGHEST FIGURE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS,
G. AN UNAUTHORIZED POLITICAL RALLY IN ATHENS,
CALLED BY THE LARGEST GREEK OPPOSITION PARTY FOR THIS EVENING,
COULD FLARE INTO VIOLENCE WHICH THE POLICE MAY FIND HARD TO
HANDLE.
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