THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 9 NOVEMBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996654
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 9, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--9 NOVEMBER 1963
1. BERLIN:
A. JUDGING? FROM GROMYKO'S REMARKS TO KOHLER THURSDAY ON
ACCESS TO BERLIN, WE EXPECT THE SOVIETS WILL SHORTLY PRESENT
A FORMAL STATEMENT CALLING FOR URGENT FOUR-POWER TALKS ON
This AND OTHER QUESTIONS RELATING TO BERLIN'S STATUS.
B. THE BRITISH PLAN NO FURTHER CONVOYS FOR THE NEXT TWO
MONTHS, AS THERE IS NO TRAINING NEED FOR THEM, AND THEY DO
NOT WANT TO RUN THEM FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY',
2. CUBA-USSR:
A. ANOTHER ARMS SHIPMENT TO CUBA
3, CUBA-USSR:
A. CASTRO IS GIVING THE SOVIETS AND THE CHINESE IN HA-
VANA SEPARATE BUT EQUAL TREATMENT.
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IL HAVING FAILED TO SHOW UP AT THE CHINESE NATIONAL DAY
RECEPTION LAST MONTH, HE SKIPPED TOWN THURSDAY TO AVOID THE
SOVIET ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION'. SO2 APPARENTLY, DID DORTICOS
OM RAUL CASTRO-.
A POLISH CORRESPONDENT ON THE SCENE NOTED IN. DIS-
PATCH TO WARSAW THAT CASTRO HAD ATTENDED JUST ABOUT EVERYONE
RECEPTION THIS YEAR AND THAT THE SOVIET AFFAIR WAS
KEPT GOING INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS IN THE EXPECTATION
THAT CASTRO WOULD ARRIVE, AS HE USUALLY DOES, LATE.
D. THEN, WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK, THE POLISH CORRESPONDENT
WRITES THAT CUBAN POLITICAL CIRCLES SAY IT WOULD BE AN ERROR
TO DRAW ANY CONCLUSIONS FROM CASTRO'S ABSENCE BECAUSE "IN
REVOLUTIONARY DIPLOMACY THIS TYPE OF THING HAS NO MEANING
WHATEVER,"
4. FRANCE - SOUTH VIETNAM - CANADA:
A, THE FRENCH TAKE A DIM VIEW OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT 50X1
IN SAIGON DESPITE THE LIBERAL SPRINKLING OF PRO-FRENCH OFFI-
CIALS IN IT.
B. BEHIND THIS ATTITUDE LIES A BELIEF THAT THE PRESENT
SET-up Is LIKELY TO HEAD IN WHAT PARIS FEELS IS THE WRONG
DIRECTION I.E., TO SEEK A MILITARY INSTEAD OF A POLITICAL
SOLUTION.
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C. ALSO, WE ARE sun, THE FRENCH DISLIKE THE CURRENT
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REGIME'S CLOSENESS TO US,
D. THE CANADIAN ICC COMMISSIONER COX ALSO TAKES A DIM
VIEW OF THE NEW REGIME, WHICH HE APPARENTLY CONSIDERS A
CREATURE OF THE US, AND IS PROBABLY SO REPORTING TO OTTAWA.
5. COMMUNIST CHINA:
A. PEIPING, FOR THE FIRST TIME, IS BEGINNING TO ALLOW
NON-COMMUNIST INDUSTRIAL TECHNICIANS INTO THE COUNTRY AND
IS SHOWING A WILLINGNESS TO L T CHINESE TECHNICIANS GO
ABROAD FOR TRAINING, PARTICULARLY TO JAPAN, BRITAIN, AND
HOLLAND.
B. THIS HAS BEEN PROMPTED BY THE RECENT CONCLUSION
(AFTER THREE YEARS OF WINDOW-SHOPPING) OF SEVERAL CONTRACTS
FOR WESTERN AND JAPANESE SYNTHETIC FIBRE AND CHEMICAL FER-
TILIZER PLANTS.
6. NATIONALIST CHINA - JAPAN:
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7. NOTES:
A. USSR: AMBASSADOR KOHLER'S GENERAL COMMENT ON THE
ANNIVERSARY FESTIVITIES WAS THAT THEY WERE MODERATE, ROU-
TINE, AND CONTAINED NO HINT OF ANY NEW POLICIES OR DECISIONS
ON INTERNAL OR FOREIGN FIELDS.
B. BRAZIL-USSR: FORMER BRAZILIAN AIR MINISTER CARVALHO
IS ON HIS WAY TO MOSCOW AT SOVIET INVITATION.
WE
SUSPECT HE WILL LOOK INTO THE POSSIBILITIES OF AIRCRAFT
PURCHASES HE WILL PROBABLY ALSO DISCUSS CIVIL AIR ROUTES.
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