THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 17 JUNE 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996401
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 17, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BYTHE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
17 JUNE 1963
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l. Brazil
2. Laos
a. With the removal of War
Minister Kruel from the Goulart cab-
inet, a firm anti-Communist is gone
from a key post. His successor is
a down-the-line Goulart man.
b. The two other military min-
isters have also been replaced.
c. We are watching to see how
the Brazilian military reacts. Those
among the military who regard Goulart
as a calamity will be confirmed in
their view, but we do not now have
any solid grounds for thinking they
will counteract.
d. Goulart's Yankee-baiting
brother-in-law, Leonel Brizola, has
been at the head of the Kruel-must-
go forces. He has also been gun-
ning for Finance Minister Santiago
Dantas and Commerce Minister Balbine.
They may go next, signaling a dis-
quieting growth in Brizola's influ-
ence.
a. Communist forces are main-
taining pressures on neutralist
military positions in south central
Laos.
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3. India - Soviet a. Moscow and Prague have
Union made attractive offers of arms asf-
sistance to the Indians.
b. Specifically mentioned in
the Soviet offer as described to our
Embassy in New Delhi were surface-
to-air missiles, mobile radar sets
and heavy mortars. Moscow also in-
dicated that it is willing t?is-
cuss the manufacture in India of
ammunition for semiautomatic rifles.
c. The Czechs did not go into
detail but told the Indians that
they make "almost everything" and
asked the Indians to come up with a
shopping list.
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4. Cuba
d. It is evident--from the
care the Indians have taken to in-
form the US government of this devel-
opment despite Soviet and Czech re-
quests that third parties not be
told--that they do not want to jeop-
ardize Western military aid.
e. New Delhi is "intrigued,"
nevertheless, and intends to follow
through on an invitation to send a team
of military experts to Moscow toward
the first of July. The Indians, we
are confident, are sensitive to the
implications of their having an arms
mission in Moscow on the very eve
of the scheduled Sino-Soviet,talks.
f. It should not be hard to
forecast the Chinese Communist reac-
tion. Peiping is, in fact, begin-
ning publication today of another
of its long, unyielding statements
on the Communist controversy, in
which it berates Moscow for aiding
India in its "attack on a fraternal
socialist country."
a. Cubans training in the
operation of the Komar missile boats
have progressed to the point where
they may be ready to take control of
them from the Soviets. One of the
boats may in fact already be on duty
with the Cuban navy.
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b. The training tempo has
lately been intensive but there has
been less and less Soviet participa?
tion in the exercises.
c. We think it likely that
the 16 boats, all of them now at
Mariel, will take up stations at a
number of points along the coast
when the training phase has ended.
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5. Israel
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tion which he announced yesterday.
b. Ben-Gurion has used this
device more than once to break down
resistance to his policies.
c. Ben-Gurion's second-in-
command Levi Eshkol may be asked to
try to form a cabinet. If he fails,
Ben-Gurion could then resume the
premiership in a stronger position
to pursue his controversial policy
of seeking a closer relationship
with West Germany.
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NOTES
A. USSR-Iraq Soviet propaganda has opened up full
force against the Baath regime. In a virulent state-
ment issued on Saturday, Moscow accused the Baghdad
government of following "Hitlerite" tactics toward
the Kurds and of opening Iraq up to a return of
Western predominance. If this happens, Moscow storms,
Iraq could become a springboard "against the security
Of the Soviet state."
,B. India One of the few remaining traces of far left-
liTilfluence has departed the Indian cabinet with
the resignation of Oil Minister Malayiya. An ally
of Krishna Menon and an advocate of Soviet economic
assistance, Malaviya has been under fire for corrup-
tion. He stayed on as long as he did because Nehru
thought to drop him would be to cave in to rightist
pressures.
C. South Korea Political stability may be in for
another setback because of a looming food shortage.
Whereas a bumper barley crop was needed to offset
last year's poor rice harvest, the crop is far below
average--perhaps by as much as 50 percent--and fears
are rising that food riots will erupt.
D. South Vietnam Police clashed with rioters--mostly
students--in Saigon yesterday, producing injuries on
both sides. The disorders were, however, on nothing
like the scale that might have developed if the mass
funeral for the cremated monk had taken place as
originally scheduled. Buddhist leaders, after reach-
ing an accord with the government on their demands,
ordered postponement of the ceremonies.
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E. Yemen A US air force pilot, who helped ferry the
UN observerteam into Yemen, reports that UN person-
nel assert flatly that Russian pilots are manning
some of the Soviet aircraft operating in Yemen.
? The US pilot personally observed a large Soviet en-
campment close to an airstkip during a ground tour
in the vicinity of Sana.
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