THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 31 OCTOBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996639
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 31, 1963

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
31 OCTOBER 1963
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
r - A
cj r=1 i 1- r--1 1
? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
1. Morocco-
Algeria
a. King Hassan and President
Ben Bella have signed an agreement
calling for a cease-fire and a with-
drawal of their forces to the lines
each held before the fighting
started.
b. According to the plan, the
cease-fire will become effective
Saturday. A team of Moroccan, Alge-
rian, Malian and Ethiopian officers
will fix the demarcation lines, with
the Malians and Ethiopians remaining
as observers in the disputed areas.
c. The Organization of African
Unity will be asked to convene a
foreign ministers' meeting to estab-
lish a commission to discuss the
question of permanent frontiers.
d. The life expectancy of this
agreement is uncertain because the
basic hostility and suspicion between
the two regimes remain. The press
reports both sides are already squab-
bling over their different interpre-
tations of the agreement.
(Cont'd)
TL.. f1..1..
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
50X1
1- -1
1-
I
E. 1 E--D r-1 P7-171
- I
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
2. USSR Gold Sales a. Soviet gold continues to
flow into Western coffers at a record
rate. The press yesterday reported
ten tons unloaded at Paris and five
and a half tons en route London.
b. The gold sales this year
have now reached about $400 million
with more to follow. About $250
million has been sold since early
September, largely to provide funds
for wheat purchases.
c. Soviet gold sales in recent
years have averaged just over $200
million. These sales have been used
in the past to support part of the
trade deficit caused by Soviet pur-
chases in hard currency areas.
(Soviet receipt of credits, about
300 million per year in 1962 and 1963,
met the rest of the deficit.)
d. The USSR's gold reserve is
now estimated at just under $2 billion.
?Pnr TINCA PrCiCirigIn4 nrik/ - TAM cear.retf
" Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
I. I
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A002000'140001-9
STATISTICS ON THE WAR IN VIETNAM
VIET CONG
GOVERNMENT
Month
1962
Total
Incidents
Armed
Attacks
Total
Casualties
Defectors
Weapons
Lost
Total
Casualties
Missing &
Captured
Weapons
Lost
1768
503
2623
120*
412
993
83
518
May
Jun
1489
407
2520 .
120*
382
1017
88
402
Jul
1595
448
2510
120*
353
1282
212
440*
Aug
1642
378
3297
120*
378
1068
63'
440*
Sep
1375
391
3029
120*
462
1124
59
440*
Oct
1357
419
2626
99
446
1048
64
440*
Nov
1311
421
2911
158
414
1336
92
359
Dec
1346
384
2755
225
484
990
78
450*
1963
927
252
2451
168
683
1463
102
457
Jan
Feb
788
195
1677
245
399
1117
82
253
Mar
1282
344
2034
394
367
1327
66
467
Apr
1331
383
2304
371
468
1480
96
797
May
1208
357
2885
414
564
1418
94
463
Jun
1311
c
410
2609
426
394
1251
90
580
Jul
1368
407
2677
308
374
2310
457
934 ?
Aug
1349
362
2404
204
428
1567
358
627
Sep
1763
503
2563
114
539
2401
574
'
878
7?iii-diaTtes average; actual figures not available for each month.
(1 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
1-)
1
1=1 i- i 1=1 1)1 ir ill/ E=1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
3. Laos-USSR
4. Hungary
a. Souvanna Phouma arrived
in Moscow yesterday and got the VIP
treatment by Khrushchev and other
Soviet leaders.
b. The Laotian Prime Minister
has said he will press Khrushchev
to support a stronger International
Control Commission (ICC) in Laos.
The ICC's effectiveness has long been
hampered by the obstructionism of
the Polish delegate.
c. Even Souvanna does not think
he will have much success.
? a. The New York Times went on
sale in Hungary last Thursday for?
the first time since 1948; the
Herald Tribune followed suit two
days later.
b. The sales volume will not
warm the cockles of a circulation
manager's heart (five copies daily
in each of six leading hotels) but
the development is nonetheless sig-
nificant. It adds one more element
to the trend toward loosening re-
strictions in satellite regimes.
(Contld)
TL-.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
1 - 9
17:1 I_ 1 I , (L3 r=! 1-4 r=71f 1 1 r- L- - ?1
? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
5, Poland
c. An equal number of papers
from five other Western European
countries are being sold under a
similar plan.
d. The negotiations for the
sale of the New York papers probably
started as a result of Kadar's ef-
forts several months ago to encourage
Western news services to station
permanent correspondents in Budapest.
So far we have no word that The Times
or The Tribune intends to do so.
(Cont'd)
Pos.. M. Dr...U....A. CU. Iv/ T?????? Cozhe.rabil?
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
50X1
f;:i E=3 3 F=11 1=1 Ism c=i E=5
. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
For The President Only - Top Secret
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
50X1
?
if 1r
? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
NOTES
B. France-USSR Guy Mollet and other French Socialist
Party leaders met with Khrushchev yesterday and dis-
cussed relations between Socialists and Communists.
Mollet is quoted by the press as saying the meeting
had been friendly, frank and cordial. Another ses-
sion with Khrushchev and the Party Presidium is
scheduled for Saturday indicating that the Soviet
leaders are making a special effort to charm their
guests.
Pos.. V.... 1)....0:44.m?????? Tos??? Ceso.reni?
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A002000140001-9
50X1