THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 8 DECEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996078
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 8, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--8 DECE ER 1962
1, INDIA?CHINA:
A. THE PICTURE ON CHINESE WITHDRAWALS APPEARS UNCHANGED:
SOME FROM NEFAI NONE FROM LADAKH.
Ce INDIAN TROOPS CONTINUE TO MOVE FROM THE WEST PAKISTAN
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BORDER, WITH ONLY ONE FULL?STRENGTH DIVISION
AND TWO UNDER?STRENGTH DIVISIONS STILL DE?
PLOYED,
D. THE INDIANS STILL TALK OF "EXPLORING EVERY AVENUE"
FOR A SETTLEMENT WITH PAKISTAN BUT NOT MUCH CONCRETE HAS YET
EMERGED.
E. THEY TELL GALBRAITH THEY HOPE DUNCAN SANDYS CAN BE
KEPT FROM DOMINATING THE SCENE SINCE HE BROUGHT OUT "ALL OF
?THE ANCIENT SUSPICIONS OF BRITISH TORY MOTIVES."
2. CONGO:
A. SPAAK YESTERDAY WAS DRAFTING A NEW MESSAGE TO TSHOMBE,
WHICH HE HOPES WILL BE FLOWN TO ELISABETHVILLE TODAY. IN IT HE
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INTENDED TO SAY THAT KATANGA FACED THE CHOICE EITHER OF AC-
CEPTING A CHANGE IN UNION MINIERE PAYMENTS OR OF FACING
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS, INCLUDING MILITARY, WITH "DISASTROUS
CONSEQUENCES FOR KATANGA.."
13-. ARRANGEMENTS FOR A CHANGE IN PAYMENTS WERE "HAMMERED
OUT" YESTERDAY MORNING WITH UNION MINIERE.
C. SPAAK IS NOT TOO OPTIMISTIC, BUT HE THINKS THERE IS
A CHANCE OF SUCCESS-.
IL AMBASSADOR GULLION REPORTED YESTERDAY FROM LEOPOLD-
VILLE THAT, WHILE THE REPORTS OF INFORMAL BLOC OFFERS OF AID
WERE NUMEROUS AND SUBSTANTIAL, HE HAD NO INFORMATION ON THE
INTENDED SCOPE OR TIMING. THE YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR GAVE HIM
THE IMPRESSION THE SOVIETS MIGHT BE WAITING FOR ADOULA TO
FALL FIRST.
3. INDONESIA:
A, THE INDONESIANS ARE STILL WORKING TOWARD SHORTENING
THE UN'S TEMPORARY AUTHORITY IN WEST NEW GUINEA AND REACHING
A FINAL SETTLEMENT WITHOUT A PLEBISCITE. FOREIGN MINISTER
SUBANDRIO SAYS IT IS A "GOOD POSSIBILITY" HE WILL GO TO NEW
YORK TO "RENEGOTIATE THE INDONESIAN-DUTCH AGREEMENT"--PRE-
SUMABLY IN MID-DECEMBER AFTER THE CEYLON CONFERENCE ON THE
SINO-INDIAN CONFLICT.
B. HE THINKS IT "PROBABLE" THAT ON THE SAME OCCASION HE
WOULD VISIT WASHINGTON TO TALK CREDITS AND AID.
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C. A SOVIET DELEGATION IS DUE SOON IN DJAKARTA TO DIS-
CUSS STRETCHING OUT INDONESIAN DEBT REPAY NTS AND SUBANDRIO
IS ANXIOUS TO COMPLETE US AID ARRANGEMENTS BEFORE DEALING
WITH THE SOVIETS.
D. THE INDONESIANS FAILED TO GET ANY NEW HELP FROM THE
JAPANESE DURING SUKARNO S VISIT, BUT ARE SEEKING A 100
MILLION DOLLAR CREDIT FROM HONG KONG BANKS.
4. CUBA:
A. PHOTOGRAPHY TAKEN WEDNESDAY SHOWS EIGHT "MISSILE-RE-
LATED" TRANSPORTERS AT A SOVIET CAMP AT MAYARI ARRIBA, IN THE
MOUNTAINS OF ORIENTE PROVINCE ABOUT FORTY MILES FROM GUANTAN-
AMO, NINE WERE SEEN THERE ON 19 OCTOBER BUT NONE SUBSEQUENTLY.
B. THIS EQUIPMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CANVAS COVERED AND WE
HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO IDENTIFY IT FURTHER,
C.
CUBAN EXILE PLANS TO MOUNT NEW
RAIDS, INCLUDING ONE ABOUT 16 DECEMBER FROM MARATHON KEY (LO-
CAL AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN WARNED),
D,
RAID ON A
NORTH COAST BEACH OF CENTRAL CUBA--NOW ATTRIBUTED TO ALPHA
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E. YOST REPORTS FROM NEW YORK THAT KUZNETSOV APPEARS TO
HAVE BEEN GIVING SOME FOREIGN DELEGATES "FAIRLY FULL" BRIEF-
INGS ON THE NEGOTIATIONS, YOST EXPECTS THE STORY IN THE
PAPERS SHORTLY,
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5. ISRAEL-SYRIA:
A. ANOTHER SERIOUS BORDER CLASH MAY BE BREWING.
B. ON TUESDAY, THE SYRIANS, USING TANK OR ANTI-TANK
GUNS, FIRED ON ISRAELIS CULTIVATING IN THE DEMILITARIZED
ZONE SOUTH OF LAKE TIBERIAS. IN A LESSER INCIDENT YESTER-
DAY AN ISRAELI FISHING BOAT ON THE LAKE WAS FIRED ON.
C. BEN GURION INSISTS THE PARTICULAR LAND HAS BEEN CUL-
TIVATED FOR YEARS AND THUS IS NOT IN DISPUTE.
F. .OUR ARMY ATTACHE IN TEL AVIV, IS KEEPING A CLOSE
WATCH ON WHAT HE REPORTED YESTERDAY AS SOME "STILL INSIGNIF-
ICANT" INDICATORS OF "VERY LIMITED" ISRAELI MOBILIZATION.
C. THERE HAS BEEN SOME INFORMATION THAT THE SYRIANS
HAD BEEN PUTTING ADDITIONAL FORCES INTO THE AREA AND THE
EPISODE APPEARS TO INDICATE A NEWLY BELLIGERENT SYRIAN AT-
TITUDE'.
it. IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT THIS HAS BEEN INSPIRED OR PER-
MITTED FROM ABOVE IN AN EFFORT TO DIVERT SYRIAN OFFICERS
FROM INTERNAL POLITICAL ACTIVITY WHICH NOW BUBBLES ANEW IN
MILITARY CIRCLES-.
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THERE HAVE BEEN RECENT ARRESTS OF PRO-NASIR JUNIOR OFFICERS
AND THE AIR FORCE CHIEF HAS BEEN SACKED AMID RUMORS HE WAS
INVOLVED IN WOULD-BE RIGHTIST COUPS
THE HIGH COMMAND ITSELF IS SPLIT OVER SOVIET MILITARY
AID.
6. BORNEO:
A. WE HAVE ONLY SKETCHY INFORMATION, LARGELY PRESS, ON
AN OUTBREAK EARLY TODAY IN THE OIL PRODUCING BRITISH-PROTECTED
SULTANATE OF BRUNEI IN NORTHERN BORNEO-.
B. INSURGENT MEMBERS OF THE PRO-INDONESIAN "NORTH BORNEO
NATIONAL ARMY" ARE SAID TO HAVE SEIZED REFINERIES, THE POWER
STATION AND THE WATER SUPPLY IN THE OIL CENTER, SERIA'.
.THE STRONGEST OPPOSITION WITHIN NORTHERN BORNEO TO
THE PROPOSED MALAYSIA FEDERATION HAS COME FROM BRUNEI AND ITS
RAKYAT PARTY WHICH IN LATE NOVEMBER CALLED FOR A SEPARATE FED-
ERATION OF NORTH BORNEO, COMPRISING BRUNEI, SARAWAK AND THE
PRESENT NORTH BORNEO.
D. LATE PRESS REPORTS CARRY THE CLAIMS OF RAKYAT LEADER
AZAHARI TO HAVE SEIZE) ALL THREE TERRITORIES-. FROM MANILA
(HE HAS BEEN:ON AN EXTENDED VISIT TO THE PHILIPPINES) HE HAS
PROCLAIMED HIMSELF PRIME MINISTER OF AN INDEPENDENT NEW STATE
COMPRISING THE THREE TERRITORIES WHICH HE SAYS WOULD LIKE TO
REMAIN IN THE COMMONWEALTH:
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.E. AS BEST WE CAN DETERMINE, HIS CLAIM TO COMPLETE CON-
TROL IS PREMATURE AT THE LEAST. LOCAL POLICE ARE BEING RE-
INFORCED BY GURKHA TROOPS FROM
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SINGAPORE. YUMMIER, THE LATEST PRESS FROM SINGAPORE HAS
BRUNEI RADIO STILL IN GOVERNMENT HANDS.
F. BOTH INDONESIA AND THE PHILIPPINES HAVE OPPOSED IN-
CORPORATION OF NORTHERN BORNEO IN MALAYSIA'. WE THINK BOTH
ARE INVOLVED IN TODAY'S ACTION.
.G. IF THE REBELS SUCCEED IN GAINING CONTROL OF ANY SUB-
STANTIAL AREA, AN UGLY SITUATION WILL BE CREATED WITH "COLONIAL-
ISM!' YET AGAIN PITTED AGAINST ASIAN STATES.
,NOTE:
A. USSR:. WE SEE INCREASING SIGN OF AN IMPENDING SPACE
EVENT, possum( A RECOVERABLE SATELLITE. WE HAVE NO DEFINITE
INDICATORS OF THE TIME OF SUCH A SHOT-, THERE HAS BEEN SOME
SPECULATION THAT THE SOVIETS MIGHT STAGE A SPECTACULAR AS
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RECENT EVENTS',
B. TURKEY: PRIME IMINISTER INONU APPEARS TO BE IN FOR
SOME ROUGH SLEDDING SOON. POLITICAL RIVALS HOPE TO UNSEAT HIM
AT HIS PARTY'S NATIONAL CONVENTION WHICH OPENS FRIDAY; PRESI-
DENT GURSEL AND SENIOR MILITARY COMMANDERS ARE ALREADY DISCUSS-
ING:POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS; AND THERE MAY BE NEWLY DEVELOPING DIS-
SIDENT NUCLEI ELSEWHERE IN THE ARMED FORCES.,
C. WEST GERMANY: BONN HAS DECIDED NOT TO PREVENT THE
CONCLUSION OF CONTRACTS FOR THE SALE OF 200,000 TONS OF PIPE
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TO THE USSR, DESPITE LONG-TIME US EFFORTS TO GET AN EFFECTIVE
NATO EMBARGO; THIS FOLLOWS CLOSE ON THE HEELS OF SIMILAR
JAPANESE SALES;
D. VENEZUELA: A NEW WAVE OF COMMUNIST VIOLENCE MAY HAVE
STARTED WITH AN ATTEMPT ON THURSDAY TO FIRE A DUPONT COMPANY
WAREHOUSE IN CARACAS. THE JOB WAS APPARENTLY DONE BY THE PRO-
CASTRO "NATIONAL LIBERATION FORCES," A COMMUNIST PARA-MILITARY
GROUP CREDITED BY RAUL CASTRO WITH THE OCTOBER SABOTAGE ON
LAKE MARACAIBO.
E. SOUTH VIETNAM: ON SEVERAL RECENT OCCASIONS, GOVERN-
MENT FORCES HAVE CAPTURED NUMBERS OF VIET CONG WEAPONS MADE
IN CHINA. THIS MAY INDICATE THAT THE VIET CONG, BASICALLY
ARMED WITH REMNANT FRENCH WEAPONS, HAVE HAD TO RELY INCREAS-
INGLY ON THE PIPELINE FROM NORTH VIETNAM. MOREOVER, IN RECENT
MONTHS DIEM'S FORCES HAVE CAPTURED MORE ARMS FROM THE VIET
CONG THAN THEY HAVE LOST.
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