THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 18 JANUARY 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996144
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 18, 1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
18 JANUARY 196
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1. Congo
2. Laos
a. In Elisabethville yesterday
afternoon, Tshombe agreed to give
the UN easy entry into Kolwezi and
to order the gendarmerie to remove
all mines and demolition charges and
turn in their weapons.
b. The UN will move in Monday.
Tshombe is allowed to keep a body-
guard of one gendarmerie company
largely because he claims one of the
mercenaries tried to assassinate him.
If true, the incident would suggest
Tshombe may not be able to hold his
last-ditch followers in line.
c. A company of Leopoldville's
finest is now in Elisabethville--
Anany's personal bodyguard. It num-
bers 150 victory-suffused "para-
commando" rowdies. The UN is having
some difficulty keeping order.
d. Spaak is suggesting another
US-UK-Belgian top working-level con-
ference to work out common plans for
where we go from here.
a. Souphannouvong wrote a let-
ter to Souvanna Tuesday again pro-
testing flights in sup-
port of the Meo.
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3. Cuba
b. Souvanna
told Ambassador Unger that if there
is another shootdown of one of our
supply planes, he would be unable
to accept responsibility. Unger is
afraid that if there is another in-
cident under present arrangements,
Souvanna may throw up his hands and
ask us to call the whole thing off.
c. To avert this, Unger sug-
gests we charter a few planes to
Souvanna's government and see how
and if it manages to supply the Meo
with them.
a. The Simferopol docked in
Havana early last evening. There
is no word yet on its cargo.
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At the East Ger-
man congress yesterday, Khrushchev
boycotted Cuban delegate Hart's
speech, just as he did that of the
Chinese delegate. Hart confined
himself to pleading for unity and
solidarity, mentioning neither. "dog-
matism" noerevisionism"--a line
which we have noted would not sit
well with the Soviets.
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4. Nicaragua-Cuba
5. Alliance for
Progress
a. For the past week radio
Havana has been broadcasting fabri-
cated news reports of an alleged re-
volution in Nicaragua.
b.
pro-Castro Nicaraguan revolutionary,
Carlos Fonseca Amador, has crossed
into Nicaragua with a band of some
forty guerrillas whom he has been
training in Honduras. Presumably
they intend to light a fire before
the Presidential elections on 3 Feb-
ruary.
c. Nicaraguan security forces
have been alerted and can probably
contain the intruders.
a. Fundamental differences in
approach to the task of evaluating
the Alliance for Progress program
have arisen between former Presidents
Lleras and Kubitschek.
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6. Spain-NATO
7. France-NATO
a. The Spanish Foreign Minister
says Spain has not ruled out the pos-
sibility of a simple five-year ex-
tension of the base agreement,given
"satisfactory reciprocal actions" on
our part.
b. The Spanish are now working
up a list of suggestions to illustrate
what they mean by this. They hope
to have it ready by early March.
c. Spain, he says, does not
wish to join NATO, but rather, be
regarded as a close collaborator..
They do want associate membership
in the Common Market, but are not
asking our help to this end.
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d. At the EEC secret session
yesterday, Couve is reported by the
press to have called for an end to
negotiations until and unless Britain
accepted associate membership. The
meeting broke up in a furore and has
resumed this morning. We do not yet
have an official account.
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NOTES
A. Berlin The Brandt-Khrushchev visit was abruptly
called Off yesterday after a stormy session in the
West Berlin Senat when the Christian Democrats
(despite Adenauer's approval of the meeting) threat-
ened to withdraw from-the West Berlin coalition if
he went through with it. Brandt has told Lightner
the incident has gravely damaged his standing and
future cooperation with the Christian Democrats in
Berlin will be very difficult to achieve.
B. Bulgaria-US Bulgaria has appointed a new minister
here and promoted the old One, while puttigg out
other feelers for an improvement in relations.
Sofia's food shortages (rationing has had to be re-
instated) probably have much to do with this.
C. Communist Bloc Peiping's delegate to the East Ger-
man Congress was drowned out this morning by whistles,
boos, foot stamping, and shotts as he launched an at-
tack on Yugoslav revisionism. Peiping's media have
so far ignored the congress, Khrushchells speech
and his call for a truce.
D. Ghana-US Ghana has declared Dr. Nydell, our regional
medical officer in Accra, persona non grata on charges
of participation in a plot to assassinate Nkrumah. Ac-
cra also-asked that we transfer Cultural Affairs offi-
cer Davis for reasons which it says it prefers not to
disclose.
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F. Hungary The Hungarians have issued a series of
stamps honoring Soviet and US astronauts, but
quickly withdrew from circulation the one honor-
ing Carpenter. It seems he was put on the one
with the highest denomination, which was taken to
imply US superiority. Hungarian philatelists are
having a field day.
G. Togo Gru-
nitsky will be keeping the foreign affairs port-
folio himself, along with defense and interior.
Meatchi gets public works, communications, and edu-
cation.
H. Hong Kong Peiping has protested to the ?British
? that urban renewal work being carried out in the
? walled city of Kowloon violates Chinese sovereignty
and cannot be tolerated. Actually, this area is a
Chinese exclave lying entirely within the Crown
Colony, and the British have been very circumspect
in exercising jurisdiction there. The result has
been a center of crime and vice. Peiping probably
feels it has to make a gesture in view of Khru-
shchev's sarcastic references to Chinese tolerance
toward Hong Kong.
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