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[49]THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
[51]11/27/1963
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[54]INTELLIGENCE REPORT
[56]PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
[57]Unclassified
[59]1B; Mandatory Review Material
[60]Redact
[62]12/12/1997
[64]DOC. #5
[66]rin 7? TOP SECRET
[67]. (Security Classification)
[69]Cas a Sd KA Vii
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[73]REMARKS:
[75]Jennifer Cuddeaey (BN Ulan, Wiulie |
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[92]THE PRESIDENT’S |
[93]INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
[95]ISSUED BY THE
[96]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[98]27 NOVEMBER 1963
[99]TOP SECRET
[101]SECRET
[103]1.
[105]2.
[107]Cuba
[109]Syria-Iraq
[111]a, Cuban tents are now begin-
[112]ning to appear at a number of ‘the
[113]SAM sites-~further evidence that —
[114]training of Cubans in operation of
[115]SAM equipment has begun as scheduled,
[118]taken this past weekend.shows these
[119]tents at six SAM sites in ‘western
[120]Cuba, These sites are in addition ——
[121]to those at which we noted the pres-
[122]ence of Cuban interpreters as we
[123]reported on Saturday.
[125]ec. This training should be com-
[126]pleted by next May or June,
[128]dad. Just before the training
[129]started, we noted a series of moves
[130]involving the relocation of eight of
[131]the SAM sites,
[133]e., The purpose, it appears, —
[134]was to shift the mission of the sys-
[135]tem from an area defense of the’
[136]island as a whole. to point defense
[137]of specific targets, particularly
[138]Havana, (Includes INTERCEPTS)
[140]a. Syrian leaders have acceded
[141]to pressure from Iraq and have ex-
[142]pelled Iraqi Baathist extremist Ali
[143]Saadi. He has gone to Athens
[145]For The President Only - Top Secret
[147]PARTY STRENGTHS IN TURKISH ELECTIONS
[148](by % of total vote)
[150]1961 General Election 1963 Local Election
[155]Republican Peoples' Party (RPP)
[157]Justice Party (JP)
[160]New Turkey Party (NTP)
[164]Republican Peasant Nation Party (RPNP)
[166]; Nation Party (NP)
[168]Independents (or unreported vote)
[170]Turkish Labor Party’ (TLP)
[172]63125 ¢
[174]tee
[177]b. This is an earnest of the
[178]' desire of moderate Baathist leaders
[179]in Damascus to preserve workable re-
[180]lations with Iraq, partly as a
[181]counterbalance to Cairo and partly
[182]to preserve what remains of Baathist
[183]influence in Baghdad.
[185], c. Intercepts show at least
[186]' some Syrian troops will remain in
[187]Iraq at the request of Iraqi offi-
[188]cials.
[190]d. Preparations had been under.
[191]way for these forces to withdraw;
[192]retention of at least some in Iraq
[193]is another sign that both regimes
[194]hope to preserve something of the
[195]relations they once had.
[197](Includes INTERCEPTS)
[199]3. Turkey a. Prime Minister Inonu's
[200]coalition government is about to
[202]collapse.
[204]b. It has long been shaky,
[205]Last week it was dealt a severe set-
[206]back when the opposition Justice
[207]Party, heir of the Menderes regime,
[208]emerged from local elections as the
[209]country's majority party.
[211](Cont 'd)
[213]For The President Only - Top Secret
[215]co
[217]no
[219]MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN SOVIET AGRICULTURE
[221]160
[222]INDEX OF NET AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION — Mak ee
[223]1950 =100 S 1963-7
[224]140 Fertilizes program
[225]1963
[226]Wheat purchases
[227]120
[228]Program to plow up and
[229]100 A
[230]z 0 Livestock product
[232]: al prices raised.
[234]Me Nk SI EOE
[238]2) Administrative
[242]SY stations obolished.
[243]1957-58
[245]Program to “catch up" with
[247]US In meat and
[249]1950 1951 1952 1953 1955 1956 1957 1958
[251]aidan 24
[254]4.
[256]USSR wheat
[258]For The President Only - Top Secret
[260]ec. Now the Peasant Party, one
[261]of the three in the coalition, has
[262]voted to pull out, and probably will
[263]do so as soon as Inonu gets back from
[264]Washington. Another partner, the
[266]Turkey Party, has wanted to pull out, ©
[268]and apparently has stayed in only
[269]because of pressure from the. military.
[271]d. A new coalition is at least
[272]a theoretical possibility, with a
[273]number of independents taking the
[274]place of the Peasant Party, but
[275]Inonu probably would not be prime
[276]minister,
[278]e. The military are working
[279]for an all-party coalition, This
[280]way, they feel, they could keep
[281]tabs on the Justice Party, but the
[282]Justice Party is not likely to buy
[283]this arrangement.
[285]f. AS matters now stand, the
[286]military would take over the govern-
[287]ment itself before it would let the
[288]Justice Party form one. ,
[290]- a. Soviet President Brezhnev
[291]has told the Iranian prime minister
[292]that the decision to buy wheat abroad
[293]was taken to avoid lowering reserves,
[294]which he has described as ample for
[295]one or two years. We think the sit-
[296]uation is more serious than that.
[298](Cont'd)
[300]b. This year's harvest was
[301]clearly very bad. The weight of
[302]evidence suggests that Soviet grain
[303]stockpiles have been far drawn down
[304]this year and are not sufficient to
[305]protect the country from another
[306]poor harvest.
[308]c. Our estimate is that total
[309]grain production each year since
[310]1958 has been well below that year's
[311]level of 125 million tons, while
[312]the population has continued to grow.
[314]d. We have seen from intercepts
[315]signs of extensive slaughtering in
[316]anticipation of fodder shortages
[317]during the winter. This runs counter
[318]to Khrushchev's oft-stated plan to
[319]build up the livestock industry.
[321]e. We have also noted that
[322]the extensive wheat purchases weaken
[323]the USSR's gold reserves at a time
[324]when it hopes to expand its imports
[325]of machinery for a huge chemical
[326]fertilizer program.
[328]£. In addition,we have seen
[329]Signs of stringent measures to pro-
[330]tect the grain supply, accompanied
[331]by public discontent in some areas
[332]over the absence of bread.
[334](Cont'd)
[336]For The President Only - Top Secret
[338]Be
[340]Communist
[341]China -
[342]Argentina
[344]a. Peiping last week con-
[345]tracted for some 300,000 tons of
[346]wheat. (cost about $20, 000, 000) from
[347]Argentina,
[349]b. This adds to the 1,000,000
[350]tons just contracted for with Aus-
[351]tralia, but is still far below
[352]the 5,000,000 tons the Chinese have
[353]normally imported in recent years.
[354]Additional ‘suppliers will be hard
[355]to find.
[357]c. A large sale, apparently
[358]involving some $56,000,000 worth
[359]of meat, is apparently also being
[360]arranged. This is interesting,
[362]not only for the sizeable foreign
[364]exchange outlay, but also for the
[366]concern it shows for improving the
[367]diet of the mainland's urban pop-
[369]ulation.
[371]d. The same caloric value
[372]could be obtained from grains at
[373]a fraction of this cost.
[374](INTERCEPTS throughout):
[376]For The President Only - Top Secret
[378]6.
[380]7.
[382]Czechoslovakia-~
[383]USSR
[385]a. Czech President and party
[386]boss Novotny has gone to Moscow,
[388]_ evidently for economic talks, judg-
[390]ing by the composition of his dele-
[391]gation.
[393]b. Novotny's background of
[394]Stalinist excesses have put him on
[395]the wrong side of Khrushchev. They
[396]also have given rise to control
[397]problems, particularly in the frac-
[398]tious Slovak party where pressures
[399]for liberalization have made their
[400]mark,
[402]c. Party problems and Novotny's
[404]' leadership may thus also come under
[406]Cambodia
[408]review.
[410]d. A curious sign of the times
[411]is the fact that, although President
[412]Novotny is in Moscow, the presidential
[413]flag has remained up "at the official
[414]residence. It might simply have been
[415]an oversight, but the symbolism will
[416]not be lost to the people in Prague.
[418]a. Cambodia, as expected, has
[419]asked the Geneva co-chairman to call
[420]the Geneva conference participants
[421]together (in Djakarta) to discuss
[422]measures "to ensure the internation-
[423]ally guaranteed and controlled neu-
[424]tralization of Cambodia.".
[426](Cont'd)
[428]For The President Only - Top Secret
[432](egypt)
[434]Ras Bana:
[435]Riyadh*
[438]»Mecca
[440]ARABIA
[441]SUDAN
[443]Khartoum
[445]ETHIOPIA
[448]Addis Ababa
[450]830 MILES
[452]13 SEPTEMBER 1863
[454]— Ro
[456]8.
[458]Egypt-Yemen
[460]b. Last year when this came
[461]up, the French were inclined to go
[462]along with some such idea.
[464]c. They have indicated to us
[465]that they still feel Sihanouk should
[466]not be turned down, and Sihanouk is
[467]obviously hopeful that they will
[468]exert pressure on us and the British.
[470]d, Sihanouk seems to be hoping
[471]for at least a rump session attended
[472]by conferees who are willing to do
[473]his bidding.
[475]a. An Egyptain military mes-
[476]sage reporting to Cairo on operations -
[477]in Yemen this past weekend indicated
[478]that poison gas (referred to as
[479]"shurab" in Egyptian military traf-
[480]fic) was used against royalist tribes-
[481]men. in the northwest.
[483]b. This is the first time we
[484]have noted its employment since
[485]last summer, although another inter-
[486]cept shows that the Egyptian com-
[487]mand has continued to authorize its
[488]use,
[490](Cont 'd)
[492]For The President Only - Top Secret
[494]9.
[496]Congo
[498]c. It is basically a tear gas,
[500]- but in such highly concentrated form
[502]that it has caused the death of a nun-
[503]ber of Yemenis.
[504](INTERCEPTS throughout)
[506]a, Opposition leftist Congo-
[507]lese exiles, operating from Brazza-
[508]ville across the river, are reported
[509]to be plotting to assassinate Congo-
[510]lese Premier Adoula and some of his
[511]ministers, —
[513]b. It is supposed to happen
[514]sometime after 8 December.
[516]c. Meanwhile, agents are being
[517]infiltrated with money to buy off
[518]opposition to a takeover immediately
[519]thereafter by radical nationalist
[520]Gbenye.
[522]d. Adoula's government already
[523]knows. that this group of left-wing
[524]subversives, which now numbers about
[525]50, is being helped by the Communist
[526]bloc, ,
[528]e. It operates fairly freely
[529]in the loose circumstances which now
[530]obtain in Brazzaville, .Its activities
[531]may soon become a serious source of
[532]friction between the two countries.
[534]For The President Only - Top Secret
[536]NOTES
[538]South Korea With 85 percent of the vote in, Pak
[539]Chong-hui's Democratic Republican Party has already |
[540]won an absolute majority in the National Assembly
[541]elections held yesterday,
[543]Venezuela The country's three major . presidential
[544]candidates were the targets of unsuccessful assassi-
[545]nation attempts yesterday as Communistled terror-
[546]ists moved into’ the final week of desperate attempt
[547]to wreck next Sunday’s elections, A US Embassy of-
[548]ficial was also the intended recipient of a "Christ-
[549]mas package" containing a bomb, Yesterday a US
[550]rubber warehouse was set afire ‘and destroyed by
[551]terrorists,
[553]Indonesia-Philippines We have what is about as
[554]sure a Sign aS we can get that Sukarno will be go-
[555]ing to Manila as reported yesterday. A reliable
[556]source tells us Sukarno has sent advance word to
[557]two of his favorite Philippine girl friends that he
[558]will be arriving on 28 November,
[560]Indonesia~Malaysia Indonesian-inspired press re-
[561]ports yesterday claimed a British military plane
[562]was shot down near the North Borneo border, Brit-
[563]ish Intelligence tells us the story is concocted;
[564]no aircraft are reported missing,
[566]Cuba The alert in the Cuban military which we
[567]noted immediately after President Kennedy*s death
[568]has been lifted. (INTERCEPT)
[570]; (Cont *d)
[571]For The President Only - Top Secret
[573]G.
[575]Cambodia Cambodia is cutting its diplomatic rep-
[576]resentation abroad to a bare minimum as an austerity
[577]measure following curtailment of US aid, Sihanouk
[578]announced last week that this would be done, saying
[579]that missions in Communist countries would not be -
[580]affected since those countries "protect" Cambodia,
[581]Curiously enough, among the missions being closed
[582]down are those in New Delhi and Rangoon, (Includes
[583](INTERCEPTS) ;
[585]USSR-US Pravda this morning reports on Gromyko's
[586]talks With President Johnson, giving top play to >
[587]Senator Fulbright's remarks about the desirability
[588]of a meeting between the President and Khrushchev.
[590]. For The President Only - Top Secret
[592]DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST
[593]I. De Gaulle on NATO strategy.
[595]II. Common Market official appraises President Johnson.
[596](Sensitive INTERCEPT)
[598]For The President Only - Top Secret