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[17]TITLE : THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
[19]DATE: 11/25/1963
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[22]INTELLIGENCE REPORT
[23]DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
[24]CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified
[25]RESTRICTIONS: 1B; Mandatory Review Material
[26]CURRENT STATUS: — Redact
[27]DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 12/12/1997
[29]OPENING CRITERIA :
[31]COMMENTS :
[35]DOC. #3
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[65]NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
[67]Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions
[69]TOP SECRET
[71](Security Classification)
[74]THE PRESIDENT’S
[75]INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
[77]ISSUED BY THE
[78]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[80]25 NOVEMBER 1963
[81]TOP SECRET
[83]1.
[85]South Vietnam
[87]a. Vietnamese Communist forces
[88]kept up their high post-coup level
[89]of activity over the weekend.
[91]b. The most significant action
[92]was an attack early yesterday morn-
[93]ing against a US special forces train-
[94]ing camp some 30 miles from Saigon.
[96]‘ec. When the smoke cleared after
[97]a sharp fight, four US soldiers were
[98]missing and at least 35 South Vietnamese
[99]were dead.
[101]d. Late yesterday morning, the
[102]Viet Cong shot down two aircraft sup-
[103]porting a government operation in
[104]the extreme south, and damaged twelve
[105]more, Two more Americans are missing
[106]in this action.
[108]e. Back in Saigon, the new re-
[109]gime's troubles with the ambitious
[110]General Ton That Dinh continue.
[112]f£. He is still angling to get
[113]control of the important strategic
[115]‘hamlet program and has yet to give
[117]up command of the Third Corps, which
[118]the generals assigned to another of
[119]their number earlier in the month.
[120]This corps is of particular signifi-
[121]cance in that it surrounds Saigon.
[123]For The President Only - Top Secret
[126]"ISLANDS
[128]“INDIAN”
[130]OCEAN
[132]MALAYSIA
[133]CONFIDENTIAL
[135]MILES
[137]34176
[139]Ze
[141]3.
[143]Indonesia-
[144]Malaysia
[146]Venezuela
[148]a. Sukarno is beefing up the
[149]subversive aspects of his confronta~-
[150]tion campaign against Malaysia.
[152]b. Intercepted Indonesian mes~
[153]sages indicate that regular army
[154]units will shortly begin infiltration
[155]operations across the border into
[156]Sarawak and Sabah,
[158]c. Seven thousand regular army
[160]‘troops in Indonesian Borneo, the
[162]messages show, are getting an inten-
[163]sified course in guerrilla tactics.
[164]This training is to be completed
[165]next month.
[167]d. Other messages speak of
[168]the arrival, beginning today, of a
[169]battalion of regulars from West Java,
[170](INTERCERPTS throughout)
[172]a. The weekend was marred only
[173]by sporadic and minor acts of ter-
[174]rorism in several cities. Govern-
[175]ment security forces have the situa-
[176]tion generally under control.
[178]b. The Venezuelan Air Force
[179]is stepping up its efforts to track
[180]down and destroy intruder aircraft.
[181]The Venezuelans are convinced that
[182]Planes have been ferrying supplies
[183]to pro-Castro guerrillas in the
[184]mountains of the northwest.
[186]: (Cont 'd)
[188]For The President Only - Top Secret
[190]70
[192]6309195
[193]190 200 Miles
[194]200 Kilometers
[196]66
[198]8 GRENADA
[199]U.K)
[202]c. The Betancourt government
[203]has scheduled a press conference
[204]tomorrow to break the story that a
[205]three-ton cache of Cuban arms has
[206]been unearthed. A formal accusation
[207]against Cuba is to be made before
[208]the Organization of American States
[209]a week from today.
[211](Includes INTERCEPTS)
[213]4. Iraq: a. ‘The air of tension in Bagh-
[214]dad dissipated somewhat after the
[215]government lifted the curfew and once
[216]again permitted private vehicles on
[217]the streets.
[219]b. Neither the city nor its
[220]new rulers. are, however, at ease.
[221]_ Troops are still very much in evi-
[222]dence,
[224]c. The new regime apparently
[225]is not convinced that the hard core
[226]of the Baath Party and its paramili-
[227]tary supporters have been put down
[228]for good. ,
[230]5. Syria a. We have information that a
[231], showdown between the moderate and
[232]extremist factions of the ruling
[233]Baath Party in Syria is fast approach-
[234]ing. ,
[236](Cont 'd)
[238]For The President Only - Top Secret
[240]6.
[242]Italy
[244]b. A clandestine source identi-
[245]fies Prime Minister Hafiz as the
[246]leading figure on the side of modera-
[247]tion. General Umran heads the doc-
[248]trinaire extremists.
[250]c. It was a split along the
[251]same lines that brought about the
[252]Baath Party's fall from power in
[253]Iraq.
[256]pects that the program for a "center-
[257]left" coalition government will be
[258]approved today by the four parties
[259]involved. ,
[261]b. Details of the foreign
[262]policy pianks are not yet available,
[263]but they were drafted with the.
[264]thought that the death of President
[265]Kennedy makes it more important for
[266]Italy to play an active role within
[267]the Western alliance.
[269]c. After the program has been
[270]approved, the final selection of a
[271]cabinet can be undertaken. This
[272]could take the rest of the week,
[274]For The President Only - Top Secret
[276]JORDAN
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[323]YEMEN
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[327]pas
[329]7.
[331]UAR-Yemen-
[332]Egypt
[334]a. The Saudis told our embassy
[335]in Jidda yesterday that_.a Saudi vil-
[336]lage near the Yemeni border was at- |
[337]tacked Thursday by Egyptian aircraft.
[339]b. It was the second time this |
[340]month that Yemeni-based Egyptian air-
[341]craft have struck across the border
[342]into Saudi Arabia. ‘
[344]c. As in the previous cases,
[345]the Saudis have lodged a formal com-
[346]plaint with the UN Observation Mis-
[347]sion.
[348](Includes INTERCEPTS)
[350]For The President Only - Top Secret
[352]NOTES
[354]Oswald Press stories to the effect that Lee Harvey
[355]Oswald recently visited Mexico City are true, accord-
[356]ing to our information. Oswald visited both the
[357]Cuban and the Soviet embassies on 28 September. He
[358]was trying, we are told, to arrange for visas so
[359]that he could travel to the USSR via Havana. He
[360]returned to the US on 3 October.
[362]Brazil A new round of military promotions and re-
[363]assignments will be made public today. The present
[364]instability of the Brazilian political scene is re-
[365]flected in the numerous reports of ‘coup plots which
[366]this event has precipitated.
[368]USSR At last report the three Soviet range in-
[369]Strumentation ships were dead in the water 500 miles
[370]south of Johnston Island, roughly the same position
[371]they occupied for last year's extended range ICBM
[372]shots. No announcement closing this area of the
[373]Pacific to shipping has been made and there is no
[374]activity as yet at the Tyuratam missile test center,
[375]but we look for some action in the next few days.
[376](INTERCEPTS)
[378]Algeria We have a report from a good clandestine
[379]source that a group of army officers is plotting
[380]with Defense Minister Boumedienne to overthrow Ben
[381]Bella. A growing estrangement between the two has
[382]been apparent for some time, but this is the first
[383]good indication that Boumedienne is making common
[384]cause with those who wish to turn Ben Bella out of
[385]office,
[387](Cont'd)
[389]For The President Only - Top Secret
[393]Australia — Communist China Peiping has signed con-
[394]tracts for just over one million tons of Australian
[395]grain to be delivered early next year. We had been
[396]expecting the Chinese Communists to enter the market,
[397]since they had another mediocre grain crop this year.
[398]Peiping has been buying close to five million tons
[400]of grain for the past several years.
[402]Congo We hear that the Soviet Embassy in Leopoid-
[403]Ville had booked 75 places on a flight to Brussels
[404]last Saturday. There is still no information on
[405]whether any Soviet Embassy officials have actually
[406]departed, however.
[408]Berlin There was no new harassment of Allied ac~
[409]cess routes to Berlin over the weekend. A total of
[410]16 flares were fired last evening near Tempelhof
[411]Airfield, but we connect these with Communist ef-
[412]forts to prevent escapes from East Berlin, East
[413]German police were observed stringing barbed wire
[414]in the same area a short time later.
[416]- Laos The neutralists claim to have made significant
[418]gains in their limited offensive in the Vang Vieng
[419]area. They have not, however, been able to dislodge
[420]the Pathet Lao from positions within artillery range
[421]of the town's airport.
[423](Includes INTERCEPTS) -
[425]For The President Only - Top Secret