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INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THĘ
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
21 NOVEMBER 1963
TOP SECRET
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1.
Iraq
a. The new 21-man cabinet ap-
pears to be a coalition of Arab
nationalist elements including four
members of the moderate wing of the
Baath party. The regime is still
dominated by the military, with eight
cabinet posts.
b. The new prime minister,
Tahir Yahya, is sympathetic to the
Baath Party, and both the Baathists
and the Egyptians feel they can
trust him.
C. The political affiliation
of eight of the new ministers is
not known, but the key interior post
is in the hands of an anti-Baathist
nationalist.
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2. Indonesia
a. Defense Minister Nasution
has been ordered by Sukarno to make
conciliatory statements on Malaysia
while on his trip abroad.
b. The Dutch charge who re-
ported this explained that Nasution
was chosen for this job because
Sukarno was irritated with the ultra-
tough line the defense minister has
taken.
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C.
The chargé has no informa-
tion on the motives behind this
switch. Our embassy thinks it may
be a move to pave the way for explora-
tory talks by Foreign Minister Suband-
rio at Bangkok with his Thai and
Philippine counterparts. It may also
be meant to provide a more recep-
tive attitude for Nasution's visit
here.
d. Our embassy thinks Nasution
went in for his Malaysia sabre rat-
tling on Sukarno's orders, or at
the very least, with the president's
tacit support. Sukarno may feel
Nasution has stolen some of his
thunder.
3.
Congo
1.81
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a. Adoula still did not get
around to announcing the expulsion
of all Soviet and Czech embassy per-
sonnel yesterday. However, his
people managed on Tuesday afternoon
to corral and hog-tie the Soviet
counselor and press attaché before
they could eat-up all the incrimin-
ating papers in their possession.
b. The Russians are now being
held at Ndolo prison. The Congolese
surete says the seized papers include,
(among other things, minutes of a
"liberation committee" meeting of op-
position politicians in Brazzaville,
and a document showing Soviet pay-
ments to this group.
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4.
Ethiopia-
Congo
41%
C.
The Belgian ambassador
thinks these papers are probably
genuine. He says the Russians have
made the mistake of underrating the
Congolese and have stumbled into a
surete trap.
d. The Congolese also picked
up two Czech diplomats but have since
released them. This morning they
arrested the correspondent of the
Soviet news agency.
a. Haile Selassie is planning
to withdraw all Ethiopian troops
from the Congo in January, according
to the commander of his ground forces.
b. The two battalions of
Ethiopians provide the guts of the
UN operation. They had been slated
to stay until June and are likely to
be very difficult to replace.
C.
The Emperor reportedly.
ordered the withdrawal on grounds
that the troops are urgently needed
in Ethiopia, particularly in view
of the Soviet military accord with
Somalia.
d.
Our ambassador has asked
to see the Emperor, as well as the
prime minister and foreign minister,
to press for reconsideration.
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5.
6.
Yemen
Turkey
D
a.
Military activity has
slackened but the stalemate continues.
b. Egypt still has about 32,000
troops in Yemen, and Saudi Crown
Prince Faysal believes Nasir will
not withdraw any significant number
of them before 4 January when the
extension of the disengagement agree-
ment expires.
c. Faysal is preparing to re-
sume aid to the royalists at that
time; he is stockpiling quantities
of arms and ammunition along the
border.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
a.
The opposition Justice
Party, heir of the old Menderes re-
gime, appears to have won a victory
in Sunday's nationwide local elec-
tions on the basis of incomplete re-
turns.
b. The collapse of Prime Min-
ister Inonu's coalition government
appears increasingly likely. Though
a new coalition may be formed, there
will be considerable resistance to
the retention of Inonu as prime min-
ister.
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C.
Justice Party members will
be putting on pressure for early
national parliamentary elections.
However their party leaders do not.
believe the Turkish military, which
Cousted Menderes in 1960, would per-
mit them to take over if they won
new elections.
d. They will probably try to
work out some rapprochement with the
armed forces.
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A.
B.
C.
D.
Quesday
Cuba The U-2 which flew yesterday's mission over
Cuba crashed while returning, about 40 miles north
of Key West. Air and sea rescue craft were sent to
the scene. An air rescue unit sighted an unopened
parachute, a life raft, and oil slick in the crash
area. The pilot is presumed lost. There is no in-
dication that the plane was attacked.
Berlin Local East German troops acting without
higher authority appear to have been responsible
for turning high powered searchlights on pilots tak-
ing off from West Berlin's Tempelhof airfield on
14-16 November. There were five such incidents. A
¨message of 16 November instructed border guard ele-
ments to discontinue such acts. There have been no
further incidents reported since.
Albania-USSR A Radio Tirana broadcast has accused
Khrushchev of personally releasing Barghoorn for
fear that Moscow's wheat deal with the US might col-
lapse, The Albanians are on record as preferring
to eat grass rather than to kowtow to the West, but
they are not above eating Chinese wheat acquired from
Western sources.-
Iran-USSR The Soviet Union's timing seems to be
off in Iran. Government sources have reported that
a twin engined plane was shot down in Iranian ter-
ritory resenday::_ by Soviet jet fighters who violated
Iranian air space. The Iranians say that the plane
was on a photographic mission in connection with the
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E.
F.
government's land reform drive. The pilot was injured
and his two passengers were killed. The incident
comes at a time when Soviet President Brezhnev is
visiting Tehran. He addressed a joint session of
parliament today.
Venezuela Police seem to have restored order in
downtown Caracas, but terrorism continues elsewhere.
The slum district of Caracas to which the terrorists
retreated is under virtual martial law. Among other
things, the Dupont paint warehouse at Maracaibo was
set afire and totally destroyed.
World Peace Council (51
The WPC meeting in Warsaw next
Thursday may wind up in another free-for-all. The
Chinese Communist delegation, although not intent on
disrupting the conference, plans to attack the WPC
president's report given to a committee meeting in
Vienna last September. The Japanese delegates plan
to give general support to the Chinese and will try
to forestall a vote on the Moscow test ban treaty.
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DOCUMENT OF INTEREST
Debriefing of Professor Frederick Barghoorn
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1.
Iraq-Syria,
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a. Although sporadic gunfire
continued through the night in Bagh-
64101, 1910 dad, the army is in control.
63951,
(69393,
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onversation with
Nonhauser
, 19 
Nor
b. Arif has plans to announce
the make-up of his cabinet today.
It will probably contain some "mild"
Baathists.
c. He permitted Syrian strong-
man Hafiz and Michel Aflaq, the
founder of the Baath Party, who were
caught in Baghdad by the coup, to
fly back to Damascus yesterday after
the Syrian radio suddenly stopped
vilifying the newest Iraqi regime.
We
d. Arif and his colleagues
obviously hope to reach an under-
standing with the Syrian regime.
doubt very much if they are interested,
however, in the meaningful political
and military unity the previous re-
gime was aiming for.
e. An intercepted message in-
dicates that Syrian army units, now
in Iraq, are getting ready to go home.
£.
The retention of Baathists
in positions of power in Baghdad also
tends to ease the threat to the party
in Syria.
(INTERCEPTS)
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2. Venezuela
C. B
plus
intercept from 962M,
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South Vietnam
08
1B
a. The Communist effort to
frustrate the presidential election
(1 December) continues.
b. An illegal transmitter was
heard yesterday in Caracas calling
for a 48-hour general strike and
urging listeners to arm themselves
against the Betancourt government.
c. Roving bands of Communist-
led terrorists sought to enforce the
generally unsuccessful strike with
gunfire. There were at least nine
deaths (some reports go as high as
19). Guerrilla activity in rural
areas is also being stepped up.
d. ⠀ The government has jailed
an added 200 extremists in the wake
of yesterday's violence and plans
are afoot to detain 1,500 more.
e. The army is being held in
reserve in the Caracas area.
(includes Intercepts)
a. Ton That Dinh, whom we had
earlier identified as the least re-
liable of the generals' group, is
trying to use his position as security
minister to build himself an independ-
ent political base.
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1
France-Israel
b. He has been visiting provin-
cial cities to "explain" the military
takeover and receive expressions of
loyalty. He has continued to spread
the idea that the coup was largely
his own doing.
c. Dinh has directed provincial
chiefs to submit to him daily reports
on local politics. (INTERCEPTS)
d. This is going on while
other members of the regime are
squabbling about who should be in
the "council of sages" and what it
should do.
Air Attacker, Paris
1 
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30 seget 63
We have picked up further
details on the surface-to-surface
missile system which a French firm
is developing for the Israelis.
b. The firm, Marcel Dassault,
is to produce and test fire 25 mis-
siles between July 1964 and July
1965. An actual production contract
for perhaps 250 missiles will be
drawn up late in the period if all
goes well.
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5. Egypt
note from Jan Youry
19 Now
TDCS 3/565, 064
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IN 63025
18 Now
c.
Design requirements call
for the delivery of a 1,600-pound
warhead to a maximum range of 300
miles with a CEP slightly in excess
of half a mile. A conventional war-
head would not make military sense
under these specifications.
a. Pamphlets and posters
bitterly lampooning Nasir, espe-
cially for his involvement in Yemen
and Algeria, have appeared on the
streets of Cairo and Suez.
b. Such public expression of
anti-Nasir sentiment is highly
unusual.
C. It is still in a very low
key, however, and there is no sign
of organized opposition.
d. We do not consider Nasir
to be in any immediate danger of
overthrow, though he could be forced
to modify unpopular policies if the
discontent spreads.
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TOCS 3/564,966
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IN 61659,
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7. Cambodia
by phone from State,
20Nov
a. The return last week of
Vice President Lechin, who has been
on ice as Bolivia's ambassador in
Rome, will heat things up in La Paz.
b. The city has already wit-
nessed four minor demonstrations
which Embassy La Paz attributes to
left-wingers encouraged by Lechin's
presence.
C. Lechin, who has ambitions
to replace President Paz, intends
to tour the country to rally his
political forces, now in disarray
as a result of some astute moves
by Paz.
d. If Lechin decides after
these soundings to come out openly
against the president, he will try
to arrange a series of strikes early
next year to point up his strength.
a.
Sihanouk may have finally
painted himself into a corner on US
aid.
b. He has followed up yester-
day's emotional public renunciation
with an official request to our embassy
for talks on the subject.
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orally from Ed Hauch
19 Nov
c. We are always reluctant to
predict just what Sihanouk will do
next, but he may hope, perhaps ex-
pect, that the US will press him to
retain some of our aid, even on his
terms.
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NOTES
Congo A clandestine source tells us that Adoula
will finally announce this morning the expulsion of
all personnel of the Soviet and Czech embassies.
This move has been hanging fire ever since security
officials turned up evidence several weeks ago im-
plicating personnel of these embassies in antigovern-
has been directed to destroy his classified files.
20ment activities. The Congolese ambassador in Moscow
CIB
1.
B. USSR A new series of extended range missile tests
seems to be upcoming. Three Soviet range instrumen-
tation ships left Petropavlovsk nine days ago and
are apparently headed for the more distant Pacific
impact area, 6,500 miles from Tyuratam. There has
so far been no announcement closing the area. (INTER-
CEPTS)
C.
Hory Kory's
CIB
1 Nov
D.
plus R.' Jack
Smith X
08
Sino-Soviet Peiping has been quick to exploit the
opening provided by Barghoorn's release. To the
Chinese this affair is an object lesson in how
Khrushchev knuckles under to US pressure without
getting a thing in return.
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USSR-Cuba The five passenger ships we mentioned in
Tast Thursday's Checklist have docked and departed.
Some of them brought in rotational troops and all of
them took out Soviet personnel. We cannot strike a
firm balance on the basis of the evidence we now have,
but it is possible that as many Soviets went out as
came in.
(INTERCEPTS)
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G.
F.
State, Dipsum
19Nov
H.
ན'་
Czechoslovakia-Mali We have an intercepted message
From the Malian ambassador in Prague reporting in-
cidents between Czechs and Malians a week ago Sunday.
There were, the ambassador notes, "only six wounded
on the Malian side." (INTERCEPT)
D
Japan Ikeda does not appear to be in any particular
trouble in tomorrow's elections. The long-range trend
toward the left in popular vote will probably be ap-
parent, but Ikeda's Liberal Democratic Party should
retain a safe majority in the next Diet. The leftists
have tried to turn rising prices and last week's twin
disasters into election ammunition, but without
marked success.
Indonesia Djakarta is trying to round up support
for making Sukarno's little Olympics, the "Games of
the New Emerging Forces," a permanent thing. In
making a pitch along these lines to the Philippine
ambassador, a high Indonesian official candidly ad-
mitted that Djakarta views this sort of athletic
competition as a means of achieving political ends.
(INTERCEPTS)
Telow 580 is denying the Sulzberger account in last Saturday's
18 Now
NY Times,
TDCS
Israel The Israeli foreign office says Ben Gurion
New York Times of Ben Gurion's "hints" about experi-
ments in "military atomics" at Dimona. Ambassador
16 Pr) Barbour is not entirely convinced of this, however,
and recalls Ben Gurion's oft-expressed opinion that
it does no harm to let Nasir worry about Dimona.
Brazil _ A new round of army promotions and shifts
in command are due to be announced Monday. Anti-
Goulart elements fear, probably with good reason,
3/565,256 that their ranks will be further thinned.
19 Now again.
tal plotters on the far right are talking coup yet
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learned of the presence of Soviet
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Bullfight critics ranked in rows
Crowd the enormous plaza full;
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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST--22 NOVEMBER 1963
Mic Dic
1. USSR:
A. "GRIFFON", THE SOVIET ANTIMISSILE DISPLAYED IN THE
Hilites, 7 NOVEMBER MOSCOW PARADE, APPEARS DESIGNED ONLY FOR USE WITHIN
21 Nov
Penh
391
395
394
THE ATMOSPHERE.
B.
FURTHER ANALYSIS OF PHOTOS OF THE MISSILE INDICATES
IT WEIGHS ABOUT 2,000 POUNDS LESS, AND HAS LESS THRUST THAN
ORIGINALLY ESTIMATED.
C. ITS PROBABLE BEST PERFORMANCE ALTITUDES ARE FROM
50,000 TO 100,000 FEET, AND IT IS NOT THEREFORE COMPARABLE
TO THE HIGHER THRUST NIKE-ZEUS SYSTEM.
CAMBODIA:
2.
A.
SIHANOUK HAS GIVEN THE FRENCH IN PHNOM PENH FORE-
WARNING THAT HE PLANS TO REVIVE HIS NEUTRALITY GUARANTEE
PROPOSALS.
B. HE WANTS THE TWELVE GENEVA CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
BO-4711 TO MEET IN SOME ASIAN CITY; "AT THE GREAT POWERS' EXPENSE,"
Reuters
102
TO WORK OUT A NEUTRALITY GUARANTEE DECLARATION.
C. THE FRENCH SAY THEY PLAN TO RESPOND FAVORABLY AND
HOPE WE WILL TOO,LEST SIHANOUK OTHERWISE TAKE THE FINAL IR-
REVOCABLE STEP INTO THE COMMUNIST BLOC.
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D. MEANWHILE PEIPING HAS DECLARED IT WOULD GIVE "ALL-
OUT SUPPORT SHOULD CAMBODIA ENCOUNTER ARMED INVASION INSTI-
GATED BY THE US OR ITS VASSALS."
E.
-MINISTER OF DEFENSE LON NOL HAS INTIMATED
TO GENERAL TABER THAT THE CAMBODIAN MILITARY DOES NOT APPROVE
OF TERMINATION OF US AID. CAMBODIAN MILITARY OFFICERS HAVE
IN64089
Мемо
from
'Col.
Anderson
Copenhagen
"383"
MADE IT PLAIN THAT THE US RETAINS A RESERVOIR OF GOOD WILL
WITHIN THE COUNTRY'S MILITARY.
3. NOTES:
A. CUBA-US: A PRENSA LATINA ITEM YESTERDAY DATELINED
NEW YORK, SAYS THE STUDENT COMMITTEE FOR TRAVEL TO CUBA HAS
STARTED ORGANIZING ANOTHER TRIP, HOPEFULLY TO INCLUDE AS
MANY AS 500 STUDENTS THIS TIME. OVER 100 ARE SAID TO HAVE
APPLIED SO FAR.
SALVAGE OPERATIONS CONTINUE ON THE
B. U-2 CRASH:
WRECKAGE OF THE U-2. THERE IS STILL NO TRACE OF THE PILOT,
CAPTAIN HYDE, WHO EVIDENTLY EJECTED SOMETIME BEFORE IMPACT.
C. DENMARK-USSR: DANISH FOREIGN MINISTER HAEKKERUP,
VISITING KHRUSHCHEV ON THURSDAY, PRESENTED HIM WITH A MADE-
IN-DENMARK ROCKING CHAIR, EXPRESSING THE HOPE THAT IT WOULD
NOW BE POSSIBLE TO ROCK IN RHYTHM IN BOTH THE KREMLIN AND
THE WHITE HOUSE. APPARENTLY KHRUSHCHEV WILL BE MAKING HIS
SCANDANAVIAN TOUR NEXT SPRING.
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7Nov
D. JAPAN YESTERDAY'S JAPANESE ELECTION DID NOT CHANGE
THE GENERAL BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATIVES AND SOCIALISTS IN
THE DIET. WHILE IT IS TOO EARLY TO MAKE A DETAILED ANALYSIS,
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT IKEDA'S POSITION WITHIN THE PARTY MAY
BE SOMEWHAT LESS SECURE. THE SOCIALISTS GAINED A FEW SEATS,
BUT FELL SHORT OF THEIR GOAL OF BREAKING THE "ONE-THIRD
BARRIER."
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5/5
Djokarta
1127
E. INDONESIA-US:
INDONESIAN OFFICIALS ARE LETTING IT
BE KNOWN INDIRECTLY, VIA THE OIL COMPANY REPRESENTATIVES,
THAT SUKARNO MAY WELL HOLD UP SIGNATURE OF THE LAW RATIFYING
OIL CONTRACTS WITH THE BIG THREE UNTIL THE US POSITION ON AID NBR
TO INDONESIA IS "CLARIFIED." US AID THEY SAY WAS PROMISED
BY WILSON WYATT AS PART OF A "PACKAGE DEAL" FOR SETTLING WITH
THE OIL COMPANIES.
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1. South Vietnam
Note from Ed Hauck.
22 Nov
CIB
a. Vietnamese Communist ef-
forts to discredit the new Saigon
regime stayed in high gear this
week.
b. The number of armed attacks
was off from the high of the previous
week but still some 50% above the
year's weekly average.
C. These attacks have been,
for the most part, small-scale efforts
directed against the government's
paramilitary forces in the villages.
They have been designed more for
their psychological impact than for
immediate military gain.
d. A high volume of messages
on Viet Cang military and political
communications nets indicates a prob-
able continuation of this effort.
e. The new government is re-
sponding by stepping up its own
military operations. It is also
setting about the hard job of re-
vamping the Diem government apparatus
and harnessing broader popular sup-
port for the var effort.
f. The generals have been
dealing fairly effectively with
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CARACAS
64
CARIBBEAN
Baccatons
El Tigre
58
64
SEA
62
GRENADA
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11.6 63
their new responsibilities. There
are, however, a few signs of dissen-
sion within this group and between
it and civilian politicians.
g. One of the more ambitious
and troublesome figures is the able
but opportunistic General Ton That
Dinh, the new Minister of Security.
He has been travelling about the
country spreading the idea that the
coup was largely his doing and seems
bent on developing his own independ-
ent base of power. He is a man to
watch.
h. The new regime has also
embarked on a purge of high military
officers who sided with Diem during
the Buddhist crisis and failed to
get on the right side soon enough.
(INTERCEPTS)
The death toll from the
terrorist outburst in Caracas last
Tuesday and Wednesday now stands at
about 30.
b. This is the high water mark
thus far in the campaign of the
Castro-supported Communist extremists
to disrupt the national elections a
week from tomorrow.
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C. The Betancourt government
has struck back hard. Its new uni-
fied command over the security forces,
set up at US urging, passed this
initial test with flying colors. ·
d. At least 500 extremists
were arrested and the round-up is
still going on. Their removal will
hamper the Communist drive against
elections in major cities like Caracas.
e. We now expect the elections
to be held on schedule, a consider-
able achievement under the circum-
stances. The elections will be fol-
lowed, however, by a Communist ef-
fort to prevent the March inaugura-
tion of the victor.
1.
The rub here is that none
of the presidential candidates com-
mands President Betancourt's con-
siderable assets for dealing success-
fully with the harsh realities of
Venezuelan politics. The constitu-
tion prevents Betancourt from suc-
ceeding himself.
g. In the background, as
always, looms the military, which
could intervene if the president-
elect shows signs of being soft on
communism.
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CUBA
Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) Sites
✓✓ HAVANA HAVANA EAST
Mariel
Artemis
antiago de las Vegas
SAN JULIAN
(Training site)
Isle of Pines
New site
Unchanged site
Estimated range
50
NAUTICAL MILES
100
Remedios
Holguin
Santiago de Cuba
US Naval Base
34095
11 OCTOBER 1963
SECRET
13-00000
3. USSR-Cuba
BD0357
22 
Now
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22 Mhow
Briefing
2/Woo
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In the past week we inter-24
cepted Cuban military messages which 24
show that Cuban interpreters are now
posted at several surface-to-air mis-
sile (SAH) sites on the island.
b. We think this means that
on-site training of Cubans has begun
on schedule. Field training is to
last six months, after which the
SAN system may be turned over to
Castro.
C. In the past month some
1,500 Soviets arrived in Cuba.
of these were probably SAM experts,
sent to monitor the training.
Most
d. Prior to their coming, we
had detected no more than a few
hundred Soviet military personnel
entering Cuba since the October
crisis last year.
e. We estimate that at least
15,000, and probably closer to
18,000, have been withdrawn in the
intervening 13 months, leaving, very
roughly, 4,000 to 7,000. Those re-
maining are for the most part ad-
visors whose main functions are to
train and supervise Cubaïs in the
use of weapons turned over to them.
(Cont'd)
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f. All Soviet weapons intro-
duced into Cuba last year have been
withdrawn or turned over to the
Cubans. The only significant excep-
tion is the SAM system.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
a. We have had an indication
that Soviet harassment of Allied ac-
cess routes to West Berlin will shift
this weekend to the air corridors.
b. The Soviet man at the Ber-
lin air traffic control center told
the Allied representatives yesterday.
that Soviet transports would be using
the air corridors for brief flights
during the next five weekends.
C. Moscow has tried on a num-
ber of past occasions to assert its
right to restrict Allied use of the
air corridors. In early 1962, the
Soviets attempted to reserve "blocks"
of air space for their own use. They
have since demanded that Western
flights stay between stipulated al-
titudes, that we file flight plans
in afvance and provide prior notice
of border-crossing times.
(Cont'd)
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BALL
d. This sort of harassment
stopped in the spring of 1962 when
Soviet leaders became convinced
that the US was interested in a
serious discussion of a Berlin settle-
ment. Moscow may hope that the
threat of more of this sort of har-
assment will jog the US into talks
on Berlin.
5.
Iraq-Syria-
UAR
Bagdad 571
a. It now appears that Presi-
dent Arif's role in last Monday's
coup in Baghdad may have been vir-
tually that of a bystander.
b. According to our latest in-
formation, Arif was wakened early
that morning and given five minutes
to join up. Tahir Yahya, now prime
minister, was reportedly the orga-
nizer.
c. Whatever Arif's role may
have been, the coup was primarily
an effort by the Iraqi Army to cur-
tail the activities of the extreme
wing of the Baath Party. The Baath
is an Arab nationalist political or-
ganization, active throughout the
Arab world, which has been ruling
Iraq and Syria.
NBR
(Cont'd)
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CIB, LINN
d.
The coup group has not
thrown all Baathists out of the
government; there are party members
in the new cabinet.
e. Syrian Baathists have wel-
comed this retention of their Iraqi
brothers. Their attitude springs
from the recognition that the Baath
in Syria cannot stay afloat without
support from Iraq. Even so, we hear
TDCS 3/565, 576 talk of coup plotting in Damascus.
CIB
f. The reaction of Nasir's
Egypt, which passionately desires
to see the Baath go under, has been
exactly the opposite. Cairo has been
backing off its all-out support for
the coup ever since the new cabinet
was announced.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
NBR
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V/BR
13
33741
SOVIET EXTENDED RANGE IMPACT AREAS
TYURATAM
ARCTIC OCEAN
OKHOT
VLADIVOSTOK
SEA OF
JAPAN
KOREA
JAPAN
STRALIA
BERING SEA
APPROX.
4900
APPROX.
6500
NM
NM
NORTHERN
IMPACT
AREA
-Midway blends
CIF
C
SOUTHERN
IMPACT
AREA
CANADA
UNIT
STATES
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136
NOTES
c/
20 Now
TDCS
B.
3/565, 59/
22 Now
Priefs
22
C.
USSR New activity involving Soviet range instru-
mentation ships in the Pacific appears to be forth-
coming. Three instrumentation ships left Petropav-
lovsk 12 days ago and are apparently headed for the
more distant Pacific impact area, 6,500 miles from
Tyuratam. We are looking for extended range ICBM
tests but we do not exclude a space event. There
has so far been no announcement closing the area.
(INTERCEPTS)
NBR
Congo-USSR Soviet embassy personnel have not yet
left Leopoldville, but their departure is expected
momentarily. They were ordered out of the country
after the Congolese turned up good documentary evi-
dence of their complicity in anti-government plots. NBR
One of the items taken off a Soviet diplomat the
other day was a letter from an anti-Adoula leader
now in Brazzaville asking for funds and arms to
throw the Leopoldville government.
Britain The Labor Party scored again in the Dundee
West by-election Thursday, increasing its 1959
majority of 719 to a thumping 4,955. Heartened by
this, Labor is now pushing for general elections at
once. Prime Minister Home is not likely to accede.
Ecuador The military junta which has run Ecuador
DO-A 3,283 8/9ince July may be about to come unstuck.
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D.
8 Now
We have a
✓ report that one of the less savory members of the
group, air force Colonel Freiles, will try to take
over full control this weekend. We are not sure
of the reliability of this report, but Freiles is
known to have been making motions in this direction.
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NBR
NBR
(Cont'd)
4/BRA
SOVIET EARTH SATELLITE VEHICLES - COSMOS SERIES
1962-1963
SECRET
1962
APPROXIMATE TIME LAUNCH
OF LAUNCH (GMT) SITE
PERIOD
(MINUTES)
APOGEE
(N.M.)
PERIGEE
(N.M.)
DNCLINATION
Cosmos 1
(Sputnik 13)
12:00:00 (EST.)
16 Mar '62
Kapustin Yar
96.35
529
117
Cosmos 2
(Sputnik 14)
Cosmos 3
(Sputnik 15)
1715:18
6 Apr '62
Kapustin Yar
102.5
842
115
Cosmos 4
(Sputnik 16)
0400:12
24 Apr '62
1002:56
26 Apr '62
Kapustin Yar
93.8
389
124
Tyuratam
90.6
178
16:
Cosmos 5
(Sputnik 17)
Cosmos 6
(Sputnik 18)
0259:49
28 May '62
1600:00 (EST.)
30 June '62
Kapustin Yar
102.75
865
110
Kapustin Yar
90.6
194
148
11
Cosmos 7
•
0918:30
(Sputnik 19)
28 July '62
Tyuratam
90.1
199
113
Cosmos 8
0500:00 (EST.)
(Sputnik 22)
Cosmos ŷ
(Sputnik 26)
Cosmos 10
(Sputnik 27)
Cosmos 11
(Sputnik 28)
Cosmos 12
(Sputnik 32)
18 Aug '62
Kapustin Yar 92.93
326
138
0940:00
27 Sept '62
Tyuratam
90.9
191
163
0900:01 (EST.)
17 Oct '62
Tyuratam
90.2
205
113
=
0655:00 (EST.)
20 Oct '62
Kapustin Yar
96.1
497
132
0924:40
22 Dec '62
Tyuratam
90.45
243
114
1963
Cosmos 13
(Sputnik 34)
Cosmos 14
(Sputnik 36)
Cosmos 15
(Soutnik 37)
Cosmos 16
(Sputnik 38)
Cosmos 17
(Sputnik 39)
Cosmos 16
(Sputnik 40).
Cosmos 19
(Sputnik 43)
Cosmos 20
(Sputnik 44)
Failure
STATUS
Decayed
25 Mazy '62
Decayed
19-20 Aug '63
Decayed
17 Oct.'62
Recovered
29 Apr 02
Decayed
2 May '63
Decayed
8 Sept '62
Recovere:
Aug 160
Decayed
17 Aug '63
Recovere:
Det 2
Recovere
C- 160
Decayed
6 June '63
Recovere:
10 Dec 162
NBR
0830:00
21 Mar '63
1059:59
13 Apr '63
Tyuratam
89.77
182
Kapustin Yar
92.1
276
143
కా
0829:58
22 Apr '63
Tyuratam
89.77
203
93
0850:00 (EST.)
28 Apr '63
Tyuraram
90.4
218
0300:00 (EST.)
22 May '63
Kapustin Yar
94.8
425
140
1034:07
24 May '63
0600:00 (EST.)
6 Aug '63
recovered
Mar 163
Decayed
29 Aug '63
Recovered
☐ 63
⚫e covere
May 160
In arbit, silent
since 31 May 63
etover
Tyuratam
89.44
163
112
FU
In orbit,
Kapustin Yar
92.2
280
146
0929:58
18 Oct '63
īvuratar
89.53
Tet
24 Oct '63
Kapustin Yar
-
Cosmos 2:
(Soutnik 46)
0623:39
ivuratam
80.5
12-
11 Nov '63
108
Cosmos 22
(Sputnik 47)
1034:25
Tyurarc-
90.0
16 Nov '63
transmitting
covers
::
VIBR
E.
IN 66316
2200
Bangkok
823
Thailand Prime Minister Sarit, who suffers from
an incurable liver disease, is failing. Doctors
attending him, including one of our own, give him
no more than six months more. Sarit has attempted.
to arrange for an orderly succession when he does
go.
The chances of this are not good; Thai poli-
ticians and military figures are already jostling
2LNo one another for position.
´f.
CIB
USSR Cosmos 22, launched a week ago, was recovered
yesterday. It is the eleventh unmanned satellite to
be recovered. All recoverable satellites have been
launched from Tyuratam, the main Soviet missile test
center, and recovered after three to ten days aloft.
A series of non-recoverable satellites has been
fired from Kapustin Yar.
(See Chart)
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INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
24 NOVEMBER 1963
TOP SECRET
13-00000
1. North Vietnam
South Vietnam
S/S Ventine 623
Huuto
1066678
Saigon 1068
4/5 Paris 2506.
a.
North Vietnamese leaders
are pressing their campaign for neu-
tralization of South Vietnam.
b.
They can count on Cambodia's
support. Prince Sihanouk has said
he believes neutralization of South
Vietnam to be the only way to keep.
his country and the rest of the area
from falling eventually into Commu-
nist hands.
c. The French feel the same
way. Indeed, Souvanna Phouma re-
portedly told a closed session of
the Laotian National Assembly that
the French were urging him to sup-
port Hanoi in this.
:
d. Moreover, according to one
of our clandestine sources, the North
Vietnamese have talked Souvanna into
backing the neutralization proposi-
tion in the UN.
e. The troublesome Polish ICC
delegate in Laos, Marek Thee (who
will be going home soon), has just
returned to Vientiane from Hanoi and
is trying, with somewhat less suc-
cess, to enlist British support too.
(Cont'd)
13-00000
MEKONG
BURMA
Muong
Sing
.a.
Namtha
NAMTHA
Ban
Housi
Sai
Muang Nan
oMujang
Phrae
S
Uttaradit
Dan Sa
TH
Muang Phitsanulok
Black R
PMin
Ou Neu
Nam How
La Chau
Phong Salv
ONGSALY
PHONG
Dien Bieg
Phu
°
Muong Sài
Ban Sup
NK
LUANG PRABANG
Lac Kay
o Ha Giang
Cao Bang
Yen Bay
Bac Kan
N
RTH
Lang Son
. Thai Nguyen
NA
Ning-ming
Mon
Cay
LE DE BE BAO
Black Hiver
Độ Phu Lang Thương
Mon
Gay
HANOI
Hoa Binh
Phu Lyo
Hai
Dương
Haiphong
ILE CAC BA
Năm Đinh
Sam Neua
Ninh Binh,
HOUA PHẠN
Luang
Prabang
aBan Ban
Chang Khay X LENG
Phou
Khoung
Sayaboury
Plaine des Jorras.
Khouang
KHOUANG
Ban
Ta Viang
Xiens
SAYABOURY
Vango.
Vieng..
VIENTIANE
Pak Sane
VIENTIANE.
Udon Than
Cua Rao
Thanh Hoa
KHAMMOUANE
aHa Tinh
CAP MUI ROM
Rong Khai
Nhomimarath
Muang
Nakhon Phānam)
Thakhek
Dong
Мо
Muang Sakon Nakhon
A
I
L
A
N D
LAOS
International boundary
Province boundary
National capital
°
Province capital
Railrc id
Road
June 25
с
Track or trail
50
75
25 50
75 100 Kilometers
BANGKOK
Samut Ghachoengsao
O Prakan
GULF
OF
100 Miles
UNCLASSIFIED
Ban mo. Poipet
Aranyaprathet
Burr
102
Surin
•Demarcation Line
Dong Ha
Muong
Phine
Tchepone. Bo Ho Su
Quang
Mukdahan
Seno
Savannakhet
SAVANNAKHET
Muang
o Yasothon
SARAVANE
Saravane
Muang Ubong
Mus
Warin
Chamran
Pakse
Hue
SOUTH
.
Ban
VIETNAM
Thateng
CHAMPASSAK
Attopeu
ATTOPEL
Khon
Bo Kham
CAMBODIA
Stung Treng
204
TO SAP
Boundaries and names are not necessarily
cogniz.
J.S. G
13-00000
2.
Laos
Velutine 622,
M1726
BD 1643
Verbal from
E
614
Hauck
f. As part of the same campaign,
the North Vietnamese have told the
French they believe sentiment is
growing in the US for withdrawal of
US forces. They reportedly plan to
keep the heat on to encourage it.
g. Hanoi is at the same time
trying quietly to encourage the belief
that it is ready to be reasonable.
h. To hear Thee tell it, North
Vietnamese leaders feel that neutral-
ity for South Vietnam and eventual
reunification is the only way they,
too, can escape from Peiping's clutches.
a.
As is usual in Laos, the
tentative agreement for a cease-fire
reached last week between Kong Le
and Pathet Lao commander Singkapo
came to naught.
b.
Each side accuses the other
of planning to use a cease-fire to
screen preparations for larger at-
tacks.
c. There is scattered fighting
in the Plaine des Jarres. Lao Army,
neutralist, and Meo guerrilla ele-
ments are jointly engaged in a
limited offensive in the Vang Vieng
NBR
(Cont'd)
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13-00000
3. Cambodia
S/S Paus 2520
IN 67064, 67049
DIA. 23 Nov
S/S P Reh 394
Phim Dinh 904,403
BD-4277,4803
B30-0676
7مار ما ماريخ في مسلستان
22 Nov
area north of Vientiane on Route 13.
They hope to gain control of that
town and its small airfield.
d. We have been anticipating
an expansion of the fighting with
the recent advent of the dry season.
a. Sihanouk knows his actions
against us have increased his vul-
nerability to the Communist bloc, and
he is looking to the French to bail
him out.
b. He has intimated that aid
from France would be most welcome,
and he has asked that French advisors
stay on.
C.
He apparently hopes that
the availability of French aid will
enable him to keep his balance with
the Communists and fend off their
pressure.
d. The French have told our
Embassy in Paris that plans are
afoot for French Defense Minister
Messmer to go to Cambodia in January.
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ZIBR
NEP
13-00000
YEMEN
Khamis Mushajt
SYRIA
JORDAN
Cairo
IRAQ
UDY ARABIA
U. A. R.
(EGYPT)
Ras Banas
Qizan
Al Muwassam
.
Maydi
00
KAMARAN
(U.K.)
RED
Al Hud
SEA
Fart
Dham
Mocha
SUDAN
Khartoum
. SAUDI
RedE
Riyadh
Jidda
SAVE •Mecco
ETHIOPIA
*
Taif
ARABIA
Addis Ababa
Sana
YEMEN
Marib
Sirwah
agnah
Harb
Area of Recent
Clashes
GULF
ADEN
ETHIOPIA
FR.
SOM.
UNCLASSIFIED.
STATUTE MILES.
630827 6

13-00000
4. Yemen-Egypt
IN 64695
e Sihanouk's actions toward
the US have not been universally
popular. This is particularly true
among government officials, the bus-
iness community (who have reason to
fear stepped-up nationalization),
and the military, where the US re-
tains a considerable reservoir of
goodwill.
f.
Indications are that Si-
hanouk will try to win fuller sup-
port by creating new feuds with
neighboring South Vietnam and Thai-
land. This is a gambit he has used
to advantage in past difficulties.
a. A number of Yemeni leaders
have told us they want the Egyptians
to get out of the Yemen. They want
to be left alone to solve their own
P/s Taiz 307, 308, 30% problems.
S/s Cars 1186.
b. This is especially true
of those Sheikhs with large tribal
followings.
c. A general uprising against
the Egyptians is not likely at the
moment, but the longer they remain,
the greater the possibility of major
pro-government tribes deserting to
the royalists.
NBR
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PARTY COMPOSITION OF THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT
OCTOBER 1963
SOCIAL
REPUBLIC
DEMOCRATS
33
SOCIALISTS
87
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
630
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRA
260
SOCIALISTS
44
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS
CHAMBER
OF
DEPUTIES
LIBERALS
39
4 OTHERS
8: MONARCHISTS
27 NEO-
FASCISTS
SENATE
LIBERALS
19
315
3 OTHERS
2 MONARCHISTS
15 NEO-
FASCISTS
63110-M
13-00000
:
d. Nasir, with some 30,000
troops in the Yemen, has grudgingly
promised to pull out 5,000 before
the end of the year. So far there
has been no sign he is preparing to
do so.
e. So far as we can tell,
Faysal has kept to his promise not
to supply the Royalists before the
latest extension of the UN observa-
tion mission runs out on 4 January.
f. But he has made plain his
intention to resume supplying them
thereafter. There has been a sub-
stantial build up of Saudi supply
points north of the border.
NBR
5. Italy
Reuters 122, 154
Verbal from
Save Luibke
3/5 Rome 1479
IN 65830
a.
The Christian Democrats
and Socialists have finally reached
an agreement on cabinet assignments
and a program for a "centerleft"
coalition government.
b. Negotiations were especially
tough, but apparently President
Kennedy's death acted as a catalyst,
to bring the two together.
NBR.
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aufa
Таки
-63
C. We do not yet have any in-
formation on how differences in key
issues such as MLF were worked out.
d. With Moro premier, Nenni
will probably become vice-premier.
Saragat, who is pro-US and pro-NATO,
is most likely to be named Foreign
Minister.
NBR
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1/BR
13-00000
NOTES
India-USSR The Indian military attache in Moscow
feels that the Russians are dragging their feet in
the matter of military assistance for India. Mean-
Ana
Mindelhi while, te have a report (not yet confirmed) from
CX-278-63 to look to us hereafter for fighter aircraft.
SRI
notes
21 Nor
Morrow
Weeka 46
15 Nov
New Delhi that Defense Minister Chavan has decided
USSR Our Embassy in Moscow has gotten word of
strikes recently at Ryazan, near Moscow, and in
Leningrad. The cause of the Ryazan incident is not
clear, but bread shortages apparently were behind
the Leningrad strikes. Similar disturbances were
reported last month from several points in southern
Russia.
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1.
South Vietnam
8
a.
Vietnamese Communist forces
kept up their high post-coup level
of activity over the weekend.
b. The most significant action
was an attack early yesterday morn-
ing against a US special forces train-
ing camp some 30 miles from Saigon.
C. When the smoke cleared after
a sharp fight, four US soldiers were
missing and at least 35 South Vietnamese
were dead.
d. Late yesterday morning, the
Viet Cong shot down two aircraft sup-
porting a government operation in
the extreme south, and damaged twelve
more. Two more Americans are missing
in this action:
e. Back in Saigon, the new re-
gime's troubles with the ambitious
General Ton That Dinh continue.
f.
He is still angling to get
control of the important strategic
hamlet program and has yet to give
up command of the Third Corps, which
the generals assigned to another of
their number earlier in the month.
This corps is of particular signifi-
cance in that it surrounds Saigon.
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2.
Indonesia-
Malaysia
3. Venezuela
a. Sukarno is beefing up the
subversive aspects of his confronta-
tion campaign against Malaysia.
b. Intercepted Indonesian mes-
sages indicate that regular army
units will shortly begin infiltration
operations across the border into
Sarawak and Sabah.
C. Seven thousand regular army
troops in Indonesian Borneo, the
messages show, are getting an inten-
sified course in guerrilla tactics.
This training is to be completed
next month.
d. Other messages speak of
the arrival, beginning today, of a
battalion of regulars from West Java.
(INTERCERPTS throughout)
a.
The weekend was marred only
by sporadic and minor acts of ter-
rorism in several cities. Govern-
ment security forces have the situa-
tion generally under control.
b.
The Venezuelan Air Force
is stepping up its efforts to track
down and destroy intruder aircraft.
The Venezuelans are convinced that
planes have been ferrying supplies
to pro-Castro guerrillas in the
mountains of the northwest.
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4. Iraq
5.
Syria
C. The Betancourt government
has scheduled a press conference
tomorrow to break the story that a
three-ton cache of Cuban arms has
been unearthed. A formal accusation
-against Cuba is to be made before
the Organization of American States
a week from today.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
a. The air of tension in Bagh-
dad dissipated somewhat after the
government lifted the curfew and once
again permitted private vehicles on
the streets.
b. Neither the city nor its
new rulers are, however, at ease.
Troops are still very much in evi-
dence.
c.
The new regime apparently
is not convinced that the hard core
of the Baath Party and its paramili-
tary supporters have been put down
for good.
a. We have information that a
showdown between the moderate and
extremist factions of the ruling
Baath Party in Syria is fast approach-
ing.
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6.
Italy
b. A clandestine source identi-
fies Prime Minister Hafiz as the
leading figure on the side of modera-
tion. General Umran heads the doc-
trinaire extremists.
C. It was a split along the
same lines that brought about the
Baath Party's fall from power in
Iraq.
a.
Premier-designate Moro ex-
pects that the program for a "center-
left" coalition government will be
approved today by the four parties
involved.
b.
Details of the foreign
policy planks are not yet available,
but they were drafted with the
thought that the death of President
Kennedy makes it more important for
Italy to play an active role within
the Western alliance.
C. After the program has been
approved, the final selection of a
cabinet can be undertaken. This
could take the rest of the week.
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Qizan
IRAQ.
CAIRO
JORDAN
U AR
(EGYPT)
Medina
Aswan
Ras
Banas
Yenba
SAUDI ARABIA
Zahran
Najran
Harad
Maydi
CAMARAN
10.5.1
Sadah
Major road
Other road or track
STATUTE MILES
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Raudha
Sirwah
SANA
Jihannah
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Mocha
ETHIOPIA
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SOMALILAND
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ETHIOPIA
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ADEN
KUWAIT
NEUTRAL
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ARABIA
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Qizan
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Marib
SANA
.
TAIZZ
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undefine
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RIYADH
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:
ADEN PROTECTORATE
ADEN
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400
6308013
YEMEN
13-00000
7.
UAR-Yemen-
Egypt
a. The Saudis told our embassy
in Jidda yesterday that a Saudi vil-
lage near the Yemeni border was at-
tacked Thursday by Egyptian aircraft.
b. It was the second time this
"month that Yemeni-based Egyptian air-
craft have struck across the border
into Saudi Arabia.
C. As in the previous cases,
the Saudis have lodged a formal com-
plaint with the UN Observation Mis-
sion.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
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NOTES
A.
B.
C.
D.
Oswald Press stories to the effect that Lee Harvey
Oswald recently visited Mexico City are true, accord-
ing to our information. Oswald visited both the
Cuban and the Soviet embassies on 28 September. He
was trying, we are told, to arrange for visas so
that he could travel to the USSR via Havana. He
returned to the US on 3 October.
Brazil A new round of military promotions and re-
assignments will be made public today. The present
instability of the Brazilian political scene is re-
flected in the numerous reports of coup plots which
this event has precipitated.
24-
USSR (At last report the three Soviet range in-
strumentation ships were dead in the water 500 miles
south of Johnston Island, roughly the same position
they occupied for last year's extended range ICBM
shots. No announcement closing this area of the
Pacific to shipping has been made and there is no
activity as yet at the Tyuratam missile test center,
but we look for some action in the next few days.
(INTERCEPTS)
Algeria We have a report from a good clandestine
source that a group of army officers is plotting
with Defense Minister Boumedienne to overthrow Ben
Bella. A growing estrangement between the two has
been apparent for some time, but this is the first
good indication that Boumedienne is making common
cause with those who wish to turn Ben Bella out of
office.
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(Cont'd)
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3/BR
13-0,0000
E.
F.
G.
H.
Australia Communist China a Peip
-
Peiping has signed con-
tracts for just over one million tons of Australian
grain to be delivered early next year. We had been
expecting the Chinese Communists to enter the market,
since they had another mediocre grain crop this year.
Peiping has been buying close to five million tons
of grain for the past several years.
Congo We hear that the Soviet Embassy in Leopold-
ville had booked 75 places on a flight to Brussels
last Saturday. There is still no information on-
whether any Soviet Embassy officials have actually
departed, however.
Berlin There was no new harassment of Allied ac-
cess routes to Berlin over the weekend. A total of
16 flares were fired last evening near Tempelhof
Airfield, but we connect these with Communist ef-
forts to prevent escapes from East Berlin. East
German police were observed stringing barbed wire
in the same area a short time later.
Laos
The neutralists claim to have made significant
gains in their limited offensive in the Vang Vieng
area. They have not, however, been able to dislodge
the Pathet Lao from positions within artillery range
of the town's airport.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
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WBR
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Case # NLJ 93-381
Document # 4
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4
THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
1
26 NOVEMBER 1963
TOP SECRET
13-00000
1.
Iraq-Syria
NBR
a.
The shaky new accommodation
between the two countries following
the recent coup in Iraq has been
threatened by Syria's action in grant-
ing asylum to Ali Saleh Saadi, the
exiled leader of the extremist wing
of the Iraqi Baath.
b. Saadi had arrived in Syria
unannounced following a brief stay
in Madrid. On Friday, Iraq sent a
message asking Syria to expel him on
grounds that sheltering him was a
breach of agreement.
C. Both regimes continue to be
troubled with internal dissension
with affairs in one deeply tangled
with those in the other.
d. In Syria, as we mentioned
yesterday, the Baathist regime is
split between moderates who desire
a broadening of the government's
power base, and a doctrinaire faction
which wants to keep all control of
the government in Baathist hands.
e.
In Iraq, the pull is more
away from the Baathists. Two minis-
ters have threatened to resign unless
the government adopts an openly pro-
Egyptian policy. Nevertheless the
government feels secure enough to
ease up on curfew and transport re-
strictions imposed since the coup.
(Cont'd)
1/18R

13-00000
Luang Prabang
Phou Khoun
Muong Kassy
1 :
Vang Vieng
Ban Hin Heup
34247
Ban Namone
THAILAND
VIENTIANE
SECRET
, Mương Khao
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Ban Song Học
PLATEAU DU.
Huong Kheung
Lat Bouak
Muong Soui
YAN NINH
Nong Pet
Phou Keng •
Huong Phanh.
Kurang Khay
PINE Phong Savan
DES VARRES
Lat Houang
Đảng Danh
Xieng Khouang
Nong Khai
Ban Ta Viang
SECRET
Tha Thom
Pak Sane
THAILAND
Nong Het
LAOS
SECRET
Road
---- Track or trail
10
20
STATUTE MILES
30
40
6311 25 2
NORTH
VIETNAM
13-00000
2.
NBR
Laos
NBR
f.
Iraq has announced that the
military union with Syria remains in
force, and that a new commander of
the joint armies will be announced
soon.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
a.
Intercepted neutralist mes-
sages on Sunday reported that govern-
ment forces had finally secured Vang
Vieng and its airfield, long held
by the Pathet Lao. They also told
of the capture of Ban Namone farther
south on Route 13.
b. The neutralist, rightist Lao
Army, and Meo tribal guerrilla forces
hope to sustain their coordinated
clearing action until remaining Pathet
Lao pockets in this area north of
Vientiane are cleared.
C. Such operations in Laos
have often been followed by a Com-
munist riposte. We have a few in-
dicators that something could be up
on the Communist side, but these are
so far very tenuous indeed.
d. One such indicator is a
stand down in the last two weeks on
the Hanoi-controlled military com-
munications net in Laos which could
(Cont'd)
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13-00000
3.
South Vietnam
point to a change in the disposition
or strength of Communist forces.
Other enemy nets are normal.
e. There are also unconfirmed
reports of North Vietnamese troop
*reinforcements in the Plaine des
Jarres.
(INTERCEPTS)
a. According to press reports,
Viet Cong attacks on Sunday wiped
out two of the government's strategic
hamlets in the central highlands about
250 miles north of Saigon.
b. More than 1,000 inhabitants
in the hamlets--who are minority
tribesmen--are missing and possibly
have fled into the mountains. They
abandoned a significant quantity of
weapons to the Viet Cong.
C.
These attacks not only sug-
gest continued erosion of the govern-
ment's programs to win over tribal
support, but also signal that stepped-
up Viet Cong pressure against the new
regimé is spreading to the north.
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N
(Cont'd)
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7/BR
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13-00000
7.5
UNITED RE
NORTH
SEA
MSTERDAM
GERMANE
GEMENT
BLACK
SEA
IRAN
22 OCTOBER 1963 ICBM FIRING FROM PLESETSK
SWEDEN
FINLAND
PLESETSK
TYURATAM ICBM
TEST RANGEHEAD
AFGHANISTAN
TOP SECRET DINAR
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60
32000 3.42
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KARA
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S
100
120 140
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EAST SIBERIAN
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ICBM
IMPACT
AREA
SEA
nr
OKHOTSK
CHINA
MONGOLIA
showe
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NAUTICAL WILLS
Adana
KURZA
SEA OF
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llBR
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4.
USSR
d. This Communist effort is
aimed at discrediting the post-Diem
regime before the new leadership is
able to get its feet on the ground
and capture the loyalty and respect
of people in the provinces.
e. Although the Viet Cong still
continues to draw its main strength
from local recruiting, a steady stream
of cadre and training personnel con-
tinues to make its way to the south
from North Vietnam along the Laotian
border.
f. We are now reasonably sure
that at least 784 persons infiltrated
from the north during 1963 and the
actual total may be much higher.
a. There have been no further
developments in Soviet preparations
for a series of extended range ICBM
shots to the Pacific.
b. We probably should have had
by now an announcement closing an area
roughly 500 miles south of Johnston
Island to shipping. We suspect the
Soviets may have delayed it in order
not to appear to be rattling rockets
immediately after President Kennedy's
death.
NBR
(Cont'd)
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VIBR
13-00000
5. USSR-Berlin
c. The USSR may repeat last
year's performance of multiple fir-
ings from a prototype operational
complex at Tyuratam. Three such
launchings were attempted at five-
minute intervals in May 1963; two
succeeded.
d. We also do not rule out the
possibility of firings from opera-
tional sites as opposed to the test
center at Tyuratam. We observed
the first such firing on 22 October
from the Plesetsk site, roughly 400
miles northeast of Moscow.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
a. Embassy Bonn feels that
the Soviet Union may be seeking at
least a temporary modus vivendi on
the autobahn without prejudicing
its juridical position, which can
be used to cause difficulties there
in the future.
b.
The embassy bases this on
the Soviet replies to the Western
notification to the USSR on 29
October regarding harmonized convoy
procedures--two oral statements on
16 November and a note of 21 Novem-
ber.
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NBR
(Cont'd)
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2138
13-00000
6.
Brazil
by
C. The Soviet note was designed
to make a record, showing that the
USSR exercises "control" of the auto-
bahn and that the recent incidents
resulted from US refusal to comply
with "existing procedures."
d. On the other hand, the Soviet
procedures described in the oral re-
plies seem to reflect actual Allied
practices, though there is enough
ambiguity to afford the USSR flexi-
bility in any future actions.
a.
The danger of an immediate
coup against the Goulart regime has
receded with the reported decision
of Second Army Commander General
Bevilaqua not to join the coup plot-
ters.
b. Bevilaqua, who has been some-
thing of a storm center, may have
been asked to hand over his command
today as part of a series of reassign-
ments made by President Goulart to
keep the military off balance.
C. On the other side of the
coin, there is widespread belief
that Goulart himself will at some
time resort to a coup to establish
an authoritarian regime.
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:
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d. As one example Raneiri
Mazzilli, President of the Chamber
of Deputies and next in line for the
presidency, told Ambassador Gordon
on Saturday that he profoundly mis-
trusts Goulart's intentions and in-
tends to maintain the strictest con-
gressional vigilance.
e.
Our station in Brazil be-
lieves that Goulart is living in a
dream world. He seems either out
of touch with reality or very poorly
informed. Public opinion is not
with him and the tradition that po-
litical power should only be trans-
ferred constitutionally is very
strong in the army, coup reports
notwithstanding.
f. The biggest danger from
this quarter is that the opposition
may resort to some illegal act, giv-
ing Goulart the excuse to take over.
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1/BR
13-00000
NOTES
i
A.
B.
Ethiopia-Congo Haile Selassie has acceded to our
ambassador's request and is rescinding his earlier
decision to withdraw the 1,743-man Ethiopian con-
tingent from the UN force in the Congo.
NBR
-Communist China - Africa The Guinean ambassador
in Peiping has it unofficially that Premier Chou En-
lai will leave in mid-December for a tour of some
Afro-Asian countries. He is to stop first in Egypt
and then visit several other African countries includ-
ing Guinea, Ghana, and Mali. Chou would be the high-
est ranking Chinese leader ever to visit Africa. (IN-
TERCEPTS)
C. Indonesia-Philippines
D.
Two good sources have reported
that President Sukarno plans to go to Manila this
Thursday to confer with Philippine President Macapagal.
No reasons have been advanced for the visit. Our
charge guesses that it is an Indonesian move to head
off Philippine recognition of Malaysia.
Venezuela The terrorists have struck again, this
time firing six US-owned oil and gas pipelines near
the northeastern city of Puerto la Cruz. The elec-
tions are still on for Sunday, and we look for a maxi-
mum effort from the pro-Castro terrorist organization.
E. Congo We now have word that 49 members of the Soviet
Embassy, including dependents, left Leopoldville on
Saturday aboard a Sabena flight for Brussels. They
are expected to book onward passage for Moscow. It is
reported that the Congolese will allow one Russian
without diplomatic status to stay to look after Soviet
property.
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Document # 5
THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
27 NOVEMBER 1963
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CUBA
SAM SITE
ISLE OF PINES
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1. Cuba
20
Syria-Iraq
.
a. Cuban tents are now begin-
ning to appear at a number of the
SAM sites-further evidence that
training of Cubans in operation of
SAM equipment has begun as scheduled.
b. High-altitude photography
taken this past weekend shows these
tents at six SAM sites in western
Cuba. These sites are in addition
to those at which we noted the pres-
ence of Cuban interpreters as we
reported on Saturday.
C. This training should be com-
pleted by next May or June.
d. Just before the training
started, we noted a series of moves
involving the relocation of eight of
the SAM sites.'
e.
The purpose, it appears,
was to shift the mission of the sys-
tem from an area defense of the
island as a whole to point defense
of specific targets, particularly
Havana (Includes INTERCEPTS)
a. Syrian leaders have acceded
to pressure from Iraq and have ex-
pelled Iraqi Baathist extremist Ali
Saadi. He has gone to Athens
.24
NBR
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21BR
13-00000
PARTY STRENGTHS IN TURKISH ELECTIONS
of total vote)
1961 General Election
1963 Local Election
36.7
37.0
Republican Peoples' Party (RPP)
34.8
Justice Party (JP)
45.9
13.7
New Turkey Party (NTP)
6.5
14.0
2.8
Republican Peasant Nation Party (RPNP)
°
3.1
Nation Party (NP)
0.8
Independents (or unreported vote)
4.3
°
Turkish Labor Party (TLP)
0.4
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b. This is an earnest of the
desire of moderate Baathist leaders
in Damascus to preserve workable re-
lations with Iraq, partly as a
counterbalance to Cairo and partly
to preserve what remains of Baathist
influence in Baghdad.
C.
Intercepts show at least
some Syrian troops will remain in
Iraq at the request of Iraqi offi-
cials.
d.
Preparations had been under
way for these forces to withdraw;
retention of at least some in Iraq
is another sign that both regimes
hope to preserve something of the
relations they once had.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
a. Prime Minister Inonu's
coalition government is about to
collapse.
b. It has long been shaky.
Last week it was dealt a severe set-
back when the opposition Justice
Party, heir of the Menderes regime,
emerged from local elections as the
country's majority party.
NBR
NBR
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(Cont'd)
21BR
13-00000
160
140
120
120
100
80
60
60
40
20
MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN SOVIET AGRICULTURE
INDEX OF NET AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION
1950 - 100
Preliminary Estimate
1963-7
Fertilizer program.
-1963
Wheat purchases.
1953-55
1955-56
Corn program.
1954-56
New Lands program.
Procurement prices raised.
TOTAL POPULATION OF THE USSR
1950 - 100
1958
Machine-tractor
stations abolished.
1957-58
Program to "catch up" with
US in meat and milk output.
1962-63
Program to plow up and
plant fallow lands.
1962
Livestock product
prices raised.
1961-62
Administrative
reorganizations.
0
1
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
631021 24
SOVIET GRAIN
PRODUCTION
(million metric tons)
ALL GRAINS
WHEAT ALONE
Soviet Official
US Estimate
Soviet Official US Estimate
1958
141
125
77
63
1959
126
100
69
55
1960
134
100
64
46
1961
137
115
67
55
1962
148
115
71
57
1963
ļ
1
42-46
431021 20
100-110
CONFIDENTIAL
NBR
J.IBR
13-00000
:
4.
USSR wheat
.
C. Now the Peasant Party, one
of the three in the coalition, has
voted to pull out, and probably will
do so as soon as Inonu gets back from
Washington. Another partner, the
Turkey Party, has wanted to pull out,
and apparently has stayed in only
because of pressure from the military.
d. A new coalition is at least
a theoretical possibility, with a
number of independents taking the
place of the Peasant Party, but
Inonu probably would not be prime
minister.
e.
The military are working
for an all-party coalition. This
way, they feel, they could keep
tabs on the Justice Party, but the
Justice Party is not likely to buy
this arrangement.
f. As matters now stand, the
military would take over the govern-
ment itself before it would let the
Justice Party form one.
a. Soviet President Brezhnev
has told the Iranian prime minister
that the decision to buy wheat abroad
was taken to avoid lowering reserves,
which he has described as ample for
one or two years. We think the sit-
uation is more serious than that.
NBR
NBR
(Cont'd)
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21BR
13-00000
b. This year's harvest was
clearly very bad. The weight of
evidence suggests that Soviet grain
stockpiles have been far drawn down
this year and are not sufficient to
protect the country from another
poor harvest.
C. Our estimate is that total
grain production each year since
1958 has been well below that year's
level of 125 million tons, while
the population has continued to grow.
d.
We have seen from intercepts
signs of extensive slaughtering in
anticipation of fodder shortages
during the winter. This runs counter
to Khrushchev's oft-stated plan to
build up the livestock industry.
e.
We have also noted that
the extensive wheat purchases weaken
the USSR's gold reserves at a time
when it hopes to expand its imports
of machinery for a huge chemical
fertilizer program.
f. In addition, we have seen
signs of stringent measures to pro-
tect the grain supply, accompanied
by public discontent in some areas
over the absence of bread.
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China
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Argentina
a. Peiping last week con-
tracted for some 300,000 tons of
wheat (cost about $20,000,000) from
Argentina.
b. This adds to the 1,000,000
tons just contracted for with Aus-
tralia, but is still far below.
the 5,000,000 tons the Chinese have
normally imported in recent years.
Additional suppliers will be hard
to find.
c. A large sale, apparently
involving some $56,000,000 worth
of meat, is apparently also being
arranged. This is interesting,
not only for the sizeable foreign
exchange outlay, but also for the
concern it shows for improving the
diet of the mainland's urban pop-
ulation.
d. The same caloric value
could be obtained from grains at
a fraction of this cost.
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7.
Cambodia
.
a. Czech President and party
boss Novotny has gone to Moscow,
evidently for economic talks, judg-
ing by the composition of his dele-
gation.
b. Novotny's background of
Stalinist excesses have put him on
the wrong side of Khrushchev. They
also have given rise to control
problems, particularly in the frac-
tious Slovak party where pressures
for liberalization have made their
mark.
C.
Party problems and Novotny's
leadership may thus also come under
review.
d. A curious sign of the times
is the fact that, although President
Novotny is in Moscow, the presidential
flag has remained up at the official
residence. It might simply have been
an oversight, but the symbolism will
not be lost to the people in Prague.
a. Cambodia, as expected, has
asked the Geneva co-chairman to call
the Geneva conference participants
together (in Djakarta) to discuss
measures "to ensure the internation-
ally guaranteed and controlled neu-
tralization of Cambodia."
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b.
Last year when this came
up, the French were inclined to go
along with some such idea.
c. They have indicated to us
that they still feel Sihanouk should
not be turned down, and Sihanouk is
obviously hopeful that they will
exert pressure on us and the British.
d. Sihanouk seems to be hoping
for at least a rump session attended
by conferees who are willing to do
his bidding.
a. An Egyptain military mes-
sage reporting to Cairo on operations
in Yemen this past weekend indicated
that poison gas (referred to as
"ghurab" in Egyptian military traf-
fic) was used against royalist tribes-
men in the northwest.
b. This is the first time we
have noted its employment since
last summer, although another inter-
cept shows that the Egyptian com-
mand has continued to authorize its
use.
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C.
It is basically a tear gas,
but in such highly concentrated form
that it has caused the death of a num-
ber of Yemenis.
(INTERCEPTS throughout)
a.
Opposition leftist Congo-
lese exiles, operating from Brazza-
ville across the river, are reported
to be plotting to assassinate Congo-
lese Premier Adoula and some of his
ministers.
b. It is supposed to happen
sometime after 8 December.
C. Meanwhile, agents are being
infiltrated with money to buy off
opposition to a takeover immediately
thereafter by radical nationalist
Gbenye.
d. Adoula's government already
knows that this group of left-wing
subversives, which now numbers about
50, is being helped by the Communist
bloc.
e.
It operates fairly freely
in the loose circumstances which now
obtain in Brazzaville. Its activities
may soon become a serious source of
friction between the two countries.
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NOTES
A.
B..
C.
D.
E.
South Korea With 85 percent of the vote in, Pak
Chong-hui Democratic Republican Party has already
Iwon an absolute majority in the National Assembly
elections held yesterday.
Venezuela The country's three major presidential
candidates were the targets of unsuccessful assassi-
nation attempts yesterday as Communist-led terror-
ists moved into the final week of desperate attempt
to wreck next Sunday's elections. A US Embassy-of-
ficial was also the intended recipient of a "Christ-
mas package" containing a bomb. Yesterday a US
rubber warehouse was set afire and destroyed by
terrorists.
Indonesia-Philippines
We have what is about as
sure a sign as we can get that Sukarno will be go-
ing to Manila as reported yesterday. A reliable
source tells us Sukarno has sent advance word to
two of his favorite Philippine girl friends that he
will be arriving on 28 November.
Indonesia-Malaysia
Indonesian-inspired press re-
ports yesterday claimed a British military plane
was shot down near the North Borneo border. Brit-
ish Intelligence tells us the story is concocted;
no aircraft are reported missing.
Cuba The alert in the Cuban military which we
noted immediately after President Kennedy's death
has been lifted. (INTERCEPT)
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F. Cambodia Cambodia is cutting its diplomatic rep-
resentation abroad to a bare minimum as an austerity
measure following curtailment of US aid. Sihanouk
announced last week that this would be done, saying
that missions in Communist countries would not be
affected since those countries "protect" Cambodia.
Curiously enough, among the missions being closed
down are those in New Delhi and Rangoon. (Includes
|(INTERCEPTS)
G.
USSR-US Pravda this morning reports on Gromyko's
talks with President Johnson, giving top play to
Senator Fulbright's remarks about the desirability
of a meeting between the President and Khrushchev.
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1.
Venezuela
a.
The country's six presiden-
tial candidates have swung into the
home stretch of their campaigns.
So have the terrorists, who are still
trying hard to sabotage next Sunday's
vote.
b. There is little doubt that
the terrorist effort has all-out
Cuban support. Castro looks on
Venezuela as his prime target in
Latin America and would do everything
in his power to prevent President
Betancourt from finishing his term.
C. So far, the terrorists have
tried to intimidate the candidates
by harassing political rallies, bomb-
ing their party headquarters in
various cities, and threatening them
with assassination. They have tried
to scare voters from the polls by
creating a general atmosphere of law-
lessness. Kidnappings, like the one
yesterday morning of Colonel Chenault,
are part of the pattern.
d.
The government counterattack
is under the personal direction of
Betancourt, who is as determined to
finish out his term and turn over
power to a freely-elected successor
as Castro is to prevent this.
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e.
Yesterday it was announced
that the carrying of firearms by
anyone outside the security forces
was forbidden until the elections
are over.
f. Some 3,000 reservists have
been called up to protect the polls.
Leaves are being cancelled and all
security forces are maintaining a
high state of alert.
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2. South Vietnam
a. We now have a fuller ac-
count from official US sources of
the Viet Cong attack on two mountain
villages mentioned in Tuesday's
Checklist.
b. This account makes it clear
that the earlier press versions,
· which spoke of 1,000 missing vil-
lagers, were highly colored.
C. Our present information
is that the attack, in company
strength, was successfully repulsed.
The Viet Cong suffered some 30 cas-
ualties; government losses were six
killed, three wounded and 39 missing.
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3.
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d. As is usual in these cases,
the villagers began to trickle back
once the Viet Cong left.
e. This episode aside, we see
a number of indications that the
Communists will try to sustain the
higher level of military activity
` they have kept up since the coup.
f. The Communist radio has
called for more attacks in an effort
to destroy strategic hamlets and
"develop" Viet Cong forces.
In sup-
port of this, Viet Cong communica-
tions traffic has been unusually
heavy and has involved a large vol-
ume of high priority traffic and
special alert patterns.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
Israel
a.
We have some reason to be-
lieve that the Israelis are develop-
ing a surface-to-surface missile of
their own.
b. A reliable clandestine
source says that an Israeli repre-
sentative is trying to buy US stable
platforms for the inertial guidance
system of a missile with a range of
300-350 miles. He wanted delivery
in six to twelve months. There have
been several earlier reports that
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4. USSR-India
Israel is buying missile components
in the US and England.
C.
We think this missile pro-
gram is independent of another
Israeli venture: Tel Aviv's con-
tract with a French firm, Marcel
Dassault, for the development of a
system which will be able to deliver
a 1,600-pound warhead to a maximum
range of 300 miles.
a.
Moscow has promised the
Indians to ship the equipment for
one surface-to-air (SAM) training
site early next month.
b. The Soviets had agreed to
provide eight SAM sites. The rest
will probably not be sent until the
Indians have learned to handle the
equipment about a year from now.
C. As we noted last Sunday,
there are some Indians who have
doubts about the Soviet willingness
to live up to the letter of their
military aid agreements with New
Delhi.
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5. Burma
d. They call into question
especially the contract for the
Soviets to set up in India a facility
to assemble MIG fighters--an enter-
prise which has appeared somewhat
impractical from the beginning.
e. We do note, however,
that
Soviet aircraft specialists working
on the project were still in New
Delhi in early November.
(INTERCEPTS)
a. Ne Win has followed up his
action in breaking off talks with
the Burmese Communists by arresting
over 700 of their number.
b. Ne Win had been trying to
lure the faction-ridden Communists
into a "national front." However,
he found the demands of the Commu-
nist negotiators, some of whom had
only just returned from long exile
in Peiping, to be impossible.
.C. This will probably lead to
renewed fighting between the army
and Communist guerrillas in the hills.
d. More trouble can also be
expected from the rebellious ethnic
minorities like the Karens and the
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6. Cambodia
Kachins, whose demands for greater
autonomy have been rejected in Ran-
goon.
e. US officials on the spot
doubt that the army, hobbled by poor
leadership and its many political
responsibilities, will be any more
effective in dealing with the prob-
lem this time than in past anti-
insurgency campaigns.
a.
Sihanouk has signed an ac-
cord setting up regular air service
between Cambodia and Communist China.
A similar agreement with Hanoi is
in the works.
b. These lines are significant
largely as gestures by Peiping and
Hanoi to bolster Sihanouk's sense
of importance. Neither would be a
paying proposition commercially and
both could flounder before the first
paying passenger enplanes unless
rights to overfly Laos can be obtained.
(Includes INTERCEPTS)
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7. Greece
a. It looks more and more as
if Papandreou, who squeaked through
to a narrow upset victory over ex-
premier Karamanlis in the 3 November
elections, will not be able to form
a government.
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Brazil
b. His party does not have a
parliamentary majority, so he needs
support from either Karamanlis'
party on the right or from the Com-
munists. The military has apparently
been pressing Karamanlis to withhold
that support.
He does not need much
urging.
C.
The military has also let
it be known that it would consider
Papandreou's acceptance of Communist
support as sufficient reason for a
coup d'etat.
d. In addition to this military
string-pulling, the royal family is
also meddling--not for the first
time. Should Papandreou fail to
form a government, the palace intends
to pass the mandate to Karamanlis,
believing that he too would fail.
e. This would then open the
way, the palace calculates, for a
compromise premier more amenable to
palace influence.
a. President Goulart and his
opponents are keeping political ten-
sions in Brazil high.
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b. Comments by Goulart, that
"social disaster" is sure if his
program is not passed soon, have drawn
sharp rejoinders from moderate and
conservative figures and have fed
rightist coup plotting.
C. Strains are also growing in
the military following the arrest
of a young officer who refused last
month to execute an order to arrest
Governor Lacerda, a leading conserva-
tive spokesman and likely presidential
candidate.
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NOTES
A.
B.
C.
D.
USSR Simultaneous activity this morning on the
Tyuratam missile test range, satellite tracking nets
and Soviet space support ships in the Atlantic prob-
ably represented an attempt to launch an unmanned
earth satellite. The launch apparently failed on
the pad or was cancelled at the last moment. It
may be tried again soon. (INTERCEPTS)
Rumania-US Rumanian officials are about to award
a US firm, Ferguson and Company of Cleveland, Ohio,
a $32 million contract to help build the huge Galati
steel plant. The Rumanians are pressing ahead with
this project in the face of Soviet efforts to dis-
courage it in various ways, most importantly by re-
fusing to underwrite the scheme to any substantial
degree.
Turkey
The New Turkey Party has followed the
Peasant Party in withdrawing from the present three-
party coalition government. This means that the
coalition has to all intents and purposes collapsed,
even though no formal action will be taken until
Prime Minister Inonu returns from Washington this
weekend.
Thailand The Thai doctors attending Sarit now ad-
mit for the first time that the Prime Minister is in
critical condition. Our doctor agrees with this
prognosis. US officials in Bangkok believe that the
most likely successor would be Thanom Kittikachorn,
now deputy prime minister and minister of defense.
Thanom is not likely to last long, however, since he
is neither a strong personality nor a figure of great
weight in the military hierarchy.
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A Philippine foreign office
man states that everything was set, as we noted yes-`
terday, for Sukarno to visit Manila today. This
official says, however, that the visit was postponed
as a result of Macapagal's decision to attend Presi-
dent Kennedy's funeral.
Indonesia Djakarta is giving every indication that
it will hold up final action on the long-pending oil
contracts with US companies in an attempt to smoke
us out on the question of US aid policy toward Indo-
nesia.
Rwanda-Burundi Tribal refugees from Rwanda, now in
Burundi, seem bent on making trouble between the two
countries. Some 3,000 of their number were reported
yesterday to be moving toward the frontier. They
have little military capability, but blood could
flow and require UN intervention.
र्यं
USSR-Congo As a further token of the withdrawal
of Soviet diplomats we have noted that the Soviet
diplomatic communications link between Moscow and
Leopoldville was shut down last Saturday.
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a. TASS has finally announced
that the USSR will conduct another
4 series of ICBM firings to the Pacific
during the period 2 December to 25
January.
b. Since our last mention of
this subject, we have picked up indi-
cations that some of the firings
this time may be made from operational
launchers rather than from the Ty-
uratam rangehead.
C. There has been unusual
traffic on the strategic rocket
forces communications link between
the operational site at Plesetsk
and Moscow similar to that which
preceded the firing last October
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d. In addition, some inter-
cepted telephone conversations have
implied that the firing ranges would
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e. We also have some fragmentary.
evidence that the forthcoming firings
may be the object of a special
tracking or detection project.
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of National Liberation (FALN) will
probably increase their efforts to
disrupt the constitutional succession,
which would be the first in Venezuela's
history.
f. Meanwhile, in the wings are
the military leaders who may well
intervene if they find Betancourt's
successor not to their liking.
g. Though President Betancourt
has taken personal charge of the
search to locate Colonel Chenault
and those responsible for his kid-
napping, his efforts so far have
come to nought. The only news has
been from a Caracas editor who had
a call yesterday morning from a
woman saying the colonel was safe.
a. The discovery of a large
cache of weapons of Cuban origin,
announced by Venezuelan authorities
yesterday, provides the best evidence
to date of major Cuban support for
Latin American subversives.
b. There is definite proof
to support the Venezuelan claim.
The three tons of weapons found in-
clude light automatic rifles and
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submachine guns identified as among
those shipped to Cuba from Belgium
in 1959 and 1960. There were also
mortars, bazookas, recoilless rifles,
and ammunition of US manufacture.
C. Communist documents seized
by Venezuelan authorities earlier
this month reveal that the equipment
was destined for the Venezuelan
Communists' paramilitary arm, the
Armed Forces of National Liberation
(FALN).
d. The cache was found on 1
November on a beach in Falcon State
in the north, scene of the most
active guerrilla effort. The Vene-
zuelan government assumes that the
weapons were sent from Cuba by sea.
e.. Caracas will lay formal
charges concerning the arms cache
before a special meeting of Latin
America Foreign Ministers scheduled
for December. After that it will
ask that the Council of the Organi-
zation of American States be con-
voked for consultation on the matter.
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China -
Afro-Asia
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5. Cuba
BD4975
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check hat
a. More information on Chinese
Premier Chou En-lai's Afro-Asian
swing is beginning to leak out.
b. The Egyptians are expect-
ing him on 8 December, according to
the Algerian ambassador to Cairo.
C. The press in Mali says Chou,
accompanied by Foreign Affairs Min-
ister Chen Yi, will visit Algeria,
Mali, Ghana, Guinea, Somalia, Tangan-
yika, and Albania.
d. The Pakistanis have just
informed our ambassador that they
have agreed to a state visit by the
two Chinese in mid-February at the
conclusion of their two month tour.
(indulis intuicipts)
a.
Another London shipping
firm says it is willing to abandon
its Cuban trade.
b.
Embassy London has been ad-
vised by Papadakis and Co., Ltd..
that it is prepared to keep its two
ships involved in the trade from
calling at Cuban ports when their
charters run out next January.
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C. Papadakis is probably ask-
ing the same price for its action as
Basil Mavrolean did recently--removal
of its ships from the US blacklist.
Papadakis operates 19 ships totalling
more than 200,000 tons.
d. Mavrolean's vessels account
for almost half the present British
tonnage calling at Cuban ports and
are the largest single element of
free world shipping to Cuba.
e. The outcome of Mavrolean's
offer is not yet clear.
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NOTES
A. South Korea President-elect Pak Chong-hui's suc-
cess in winning control of the unicameral legisla-
ture in Tuesday's elections improves prospects for
smooth operation of the new constitutional govern-
ment.
However, political stability will still de-
pend on Pak's willingness to rule with moderation.
If he interprets this victory as a popular mandate
to pursue an aggressive authoritarian program, he
could provoke serious unrest.
B.
Dquicarta
1137
D.
JDCS DB
C.
3/658/113
R73.
D.
Usumbua
281
Indonesia-Philippines
President Sukarno's visit
to Manila is on again for 4 December, according to
the Indian ambassador to Djakarta. He assumes
purpose is to head off Philippine recognition of
Malaysia.
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Thailand Prime Minister Sarit appears to have
taken a further turn for the worst. Our station
reported yesterday that he was flown by helicopter
to a Bangkok hospital from his seaside villa.
Police escorts described his condition as critical
and rumors that he had died spread through the city.
Rwanda-Burundi Prompt action by Burundi security
forces appears to have halted the march of tribal
refugees on Rwanda that we reported yesterday.
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ized, would have been badly mauled by Rwandan troops
if they had crossed the frontier.
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Colombia Pro-Castro members of the terrorist
National Liberation Army (ELN) are believed respon-
sible for the recent wave of bombings in Colombia's
major cities. At least a dozen bombs were set off
in Bogota during the last two nights. Two of the
bombs failed to explode after being placed close to
the residence of the chief of US Naval Mission
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THE PRESIDENT'S
Auslan
Asia
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INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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30 NOVEMBER 1963
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1.
Venezuela
2.
Sino-Soviet
dispute
a. Election campaigning ended
at midnight, but boosters for the
several candidates continued to mill
about streets of Caracas in defiance
of terrorist threats to shoot anyone
who ventured out for the next three
days.
b. The terrorists, it seems
were all but drowned out by the car-
nival air.
is
C. The FALN, meanwhile,
trying to bargain off Colonel Chenault
for as high a price as it can, de-
manding variously release of all its
comrades, of all women detained by
the government, and of the six hi-
jackers who have been returned from
Trinidad to custody in Venezuela.
a.
The Chinese Communists
will have nothing to do with the
idea of bilateral talks with the
Soviets under present circumstances.
b. Chinese party Secretary
General Teng Hsiao-ping, one of the
select few in Peiping's ruling cir-
cle, recently told a group of visit-
ing Latin Americans that such a meet-
ing could accomplish nothing.
NOR
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C.
Teng put the issue of
another meeting of world Communist
parties even deeper into limbo by
saying that Peiping would be in favor
only when assured of the support of
.
a majority of the world parties.
۵۰
Moscow, for its part, has
apparently stopped thinking about
another gathering of world Communist
party representatives.
e. The feelers it put out
after the conclusion of the test-
ban treaty were received coldly by
some of the fraternal parties. They
felt such a meeting could only make
matters worse with the Chinese.
£.
Indeed, Peiping saw this
to be Moscow's purpose, and when
the idea failed to take hold, the
Chinese took it to be a setback for
Khrushchev personally.
g. Their reaction to Khrush-
chev's subsequent call for a cessa-
tion of open argument was to press
the offensive, and this they have
been doing in roundly abusive terms
since.
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USSR
Area of Main Map
tomsomols
CHINA
Berme Sea
Sea of
Atsk
SEA
OF
O KILO TSK
CHATKA
PENINSULA
TOP SECRET DINAR
6 SEPTEMBER 1963
33881
BERING
SEA
Klyuchi
Impact
Area
Second
NM
Track
Launch Position
8 April
Impact Poin
°
KOMANDORSKIYE IS.
285 NM
First Track
Approximate Launch Positions 27 June & 27 August
Ballistic Missile Submarines! Petropavlovsk
in the Petropavlovsk area
6 "G"- Class
3Z" Conversions
:52
160
164
Submarine Ballistic Missile Launches in the Soviet Far East
56-
168
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open o на
Callistic
missiles"
only
4.
Kenya
-
Communist Bloc
.
h. The forthcoming Afro-Asian
visits by Chou En-lai and Chen Yi
have awakened suspicions that the
Chinese are in hot pursuit of a
second Bandung-type conference--a
more rewarding enterprise from their
point of view.
a. Yesterday and on Thursday,
we detected what we believe to have
been operational training launches
of standard 350 nautical mile sub-
marine-based ballistic missiles.
b. Two and possibly four mis-
siles were fired from submarines
based in the Petropavlovsk area to
the impact area at Klyuchi.
C. Seven similar instances.
have been detected previously this
year, and there may have been others.
. (INTERCEPTS)
a. The Soviet Bloc will soon
gain an important propaganda outlet
in Nairobi, communications hub for
East Africa.
b.
Plans are for a state-
controlled news agency to be set up
by the Kenyan government when it
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...
Czechoslovakia,
5.
USSR
achieves independence on 12 Decem-
ber. This will fall under the juris-
diction of communications minister
Oneko, who has well developed con-
* tacts within the Soviet Bloc.
C. TASS has already agreed to
equip the new agency, and Kenyan re-
quests for further financial and
techincal help are being discussed
in Prague and Moscow.
d. Kenyan journalists have
been training in Prague and, on re-
turn, will find ready employment in
the new agency.
a. Czech President Novotny
returned from Moscow on Thursday
after signing a renewal (for another
20 years) of the treaty of friend-
ship and mutual assistance.
b. He apparently got little
else out of Khrushchev. The final
communique was conspicuously cool.
C. There were no Soviet con-
cessions, nor were there the usual
references to Czech "progress" or
to public support for Novotny's
leadership.
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5. _
# ___
a. The first suicide by burn-
ing to occur under the new regime
was witnessed today by bystanders
at a crowded intersection in Saigon
where a young girl went up in flames.
b. A note she left behind said
she was protesting the war of Viet-
namese against Vietnamese. At the
intersection are three villas which
house the ICC delegations.
c.
There were no Buddhist
overtones.
d. Some think the Viet Cong
encouraged her, but if they did,
they did not write her script. They
would have said it is the Americans
who are fighting the Vietnamese.
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T
SURMA
CHINA
WIETNAM
PHILI
THAILAND
NORTH
VIETNAM
Quang Tri
South Vietnam
ARMY CORPS BOUNDARIES
Hue
Da Nang
Quảng Nam
LAOS
iCorps
Quang Ngai
11 Corps
Kontum
Pleiku •
An Khe
Qui Nhon
Cheo Reo
CAMBODIA
“Song Cau
Tuy Hoa
Ban Me Thuot
Nha Trang
III Corps Da Lat
“Loc Ninh
PHNOM PENH
Tay
Ninh
Phan Rang.
Phuộc Vĩnh
SOUTH
Chiều Phụ
SAIGON
Phan Thiet
CHINA
SEA
IV Corps
Isle de
Phu Quoc.
Cho làn
My Tho
Capital Military District
•Vung Tau
Can Tho
Rach Gia
:
GULF
OF
SIAM
Quan Long
(Ca Mau)
Bac Lieu
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A.
B.
C.
D.
South Vietnam Plans are now afoot to shuffle
South Vietnam's Corps commanders so that General
Khanh, considered by General Harkins to be the best
of the lot, will take over in the crucial delta (IV
Corps) area. General Dinh, the ambitious Minister ·
of Security, is still resisting pressure to relin-
quish command of the III Corps area, and is not in-
volved in the current shuffle.
Cuba-USSR There are about 8,000 Soviets in Cuba,
5,000 of these military, according to a bloc offi-
cial in close touch with Soviets in Havana. The
figures are close to our own estimate of 4,000 to
7,000. Some withdrawals continue.
Cambodia-Vietnam
Sihanouk seems to feel that cut-
ting off his nose to spite his face was not enough.
Now he says he will formally recognize North Vietnam
if the US does not silence the Khmer Serei radio.
South Vietnam will cut Cambodia's primary access to
international markets via the Mekong river if he
does.. (INTERCEPT)
Indonesia-Cambodia Sukarno apparently plans to go
to Cambodia on an official visit following his trip
to Manila. The Cambodian ambassador in Djakarta has
advised Phnom Penh that Sukarno plans to leave for
Manila on 6 December and directly from there for
Phnom Penh on the 10th. He will stay three days.
(INTERCEPT)
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F.
G.
H.
Coal and Steel Community Coal and Steel community
members at their next meeting on Monday will prob-
ably vote to raise community steel tariffs by an
average of nine percent. This would bring the tar-
iffs of each member into line with Italy's, the
highest in the community. Only the Dutch oppose the
idea.
British Guiana Cuba a GIMPEX, trading arm and
source of funds for Jagan's party, has worked out a
deal to supply the country's major electric utility
next year with fuel oil from Cuba. Texaco and Esso
have been the traditional suppliers.
Brazil-US A press report from Rio cites "well in-
formed sources" to the affect that Goulart plans
soon to invite Mrs. Kennedy to visit Brazil so that
Brazil can pay her the honors which it had planned
to render the late President.
Cuba-Morocco | A three-man Cuban delegation is on
its way to Morocco to try to patch up relations
broken by Morocco because of Cuba's assistance to
the Algerians in their border war. (INTERCEPTS)
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DOCUMENT OF INTEREST
The effect in France of the President's death.
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