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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST

DATE: 11/23/1963

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THE PRESIDENT'S

INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST

ISSUED BY THE

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

23 NOVEMBER 1963

TOP SECRET

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1.

South Vietnam

a. Vietnamese Communist ef-

forts to discredit the new Saigon

regime stayed in high gear this

week.

The number of armed attacks

was off from the high of the previous

week but still some 50% above the

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 Cong 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

nd harnessing broader popular sup

ort for the war effort

I. The generals have been

dealing fairly effectively with

(Cont'd)

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68

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CARIBBEAN

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CARACAS

no carpanc

• TRINIDAD

Barcelona

We Son Ferne

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Selected railroad

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200 Kilometers

200 Miles

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2.

Venezuela

their new responsibilities.

There

are, however, a few signs of dissen-

sion within this croud 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).

a.

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.

(Cont'd)

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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.

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.

f. 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 fron suc-

ceeding himself.

g. In the background, as

communism.

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CUBA

Surface toir

issilel(SAM) Sies

HAV AN

Maniel

Artemis

Santiago de

SAN JULIAN :

(Troining site):

Isle of Pinesr,

Hò

Santiago de Cuba.

_US Naval Base

New site do

Unchanged site

Estimated range

34095

•11 OCTOBER 1963

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3.

USSR-Cuba

In the past week we inter-

cepted Cuban military messages which

show that Cuban interpreters are now

posted at several surface-to-air mis-

sile (SAM) 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

SAM system may be turned over to

Castro.

In the past month some

1,500 Soviets arrived in Cuba.

Most

of these were probably SAM experts,

sent to monitor the training.

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

18,000, have been withdrawn in the

intervening 13 months, leaving, very

rougaly, 4,000 to 7,000.

maining are for the most part ad-

visors whose main functions are tr

train and supervise Cubans in the

(Cont'd)

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COMMUNICATION ROUTES BETWEEN

WEST GERMANY AND BERLIN

& Stralsund

Buếchi

Laven

Schwanheide

Bremer

Prenziau.

Neuruppin

SOVIET

Witenberge

Liebenwalde

Ratheno

Stenda

Gebisfelde.

Magdeburg

Dessau

Wriezen

EAST

BERLIN

ONE

D

Jueterbog

Cottbus

PCLAND

EDERAL

Kassel •

Elrich

REPUBLIC.

Hestes hausery

Wartha.

Gerstungen

Probstzella

Ludwigstadt

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A Gutenfuerst

CZECHOSIOVAKIA

Toepel

UNCLASSIFIED:

Raveridariad aro rt nonercorila itinco

221 RA

- Railroad

Autobahn

Canal

Air Corridor

Control Points for Allied Traffic:

• Soviet

A Allied

Interzonal Border Crossing Points:

• East

A West

ST4

ILES/

KiLOMETERS

Road

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4.

Berlin

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

that sovaet

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

advance and provide prior notice

of

border-crossing times.

(Cont ' d)

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5.

Iraq-Syria-

UAR

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.

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 iraq 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

Irag and Syria.

(Cont'd)

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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 Iragi

brothers.

Their attitude springs

from the recognition that the Baath

in Syria cannot stay afloat without

support from Iraq.

Even so, we hear

talk of coup plotting in Damascus.

f. The reaction of Nasir's

Egypt, which passionately desires

co 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)

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SOVIET EXTENDED RANGE IMPACT AREAS

TYURATAM AR

ARCTIC OCEAN

CANADA

UNITED

STATES

TOREN

SEA OF

MOKHOTSK:

APPROX:

4900.

3JAPAN

APPROX.

6500

NM

NORTHERN

IMPACT

AREA

, lland

ahristor

C

SOUTHERN

IMPACT

PAREA./

TOP SECRET

• DINAR

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NOTES

A.

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)

B. Congo-USSR. Soviet embassy personnel have not yet

Teit 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.

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 ovèr-

throw the Leopoldville government.

C.

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.

D. Ecuador The military junta which has run Ecuador

since July may be about to come unstuck.

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.

(Cont'd)

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SECRET

1(1001011111111

*

*

SOVIET EARTH SATELLITE VEHICLES - COSMOS SERIES

1962-1963

1962

APPROXIMATE TIME

LAUNCH

PERIOD

APOGEE

PERIGEE

ORBITAL

OF LAUNCH GMT

SITE

(MINUTES)

12:00:00 (EST.)

(N.M.)

(N.M.)

INCLINATION

16 Mar '62

529

117

1715:18

6 Apr '62

842

115

2060:122

389

124

20 0r 062

178

0918:30

28 July '62

0500:00 (EST.)

18 Aug '62

0940:00

27 Sept '62

0900:01 (EST.)

17 Oct '62

0655:00 (EST.)

20 Oct '62

0924:40

22-Dec '62

0830:00

21 Mar '63

1059÷59

13. Apr !63

0929:58

8 Oct '6:

24 Oct '63

1034:25

6 Nov '6.

Kapustin Yar

• 96.35

Kapustin Yar

102.5

11111

93.8

90.6

102.75

90.6

90.1

Kapustin Yar

92.93

Yar

Tyuratam

Tyuratam

Kapustin Yor

Tyuratam

11111111

90.9

90.2

96.1

90.45

1963

89.77

92.1

89.771

90.4

94.81

89.44

92.2

89.55

88.5

90.3

865

194

199

326

191

205

497

243

182

276

200

218

425

163 .:

280

168

124

2ii

161

110

148

113

138

163

113

132

114

÷ 111.

143

93

112

140

113

146%

111

105

111

1 2 7 0 1 8 111

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E.

Thailand

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

one another for position.

• F.

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)

(INTERCEPTS)

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