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THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 8 let's fun & Mrs. Roberto 12/10/63

ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

30 NOVEMBER 1963 TOP SECRET

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.

c. The FALN, meanwhile, is 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.

(Cont'd) For The President Only - Top Secret

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.

d. 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.

f. 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. (Cont'd) For The President Only - Top Secret

Area of Main Map USSR Komsomolsk CHINA Vladivostok Sof SEA OF OKHOTSK

KAMCHATKA Ballistic Missile Submarines: Petropavlovsk in the Petropavlovsk area 6G Class 3Z Conversions, Impact Poid PENINSULA

TOP SECRET DINAR 6 SEPTEMBER 1963 33881 Klyuchi Impact Area BERING KOMANDORSKIYE 285 Approximate Launch Positions 160 Submarine Ballistic Missile Launches in the Soviet Far East "G"-Class Submarine

1. USSR 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 (Cont'd) For The President Only - Top Secret

1. Czechoslovakia- 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. For The President Only - Top Secret

6. South Vietnam

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. For The President Only - Top Secret

BURMA South Vietnam ARMY CORPS BOUNDARIES NORTH VIETNAM CHINA Quang Tri

LAOS THAI. IETNAM. Hue CAMB PHILIPPINES 18 INDONESIA 27 LAOS THAILAND TONLE Da Nang Quang Nam I Corps Quảng Ngài. II Corps Kontum Pleiku. An Khê 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 Phuoc Vĩnh SOUTH Châu Phú SAIGON Phan Thiet CHINA SEA Cho Lon Capital Military District IV Corps My Tho Vung Tau Isle de Phu Quoc Can Tho Rach Gia GULF OF. SIAM Quan Long (Ca Mau) Bac Lieu SECRET STATUTE MILES 33752 150:

NOTES A. 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.

B. 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.

C. Cambodia-Vietnam D.

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) (Cont'd) For The President Only - Top Secret

E. 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.

F. British Guiana

Cuba 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.

G. 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. )

H. 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) For The President Only - Top Secret

DOCUMENT OF INTEREST The effect in France of the President's death. For The President Only - Top Secret