CIA: The President

Declassified presents a declassified Central Intelligence Agency briefing from October eighteenth, nineteen sixty-two, titled "The President's Intelligence Checklist." This document offers a window into the daily intelligence priorities of the United States presidency during a critical Cold War moment. This document was released by the Central Intelligence Agency via The Black Vault, accessible through archive.org. It was declassified under Executive Order Twelve thousand nine hundred fifty-eight, Section three point five, as part of an appeal designated NLK nine nine three eight. Additional material was released as a result of this review. The President's Intelligence Checklist. Issued by the Central Intelligence Agency, October eighteenth, nineteen sixty-two. For The President Only. One. U.S.S.R. [four lines redacted under exemption B1]. Two. Cuba. A. Our latest photography has turned up two more S A-Two surface-to-air missile sites, both in Oriente province. One of these, near the t