CIA · President's Daily Brief · declassified 2015–2016
six days in 1962 on which the CIA's brief for the US president names Romania: six paragraphs, scanned and transcribed, with the withheld passages marked.
We anticipate that Khrushchev's upcoming trip to Rumania will resemble his trip to Bulgaria in having as its main purpose the whipping of another satellite into line in the drive to refurbish the bloc's fraternal ties with Yugoslavia.
President's Intelligence Checklist, 24 May 1962, page 7 of the scan · the document at the CIA · the page at the Internet Archive
Khrushchev is scheduled to go on the air later today, ostensibly to report on his recent trip to Rumania. He can be counted on, however, to go beyond that subject and could offer some hint on how Moscow views the Taiwan Strait situation.
President's Intelligence Checklist, 2 July 1962, page 6 of the scan · the document at the CIA · the page at the Internet Archive
In a communiqué winding up the visit of Rumania's premier to Indonesia, Djakarta has become the first neutral to line itself up with the Bloc position on a German peace treaty and a West Berlin "free city."
President's Intelligence Checklist, 3 September 1962, page 7 of the scan · the document at the CIA · the page at the Internet Archive
Reports of rural disturbances stemming from food shortages and harsh treatment of the peasantry are beginning to appear more substantial.
President's Intelligence Checklist, 1 November 1962, page 10 of the scan · the document at the CIA · the page at the Internet Archive
a. We may be seeing the first signs that North Korea, which has long tried to avoid choosing sides in the Sino-Soviet dispute, is now veering toward the Chinese.
b. Early in November, all North Korean ambassadors to Soviet Bloc nations were called home--presumably for a foreign policy parley.
c. New ambassadors have since been appointed to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Rumania; so far no one has gone back to Bulgaria, where relations have been sticky since a student incident there last summer.
President's Intelligence Checklist, 27 November 1962, pages 4 and 5 of the scan · the document at the CIA · the page at the Internet Archive
PLANS FOR ACHIEVING A HIGH DEGREE OF INTEGRATION OF BLOC ECONOMIES ARE UNFOLDING WITHIN THE COUNCIL OF MUTUAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE. THE PROJECT IS FAR ENOUGH ALONG AFTER A RECENT CEMA MEETING IN BUCHAREST THAT THE PARTY FIRST SECRETARIES OF THE ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES (MINUS CHINA, ALBANIA AND NORTH KOREA) ARE EXPECTED TO MEET SOON TO PUT THEIR SEALS ON IT.
President's Intelligence Checklist, 22 December 1962, page 5 of the scan · the document at the CIA · the page at the Internet Archive