The President's Intelligence Checklist (PICL), created after the Bay of Pigs invasion, was first delivered on 17 June 1961 and remained President John F. Kennedy's primary written intelligence source for the rest of his administration.
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- https://time.com/4673605/first-presidents-daily-brief/ (time.com)
- https://www.whitehousehistory.org/transmission-impossible-the-communication-failures-that-created-the-situation-room (whitehousehistory.org)
- https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/politics/cia-declassifies-daily-presidential-briefing (cnn.com)
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