SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM 27 OCTOBER 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005974086
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 27, 1967

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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
27 October 1967
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Preliminary Assessment of Recent Bomb Damage:
Photography of Phuc Yen taken yesterday shows 47 new
craters on the runway, heavy damage to taxiways and
parking aprons, and five destroyed MIG-15/17s.
Earlier photographs showed at least one MIG-21 de-
stroyed and several others damaged. Four more MIGs
have been shot down in air engagements since Tuesday.
In poststrike photography of the Paul Doumer
Bridge, two sections near the center appear to be
down and a third section near the northern approach
also appears damaged. Altogether, the new damage
seems about equivalent to that of last August, which
required about six weeks to repair for limited traffic.
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Hanoi Avoids Comment on Phuc Yen Raids: North
Vietnamese propaganda has made no mention as yet of
the two successive days of air strikes against.Phuc
Yen airfield. Rather, Hanoi has predictably charged
that the raids were targeted against populated areas
in the center of Hanoi. .An international broadcast
inEnglish on 25 -October claimed that these latest
raids have been particularly savage in employing
steel pellet-bombs_on a number of civilian sections
of the city: _Hanoi's silence is not unusual, how-
ever; the North. Vietnamese have never mentioned
earlier strikes .against other airfields.
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-French Official's Comments on North's Atti-
tudes: Etienne Manac'h, the chief of the Far. East
Section of the French Foreign Office, has told US
Embassy officials of a talk he had with Mai Van Bo,
Hanoi's representative in Paris, on 6,0ctober. .In
discussing PresidentJohnson's speech of 29 Septem-
ber,.Manac'h commented that in his view the portion
calling for "reciprocity" was more flexible than
any previous US statement. Bo's rejoinder was that
there was nothing new in the speech and that its ef-
fect on North Vietnam was "nil" because the US was
still demanding preconditions for a bombing halt. On
the basis of his conversation with Bo, Manac'h felt
that Hanoi's present position on entering into a dia-
logue ,with the US was "very, hard."
? Manac'h also informed the embassy that North
Vietnamee'TartY First Secretary Le Duan was cur-
rently in:Moscow, where he would Probably remain un-
til the 50th Anniversary celebrations.
II. ,NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US.POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
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