THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 22 JUNE 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976215
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 22, 1968

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
The President's Daily Brief
et 22 June 1968
23
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
.THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
22 JUNE 1968
1. Korea
Soviet Union
3. Panama
50X1
The South Koreans are tightening
security even further in view of in-
creased North Korean infiltration.,
There is some suspicion in Seoul that
the North .Koreans may try to stage a
serious incident around 25 June, the
day the Korean War began in 1950, or
27.July, the anniversary of the armis-
tice.
Early this morning seven North
Korean infiltrators were killed in a
series of clashes along the Demilita-
rized Zone. For their part, the North
Koreans are claiming they sank "an
enemy spy boat" in the Yellow Sea.
Moscow's foreign aid expenditures
are holding at about the $2 billion a
year level reached in 1967. Big tab
items are:
--About $700 million in military
and economic aid to North Vietnam;
--Over $300 million
Arab military equipment;
Some $500 million
Cuban economy afloat,
to replace
and
to keep the
As predicted, Robles has rescinded
the decree of18 June that would have
permitted ships flying the Panamanian
flag to trade with Communist countries,
The decree had been pushed by the fi-
nance minister as retaliation for al-
leged US support of Arias.
50X1
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001,-.1xi
4. Czechoslovakia-
Italy
5-Philippines
Prague asked the French for a $100
million loan last month and more recent-
ly approached the Italians for an unspeci-
fied amount.
? When they talked to the Italians,
the Czechs said their prospects for a
hard currency loan from Moscow were ex-
tremely poor, although the Russians were
offering some help in the form of goods.
The French reaction is unknown, but
the Italians seem willing to give the
Czechs either ?a cash loan or credit for
use in buying Italian products.
The United States Intelligence
Board has approved a National Intelli-
gence Estimate on the Prospects for the
Philippines. This estimate concludes
that:
--Marcos has been unable to rise
above a political system dominated by
A wealthy and conservative oligarchy
unresponsive to the needs of the people.
--Prospects for reform are not
promising. Although the left does not
pose an immediate threat, it may:be
able eventually to convert apathy and
resignation into active opposition.
. --Philippine frustrations are like-
ly to have an increasingly anti-American
cast.
--Nevertheless, the US-Philippine
alliance is the cornerstone of.Marcos'
? foreign policy and the Filipinos will
continue to look to the. US for security
guarantees.
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Top Secret
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Top Secret
FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
2.) North Vietnamese Reflections of U S
Political Attitudes
Top Secret 50X1
16
22 June 1968
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4 -50X1
Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
22 June 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
50X1
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001,:4,0
:More on the "Right to Fight": The Liberation
Front representative in Budapest has echoed Hanoi's
line proclaiming the right of "all Vietnamese" to join
the struggle in the South. In a press conference on
19 June, Dinh Ba Thi, the Front representative, de-
clared that it was "the right of the Vietnamese people
50X1
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4,(1
as a whole to fight against the enemy with united
forces'." Thi said that the Front, which "fully sup-
ports" Hanoi's position in the Paris talks, is rely-
ing primarily on its own strength, but acknowledged
that the Viet Cong are receiving "all-around" assist-
ance from their "brothers in the North."
Press Office in Paris: The Liberation Front
people who came to Paris last week to open a press
office are beginning to receive a'little more pub-
licity. The press officer of the North Vietnamese
delegation at the Paris talks acknowledged their
presence in his press conference On Thursday
The Front of-
ficials have been warned that the French expect to
monitor all their releases for attacks against the
French Government or any of its allies.
New Landing Craft for the North: Recent pho-
tography shows that the Chinese are sending armed
landing craft to North Vietnam. Photography of
2 June shows two boats at Haiphong. They
apparently have been there since at least October
1967.
-3-
50X1
50X1
50X1
50X1
50X1
50X1
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4 -50X1
II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Hanoi Radio Quotes War Opponents: In a broadcast
entitled "Many US Organizations and Personalities Con,.
demn US Aggression in Vietnam," Hanoi domestic radio
reported on 19 June that Senator Stephen Young and
former Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith had publicly
denounced President Johnson's Vietnam policy on sepa-
rate occasions. According to the broadcast, Senator'
Young in a Senate speech on 17 June declared that the
war is "unconstitutional and immoral," and has "no
congressional approval." He is said to have likened
the South Vietnamese refugee camps he had seen on a
recent trip to Vietnam to the concentration Camp at
Dachau and "other death camps of the Hitlerite Fas-
cists in Germany."
The broadcast reported that Galbraith had "vigor-
ously criticized" the administration's Vietnam policy
at a.meeting held on 15 June by the National Council
of Americans for Democratic Action.
* * *
-4-
50X1
50X1
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4
Top Secret
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006200130001-4