THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 6 JULY 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976237
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 6, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY. BRIEF
6 JULY 1968
1, South Vietnam
2. France
In the two months of May and June
France lost more than 25 percent--about
$1.8 billion--of its reserves trying to
support the franc. Reserves of gold and
foreign exchange now stand at about $5.2
billion, down from nearly $7 billion on
1 May. Because of an adverse balance of
payments, losses are likely to continue
in coming months.
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Middle East
4. Berlin
The Berlin access problem is now
essentially at a standoff. Bonn is
being careful to comply, with the new
East German controls, and Pankow is
seeing ?that the traffic gets processed
in an expeditious manner. Recent re-
ports from the East German side say -
that some officials there are begin
fling' to have second thoughts about the
usefulness of the new restrictions..
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
.) North Vietnamese Reflections of U S
Political Attitudes
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6 July 1968
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
6 July 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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?Captured Document Notes Dissidence: A notebook
recently captured in South Vietnam has one of those
extremely rare references to internal security prob-
lems in North Vietnam. The notebook reportedly be-
longed to a senior officer whose notes say, that in
North Vietnam "230,000 out of 300,000 who opposed
the regime were sent to reformatories." According to
the notes, taken during an indoctrination session
last fall, there are three types of "reactionaries"
in Hanoi: I) supporters of South Vietnam; 2) sup-
porters of Yugoslav policies; and 3) "neutralist?
pacifists."
Dissident elements of the type described doubt-
less exist and punishment of politically unreliable
individuals probably occurs regularly. A new decree
against "counterrevolutionaries" was promulgated last
fall. The notes about large numbers of people being
sent to reformatories may not be current, however,
and could refer to roundups of political prisoners
during .earlier years.
Non-Communist Contacts:
two North Vietnamese diplomats will visit Denmark
beginning 7 July. The North Vietnamese ambassador in
East Berlin and an attach?re expected to remain in
Denmark for several days.
The visit is another sign of Hanoi's relatively
new interest in cultivating better relations with non-
Communist countries. In the past six months the North
Vietnamese have vigorously pursued such contacts in
an effort to sell their position on the war to the
widest possible Western audience.
A Swedish Foreign Office official is on his way
to Hanoi. The US Embassy in Vientiane reported on
5 July that Jean Christophe Oberg, ("Director of the
cabinet" in the Swedish Foreign Office and personal
representative of the Swedish Foreign Minister) was
scheduled to take the 5 July ICC flight to Hanoi and
stay about a week. The Swedish official did not vol-
unteer the nature of his business.
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Soviet Aid: 'Moscow and Hanoi signed a new eco-
nomic and military aid agreement on 4 July climaxing
the visit of North Vietnam's Deputy Premier.-Le Thanh
Nghi to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, No
time period was given but the agreement probably cov-
ers supplementary aid for 1968 and aid for 1969 as
did agreements recently signed inEasternEurope.
Sghi has signed agreements with every Communist coun-
.try in%Europe and will now move on to Asian Commu-
nist capitals. ?He was due in North Korea yesterday'.
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AEI. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
There is nothing of significance to report today.
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THE PRESIDENT 8
DAILY BURP
I JULY 196S
1. Presidential Trip
Moscow And Peking wasted no time in
playing up the antimAmerican demonstra.
tions in San Salvador. The official
press services of both countries carried
items yesterday mbich read as though
there vas no one but protesters in the
streets. The stories aleo were sharply'
critical of the Central American comaon
market calling it a means of "plundering
the people" and saying that the West-
dent's trip was aimed at salvaging it
from bankruptcy.
USS.Czec*oslovskia Rost of the Soviet troops brought
ilwill are lingering on. Czechoslovak
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into Czechoslovakia for a Warsaw Pact
exercise which ended more than a week
go home. Marshal Ykkubovsky, the Soviet
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Czechoslovakia in about a month. Prague
rightly sees more than military train-.
tug in this request and the issue has
been sent to the highest Soviet and
Czechoslovak levels for resolution.
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Moscow has rolled out the red carpet
for Nasser1 but there are some signs that
his talks with the Soviet leaders did not
go all that smoothly. TASS labelled the
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differences of view. Even more intriguing
is Masser's decision to stay on in Moscow
until aid-week although his hosts ap.
parson), thought he would move on to
Belgrade yesterday.,
There is no clue yet what new uni-
tary or economic aid Masser will take bone.
The stkeup of the Biyptian delegation sug-
gests military aid will, at least, be die-
cussed,
The party Central Committee will
meet on Monday for the first time since
the political crisis of last March.
Party chief Gosulka appears to have
proved his position in recent weeks, but
he will still have to strike comproniees
on key issues with his hardline opponents.
The meeting is expected to set a date for
a party Congress later this year. It
nay also shift sone jobs around.
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