THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 SEPTEMBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976357
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 14, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
14 September 1968
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,THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
14 SEPTEMBER 1968
1. Middle East
2. South Vietnam
3. Congo
A strong Israeli strike against
Egypt, and possibly Jordan,.seems_like-
ly in the near fUture. The subject is
discussed at Annex todayo,
the Communists plan to
close out the "third phase" of their
general offensive with country-wide at-
tacks between 15 and 25 September. Ac-
the Communists
plan to move on Tay Ninh, Binh Duong,
and Binh Long cities and will shell
Saigon and Tan Son Nhut. They are also
said to be mapping demolition opera-
tions in the capital.
The Kinshasa Congolese are making
plans to send troops across the river
into Brazzaville this weekend. They
would help the new government there get
rid of radical leftists. There is an
agreement between the two governments
permitting such an action on request
from Brazzaville.
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4. Czechoslovakia
5. Haiti
6. Mexico
The National Assembly remains in
.session to provide legislation cover-
ing Moscow's demands. Yesterday it
passed Measures restricting ;the right
of assembly.. No cabinet changes have
been announced yet.
As for the party, we continue to
get reports that Dubcek's days are num-
bered. Gustav Husak, who runs the:Slo-
vak party, is the most often mentioned
candidate for 'Dubcek's job. Husak, too,
is a liberal, but one who has endorsed
the Moscow agreement and with whom the
Russians may feel they can live. -Those
who know Husak describe him.as.extreme
ly capable and."totally ambitious,"
A Polish official reports the oc-
cupying troops will leave Czechoslovakia
by 26 October, except for "a couple of
Soviet divisions."
There was no trouble during the
students' "silent march" last night.
The number of marchers was estimated
at 75-80,000.
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7, Ecuador
8.
Carlos Julio Arosemena, the
American former president who was
de-
posed by the army in 1963, is putting
a number of his men in key positions
in the Velasco administration. One of
these Arosemenahendhmen, a left-wing
goon with a long terrorist record, has
been named chief of the civilian.secu-
rity directorate.
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ANNEX
Israeli Strike Likely
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On 26 August the Egyptians ambushed and killed
three Israeli soldiers on the east bank of the canal;
another ten Israeli soldiers were killed in the five-
hour artillery duel last Sunday. Firing incidents
have continued almost daily, with yesterday
tion.
no excep-
Egyptian objectives are obscure
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The.Israelis have reacted both militarily and
politically to the Suez situation. .Moshe
Dayan sent
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was placed before the Security Council.
Neither
step seems to have had much effect. The warning was
ignored and the move against
Egypt in the Security.
Council is getting nowhere.
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Another major clash could involve the Jordanian
front as well as the Suez.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
2.) North Vietnamese Reflections of U S
Political Attitudes
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
14 September 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
North Vietnam's preoccupation with postwar prob-
lems is extensive,,according to all available informa-
tion. The topic is even beginning to appear in North
Vietnamese periodicals.
the construction of air raid shelters was
continuing in Hanoi and the population remained tense.
because of the visits of "US reconnaissance planes"
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL ATTI-
TUDES ON THE WAR
Hanoi Castigates Nixon: Hanoi Radio yesterday
trained its sights on Mr. Nixon. It called him a "vio-
lent belligerent" who had favored sending US troops to
South Vietnam to help the French in 1954. Nixon, it
added, is "the true representative of the traditionally
belligerent Republican Party, which in turn is the?true
representative of the US capitalists who are the most
belligerent reactionaries in the ?United States and the
entire world."
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