THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 26 SEPTEMBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976377
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• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 26, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
26 SEPTEMBER 1968
1. Czechoslovakia
2, Mexico
3. Sabah
Prague persists in brinkmanship,
making pronouncements clearly anathema
to the Russians. Yesterday the main
party paper carried articles which:
--supported economic reforms the
?Soviets oppose as a "return to capital-
ism";
--gave a stiff reply to East Ger-
man criticism of Dubcek;
--stated some party statutes the
Soviets call "counterrevolutionary"
would remain valid.
The rumblings from Moscow were
quick in coming. Last night Tass made
its most specific attack since the Mos-
cow agreement, charging "certain lead-
ers" in Prague were acting in direct
contradiction to that agreement. Tues-
day Soviet troops reappeared in down-
town Prague, an even more concrete sign
of Soviet displeasure. It is obvious
tempers are getting short.
Several hundred students clashed
with security forces in Mexico City
last night. Public meetings in the
city are now banned. The students,
however, plan another mass march next
week. The government, for its part,
is determined to prevent disruption of
the Olympics.
Marcos is trying to keep the dis-
pute from getting any worse. He has put
a tight rein on the Philippine armed
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and he has begun
efforts to reopen a dialogue with Kuala
Lumpur. The agenda for any talks is
likely to be a serious stumbling block.
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4. Argentina
5. Algeria-Congo
6. West Germany
An incipient Peronist-Castroite
guerrilla movement has been uncovered.
A training camp was captured in the
northern part of the country last week,
and this in turn led to the discovery
of an arms cache in the far south. The
movement appears well financed, but the
police do not yet know by whom.
Boumediene, who has had Tshombe
on his hands since the aerial kid-
naping in June 1967, said recently he
might turn the Congo's ex-premier loose.
Boumediene was characteristically inde-
cisive, however, when discussing the
matter with Liberia's Tubman. Mobutu
has said he does not care where Tshombe
goes so long as he is kept out of Africa.
The "neo-Nazi" National Democratic
Party is expected to run well when
local elections are held this Sunday
in Lower Saxony. The party should make
its best showing in rural areas where
there is a strong reaction to disorder
sparked by the New Left.
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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
26 September 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Use of Cambodian Air Facilities: Recently avail-
able information reinforces earlier indications that
Communist cadres utilize Cambodian air facilities to
travel most of the way between North and South Vietnam.
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seems likely that key personnel at least occasionally
use these Cambodian air links. This offers the Com-
munists increased convenience, speed, reliability, and
security compared to other modes of travel. The Commu-
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Reconnaissance Results: A mission of 17 Septem-
ber, which supplied good photography of 60 percent of
the panhandle between the 17th and 20th Parallels, con-
firms that the logistic buildup south of the 20th Paral-
lel continues unabated. In the sanctuary area between
the 19th and 20th Parallels, there has been a clearly
discernible buildup in logistic facilities. More roll-
ing stock, trucks, and waterborne logistics craft are
openly in use than in late August and early September.
New transshipment and storage areas are in evidence,
frequently protected by revetments in case the bombing
should be resumed.
The rail line leading south from the 19th Parallel
into Vinh, which was believed interdicted, has been in
operation at least for a brief period. A military-type
pipeline, first detected in July, is now about 30 miles
in length with its northern end now at Cu Dai some 10
miles south of the 19th Parallel. Extensive petroleum
bunkers have been constructed at Cu Dai, the present--
although probably temporary--northern terminus of the
pipeline. Although it is probably not yet in opera-
tion, the pipeline has the potential for pumping up-
wards of 1,000 tons of oil or gasoline a day south-
ward through an exposed region of North Vietnam where
US air attacks have taken a heavy toll of North Viet-
namese trucks.
Hanoi Dispatching More Political Cadres: A re-
cently captured North Vietnamese political organizer
claims that Hanoi is sending down groups of personnel
whose principal duties are to help set up new libera-
tion committees in the South. The source's group,
which infiltrated last spring, allegedly contained 200
men, all of whom were destined for political assign-
ments.
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The prisoner's report goes with other signs that
Hanoi is making an extensive effort to improve its
political apparatus in the South. Although there is
no way to know how many groups of this type have been
deployed, the Communists are clearly preparing for a
period of increased political competition with the
Saigon government.
II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
There is nothing of significance to report today.
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