THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 11 OCTOBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976403
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 11, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
11 OCTOBER 1968
1, South Vietnam
2. Soviet Union -
Finland
3. Mexico
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The radical fringe is still try-
ing to disrupt the opening of the
Olympic games, but most of the students
are cowed and disorganized after last
week's crackdown. Tight security is
being maintained in Mexico City.
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Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
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5, Rumania
6. Soviet Union -
Communist China
7, North Korea -
South Korea
8, Israel-Egypt
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North Korean infiltration activity
along the Demilitarized Zone is-de-
clining. Even at its peak in August
and September, it never reached last
year's levels, and a record number of
those who did try to cross were killed.
Infiltration will probably continue at
its current low-to-moderate rate until
winter sets in.
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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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11 October 1968
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
11 October 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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Malaria continues to be the main disease problem
among North Vietnamese units operating outside North
Vietnam. Inadequate drug supplies, poor health train-
ing, and the increased difficulty of preventing and
treating drug-resistant malaria are some of the major
factors in the rising incidence of this disease. The
current wave of influenza, which began in Communist
China, has reached several countries in the Far East
and isolated cases have been reported elsewhere.
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Problems in Marketing: Hanoi is taking measures
to improve its domestic marketing operations. Wide-
spread irregularities in the market, including theft
from state warehouses, blackmarketing in rationed
goods, and an uncontrolled ex ansion of the free mar-
ket were recentl discussed
jthese problems had reached serious pro-
portions in North Vietnam and had to be brought under
control.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Hanoi on Vice President: Hanoi Radio on .7 Octo-
ber quoted several Western press accounts of antiwar
demonstrations in the US. The broadcast, over the do-
mestic service, claimed that everywhere Vice President
Humphrey went he was dogged by young demonstrators de-
manding an end to the war. The war demonstrators have
made the Vice President miserable, said the commenta-
tor, and they are punishing him for contributing to
President Johnson's "aggressive war."
On 6 October both the Hanoi party daily and the
army daily devoted special articles to Vice President
Humphrey, claiming that there .was no fundamental dif-
ference between him and the President. Both articles
tried to portray the Democratic leaders as completely
estranged from large segments of the American public
who were demanding an end to the war.
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