THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 OCTOBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976427
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 25, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
--Top?Sei.zet 25 October 1968
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
25 OCTOBER'1968
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2. Czechoslovakia
The withdrawal of non-Soviet occu-
pation forces from Czechoslovakia prob-
ably will be completed early next
month. /
I Polish, Hungarian, and
Bulgarian units beganJeaving:the-cOun-
try earlier this week.
Some of the Soviet units in west-
ern Czechoslovakia seem to be preparing
to return to their home garrisons in
East Germany as part of the reduction
of the Soviet force level.
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3. Rumania
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4. Saudi Arabia
5. Ghana -
-Soviet Union
The Ghanaians are going to hold
on for some time to the two Soviet
trawlers they seized in Ghanaian waters
earlier this month. They are convinced
that the Soviet vessels were en.a.ed in
hanky-panky
.The Soviets are resigned to a good
deal of bad publicity.as a result of
this incident and are not yet making
an issue of the seizure, but they will
probably. begin to.yell if the ships are
not released fairly soon.
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6. Peru
Preliminary talks on a Soviet
loan to Peru have begun at the Soviet
Embassy in Chile. The military gov-
ernment is expecting economic missions
from the Soviet Union and other East
European countries and has also approved
a Soviet request to conduct "maritime
biological exploration" off the Peruvian
coast.
Peru is indeed seeking new markets
and other sources of foreign aid, but it
is probably publicizing these overtures
to the Soviets as a means of pressuring
the US to maintain normal diplomatic and
economic ties.
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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
25 October 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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Soviets Protest "Near Bombing" of Their Hydro-
graphic Ship: Moscow evidently intends to treat an
alleged incident in the Tonkin Gulf in low key. A
Soviet Foreign Ministry official called in the US
charg?n the evening of 23 October to register a
mild protest against the "near bombing" of the Soviet
vessel. He referred to the action as a "new provoca-
tion" and demanded that the guilty parties be punished
and steps be taken to prevent a recurrence. When
queried, he added that he knew of no plans to publi-
cize the incident or the protest at this time. The
Soviets protested and publicized two other "near
misses" in Haiphong harbor in the summer of 1966.
Preliminary field reports indicate that two US
Navy A.-4s jettisoned eight bombs, the nearest some
three and a half nautical miles from the Soviet hydro-
graphic vessel Peleng in international waters in the
Tonkin Gulf on the morning of 23 October.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
There is nothing of significance to report today.
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