THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 8 NOVEMBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976451
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 8, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
8 NOVEMBER 1968
.South Viet nam
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2. North Korea -
South Korea
. Jarring Mission
4. West Germany -
Berlin
5. Soviet Union
The North Korean guerrillas who
landed on the South Korean coast Sunday
seem to be trapped in a South Korean
dragnet. Problems of weather and ter-
rain will impede the roundup, but all
escape routes are blocked.
The Jordanian and Egyptian foreign
ministers have gone home complaining,
as expected, that the latest Israeli
document represents no forward movement.
Nobody seems willing to let the Jarring
mission die, but neither Cairo nor Tel
Aviv is in a mood for any conciliatory
moves. Jarring himself does not expect
any developments for some time. He may
transfer his base of operations to
Europe.
Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary
of the abortive Communist revolution
which broke out in Germany in 1918, and
the radical students plan to celebrate
with new demonstrations. ,They are find-
ing it increasingly hard to provoke the
police countermeasures which help to
keep,their movement glued together. To-
morrow's demonstrations may be the hard-
est test of police restraint yet.
All signs indicate that the Soviets
will try another unmanned circumlunar
flight in the next few days. The space
support ships should be on station by
Saturday.
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6. India -
Soviet Union
7. Communist China - Chinese construction crews appar-
Laos ently have resumed work on a road lead-
ing into Laos from southern China. This
is the biggest spurt since 1963 in Pe-
king's on-again, off-again road building
program in Laos.
8. Iran -
Saudi Arabia
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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
8 November 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
North Vietnamese Participation: The Communists
have recently made some unusually explicit refer-
ences to North Vietnamese participation in the war
in South Vietnam, A Viet Cong broadcast on .5 Novem-
ber lauded North Vietnam for forcing the US to stop
the bombing and asserted that this "will certainly
further encourage Northern armed forces and people
to increase their aid to the South and join their
strength...to completely defeat the US aggressors on
the remaining half of the fatherland."
The following day, a similar theme was sounded
in a radio account of a conference of Communist forces
in South Vietnam. The conference reportedly adopted
a resolution acclaiming the bombing halt and praising
North Vietnam's "iron-like determination to join with"
Communist forces in the South in achieving complete
victory.
This language is unusual, but Hanoi has been in-
creasingly candid concerning the role of North Viet-
namese forces in the war in the South. The North
Vietnamese spokesman in Paris took up the issue dur-
ing a news conference on 6 November when he was asked
if a recent propaganda statement implied that Hanoi
is willing to discuss withdrawing its forces from
South Vietnam. He claimed that some news agencies
had maliciously misinterpreted the statement but then
fell back on the standard line that "Vietnam is one"
and that all Vietnamese have a "right" to oppose US
"aggression" wherever it occurs.
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?Logistics: No significant increase in the num-
ber of trucks entering the Laotian panhandle from
North Vietnam has been reported since the bombing
halt, but photography reveals that the Communists
are acting quickly to repair their logistic network.
When repairs now being made to damaged portions
of the road network in both North Vietnam and Laos
are completed, the Communists could increase the level
of trucking into ?and through Laos./
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The problem of determining the extent to which
the North Vietnamese are taking advantage of the bomb-
ing cessation may be complicated by the seasonal in-
crease in truck traffic into Laos which normally oc-
curs at this time of year with the advent of drier
weather.
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-Ir. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
_ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
On Election: There has been no comment by
Hanoi or by North Vietnamese spokesmen elsewhere
about the Nixon election victory.
The Front representative in Phnom Penh, how-
ever, was quoted by UPI yesterday as saying the
Communists anticipate no essential changes in US
policy under the Nixon administration. He said
that the Communists do not see "any fundamental
differences" between the Johnson administration and
the Republicans, and that any US Government will
have to either stop its "aggression" or suffer great-
er defeats.
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