THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 10 JUNE 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976819
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 10, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
10 June 1969
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MAJOR PROBLEMS
SOVIET AFFAIRS
Although most attention has focused on his spectacular
diatribes against the Chinese, Brezhnev also used the'occa-
sion of his lengthy keynote address to the Moscow conference
to assert explicitly that the Soviet Union seeks ?an under-
standing "on measures for limiting and restraining the arms
race." Brezhnev also said that the USSR intended to main-
tain its armed forces "at the highest level," but admitted
.that this retarded scientific and technical progress and.re-
stricted Moscow's ability to meet the needs of the Soviet
people. This appears to have been an effort to square the
Soviet Union's "anti-imperialist" posture with its advocacy
of arms talks with Washington.
Brezhnev's attention in the context of the Communist
conference to the need for negotiated settlements in gen-
eral and to arms talks in particular underlines their im-
portance to the Soviets. It also indicates a determination
not to exacerbate relations with the US despite Moscow's
tactic of using the anti-imperialism theme to minimize dis-
unity in the Communist camp.
Soviet military activity in the Far East, which we
noted in Saturday's Daily Brief, is still at a high level.
We still think this activity is related to a major combined
forces exercise. An exercise of this nature, in addition to
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being useful to the Soviets as a timely bit of muscle-flex-
ing, could be intended to test contingency plans against
China.
VIETNAM
Communist attacks fell off to a moderate level yesterday
after three days of stepped-up activity.
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Hanoi's first response to the Midway Communi4U4 was
filled with invective but lacked substantive content. A
North Vietnamese spokesman in Paris may have given the es-
sence of Hanoi's real assessment of the Midway. meeting: he
described the troop pullout as designed to "appease" the
American sentiment against the war. The initial South Viet-
namese reaction to the results of the Midway meeting was
generally one of calm acceptance. Several prominent Na-
tional Assembly members approved the announcement of the
troop withdrawal.
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There is nothing significant to report on Europe.
II, OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
KOREA
Sundayls abortive North Korean infiltration attempt on
South Korea's east coast points up two things. First, Seoul
has considerably improved its security measures sinde last
fall, when 120 agents successfully landed in the same gen-
eral area. Second, Pyongyang is still committed to such ef-
forts designed to undermine stability in the South and to
give credibility to its claims of a growing revolutionary
movement there.
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