THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 11 JUNE 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976821
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 11, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
11 June 1969
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MAJOR PROBLEMS
VIETNAM
The-Vietnamese Communists have staked out a formal
claim to a share of political power in South Vietnam by
setting up a provisional regime as a rival to the Saigon
government. The step, announced yesterday by the Viet
Cong's-Liberation Radio, was billed as the product of con-
sultations between the Liberation Front and the other
-major Communist front organization, the Alliance.
Front chairman Nguyen-Huu Tho said the "Provisional
Revolutionary Government" would "regulate all our internal
and foreign affairs." He also indicated that it is in-
tended tO mobilize support behind the standard list of
Communist objectives-, including the overthrow of the Saigon
government. He described it as a "resistance government"
for fighting the war and for applying "democracy" to the
population.
Since the 1968 Tet offensive the Communists have been
laying the groundwork for such a body by establishing,. or
claiming to establish, "revolutionary administrations" from
the hamlet up through the province and region administrative
levels. From time to time there have been strong suggestions
that they were aiming ultimately for a national regime.
One major drawback to effective implementation of such
a scheme has been the lack of prominent South Vietnamese
personalities who would lend their names to it. As announced
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by the Liberation Radio, the personnel in the cabinet and
the advisory council of the new "government" appear to be
drawn largely from familiar figures in the Front and the
Alliance. Some more prestigious leadership would seem
necessary if the Communists are to get more support from
South Vietnamese who are unwilling to back the Thieu govern-
ment.
The Liberation Radio announced today that henceforth
the Liberation Front's delegation in Paris would be referred
to as "the delegation of the Provisional Revolutionary Govern-
ment of South Vietnam."
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Gromyko has gone to Cairo. We assume he is checking out
Moscow's reply to the US proposals passed to Ambassador Do-
brynin last month. The Soviets said last week that they
would have their reply ready in the "next few days." On his
last 'visit to Egypt, Gromyko won Egyptian approval of the
"peace plan" the Soviets surfaced last December.
EUROPE
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SOVIET AFFAIRS
There is nothing of significance to report.
II, OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
COMMUNIST CHINA
Peking has issued a strong warning to recalcitrant
radical elements to fall in line. A joint editorial of
the three major party and military journals, broadcast on
8 June. by Peking Radio, strongly reaffirmed the current
drive to restore political unity after the upheavals of
the Cultural Revolution,. Most pointedly, the editorial in-
sisted that re-educated and "liberated" cadres--even some
who earlier had opposed Mao himself--must be restored to
positions of real authority.
Many of these men, purged by Red Guard action, are
experienced managers and administrators. The editorial's
call, therefore, suggests that those elements in China's
leadership with the greatest interest in order and national
development--primarily the central and regional military
leaders, together with senior government administrators--
are now strong enough to call the tune.
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Peking today lodged another protest with the Soviets
alleging that further incidents occurred last evening in the
West China border area north of the Dzungarian Gate.
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