THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 13 SEPTEMBER 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976985
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: September 13, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
13 September 1969'
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SOVIET UNION - COMMUNIST CHINA
Moscow has refrained from almost all anti-Chinese propa-
ganda since the Kosygin-Chou meeting. The Soviets may be
testing Peking's intentions with this relative silence, and
by demonstrating a willingness to tone down the polemics,
they also buttress their claim to be the aggrieved party.
It is still too early to tell whether the Chinese will ease
up on the border or in their propaganda, but chances are they
probably won't?at least for very long.
If-as seems more and more likely--the Soviets took the
initiative in arranging the meeting,, they had good reason to
do so. Moscow's deteriorating relations with Peking have
been hurting it on several levels. The Soviets believe the
Chinese are trying to bleed them white on the border and fear
Peking may be prepared to Continue the skirmishes indefinitely.
The Soviets also find themselves at apolitical disadvantage,
since both their enemies and their allies Consider them vul-
nerable because of preoccupation with the Chinese.
JAPAN - SOVIET UNION
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SOVIET AFFAIRS
Satellite photography shows eight SS-11 ICBM silos to be
under construction at an IRBM complex in the western USSR. Two
more have been discovered at an MRBM complex, also in the west-
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ern part of the country.
MIDDLE FAST
? The nine Egyptian TU-16 bombers which have been 'kept in
Algeria since January are returning to Egypt. Three have al-
ready landed at Cairo, and the others are scheduled to return
within the next week. Egypt probably believes it can safely
recall the bombers now that protective shelters have been
completed at five airfields.
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