THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 11 DECEMBER 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977189
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: December 11, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
11 December 1969
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
11 December 1969
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The Libyan junta has quashed a plot and arrested two 50X1
of its own members. (Page 1)
West and East Germany
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Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov may return
to Moscow, leaving the Sino-Soviet talks in Peking
in the hands of lesser officials. (Page 3)
South Korean aircraft lands in North Korea. (Page 5)
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LIBYA
Defense Minister Hawwaz and Interior Minister
Ahmad have been arrested for plotting to overthrow
the Revolutionary Command Council. Both men were
concerned about the growing influence of Egypt in
Libyan affairs, and they feared Council President
Qaddafi was toying with a plan to form a union with
Egypt and the Sudan. About 100 army and police of-
ficers were arrested shortly before Hawwaz and Ahmad--
presumably because they were part of the same group
of plotters.
The roundup of army and police officers
is an effective warning to any others who
may be plotting. More importantly, the
arrest of such key figures as Hawwaz and
Ahmad demonstrates the Council's ability
to deal with threats against it.
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WEST GERMANY - EAST GERMANY
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USSR - COMMUNIST CHINA
First Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov may
soon leave the Peking talks, according to Berezhkov,
the editor of the journal of Moscow's institute for
US studies. Commenting to a US Embassy official
that "two months" of negotiations at the Vice-Minis-
ter level was enough, Berezhkov said that the ques-
tion of reducing the talks to a lower level is now
being discussed in Peking.
Berezhkov has proved well informed in the
past, and his remarks add credibility to
previous speculation that Kuznetsov, who
had been expected to lead the Soviet SALT
delegation, will soon be returning. Low-
ering the level of the Peking talks would
probably mean that both sides feel they
have clearly laid out their basic posi-
tions and recognize that continuing nego-
tiations will be slow and tedious.
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UN-SUEZ
The Egyptians recently insisted that UN
observers reduce the illumination of their
posts in the area at night, a move that
would expose the truce teams even more to
the sporadic shelling that goes on there.
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NOTES
North Korea - South Korea: A South Korean com-
mercial airliner was forced to land at Sondok air-
base, 35 miles north of Wonsan in North Korea early
this morning.
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aircraft went astray or was hijacked. No US nation-
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board the aircraft.
Laos: Communist road construction in the north-
wes i m ving ahead rapidly.
Chinese engineers have extended the mo-
ora e imit of the new road southwest of Muong Sai
some 10 miles in little over one week. Within a
two-month period approximately 27 miles of new road
have been constructed. Chinese engineers have
claimed that the road would be completed to Muong
Houn by May 1970, according to a local villager.
With the road apparently now half way to Muong Houn,
this would seem a conservative estimate. There is
no evidence at this time of road construction activ-
ity south of Muong Houn.
Lebanon: President Hilu anticipates that the
Arab summit conferencewill present him with some
new problems. Chief among these would be a demand
that his Mirage squadron be moved to Egypt or Syria--
which would be impossible under the agreement with
France. He also fears that foreign Arab troops would
be stationed in Lebanon, further complicating his
domestic problems.
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