THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 5 AUGUST 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977608
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 15
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 5, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
5 August 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
5 August 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
About 90 SAM firing battalions have now been identi-
fied in Egypt. (Page 1)
The tenuous truce between Jordanian King Husayn and
the fedayeen may come apart. (Page 2)
The Cambodian situation is discussed on Page 3.
The Soviet Flogger swing-wing fighter will probably
be operational this year. (Page 4)
Specially equipped Soviet AN-12 transports have ?ap-
peared in Egypt. (Page 5)
Colombo will probably tell Saragat he can form a new
Italian Government. (Page 6)
The Chinese
(Page 7)
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EGYPT
The latest satellite photography prOvides us
with this year's most extensive coverage of SAM
facilities in Egypt. We have now identified about
90 SAM firing battalions in the country; some 70 are
units that fire SA-2's-and 20 specialize in the SA-3.
These battalions can be moved., in sh0rt periods of
time, to any of some 250 SAM sites. Most of these
are positioned throughout an area that encompasses:
Cairo and a zone extending northeastward toward Suez
and Ismailia. A.number of these sites are within a
five- to 15-mile band along the canal. At the time
of photography, in late July, four firing battalions
were occupying SA-2 positions within five miles of
the waterway.
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JORDAN
The fedayeen strongly object to King Husayn's
recent appointment of Zaid Bin Shakir as assistant
chief of staff of the Jordanian Army. Shakir, for-
merly head of the Third Armored Division, was dis-
missed last June during the .government's confronta-
tion with the fedayeen. The King's acquiescence at.
that time was viewed as a major defeat.
Last Saturday, when Jordanian and fedayeen rep-
resentatives met. to work out implementation of the
agreement reached. in June, the fedayeen declared that
they would attend no more meetings unless the . appoint-
ment were canceled. The government's refusal to do
so caused the fedayeen to walk out, although they did
agree to continue low-level meetings to consider some ?
internal security aspects of the agreement.
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CAMBODIA
? The Cambodian Army deputy chief of staff said
yesterday that Communist pressure on Kompong Thoth- has
been relieved, and all enemy troops have been driven
out of the city. He said air strikes had enabled the
garrison to hold its ground. The second successful
defense of the city should help boost morale through-
out. the army. The Communists are still directing
some small arms and mortar fire on Kompong Thom from
the north and east, and additional enemy attacks on
the city may occur after the Communists have regrouped.
The Conimunists retain control of Skoun, but only
a few enemy elements are still there; most of the Com-
munist forces have moved north and west of the town.
A small government relief column from Kompong Cham
city was in contact with enemy forces east of Skoun
yesterday. Three Khmer Krom battalions were proceed-
ing from Phnom Penh on 4 August to retake Skoun and
to counter a suspected Communist pincer movement
north and west of Kompong Cham city.
Elsewhere, the government's sputtering counter-
offensive to recapture Kirirom may be postponed in-
definitely. Cambodian Army troops in the area are
still beset by bad weather, supply shortages, and
sickness. In addition, enemy harassing attacks on
Route 4 continue to complicate the movement of sup-
plies and fresh troops destined to support the
planned offensive.
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USSR
Satellite photography of 28 July showed five
of the new swing-wing Flogger fighter aircraft at
Lipetsk airfield where the Soviets in the past have
initially deployed new tactical fighters.
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Soviet Reconnaissance Aircraft in Egypt
TU-16 (BADGER)
AN-12 (CUB)
BE-12 (MAIL)
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USSR-EGYPT
The Soviets appear to be broadening their mari-
time reconnaissance over the eastern Mediterranean
with specially equipped AN-12 transport aircraft.
Two AN-12s deployed to the Cairo West Airfield on
21 July'
Visual observations of
this aircraft indicate that it is equipped for elec-
tronic reconnaissance.
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ITALY
The press reports that the Unitary Socialist:
Party early todaygave its approval for Premier-
designate Emilio Colombo to form a new four-party
center-left government. The, other three parties--
Christian Democrat, Republican, and Orthodox Social-
ist--had given their. endorsement yesterday.
Colombo.is-epected to ten President
Saragat later today that-he can form cx
government, thus succeeding Mariano Rumor
who resigned several weeks ago. Colombo..
is a respected economist and lawyer who
? has been minister of finance in eight pre-
vious Italian cabinets.
The "political-programmatic document," which
forms the basis for:'Colombo's reconstitution:of the
center-leftcoalition,'has five points-. The main
ohe concerns the.composition of local administrations
in the provinces following the June. election. It
was this iiste that was a prime factor in the fall
of the Rumor government. According to the document,
no center-left party should be vetoed from partici-
pating in a center-left provincial coalition, and.
preference should be given to formation of such an
administration where, possible. However, Socialist
participation in "leftist" coalitions with Communists
in some provinces is-not to be taken as a "step back-
vard" toward "frontism."
The other points are fairly general to
give Colombo latitude in formulating his
program. The plank on local administra-
tion would give approval to the Social-
ists joining with the Communists in sev-
eral provinces where the four center-left
parties do not have the votes to form a
coalition of their own. ?
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NOTE
Communist China:
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