THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 15 SEPTEMBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977682
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: September 15, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
15 September 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
15 September 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Negotiations to free the hostages held by the fed-
ayeen are at a standstill. (Page 1)
/North Vietnam
Laos. (Page 3
In Chile, Allende is using a mixed bag of threats
and flattery to help nail down his election victory.
(Page 5)
The. Cambodian Government's overland convoy to. KOm7
pong.Thom continues to be stalled. (Page 6)
There are signs that the Soviets are establishing
support facilities in Cuba for nuclear-powered sub-
marines. (Page 6)
Moscow ,may soon intensify its efforts to get East.
Germany in the UN. (Page 6)
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ARAB STATES - ISRAEL
Western negotiators have not yet been able to
clarify exactly what the fedayeen want in return
for the release of their hostages. There are signs
of energetic debate among fedayeen factions over
who, among the many Israeli-held fedayeen, they
should demand to be released. One Red Cross repre-
sentative got a brief look at a tentative list of
prisoners which he said contained about 150 names.
The British and Germans are disturbed by Is-
rael's inflexibility and are getting closer to a
decision to make a separate arrangement with the
fedayeen. The German ambassador has told representa-
tives of the other five powers meeting in Bern that
if concrete steps in a multinational framework are
not decided upon within a short time, Germany could
be obliged to negotiate separately to free its own
nationals. A British threat to move independently
if a new Red Cross negotiator were not named may be
forestalled by the appointment of Boisard, head of
the permanent Red Cross delegation in Cairo, who
has been successful in the past in negotiating pris-
oner exchanges with the Arabs. The British are in-
sisting that the appointment be made public immedi-
ately, however, and the Red Cross wishes to delay
until Boisard is actually en route to Amman.
Andre Rochat, former head of the Red Cross ne-
gotiating team in Amman, believes that although the
hostage problem is extremely complex, it can be
solved satisfactorily if handled by someone accept-
able to the Palestinian leaders. In his opinion,
the PPLP will not hesitate to kill in order to se-
cure its objectives; he thinks that eventually it
may well make examples of one or two selected hos-
tages.
In Jordan, meanwhile, a commando spokesman re-
ported new attacks yesterday by army troops on guer-
rilla units in the Irbid area in the north. In Am-
man, both fedayeen and army positions have been re-
inforced. According to the Jordanian director of
public safety, the fedayeen had been cooperating to
carry out the cease-fire agreement until the out-
break of fighting in the north, after which the
situation once again became tense.
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NORTH VIETNAM
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Communists Implement Expansion of Supply System
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LAOS
Intercepted North Vietnamese messages indicate
that the enemy is establishing a new supply center
and,transshipment base near the.village of Ban Phone,
which lies near the Bolovens Plateau. The new base
is'well to the west of the long-standing infiltration
corridor. The North Vietnamese messages state that
Banj,hOne will be supplied from Ban Bac via the Se
Kong River and a new road now under construction
along the river.
The messages also state that supplies will be
funneled to Ban Phone from a,logistic unit believed
to be located at the junction of Route 23 and the
Se Bang Hieng River. This would bring supplies to the
Ban Phone base via Routes 23. and 16, a road system
which has heretofore never been an integral part of
the main Communist north-south infiltration complex.
There is no reference in the messages to
what happens after Ban Phone, but presum-
ably the Communists will want to use the
Se Kong River and Route 16 for onward
movement toward the Cambodian border.
Such a route would almost certainly be
used to supply Communist forces in the
western portion of the Laotian panhandle
as well as to augment the total flow of
supplies southward from North Vietnam.
The westward route could assume much of
the logistic burden for Communist forces
in Cambodia.
The Communists still have much to do, how-
ever, before they can fully activate this
west route. This route will be exposed
to strong guerrilla harassment along its
western flank and the Communists will
have to clear the area of government
forces before being able to transport
significant quantities of supplies south-
ward.
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SOUTH VIETNAM
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CHILE
Salvador Allende devoted a significant part of
his "victory" rally speech on Sunday to attempts to
intimidate those who would block his victory in the
congressional runoff on 24 October. He threatened
to "paralyze" Chile, and directed specific threats
at banking and industrial interests, which he ac-
cused of promoting economic crisis and financing
"seditious conspiracies."?
On the other hand, as he has done before in
the last few days, Allende made flattering refer-
ences to the armed forces and to the Christian Dem-
ocratic Party (PDC), implying that both groups re-
spected his plurality. He cited, for example, the
'early congratulations of defeated candidate Radomiro
Tomic'and other leftist PDC members.
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NOTES
Cambodia: The lead forces of the 4,000-man
government convoy en route to Kompong Thom have
pulled back from the village of Tang Kauk, 15 miles
north of Skoun, after failing to dislodge well-
entrenched Communist forces there. The Cambodians
suffered over 100 casualties and are sending for
reinforcements. Meanwhile, the government's relief
convoy which reached Kompong Thom by river on 10
September has returned to Kompong Chhnang without
incident to pick up additional supplies for a sec-
ond trip to Kompong Thom. Elsewhere, the Communists
have confined their activities to harassing attacks
on scattered government positions.
USSR-Cuba: The Soviet task force that arrived
in Cuba earlier this month delivered two barges of
a type noted before only in satellite photography
of Soviet facilities which support nuclear-powered
submarines. Recent U-2 photography shows the barges
at the Cienfuegos naval base, the same port visited
last May by an E-II class nuclear-powered submarine.
Although we are not yet certain, we believe one
nuclear-powered submarine accompanied the Soviet
ships now in Cienfuegos. The stationing of this
type of barge at Cienfuegos would imply a plan to
use the base there to support Soviet nuclear-powered
submarines. A further appraisal of the developments
at Cienfuegos is in preparation.
USSR-GDR-UN: The Soviets may soon launch a
major effort to get East Germany a seat in the UN.
They have given increased public emphasis to this
issue recently and have included their ambassador
to East Germany in the Soviet delegation to the
General Assembly. The chances of success at this
session are bleak, but Moscow may be willing to
pursue this goal over the long term in the hope that
admission to the UN would precipitate general inter-
national recognition of Pankow.
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