THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 29 DECEMBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977873
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: December 29, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
29 December 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
29 December 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Some Communist main force regiments have moved from
Cambodia into the border area north? of Saigon where?
they appear to be targeted against allied positions.
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The conduct of the Basque trial confirms at least a
temporary shift in favor of the most conservative
forces in Spain. (Page 3)
All six SAM sites in eastern Cuba have been deacti-
vated. (Page 4)
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Recent Communist Unit Relocation
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SOUTH VIETNAM - CAMBODIA
The 141st and 165th regiments of the North Viet-
namese 7th Division have moved from Cambodia and are
now situated just inside northern Tay Ninh Province,
probably under the control of the division headquar-
ters, which is nearby. A suspected regiment of the
Communist 5th Division, which itself remains well to
the west in Cambodia, is close to Loc Ninh town in
northern Binh Long Province. Shellings in northern
Tay Ninh Province and an appreciable increase in
enemy hostilities near Loc Ninh suggest that these
units are targeted against allied positions inside
South Vietnam.
These main force regiments could be used
to tie down ?South Vietnamese regulars in
the border regions by harassing South
Vietnamese positions and ambushing con-
voys along several key roads in the border
area. If these tactics disrupted planned
South Vietnamese dry-season operations
into Cambodia, the Communists would gain
valuable time to rebuild their supply net-
work there.
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SPAIN
The conduct of the trial of Basque nation-
aZists, which yesterday resulted in death
sentences for six handed down by a mili-
tary court, confirms at Least a temporary
shift in favor of the most conservative
forces in Spain. These groups?notably
the Falange, Spain's only legal political
movement, and the senior military--have
exploited the trial to recover much of the
ground lost, a year ago. At that time cab-
inet shifts gave ascendancy to the Opus
Dei group--also politically conservative
but interested in greater economic liberal-
ism.
In the past few weeks adherents of the
Falange and the military have used the
idea of solidarity with Franco and the
army to organize massive pro-Franco rallies
throughout Spain, against the wishes of
the cabinet. The military .now appears to
have reaffirmed its role as arbiter of
Spain's politics.
Franco has the prerogative of commuting
the death sentences, if the regional army
commander confirms them. He has .always
been reluctant to make concessions when
under pressure--as in 1963 when he refused
to commute a death sentence despite con-
siderable adverse international comment.
However, differences within the army,
over
the aavisabibity of the death penalty for
the Basques may give him more flexibility
in this case.
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Deactivation of SAMs in Eastern Cuba
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? Deactivated site
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Santiago de Cuba
Oct. 1970
*reconfigured to function as SAM
assembly area as of Oct. 1970
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NOTE
Cuba:., Recent 1J-.2 photography shows that all
six SAM sites ineastern Cuba have been deactivated-.
Removal of equipment from tWoof'the sites had begun
by December 1969, and.from-the remainder by last:Oc-
tober.. SAM sites and their equipment from time to
time have been shifted, but never before. has so
large an area been left uncovered. Photography
suggest that some of the equipment from
the east has been moved to Havana, but no new sites
are known to have been activated.-
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