THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 6 JANUARY 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992407
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 6, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
6 january 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
6 January 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
South
Vietnam
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VietnaM
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The Communists have opened a new road in the Laotian
panhandle. (Page 3)
Soviet
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Guinea
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SOUTH VIETNAM
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North Vietnam: Infiltration Starts
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
- 1958 SVN, Total 240,800
cr=1 1969 SVN, Total 84,600
11=IN 1970 SVN, Cambodia, and Southern Laos
Total: 107,800
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
1968 SVN
21,000
18,900
32,600
38,900
32,800
23,500
21,800
11,000
2,200
2,800
5,200
30,100
1969 SVN
19,200
25,000
17,100
2,300
1,100
100
100
600
600
4,500
7,800
6,200
1970 SVN, Cambodia,
and Southern Laos
14,200
11,700
10,600
3,100
3,800
2,100
4,100
4,400
11,000
15,200
17,300
10,100
Southern Leos
600
-
700
700
.900
700
3,300
10,200
3,400
2,600
2,700
550781 1-71 CIA
Totals far 1968 and 1969 include troops bound for South Vietnam only;
thase for 1970 include troops bound for South Vietnam, Southern Laos.
and Cambodia.
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VI ETNAM
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LAOS: New major road construction
Ban
VIENTIANE
VIETNAM
Mu Gia
Pass
Quang Khe
Dong Hoi
Ban Karai
Pass
'Dernilitori,ed Zone
Quang Tri
ovonno
Moon
Nong
Shau
Da Nang
road
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THAILAND
VIETNAM.
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Bolovens Plateau
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LAOS
Recent photography indicate
that the Communists have opened a new 70-mile road
from Muong Nong to a point on the Se Kong River
about. 15 miles south of Ban Bac. It parallels a
heavily bombed stretch of Routes 92 and 96, the
main north-south road. According to intercepts,
additional engineering units have been shifted to
the new road, and air observers report that con-
struction of AAA sites is under way. The Commu-
nists are also improving and constructing roads
in the area between Ban Bac and Ban Phone close
to the Bolovens Plateau.
The new road presumably is intended to
lessen the effects of the US bombing pro-
gram and to increase the flow of suppZies
to extreme southern Laos and Cambodia.
The Communists have also taken steps to
open a westerly alternate to the main
north-south route via Routes 23 and 16,
but it is unlikely that these routes
will assume a heavy logistic burden un-
less government forces are driven from
the Bolovens Plateau, the dominant stra-
tegic terrain in southwestern Laos.
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NOTES
USSR-Cuba:
USSR: Moscow has announced that last year's
grain crop was 185 million tons, surpassing the pre-
vious high of 171 million tons harvested in 1966.
The 1970 harvest should yield a usable output of
about 150 million tons, approximately 15 percent
above the average level achieved in 1966-69 and am-
ple to meet domestic needs and foreign commitments.
The harvest will increase feed supplies and even-
tually should alleviate the meat shortage of the
past two years.
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