THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 11 JANUARY 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992417
• 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 11, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
11 January 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
11 January 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The Jordanian Army is maintaining heavy pressure on
fedayeen centers north of Amman as Arab states seek
a new cease-fire. (Page 1)
The senior headquarters of a Communist task force
has moved southward in the Laotian panhandle and
some of its elements appear to have crossed into
South Vietnam. (Page 2)
In Cambodia, the Communists continue to harass gov-
ernment positions along Routes 4 and 7. (Page 3)
A Soviet nuclear-powered submarine operated in the
Caribbean for about a week late last month. (Page 4)
Bolivia
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JORDAN: Areas of Fighting
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JORDAN
The army is maintaining heavy pressure on feda-
yeen centers in the hills northeast of Jarash and
west of the Amman-Jarash road./
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village northeast of Amman where the fighting broke
out on Friday appears to have been pacified.
,Despite the continued fighting, the situa-
tion does not.appear to be escalating to
the scale of last September's civil war.
The fedayeen seem too weak and disorganized
to offer the resistance they showed then.
The army probably is .encouraged.by.the com-
mandos' failure over the weekend to carry
Out more than sporadic firing in Amman,
where the government is especially sensi-
tive to guerrilla violence.
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NORTH
VIETNA
Tchepone.
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VI ETNAM-LAOS
Recent intercepts show that the senior headquar-
ters of a division-size Vietnamese Communist task
force which had been in the Tchepone area of Laos
last summer has moved farther south in the panhandle
opposite South Vietnam's Quang Nam Province. Some
of the combat elements under this headquarters, in-
cluding at least part of an infantry regiment from
the North Vietnamese 2nd Division and the division
headquarters, appear already to have crossed into
South Vietnam. The current locations of the re-
mainder of the task force--including another regi-
ment from the 2nd Division and an independent one--
are not known.
The southward shift of some elements of
the 2nd Division back toward the South
Vietnamese border was previously noted in
The President's Daily Brief on 6 January.
We expect that, during the next month or
so, ,all of the units in the task force
with which the 2nd Division is presently
associated will move back to their former
positions in Quang Nam, Quang Tin, and
Quang Ngai provinces. Their return would
roughly double Communist main force
strength in this region.
Since the returning units presumably have
been fleshed out and re-equipped, the
Communists may soon be in a stronger po-
sition to challenge the government's
progress in pacification along the popu-
lated eastern coastal area south of Da
Nang,
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CAMBODIA: Current Situation
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CAMBODIA
The Communists continue to harass government
positions along Route 4 as government forces await
orders to renew the drive to clear the Pich Nil pass.
The South Vietnamese have begun putting supplies
into Kompong Speu, but the clearing operation may
not get under way until later this month. To the
north, Communist harassment has increased along
Route 7--which is still open--and some heavy fight-
ing has broken out south? of Kompong Cham city.
On the diplomatic front, Prime Minister Lon Nol
plans to head a delegation to Saigon on 20 and 21
January. Discussions will cover both military and
economic aspects of the South Vietnamese involvement
in Cambodia, including Saigon's request that the
Cambodians help pay the cost of South Vietnamese
participation.
Earlier lower level negotiations foundered
on the payments issue, and there is no
evidence that either Lon NoZ or Thieu is
ready to compromise now. The two men met
briefly in Cambodia several months ago.
If Lon NoZ goes ahead with the trip, it
will be the first time he has left Cam-
bodia since Sihanouk's ouster last March,
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USSR-CUBA
A Soviet N-class nuclear-powered attack subma-
rine operated in the Caribbean for about a week in
late December,/
This submarine, which was not previously
detected in the area, is not known to have
been serviced either in a Cuban port or by
the Soviet tender then in the Caribbean.
It could well have conducted ASW training
with the guided-missile frigate which op-
erated in the Caribbean for three days
after leaving Cienfuegos on 23 December.
The frigate and its supporting oiler en-
tered the Baltic on 10 January.
The tender and F-class diesel submarine which
left the Caribbean on 3 January are? in mid-Atlantic
and? still headed toward the Mediterranean. The So-
viet rescue tug and the two nuclear submarine sup-
port barges remain in Cienfuegos.
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NOTES
Bolivia:
Uruguay: The government has still received no
demands from the kidnapers of British Ambassador
Jackson, but has publicly reaffirmed its policy of
no negotiation. Arrests made since the kidnaping
apparently have yielded no clue as to his where-
abouts. President Pacheco conferred Saturday with
his ministers of interior, defense, and foreign af-
fairs at his vacation home on the northeast coast and
last night the government asked Congress to declare
a limited state of siege that would suspend some
personal rights.
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