THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 19 JANUARY 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992431
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 19, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
19 January 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
19 January 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The North Vietnamese have moved two regimental head-
quarters westward from the Ban Ban area of Laos to
within ten miles of Muong Soui. (Page 1)
The press leak of Tokyo's plans to expand aid to
Indochina undermines prospects for carrying out this
policy. (Page 2)
Further work stoppages in Gdansk may account for
Gierek's delay in setting a date for a central com-
mittee plenum he has announced. (Page 3)
On Page 4 we report data on a new multipurpose So-
viet destroyer.
At Annex,
Vietnam
Soviet
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LAOS
The headquarters of two regiments from the
North Vietnamese 316th Division--the 148th and the
174th--recently moved westward from the Ban Ban
area to within ten miles of Muong Soui. In addi-
tion, a battalion of the 148th which had been lo-
cated west of Ban Ban has moved about 25 miles
southwestward and onto the Plaine.
This is the first time these regimental
headquarters have been this far west in
the Plaine; their subordinate battalions,
however, have been active in the area for
months, bearing the weight of the fight-
ing in northern Laos.
Although the regimental headquarters may
want merely to assume tighter control
over their subordinates, their relocation
could also be related to the return to
Laos of the 312th Division from North
Vietnam, Last year the 316th's headquar-
ters and regiments shifted southward
closer to the fighting when the 312th
moved into Laos as aback-up force.
On 15 January the 209th Regiment of the 312th
Division was tentatively located near Nong Het,
close to the North Vietnamese border. There is
evidence that elements of the division's 165th Regi-
ment are in the same area. Direction finding has
already located one unidentified battalion from the
312th north of the Plaine des Jarres.
At a time when these moves are being made to
strengthen their military position in Laos, the Com-
munists on 14 January called again for talks between
the Pathet Lao and the government. In making the
call, the Pathet Lao scaled down their conditions
for starting talks at Khang Khay, citing the need
to "de-escalate" bombing and air activity in Xieng
Khouang Province but stopping short of demanding a
complete cessation.
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JAPAN-INDOCHINA
Details of Tokyo's plan to expand aid to the
countries of Indochina have been leaked to a major
Japanese newspaper. Included in the story is in-
formation about a secret understanding between For-
eign Minister Aichi and Finance Minister Fukuda to
use government reserve funds rather than a budget
appropriation for grants to Cambodia./
Only recently, partly in response to US
prodding and partly in the belief that
the fighting is now on the wane, has
there been growing sentiment in the For-
eign Ministry and elsewhere in the gov-
ernment to expand aid to Indochina. Pre-
viously, Tokyo's policy had been to limit
its assistance to small, "humanitarian"
projects and to put off any significant
increase until the hostilities end. The
press leak, in addition to undermining
the prospect of a shift in aid policy
this year, may give the government's
leftist critics a new opportunity to at-
tack its association with US policy in
Southeast Asia.
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POLAND
Shipyard workers in Gdansk staged work stoppages
the past two days and are threatening more today in
support of economic and political demands. The
strikers again called for Gierek or Premier Jarosze-
wicz to come to Gdansk for face-to-face discussions.
The workers are also reported to be demanding the
ouster of two politburo members: Mieczyslaw Moczar,
whom they believe to have ?been responsible for the
initial harsh antiriot measures last month; and
Stanislaw Kociolek, a former Gdansk party leader
whom Gierek has made responsible for economic af-
fairs. Their economic complaints center on higher
production targets which the workers say outweigh a
rather limited range of benefits, including wage in-
creases and free hot lunches during the winter.
The persistence of tension in Gdansk pre-
sumably is one reason why Gierek has so
far failed to announce a firm date for the
central committee plenum he has said would
be held later this month. The plenum is
slated to include a self-critical party
appraisal of the "December events" and a
program for future economic development.
This agenda would be especially difficult
without a settlement in Gdansk.
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New Multipurpose Soviet Destroyer
Baltic Sea
POLAND kialiningrad
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U. S. S. R.
Shipyards Constructing Krivak.class
guided missile destroyer
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Krivak-class Guided Missile Destroyer
76mm dual-purpose gun mounts
Possible variable-depth
sonar below deck
550834 1-71
'Retractable SAM launcher
Missile fire-control radars
Length 400 feet
Propulsion probably gas turbine
Top speed over 30 knots
Probable retractable
SAM launcher
Four surface-to-surface missiles
Five torpedo tubes
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USSR
A new multipurpose Soviet destroyer has been
photographed while on sea trials in the Baltic.
This Krivak-class ship is about 400 feet long and
carries surface-to-air missiles, surface-to-surface
missiles, antisubmarine rockets, torpedoes, and
dual-purpose naval guns.
The new destroyer appears designed prima-
rily for antisubmarine warfare, but it is
capable of attacking other surface ships
with cruise missiles and of defending it-
self against air attack.
Satellite photography revealed the first
ship of this class under construction at
Kaliningrad on the Baltic in the fall of
1968.
The destroyer -bs also being built
at Kerch on the Black Sea. Our informa-
tion on this building program suggests
that as many as 45 units could be completed
during the 1970s, This would be the So-
viets' largest construction program for
naval surface ships since the Skoryy-class
destroyers were built in the early 1950s.
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