THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 2 JUNE 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992675
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 2, 1971

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The Presicknt's Daily Brief
2 June _1971
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? THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
2 June 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The South Vietnamese pullback from Snuol is dis-
cussed on Page 1.
Cambodia's new government is troubled by the same
sense of drift and indecision that plagued its
predecessor. (Page 2)
Chile has concluded several economic agreements with
the USSR providing for more Soviet aid and the es-
tablishment of a trade mission in Moscow. (Page 3)
A Soviet Y-class ballistic missile submarine is
heading toward a patrol station off the US west
coast. (Page 5)
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Cambodia: Current Situation
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CAMBODIA - SOUTH VIETNAM
Official reports-On the South Vietnamese pull-
back from Snuol indidate-that three ARVN battalions
have taken substantial casualties in several days
of heavy fighting. Incomplete accountslist 37
South Vietnamese dead and more than 150 wounded.
.The US command in Saigon reports that two regiments
from the Communists' 5th Division carried out a
se-
ries of well cObrdinated attacks against the with-
drawing ARVN units, following a pattern similar: to
that seen near Dambe in February and March and along
Route 7 in April. The South Vietnamese areclaiming
more than 1,000 enemy killed in the fighting.
The pullback from Snuol, one of the:north-
ernmost South Vietnamese penetrations into
Cambodia, is unlikely to have much impact
on the :military situation,?at least in.the
short'run, Heavy rains are fast approach-
ing in: this region, and rains and flooding
in the past have made it.diffiault for the
Communists to carry out large-scale attacks
or supply buildups.
YARVN forces also are continuing
operations along Route 7 to the south of
,Snuol near Mimot and farther west toward
Kompong Cham,.
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CAMBODIA
Nearly a month after it was installed, the new gov-
ernment is having trouble dispelling the sense of
drift and indecision that marked the previous admin-
istration. Some high-ranking officials are already
complaining about the obstacles that they are en-
countering in trying to come to grips with the coun-
try's thorniest problems. Two ministers are having
a particularly difficult time:
--Finance Minister Sok Chhong is concerned over
the Zack of cabinet support for efforts to halt
continuing economic deterioration. Chhong ad-
mits that currency devaluation, price controls,
and more stringent efforts to stop payroll pad-
ding in the army are likely to be unpopular
in some quarters, but he believes that the real
difficulty is the cabinet ministers' unfamili-
arity with economic problems and their reluc-
tance to address them.
--In Tam, the able first deputy prime minister,
is having trouble lining up support for plans
to get a pacification program under way. One
key aspect of his program, calling for the con-
version of the military police into a rejuve-
nated national police under his control, has
run into formidable political opposition. In
Tam has threatened resignation if his recom-
mendations are not approved.
The government's search for solutions to its complex
problems is further complicated by Prime Minister
Lon No's continuing involvement in day-to-day af-
fairs. When the new government was formed it was
understood that Lon Nol would be a figurehead prime
minister with Prime Minister Delegate Matak holding
the real reins of authority. Lon Nol, however, is
reported to be conferring with certain Cambodian
Army field officers on a daily basis and is other-
wise blurring the lines of authority within the
military establishment.
Matak is concerned over what appears to be a break-
down in his understanding with Lon Nol. He and
other key officials are also concerned over the fact
that access to Lon NoZ is controlled by a small en-
tourage headed by his brother, Lon Non.
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CHILE - COMMUNIST EUROPE
The major development thus far in Chilean For-
eign Minister Almeyda's current trip to Eastern Eu-
rope and the USSR was the signing last week of sev-
eral economic agreements with Moscow. According to
TASS and Chilean press reports, these agreements
provide for increasing to $55 million an unused $15-
million Soviet credit for machines and equipment orig-
inally offered in 1967; they also call for aid to a
variety of industrial projects, and for the establish-
ment of the first permanent Latin American trade mis-
sion in Moscow. A high-ranking Chilean economic del-
egation which is making a more leisurely tour of Al-
meyda's circuit probably worked out the details of the
agreement prior to the foreign minister's arrival.
It now appears that Chile is ready to use
Soviet credits and other economic assist-
ance in amounts greater than any other
Latin American country except Cuba. Al-
lende is facing increasingly complicated
economic problems at home
It would be con-
sistent with his approach to domestic is-
sues for him to try to arouse West Euro-
pean, Japanese, and US economic interest
by demonstrating how easily he can deal
with the Sloe.
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WEST GERMANY
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NOTE
USSR: A Y-class ballistic missile submarine is
heading toward a patrol station off the US west coast.
The timing of this patrol--the third since last Octo-
ber--and the transfer of a Y-class unit from the At-
lantic earlier this year suggest that the Soviets
plan to keep at least one of the four Y-class units
now available in the Pacific on patrol continuously.
Two or three Y-class units are also normally on pa-
trol in the Atlantic.
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