THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 15 OCTOBER 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992920
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 15, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
15 October 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
15 October 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
On Page 1, we discuss the status of guerrilla ac-
tivity in East Pakistan.
The first North Vietnamese infiltration group of
battalion size since early last summer has been de-
tected entering the pipeline. (Page 2)
Photography of Route 46 in northwest Laos shows that
Chinese engineers have made intermittent survey
traces between the southernmost point of road con-
struction and Pak Beng on the Mekong. (Page 3)
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Guerrilla Activity Continues in East Pakistan
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PAKISTAN
In the past two weeks guerrilla activity
in the East has increased moderately. Al-
though there is still no sign that the
rebels have embarked on their post-monsoon
offensive, they have shown new signs of
vitality.
--In Dacca, where more stringent security meas-
ures had almost halted insurgent activity last month,
bombings have resumed and gas lines to the city have
again been sabotaged. Insurgents, using mortars in
the city for the first time, failed to hit their ap-
parent target--the airport.
--Bombings continue in Chittagong, where a
power transformer was knocked out on 7 October.
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--In the eastern part of the province, near the
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40 dead Pakistani soldiers in a bus and two trucks
that apparently had been machine-gunned.
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Chandpur, and, according to a Voice of America.
stringer, 5,000 army troops have been sent tc:HCo-
mina. Guerrilla activity has forced about a fifth
of the tea plantations in Sylhet District to stop
production, and transportation to the.ports has be-
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--Guerrillas are also active in Jessore and
Khulna districts in the southwest and
control most of
the rural part of Barisal District.
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NORTH VIETNAM
A recent North Vietnamese intercept indicated
that an infiltration group of battalion strength
was to move through a way station south of Vinh on
10 October.
This is the first group of battalion size
noted moving through the pipeline since
early last summer, when Hanoi completed
its 1970-71 dry season effort. Its iden-
tification number suggests that nine other
similar groups, or a total of several
thousand troops, may already have started
south or will do so shortly. The number-
ing system also indicates that these groups
are replacement personnel destined for
southern Laos or northeastern Cambodia,
presumably to augment combat and logistic
units stationed along the infiltration
corridor. These units have been getting
ready to support the annual infiltration
and supply push, which usually begins dur-
ing October and continues for about six
months.
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NOTES
Communist China - Laos: Photography of 5 Oc-
tober shows intermittent cleared areas extending
from the head of construction on Route 46 to Pak
Beng on the Mekong River. These mark the activi-
ties of Chinese survey crews. The road itself is
now motorable to a point ten miles southwest of
Muong Houn. Although new construction has been
proceeding at a deliberate pace thus far, the Chi-
nese have sufficient manpower and other resources
in Laos to complete a motorable road to Pak Beng
in two or three months. Several more months would
be needed to make an all-weather road with perma-
nent culverts and bridges.
USSR-Caribbean: An E-II class cruise-missile
submarine which has been operating west of the
Azores is now heading south,
/An
?E-II nuclear submarine has operated twice before
in the Caribbean and near Cuba.
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