THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 20 JUNE 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993365
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 20, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
20 June 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
20 June 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The military situation in South Vietnam remains
fairly quiet. (Page 1)
We expect the Soviets to conduct another Soyuz
space mission in the next week or so. (Page 2)
Ground support equipment for China's medium range
ballistic missile system has been photographed in
south China. (Page 3)
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Demilitarized Zone
Gulf of
Thailand
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Capital Special Zone
South
China
Sea
SOUTH VIETNAM
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VIETNAM
In South Vietnam, the major battlefields are
fairly quiet. North of Hue, the South Vietnamese
? operation into Quang Tri Province continues to meet
only moderate resistance. In the central highlands,
a Communist infantry regiment and an artillery regi-
ment appear to be moving back toward Kontum City
from nearby base areas where they have been refit-
ting. A South Vietnamese force of 30 tanks and ar-
mored personnel carriers yesterday transited the
recently constructed bypass west of the Kontum Pass
with only light enemy resistance. This route should
provide Kontum City with a sorely needed resupply
link with Pleiku to the south, but it is also vul-
nerable to enemy interdiction.
Farther south, shelling of An Loc remains at a
low level, and the South Vietnamese 1st Airborne
Brigade is being withdrawn for reassignment else-
where. Fairly heavy action continues in parts of
Kien Tuong, Dinh Tuong, and Vinh Long provinces in
the Mekong Delta.
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USSR
Preparations are under way for a Soyuz space
mission which we expect to be conducted within the
next week or so. Five space support ships in the
Atlantic and one in the Pacific are moving into
positions from which they could monitor a Soyuz
flight. two
Soyuz spacecraft are being prepared at the Tyuratam
Space Center, although both may not be intended for
use in the mission.
We do not yet have enough evidence to
determine whether this will be a manned
mission. The Soviets' last manned ef-
fort, in June 1971, involved the docking
of a Soyuz spacecraft with a Salyut space
station and ended in the death of the
crew during de-orbit. This mission pre-
sumably is intended to test engineering
changes that were made as a result of
that accident.
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CHINA: CSS-1 Missile Equipment
NAUTICAL MILES
HONG KONG (UK)
ACAO
NORTH (Port)
VIETNAM
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NOTE
China: Ground support equipment for China's
600-nm. ballistic missile system--the CSS-1--has
been identified in satellite photography of a mili-
tary installation at Cheng-kung in south China. An
area about six miles away appears to have a prepared
launch site. It also contains several buildings,
including one long drive-in structure that could be
intended for missile handling and storage. The
Cheng-kung installation is the third facility iden-
tified this year that contains CSS-1 equipment, and
the first with a prepared launch site. The other
two are in northeastern China within range of South
Korea and the Soviet border. From Cheng-kung, the
CSS-1 could reach targets within an arc extending
from northern South Vietnam to the eastern regions
of India.
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