THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 MAY 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993811
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: May 1, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
1 May 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
1 May 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Algeria
The Soviets are continuing to improve their SS-11
ICBM force. (Page 2)
According to some reports, the Communists in South
Vietnam plan to intensify their attacks within the
next several weeks, although evidence of normal
preparatory moves is lacking. (Page 3)
In Argentina, the assassination of a major military
figure yesterday has added to tensions between the
military and president-elect Campora. (Page 4)
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USSR
The Soviets are continuing to modernize their
SS-ll ICBM force.
shows construction activity at 30 launch sites in
three complexes in the eastern USSR, and other sites
could be involved. In recent months 36 of the mis-
siles--an unprecedented number--have been launched
from these complexes, apparently in order to empty
the silos for construction work.
The sites probably are being hardened or
modified to prepare them for the newest,
triple-warhead version of the SS-11, the
Mod 3. Flight-testing of the Mod 3 ap-
pears to be complete, and it probably is
now being fitted into some of the new
small silos at Derazhnya and Pervomaysk.
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SOUTH VIETNAM
the Communists
plan in May to intensify the nibbling attacks they
have been conducting since the cease-fire.
the Communists hope to gain
territory and people, as well as
position in some of the more in-
areas such as northern Binh Dinh
reports suggest the attacks
control over more
consolidate their
tensely contested
Province. Some
may be pegged to the period before May 20, which in-
cludes three important holidays.
Communications intelligence, one of the
best indicators of enemy military intent,
does not suggest that the Communists are
preparing for heavy or sustained military
action, or that substantial involvement
by main force elements is likely. Some
Communist forces in both North and South
Vietnam and in southern Laos have been on
alert since April 20, but this appears to
be a response to anticipated South Viet-
namese operations and to the recent US
bombing in Laos.
No significant moves by Communist combat
units of the sort that usually precede
major Communist attacks have been detected
in the past few weeks. Some main force
units have even pulled back from major
battlegrounds in the far north and in the
northern delta.
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ARGENTINA
The terrorist assassination yesterday of the
recently retired chief of the joint general staff,
Admiral Quijada, has heightened tensions between
the military and president-elect Campora. This was
the second assassination of a major military figure
since the elections in March. Two other officers
and several businessmen have been kidnaped.
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The armed servides now seem in a mood to
demand further concessions from the Peron-
ists. the navy--
the most anti-Peronist of the three serv-
ices and the victim of yesterday's attack--
now has called on the army and air force
to join in aborting the elector-al process.
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