SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM - 1968/01/10

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• Document Creation Date: July 27, 2018

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1968 JAN i0 13 52
FROM WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM
TO THE PRESIDENT
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HERE')i/TH CIA'S SPECIAL DAILY REPORT 00 NORTH VIETNAM
FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1..JN'JARY 13SS
NOTES 0:9 THE fZITUATION
THE PAIL DOUMER BRIDGE
THE MID..DECEIBER 3O13INGS OF TE PAUL DOUMER 3RIDGE CAUSED T4E
MOST EXTENSIVE DAMAGE YET TO TIE CROSSING. PHOTOGRAPHY OF
5 JANUARY CONFIRMS EARLIER IMDIOATIOS THAT AT LEAST SEVEN
SPANS, OR ABOUT 2,300 FEET OF THE MILE-LOA!. 3RIDGE WERE DROPPED
VI THE BOMBINGS OF 14...22 DECEMBER. THREE BRIDSE PIERS ALSO �
WERE DESTROYED IN THE SAME AIR STRIVc.S ,
.jTHE DOUIER BRIDGE WAS
NOT /1 USE ON 26 DECE13ERa THERE ARE, HOWEVER, AS /ANY AS
EIGHT ALTERNATE CROSSINGS WITHIN SIX. MILES OF THE BRIDGE.
CONDIT/ON5 r.) 100/ DnI9O TIE HOLIDAY TRUCE PERIODS
A YESTERN 03SZPVER WHO TRAVELS FREnENTLY TO HANOI HAS
REPORTED 04 THE SITUATION 19 THE 1031.4 VIETNAMESE CAPITAL
DURItlO THZ Tv() RECZ:'1T TRUCE PERIODS. DURINri THE CIRISTMAS
ST!',A1DUN, HZ CLAIMED -THAT THE. NORTH VIET9A1ESS SOUNDED AIR
RAID WARNINGS TO SUPPORT THEIR CLAIMS OF ALLIED VIOLATIONS
OF THT TR!JOE.
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NORTH VIETNAMESE TRADE IN DECEMBER
CARGO DELIVERED TO NORTH VIETNAM 1Y ALL FOREIGN FLAG SHIPS
IN DECEMBER TOTALED ABOUT 128,4E11 TONS. THIS IS EQUAL TO THE
HIGH MONTHLY AVERAGE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 1967 AND SOME *
38,111 TONS ABOVE THE JULY�NOVEMBER 1VERAGE. PETROLEUM DELIVERIES
TOTALED 28,150 TONS AND FOODSTUFF MEUNTED TO 45,909 TONS.,
BRINGING THE 1967 YEAR�END TOTALS TO 245,311 TONS AND 447010 TONS
RESPECTIVELY. LAYOVER TIME AVERAGED ONLY 15 DAYS IN DECEMBER
COMPARED TO 33 DAYS IN. AUGUST.
SIXTEEN SOVIET SUPS--ELEVEN DRY CARGO AND FIVE TANKERS--
DELIVERED A TOTAL OF 59,753 TONS OF CARCO INTO NORTH VIETNAM
IN DECEM3ER COMPARED TO A MONTRLY AVERAGE OF ABOUT 66,753
TONS DURING THE ri7sT SIX MONTHS OF 1967. FOUR SHIPS ORIGINATED
IN THE BLACX SEA, AND THE REMAINING TWELVE CAME FROM FAR EASTERN
PORTS. THE VOLUME OF SHIPPING INTO NORTH VIETNAM IS EXPECTED
TO INCREASE IN JANUARY. SEVEN SOVIET SHIPS HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED
THIS MONTH, AT LEAST FOUR OTHERS ARE EN ROUTE, AND ABOUT TEN
SHIPS HAVE TEEN NOMINATED TO MAKE VOYAGE TO HAIPHONG THIS MONT4
FROM VLADIVOSTOK.
NORTH VIETNAMESE EXPORTS 3Y 7:1 IN DECEMBER TOTALED 41,43)
TONS AND INCLUDED ABOUT 35,3. TONS OF COAL. THIS IS ALMOST
TWICE THE TONNAGE- SHIPPED IN NOVEMBER BUT STILL SOME
18,331 TOMS BELOW THE AVERAGE EXPORTED DURING THE FIRST
HALF OF 1967.
LIBERATION FRONT SENDS VISITOR TO TUNISIA
NGUYEN VAN TIEN, THE LIBERATION FRONT REPRESENTATIVE
IN HANOI WHO HAS BEEN IN EUROPE FOR THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS,
IS NOV REPORTED SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN TUNISIA IN THE NEXT
FEW DAYS. TIN'S TRIP IS REPORTEDLY TO COUNTERACT THE RECENT
VISIT TO THAT COUNTRY 3Y SOUTH VIETNAMESE FOREIGN MIIISTER.DO.
THIS WOULD 3E THE FIRST VISIT OF A FRONT OFFICIAL TO TUNISIA
AND WOULD 5E A FURTHER ATTEMPT TO 4ROADEN THE ORGANIZATION'S
INTERNATIONAL PRESTIGE. THE FRONT HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN
NEIGH3ORING ALGERIA FOR SOME YEARS.
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NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL ATTITUDES. ON THE VAR
HANOI EXPLOITS DR* SPOCK -
HANOI, IN ITS INITIAL COMMENT ON THE CHARGES FILED AGAINST.
DR* MCI( AND FOUR OTHER PROMINENT ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATORS, '
HAS CLAIMED THAT "THEIR PROSECUTION BY THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION
HAS AROUSED INDIGNATION AMONG LARGE NUMBERS OF AMERICAN
PEOPLE*" THE STATEMENT, BROADCAST IN ENGLISH ON 9 JANUARY,
REPORTED IN DETAIL DR* SPOCK'S REMARKS ABOUT THE LEGALITY OF
THE ANITWAR MOVEMENT, AND QUOTED OTHER COMMENTS BY ANTIWAR
LEADERS AND BY THE LAWYERS WHO WILL DEFEND SPOCK AND HIS FOUR
ASSOCIATES*
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