THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 3 MAY 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005975728
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 3, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
Top Secret 3 May 1968
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
3 MAY 1968
1, South Vietnam
2, North Vietnam
3. Communist China
In what may be the prelude to
more concerted action in the Saigon
area, Viet Cong terrorists set off a
large explosion in the heart of the
capital early this morning. Casual-
ties were light but damage was heavy
to Saigon University facilities adja-
cent to the primary target--the US -
South Vietnamese television station.
Hanoi's efforts to beef up its
military forces in South Vietnam accel-
erated in April.(
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Premier Pham Van
Dong may have headed the North Vietnam-
ese delegation to Moscow late last month.
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4, Communist China
5. Pakistan
6. France
The leadership turned out in near-
record numbers for the May Day rally in
Peking, but the big show of unity was
mostly show. Actually, the political
conflict at the center continues essen-
tially unchecked, and in some areas
violence is on the rise again. Signi-
ficant armed fighting has occurred in
at least five provinces during the past
week, and there has been an upturn in
other areas as well.
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7. Laos
We see a number of signs that the
Communists intend to continue their
current offensive indefinitely.1
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
2.) North Vietnamese Reflections of U S
Political Attitudes
Top Secret
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3 May 1968
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
3 May 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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? US Travelers: Three US "peace partisans"--
writers Susan Sontag and Andy Kopkind, and Robert
?Greenblatt--are now in Vientiane. They hope to go
to Hanoi Friday.1
/Kopkind told Ambas-
sador Sullivan he hoped to do a "Letter from Hanoi"
for the New Yorker. He said the three travelers had
no plans that he knew of to get involved in the re-
lease of US prisoners. But he did agree to talk to
some of the prisoners and to try to get them released.
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Swedish Paper Predicts Liberation Front to Open
Office: The story that the Liberation Front will be
permitted to open an office in Stockholm has ap-
peared once again in the Swedish media. This time
the story appears in a newspaper which often reflects
the views of the ruling party. The Swedish radio
had said earlier that the Front's office would open
this summer.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
No significant items to report.
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