THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 11 JUNE 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976195
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 11, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
?L 11 June 1968
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
11.JUNE 1968
1. France
2. South Vietnam
The election campaign started off
yesterday with a bang as Molotov cock-
tails were thrown into two Gaullist
party buildings. On the labor scene,
there are still important pockets of
resistance, including the large auto
industry. Clashes between students
and police broke out again in Paris
last night, and student leaders have
called for a mass demonstration against
"repression" later today.
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3. North Korea
4, Yugoslavia
5. Israel
There was a flurry of minor inci-
dents along the Demilitarized Zone
?over ?the weekend. We often cannot find
the reasons behind such clashes because
the evidence rapidly disappears as the
incidents die down. They could result
from North Korean attempts to infil-
trate agents into the South or more
simply be continuing harassment.
Many of Belgrade's students have
returned to class following Tito',s
assurances to them Sunday. Hp-put his
prestige on the line in promising to
meet their "justified" demands. What
Tito thinks is justified may not accord
With views of either ?the students or
hardliners in the party. The latter
could make it difficult for him to make
good his promises.
The Israelis have finally, agreed
to receive a US inspection grolip at
their Dimona nuclear facility on29
June. This may give some indication
of the stage of development which the
Israelis have attained at this facility.
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6. Iceland
Police in Reykjavik are bracing
for possible trouble during the NATO
ministerial meeting scheduled for 24-
26 June./
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
11 June 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Photographic Mission Report: A high-level photo-
graphic mission on 3 June covered the Haiphong area
with good quality photography. West of Haiphong it
experienced a camera malfunction and encountered heavy
cloud cover.
Activity had increased throughout the Haiphong
port area since 22 May--the date of the last mission
to cover this area. The pieces of rolling stock
present increased from 147 on 22 May to 178 on 3 June.
(These figures compare with an average of about 70
cars a day present during 1967. Repairs to the
bridges account for this rise.) The volume of cargo
in the area from the piers to the warehouses had in-
creased by about 30 percent between the two missions.
Around the warehouses, the cargo volume had increased
by about ten percent with numerous unidentified small
and large crates observed.
Eleven merchant ships were unloading in the inner
harbor, and three others were being lightered at
anchorage. There were a total of 21 merchant ships
in the port area. The average number observed during
May was sixteen.
The turnover of cargo which has been in open
storage since April has been slow, but the new cargo
being unloaded is moving out expeditiously. From 2
to 3 June, a 75 percent turnover in rolling stock was
observed. The photography on 2 June came from a drone
mission.
In spite of the increased level of ship arrivals
in Haiphong, the average number of days for ships in
port has dropped from 22 in March and 19 in April to
14 in May. The growth in merchant shipping arriving
in Haiphong began in January of this year. This re-
flects the increased aid promised by Communist coun-
tries last October and Hanoi's need for increased
foodstuffs.
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Kep was the only Major airfield covered on this
mission. The extension to the main runway appears
complete, and two.MIG-21s and four MIG-15/17s were
present. This is about the same number of aircraft
that have been seen there over the past several
months, and they are probably the aircraft flown by
North Korean pilots.
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New Hanoi Propaganda Effort: Hanoi is apparent-
ly gearing up for an extensive propaganda campaign
in support of its negotiating team in Paris.(
Within the past few weeks, propaganda themes
have been tailored increasingly to American and
Western audiences. Hanoi Radio commentary is now
frequently tied to American events. It is full of
historical interpretations of the US role in Viet-
nam, amply illustrated by quotes from politically
prominent government figures and replete with analo-
gies between Vietnamese history and American history,
especially the American war of independence.
Vietnamese nationalism is getting special atten-
tion. It received a high priority in the recent
meetings of the North, Vietnamese National Assembly,
both in the speeches of the Hanoi leadership and in
the publicity surrounding ?the delegates who repre-
sented provinces of South Vietnam in the Assembly.
A long Nhan Dan commentary on 10 June, built around
this theme, FTimed that when North Vietnam was
founded in 1945 it proclaimed the "independence of
the Vietnamese people in the entire country." In
language similar to that used by Xuan Thuy inlparis
and other Hanoi leaders in interviews and speeches
back home, the newspaper said: "Any place, any area,
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any region in Vietnam is Vietnamese territory, and
he who intrudes into any area encroaches on Vietnam
and must be resisted by the entire Vietnamese people
throughout the country."
Through all this, however, the fiction that
there is no North Vietnamese Army presence in South
Vietnam is still maintained. The commentary--prob-
ably one of the strongest Communist statements of
the case for nationalism to date--generally side-
stepped the issue, saying only that "the South Viet-
namese who regrouped North under the Geneva agree-
ments have always been ready to return to their na-
tive land to fight the enemy at the call of South
Vietnam, but all Vietnamese throughout the country
and in foreign countries have enthusiastically re-
sponded to the call of the Fatherland, eager to ful-
fill their duty toward the great front line--South
Vietnam."
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