THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 22 OCTOBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: DIF-DUP
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976421
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• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 22, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
22 OCTOBER 1968
1. Panama
2. Soviet Union
3. Warsaw Pact -
Czechoslovakia
Arias will arrive at Dulles Inter-
national at about 8 o'clock this morn-
ing. He left the Canal Zone last night
aboard a.US military plane. The gen-
eral strike which his .supporters called
on his behalf yesterday was.far.from
successful; this probably caused Arias
to give in.
Arias may still try to arouse his
supporters by making inflammatory state-
ments from outside the country, but the
Guard has plenty of muscle to use
against any troublemakers. Intensive
violence in the capital, however, could
easily spill over into the Zone.
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Hungarian and Polish press reports
state that troops from these countries
are returning home.
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4. Czechoslovakia
5. Jordan
Conservatives in the Czech party
held a number of secret meetings
throughout the country over the week-
end. ?At one, some 400 Communist "vet-
erans" passed a resolution requesting
their district party organization to
cooperate fully with the occupation
forces. This was probably the proce-
dure in many of the meetings.
Faced with Dubcek's capitulation,
the resistance of the Czech press and
radio is beginning to fade. All news-
papers carried reports of the ratifi-
cation of the status-of-forces agree-
ment and a full text of the treaty
without comment. Even the most out-
spoken publications are now consider-
ably subdued.
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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
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
22 October 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Communists Anticipate More Air Strikes in Laos:
Communists anticipate that further restrictions on
US bombings of North Vietnam will lead to increased
air strikes against their forces in Laos. A warning
to this effect was carried in a North Vietnamese
rear services message of 20 October addressed to an
engineer battalion and an antiaircraft battalion po-
sitioned in the Laos panhandle. The message stated
that in the near future "the enemy may lower their
activity in North Vietnam." In this event, said the
message, "the enemy may concentrate their strikes
on our positions."
The message underscores the Communists' concern
for maintaining the flow of supplies through the Lao-
tian corridor. In this connection, intercepted com-
munications during the past week have shown increased
difficulties because of bombing operations and flood-
ing on Route 912, a main North Vietnamese road link
with Laos.
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-MK-36 Destructors Harass the North Vietnamese:
North Vietnamese messages over the past several
weeks have given further evidence of the effective-
ness of the.MK-36 destructor. The messages have
mentioned blocked rivers, impassable roads, and de-
stroyed.materiel. One message of 2 October refers
to the building of "rafts to destroy magnetic bombs";
the very next day.the same unit was "rebuilding
rafts that had been destroyed by bombs." Aerial
photography in mid-October disclosed what appeared
to be a crude North Vietnamese sweeping rig--two oil
drums towed by.a sampan--on a stream near the Demili-
tarized Zone.
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'II. .NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
:ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Front on the US Campaign: The Front's radio
scored the Vietnam views of the three US presidential
candidates in a Vietnamese language broadcast on 19
October. The commentary claimed that the Vietnam pro-
grams of the candidates are insufficient to resolve
the war or to ease the "crisis of confidence" of the
American people caused by the Johnson administration's
"aggressive war policy."
The broadcast denounced Vice President Humphrey's
proposals as indistinguishable from those of the cur-
rent administration, Mr. Nixon's as belligerent and
aggressive, and Governor Wallace's as "brutal and stu-
pid" and worthy of condemnation by American and world
opinion.
The commentary, which was often couched in vit-
riolic terms, charged that the campaign's rhetoric
concerning Vietnam had generated violent disputes
and raging conflicts within high levels of the adminis-
tration. This, coupled with the inadequacies of the
candidates' positions and the developing antiwar move-
ment in the US, has made the present campaign the
tensest in US history, concluded Liberation Radio.
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