THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF (AFTERNOON) 27 JANUARY 1969
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The President's Daily Brief
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27 January 1969
(Afternoon)
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FOR TIRE PRE,S1DEN4 ()NLY
MAJOR PROBLEMS
MIDDLE EAST
Baghdad radio has announced that 15 "Israeli spies,"
including nine Iraqi Jews, were-hanged this morning. The
embassy in Tel Aviv thinks the Israelis, however outraged,
will find it hard to find a way to retaliate which would
not further endanger the lives. of the some 5,000 Jews in
Iraq.
Prime Minister Eshkol's first reaction was to note in
a speech before the Knesset today that the executions
showed what fate would be in store for Jews if the Arab gov-
ernments "could do as they pleased." The Israelis will cer-
tainly play on this theme of Arab treatment of subject Jew-
ish minorities to parry Arab complaints about their refugee
policies. They may also hit the some 20,000 Iraqi troops
in Jordan especially hard if and when they carry out an-
other retaliatory raid against Jordan.
EUROPE
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SOVIET AFFAIRS
Seven Soviet TU-95 long-range bombers carried out re-
connaissance flights against the west coast of Alaska on Sat-
urday. None of the aircraft in this well-coordinated mission
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entered US airspace, but two of them approached to about 30
miles from the northwest coast of Alaska. These flights may
signal the resumption of simulated strike missions against
the northern coast of North America, similar to missions
flown early last year by Soviet long-rangeaircraft.
Czechoslovakia has been quiet throughout the day.
VIETNAM
Communist presentations at Saturday's meeting provide
no clues to Hanoi's
negotiating tactics or the positions it
eventually will take on substantive matters. The only "sub-
stance" in the Communist statements was in the repetition of
broad propaganda statements which are intended to cover a.
wide range of negotiating procedures and which do not commit
the Communists to any specific course. The DRV and Libera-
tion Front rejection of the US proposal on the DMZ is only
another indication that the Communists are not receptive to
separate handling of military and political issues.
We cannot say how. the Communists will attempt to get
into substantive matters in Paris but we think they are un--
likely to show their cards in the formal sessions. Long be-
fore that happens, they will try to get some idea of what
political arrangements the US is willing to consider for
South Vietnam. We believe this is their major objective at.
this stage. They may simply wait for some US initiative
but it seems likely they will also make some efforts in
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private or through third parties to find out which way the
new US administration is headed. The French views about
Hanoi's thinking
are almost certainly
Vietnamese officials and may have been in part a reflection
of such an approach.
based on recent conversations with North
There has been substantial movement during the last
year in the climate of South Vietnamese opinion regarding
negotiation with the National Liberation Front. Before the
Tet offensive, most nationalists assumed that the NLF would
eventually be destroyed. In April 1968, when the former
peace candidate for the presidency, Truong Dinh Dzu, told
newsmen that he favored talking to the Front, most nation-
alists felt that he richly deserved to be arrested. This
strongly anti-Front climate was partly responsible for the
dismissal of the government of Prime Minister Loc in May and
for the quick adoption of a harder anti-Front line by Prime
Minister Huong.
Since the initial Shock that followed the 31 October
announcement that the US would sit down with the NLF, Viet-
namese nationalists have gradually come to accept the idea
that some kind of a deal will have to be made with it. Al-
though Ky's-December remarks about. dealing with the Front
as a "reality" but not as an "entity" have.never appeared'
in the Vietnamese press, they have been widely discussed
without causing much adverse reaction..
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