THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 26 AUGUST 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976952
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 26, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
26 August 1969
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USSR Increases.Naval Presence in the Atlantic
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MIDDLE EAST
SOVIET AFFAIRS
The Soviet Navy has been unusually active in the last
ten days:
'--Five surface ships came out of the Northern Fleet
area on Saturday,
Some of these may
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be on the way to relieve units that have been in the Mediter-
ranean since April.
--The Soviet warships that visited Cuba last month have
split into two groups. Three of the ships are in the Canary
Islands area; four others are near Cape Verde and may be
headed for Guinea.
--Another naval group is off the Canary Islands, prob-
ably on its way to the Indian Ocean.
--Antisubmarine training centered around the helicopter
cruiser Moskva is continuing in the central Mediterranean.
--An amphibious force east of Cyprus is expected to
join Egyptian units soon in exercises west of Alexandria.
None of these moves has any particularly aggressive
overtones. They are an outgrowth, rather,of the longstand-
ing Soviet efforts to carry out more extensive naval ac-
tivity away from home waters.
INDIA
Prime Minister Gandhi has won another round in her
struggle with old guard Congress Party leaders. Their at-
tempt to censure her for supporting victorious presidential
candidate V. V. Gin i failed yesterday when the party's ex-
ecutive body decided to take no action on the matter.
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COMMUNIST CHINA
The worst flooding of the Yangtze River in recent years
occurred last month. We do not yet know the extent of the
damage, but recent satellite photography shows considerable
inundation of villages and destruction of crops in some of
the hardest hit areas, such as the important agricultural
region around Wuhan. Other natural disasters that have
hit Communist China this summer include several earthquakes
and two typhoons.
NIGERIA
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