THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 29 AUGUST 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977651
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 29, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
29 August 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
29 August 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
A Soviet oral protest against U-2 reconnaissance
flights over Egyptian territory, and our comments
thereon, are noted on Page 1.
West Germany\
(Page 2)
The military situation in Cambodia is discussed on
Page 3.
Libya
(Page 4)
The Laotian Government's campaign to retake Ban Na
has suffered a severe setback. (Page 5)
Yesterday's policy speech by Soviet party. chief
Brezhnev is noted on Page 5.
At Annex we examine the impact of the Soviet presence
in Latin America,
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USSR - MIDDLE EAST
The Soviets called in Ambassador Beam yester-
day to deliver an oral protest against U-2 recon-
naissance flights over Egyptian territory; Deputy
Foreign Minister Vinogradov stated that these
flights contradict the cease-fire agreement, are
a violation of UAR sovereignty, and involve the
risk of danger and "special surprises"--evidently
an allusion to Gary Powers' flight. He said that,
if the US did not cease, it would have to bear
the possible consequences.
This is the first Soviet statement on
the subject since Beam informed the USSR
of our intentions on 8 August. On that
occasion the Foreign Office official
confined himself to the observation that
this would be a "new element" and that
he was "not sure this is a good element."
This protest probably reflects Cairo's
annoyance over Israel's public accusa-
tions of cease-fire violations.
The Egyptians
are probably also concerned to forestall
claims by radical Arab states that Cairo
is permitting US violation of its ter-
ritorial sovereignty. Moscow may also
be worried that these flights, which
constitute the first physical US in-
volvement in the area, could help to
erode the inhibitions against further
US involvement at some later stage.
It is doubtful, however, that either
the (JAR or the USSR regards this problem
as serious enough to justify a repudia-
tion of the cease-fire or a boycott of
Jarring's efforts. In the absence of
other indications that they are moving
in this direction, we see the protest
to Beam as probably intended primarily
for the record. Further, neither Vino-
gradov's protest nor the general Soviet
posture on the Middle East suggest that
a hostile attempt against the U-2 is
likely at this stage.
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WEST GERMANY
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CAMBODIA: Current Situation
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CAMBODIA
In Kompong Chhnang Province, a government bat-
talion is meeting stubborn resistance from an enemy
force dug in some 16 miles south of the provincial
capital. Air strikes have also had little success
in dislodging the Communists from their positions,
according to intercepted Cambodian messages.
In northwestern Cambodia, there are enemy plans
to ambush government troops conducting a sweep opera-
tion near Kralanh, the crossroads town some 30 miles
west of Siem Reap city. Intercepts show that ele-
ments of the Viet Cong 275B Regiment hope to lure
government forces away from Kralanh in order to at-
tack them on a nearby road, probably Route 6 which
is under heavy enemy interdiction.
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LIBYA
CORRECTION
In the item on Libya in yesterday's Daily Brief,
the first paragraph should read as follows:
"The government has ordered Esso to cut back its
oil production next week by 104,000 barrels per day
(bpd); only one of the six principal producers now
has escaped a cutback. Total reductions amount to
about 750,000 bpd, roughly 20 percent of the daily
peak production in April of about 3.7 million bar-
rels."
(Yesterday's piece said total production had
been cut to 20 percent rather than la. 20 percent.)
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Government Effort to Retake Ban Na in Disarray
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