THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 22 JANUARY 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992437
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 22, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
22 January 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
22 January 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Communist supply movements in the Laotian panhandle
increased sharply in early January. (Page 1)
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INDOCHINA
The flow of supplies between two important lo-
gistic units ?in the Laotian panhandle averaged at
least 180 tons nightly in the first ten days of
January, according to a recent message. This is
about two and a half times the ?rate moved in Decem-
ber 1970 and is the highest ever detected between
two rear service units.
With the closing of Kompong Som (Sihanouk-
ville), we have expected the Communists
to mount an expanded logistics effort via
the panhandle this dry season. Supply
activity should remain at a high level
throughout the panhandle for the next
several months.
The Communists are moving small amounts of
supplies by sea into southern South Vietnam and
Cambodia, according to clandestine sources. Muni-
tions and other supplies move by motorized junks
from Phu Quoc Island in the Gulf of Thailand to the
Pirate Islands, about nine-miles off the coast. In
the Pirate Islands supplies are transferred to shal-
low-draft sampans which travel up the maze of rivers
to major supply depots in Kampot Province, Cambodia,
and in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam.
The areas allegedly being supplied by sea
are far removed from the main logistic
route through southern Laos Furthermore,
the last deliveries to the delta via Kom-
pong Som occurred in January 1970, and
since the allied cross-border operations
last spring there have been several re-
ports of ammunition shortages in the
delta.
The enemy has traditionally been able to
shuttle some supplies along the coast in
sampans and junks Supplies at Phu Quoc
Island could get to the mainland in this
manner. The US Navy maintains a detec-
tion system off the coast, however,.and
it seems unlikely that the Communists
could move large quantities of supplies
in from the open sea to Phu Quoc Island,
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NOTES
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