THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 30 SEPTEMBER 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977013
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: September 30, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
30 September 1969
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SOVIET UNION
Yesterday the Soviets flight-tested a modified SS-11
ICBM--the fourth test in a series which began last July.
USSR - COMMUNIST CHINA
/ US Embassy reports have cited private conversations
in which Soviet officials stated that Kosygin and Chou had
agreed tentatively that the two nations would discuss the
border situation. Rumors going around the diplomatic circuit
in Moscow only a week after the Kosygin-Chou meeting of 11
September indicated the Chinese may have offered some kind
of counterproposal requiring a substantive reply
There is no evidence that the exchange goes beyond the
border issue. The Soviets have claimed that Kosygin made
other proposals for tempering the Sino-Soviet dispute, and
that Chou agreed only to consider them. The Soviets say
that Kosygin refused to discuss ideological matters--on which
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there is little hope of reconciliation--and that Chou reiter-
ated China's intention to continue its opposition to Moscow
on political issues.
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WEST GERMANY
The government's decision yesterday to permit its cur-
rency to fluctuate freely. will have the dual effect of damp-
ening speculation and of buying time until the new government
is established and a definitive settlement of the exchange
rate issue accomplished.
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Without a guaranteed, fixed exchange rate, speculation
on revaluation has become much more risky. The DM rate may
be subjected to some downward pressure in coming days if
present holders of speculative balances sell them off. The
longer-term trends of supply and demand, however, probably
will tend to push the rate moderately higher until the
Bundesbank decides to "peg" its currency again.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
A sweeping purge is under way. Party chief Husak says
that the most important task--the purging of liberals from
local party organizations--will be completed by the end of
the year. The mechanism to be used will be a reissuance of
party cards; this probably means many rank and file members
will be expelled.
Thus far, Husak has been able to forestall holding po-
litical trials. He has warned, however, that he will not
tolerate open opposition. For the moment, the ultraconserva-
tives are trying to force recantations from deposed liberals.
If they succeed in this, Husak will be under pressure to
make examples of at least some of last year's leaders.
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