THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF (AFTERNOON) 3 MARCH 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976646
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: March 3, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
3 March 1969
(Afternoon)
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LATE NOTES FOR THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF OF
3 MARCH 1969
I. MAJOR PROBLEMS
MIDDLE EAST
There is nothing significant to report.
EUROPE
There is nothing significant to report.
SOVIET AFFAIRS
There has been no significant change in the Berlin
situation.
morning.
Brandt is already in the city.
Kiesinger left Bonn for West Berlin this
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II, OTHER SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS
SOVIET UNION - COMMUNIST CHINA
Peking and Moscow are going at it hot and heavy
in their propaganda war over Sunday's border clash.
Typical of the suspicion on both sides is the assertion
of a Soviet diplomat in Tokyo that the rapid Chinese
response to Moscow's protest suggests a degree of ad-
vance planning on Peking's part. The diplomat also re-
vealed that only two months ago, Moscow decided to
allow dependents to return to its embassy in Peking,
on the theory that the era of Chinese demonstrations was
past. Today Peking radio announced that 400,000 demon-
strators marched past the embassy "from dawn to dusk."
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MAJOR PROBLEMS
MIDDLE EAST
There is nothing signifidant to report.
EUROPE
There is nothing significant to report.
SOVIET AFFAIRS
The day passed relatively quietly in Berlin. One
section of a US convoy was delayed on the autobahn for an
hour in the morning because of "maneuvers," but two British
and one French convoy transited without incident. West
German federal assembly members have begun to arrive in
West Berlin.
In addition to the presi-
dential election Wednesday, several Bundestag committees
will hold sessions in West Berlin tomorrow, Thursday, and
Friday.
The immediate prospect is for the Communists to con-
tinue harassment on the scale of April 1965. The Soviets
at that time showed their displeasure at a plenary session
of the West German Bundestag in Berlin with jets buzzing
the city, producing sonic booms, and conducting exercises
in or near the air corridors to Berlin, and with military
maneuvers which provided both an ominous background and a
rationale for intermittent closure of the autobahns to Berlin.
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