THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 FEBRUARY 1976

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0006015021
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: February 4, 1976

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The President's Daily Brief
February 4, 1976
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Table of Contents
Angola: The southern-based National Union is organ-
izing many of its troops into guerrilla units.
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Lebanon: Leaders of Fatah, the largest fedayeen or-
ganization, reportedly plan to expand their
conventional military forces in Lebanon in or-
der to counter the growing military and politi-
cal strength of the Palestine Liberation Army.
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Notes: USSR (submarine); USSR (SS-7 silos); Iceland-
UK (Pages 5 and 6)
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ANGOLA
The southern-based National Union is
organizing many of its troops into guer-
rilla units to fight Cuban and Popular
Movement troops.
In eastern Angola, the National Union report-
edly is grouping troops into guerrilla
units, which are already active around the town of
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units being formed are to operate northward from
Andulo.
The Popular Movement apparently has not made
any major gains in recent days, but its forces in
the central sector are pressing hard in the vicinity
of Teixeira da Silva, where there is an important
road junction. Two separate Cuban columns
backed by armored cars,
are reportedly moving on that town; their ultimate
target is probably Huambo (Nova Lisboa), the
National Union's former political headquarters.
In northern An ola,
Popular Move-
ment forces are stockpiling supplies at Ambrizete
in preparation for a move on Tomboco, one of the
National Front's few remaining garrisons in the
area.
The Front is expecting more European mercenaries
to arrive at Maquela do Zombo and Santo Antonio
do Zaire.
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the sealift from Cuba to the
Angola-Congo area is continuing.
Thirteen Cuban ships have departed for
the war zone since January 1.
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LEBANON
Leaders of Fatah, the largest feda-
yeen organization, reportedly plan to ex-
pand their conventional military forces
in Lebanon in order to counter the grow-
ing military and political strength of
the Palestine Liberation Army.
The larger and better armed PLA now controls
most Lebanese territory outside the Christian core
area, and poses a threat to the almost unlimited
freedom of action that Fatah and the other inde-
pendent fedayeen groups enjoy.
The commander of the PLA theoretically is re-
sponsible to the political leadership of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization, and therefore to PLO
chairman Yasir Arafat, who is also head of Fatah.
In practice, however, the PLA is under the control
of the Syrian army. Palestinian leaders are ap-
prehensive that the PLA will be used by Damascus
to impose on the fedayeen in Lebanon the same stiff
controls that are enforced in Syria.
There is some evidence that units of the Syrian-
controlled Saiqa fedayeen group are preparing to
leave Lebanon, but no evidence that the approxi-
mately 3,000 PLA troops are planning to leave soon.
Inconclusive political wrangling continues
among Muslim and Christian political leaders in
Beirut. Lebanese President Franjiyah has again
postponed his planned trip to Damascus.
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NOTES
Satellite photography of the Severodvinsk naval
shipyard shows that the Soviets have
launched their fifth lengthened D-class ballistic
missile submarine.
The lengthened D-class is about 500 feet long,
about 50 feet more than the standard D-class. It
carries 16 launch tubes for the 4,200-nautical-mile
SS-N-8 missile, compared with 12 tubes on the
standard model.
The Soviets maintain regular patrols by one or
two D-class units in the Greenland and Barents seas.
Two operational D-class units are assigned to the
Pacific, and one more has just completed initial sea
trials there. A D-class may have begun its first
patrol in the Pacific in early December or early
January. The Soviets probably will not begin con-
tinuous D-class patrols in the Pacific until four
or five units are in service there.
Photography taken in January shows that the
Soviets are dismantling for the first time ICBM
silos?six of them--constructed for the SS-7.
With the dismantling of these silos, the USSR
seems likely to reach the required total of 51 older
ICBM launchers to be fully dismantled by the end of
February. The Soviets have completed the disman-
tling of eight above-ground SS-7 launchers, are in
the process of taking apart 34 more, and may start
disassembling another three.
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Iceland yesterday rejected proposals worked out
with the UK last week for a solution to the cod war,
but offered to reopen discussions for a three-month
agreement.
By proposing a short-term agreement, Iceland
may hope the UN Law of the Sea conference, which
will conclude its next session in May--at about the
same time that a three-month fishing agreement would
expire--will approve a 200-mile economic zone or at
least demonstrate broad international support for
such a zone. Reykjavik has not said whether it will
continue to harass British trawlers during any re-
newed talks. London now must decide whether to send
back its frigates to protect the trawlers.
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