THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 7 OCTOBER 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977025
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 7, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
7 October 1969
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The format of THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF has been
changed. One major objective of the new format is to make more
readily apparent the distinction between the essential facts of a
situation and CIA's best analytic judgment as to the implications of
these facts. To this end, regular typeface will be used to present the
facts, and italics for our analytic comment. Italics will also, be used to
sketch in essential background information, to point up the intelli-
gence problems associated with certain developments, and on occa-
sion for the Director of Central Intelligence's personal observations'
on particularly sensitive matters.
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
7 October 1969
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The background to South Vietnamese
Soviets
Israel
Italy's effort to establish diplomatic relations with
Communist China is stymied. (Page 5)
General Emilio Medici will be Brazil's next President.
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VIETNAM
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LIBYA-USSR
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SOVIET UNION
The latest satellite photography shows a new
group of six SS-9 ICBM silos under construction at
the Imeni Gastello complex.
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I SRAEL-FEDAYEEN
In spite of stringent countermeasures by Israeli
security forces, fedayeen guerrillas are an increas-
ing threat in the occupied territories and within Is-
rael itself.
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CHINA-ITALY
? Italian efforts to establish diplomatic rela-
tions with Communist China have been stalled. Ac-
cording to a sensitive State Department report from
Rome, the Chinese insist that the Italians must
first publicly endorse Peking's claim to sovereignty
over Taiwan.
A similar Chinese demand also has stale-
mated Sino-Canadian negotiations on recog-
nition. So far Peking has shown no in-
clination to compromise with either coun-
try, clearly believing that time is on its
side.
For their part, the Italians and the Cana-
dians are reluctant to meet China's demand.
They hope to be able to maintain trade and
other informal contacts with Taiwan even
after they recognize Peking. It looks as
if these negotiations will be protracted.
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BRAZIL
The joint high command of the armed services
yesterday selected General Emilio Medici to succeed
ailing President Costa e Silva. Reportedly, he will
be inaugurated on 15 November.
The 63-year-old Medici is a firm supporter
of Costa e Silva. During the President's
first two years in office,. Medici was one
of his closest advisers as well as head
of the National Intelligence Service.
Medici is.generally well regarded among
his contemporaries as a career soldier
and as a political moderate, but some
younger officers have been concerned by
his Zack of dynamic qualities. He strongly
backed the executive's assumption of
sharply increased authoritarian powers
last December, but he apparently also
agreed with Costa e Silva's more recent
intention to permit a slight return to
political normalcy.
Medici is an advocate of good relations
with the US.
'The long' delay in choosing Costa e Silva's suc-
cessor had been generating criticism and discontent
among. the military. Even now the armed forces are
.by no means united. Many officers are opposed to
the presidential ambitions of General Albuquerque,
Lima, who may not yet be resigned to defeat, and
whose, younger officer supporters have been making
known their unhappiness,
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LATIN AMERICA
/leftist terrorists in almost all Latin
countries may attack US personnel and installations
this week in commemoration of the capture and death
of Che Guevara, observed generally about 8 October.
In Mexico, for example, the embassy has learned that
extremists have discussed plans to kidnap Ambassador
McBride or another US official--to be exchanged, as
in Brazil, for political prisoners. Less specific
threats in Venezuela have caused a military alert,
and in violence-prone Ecuador the security forces
are bracing for disorderly demonstrations by stu-
dents and others. Other countries lack precise in-
formation, but most have instituted extra precautions.
Yesterday's bombings of branch offices of
several US firms in Argentina may have
been linked only to wage negotiations now
in progress, but the burning of the USIS
? library in Buenos Aires last night was
probably the work of extreme leftists.
It also appears that terrorists may be
seeking easier targets than US officials.
The son and the secretary of the honorary
Swiss Consul in Cali, Colombia, who also
manages a large US business there, were
kidnapped on Monday, and were being held
for $300,000 ransom.
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NOTES
USSR-Egypt:
USSR: The next Soviet manned space shot could
be launched at any time. Soviet space support ships
have now reached positions in the Atlantic and Paci-
fic from where they will support the upcoming Soyuz
mission (see The President's Daily Brief of 2 Octo-
ber 1969).
East Germany: Brezhnev and leaders of all the
Warsaw Pact states (save Romania, which sent a lower
level representative commensurate with East Germany's
treatment of its own recent festivities) are gathered
in East Berlin, but it does not appear that a summit
conference is in progress. The activities of the
visitors and the strenuous schedules of the East Ger-
man leaders tend to indicate that the primary pur-
pose of this turnout is to demonstrate solidarity
with Pankow on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
East German party boss Ulbricht was looking fit and
natty for his 76 years: apparently he is fully re-
covered from his indisposition of July and August.
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