THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 18 JUNE 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992703
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 18, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
18 June 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
18 June 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
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Some 4,000 Communist troops have been detected in
the infiltration pipeline during the first half of
June. (Page 2)
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More Egyptian cabinet members including Foreign Min-
ister Riyad are to be removed. (Page 4)
Thanom evidently now plans to stay on the job until,
the 1973 elections. (Page 4)
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INDOCHINA
Intercepts from a way-station south of Ban Karai
Pass, which has served as the major entry corridor
for infiltrators in recent weeks, indicate that ap-
proximately 3,000 fresh North Vietnamese troops were
in the area on 15 June. These raise the count for
the first half of the month to more than 4,000 new
infiltrators. About 3,000 are heading for the
coastal provinces of northern South Vietnam, with
some 1,000 of them apparently earmarked as replace-
ments for losses suffered by Communist units that
have been active in the area south of the DMZ. More
than 600 others are heading for the central high-
lands, and about 400 additional men are going to Cam-
bodia or the southern half of South Vietnam.
Recent intercepts from way-stations south of
Tchepone also provide further information on several
previously detected infiltration groups that are
moving with artillery and other equipment toward the
central highlands of South Vietnam. One of these
groups has ten vehicles and is towing seven artil-
lery pieces, including a 122-mm. gun--a weapon which
has never been used by the enemy this far south.
Intercepts also suggest that approximately. 1,200
"weapons technicians" are heading to the highlands.
The arrival and integration of these ar-
tillery pieces, troops, and equipment will
substantially increase the firepower of
Communist forces in the highlands. The
movement of heavy artillery in spite of
muddy roads at this time suggests the en-
emy plans to use it in the near future.
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NOTES
Egypt: The US Mission in Cairo has heard from
a reliable source that Foreign Minister Riyad and
three other cabinet members--all of whom survived
the purge of 13 May--will be dismissed in the next
two weeks for having withheld from Sadat information
on the maneuvering against him. This latest report,
like others circulating in the capital earlier this
month, predicts that Prime Minister Fawzi will move
up to Ali Sabri's vacant vice presidential post and
will be replaced as prime minister by Abd al-Munis
Qaysuni, a deputy premier for finance and economy
under. Nasir.
USSR:
Thailand: Prime Minister Thanom evidently now
plans to stay in the job until parliamentary elec-
tions in early 1973. A key indication of such ?a de-
cision is the recent cabinet vote extending Thanom's
term as supreme commander of the armed forces a year
beyond the customary military retirement age of 60.
It had been widely assumed in Bangkok that he would
retire from the army this fall and that this would
be the pretext for his bowing out as prime minister
some time before his term expires in 1973. A lessen-
ing of discord with Parliament and within his own
party is a likely factor affecting Thanom's willing-
ness to stay on. Details were probably worked out
last week at a meeting between Thanom and Deputy
Prime Minister Praphat.
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