THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 31 MAY 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992617
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: May 31, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
31 May 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
31 May 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
North Korean officials have threatened retaliation
if the UN Command does not return a.defecting
who appeared at a newt conference today. (Page 1)
Japan
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The Indians report that the influx of refugees con-
tinues, and hint of possible consequences unless the
situation improves. (Page 3)
Dissension is said to be growing within Allende's
Socialist Party. (Page 4)
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NORTH KOREA
Pyongyang, upon being informed at Panmunjom on
26 May that the North Korean pilot who strayed into
South Korean airspace late last year wished to remain
in the south, rejected an offer to have a "disinter-
ested third party" verify that this was the pilot's
free decision. North Korean officials at the meeting
maintained the pilot was being held for "a foul poli-
tical purpose" and threatened "disadvantageous results"
for the UN Command if he were not returned.
Ambassador Porter in Seoul believes North
Korea's threats, and similar warnings issued
recently concerning alleged US overflights
of its territory, must be taken seriously.
He suggests that Pyongyang may try to hijack
US commercial air flights in the area, kid-
nap someone from the Panmunjom conference
site, or attack US picket ships in the Sea
of Japan. Although we have no evidence that
Pyongyang is actively preparing any dramatic
reprisals, a move against US citizens or
interests cannot be ruled out, given North
Korea's penchant for sudden, apparently ir-
rational acts of this sort.
The pilot has been in the hands of the South
Korean Government for the past six months.
His appearance at a news conference today is
likely to set the North Koreans even more on
edge.
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INDIA-PAKISTAN
? Indian External Affairs Secretary Banerji told
US Charge Stone on Saturday that there had been no
abatement in the number of refugees entering India,
and warned that it will be difficult for New Delhi
to follow, a "correct policy" if the influx continues.
Reports that Pakistani authorities have destroyed
the deeds to property of fleeing Hindus have added
to Indian concern. Moreover, during the past few
days 160 refugees in camps in West Bengal have died
of cholera, and medical officials fear a severe
epidemic when monsoon rains begin in early July.
The Indians continue to claim that the
Pakistanis are trying to provoke them.
Both countries are intensifying their efforts
to curry favor abroad--the Indians with a 40-page
brochure complete with grisly photographs of alleged'
Pakistani atrocities. On Saturday Peking reiterated
its "firm support" for Pakistan's "just struggle to
safeguard state sovereignty and oppose foreign in-
tervention," but did not commit China to any course
of action in the event of hostilities.
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CH I LE
Dissatisfaction is rising among both young?
extremists and the old guard within Allende's
Socialist Party.
Many of the veteran Socialists lost access to
party councils when Carlos Altamirano became sec-
retary general in February. They complain that
the central committee disregarded the need for
political credentials when it bestowed party mem-
bership on more than 50 officials appointed to
government positions. They are also irked by the
efforts to improve party organization and discipline.
The young extremists, for their part, are
said to object to instructions from the party leader-
ship to end cooperation with the Movement of the
Revolutionary Left (MIR). They are particularly
critical of its efforts to curtail MIR land in-
vasions and organizational activities in the slums.
The extremists' resentments could lead
them, like dissenters in the past, to
bolt the party,. Many of the complaints
of both groups stem from measures that
Allende and Altamirano apparently con-
sider necessary to strengthen the party
against the better organized Communist
Party. AZtamirano's current travels to
Havana and Moscow may be part of another
effort to protect the Socialists' flanks
among friends abroad.
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