THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 28 FEBRUARY 1969

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Declassified in Part -_Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 The President's Daily Brief 28 February 1969 19 zL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 32 r--1 Israeli-controlled areas follow ng June 167.hostilities ?32- Mediterranean Sea Aleiclancfna ?28- Cairo Nicosia CYPRUS Haifa./ I ). 36 Latakia' I Beirut* .Hama h SYRIA ISRAEL p?-?\ I: / Qf yafu \ BANK [WEST Amman Tel Aviv- / -: ('-.:1)sea * iDeud Port Said \ // JOR.DAN Ismailia ,Suez \ iii Canal \ i Suez SINAI \ PENINSULA . \ I: 1 I ' Elat Aqaba ' f *Damascus GOLAN HEIGHTS Yarmuk R. UNITED R AB REPUBLIC (E?T) 50 100 -24- MILES Hurghada. Qina Sharm ash- Shaykh Red SAUDI Sea 32 ASWAN (11HIGH DAM 36 -32- -28? ARABIA -24-- 93478 1-69 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 Declassified in part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS 'MIDDLE EAST Old guard Labor Party leaders, looking for ways to block an early power bid by Moshe Dayan, are now considering putting forward Mrs. Golda Meir as the head of a caretaker government until parliamentary elections are held. These leaders, who control the party machinery, are said to believe that Mrs. Meir, 70 and not in good health, would be less likely to pro- voke an immediate move by the Dayan forces than would be the case if Allon were left in the job. (Dayan at this point probably considers Allon his principal rival.) Dayan has not yet tipped his hand. Embassy Tel Aviv thinks there are many factors arguing against Dayan's making his Move now, but reports he is under strong pressure from his followers to go for broke. One of Dayan's big problems, if he wants to become prime minister under the powerful Labor Party's banner, is his lack of voting strength in the party itself. EUROPE: The small, "guerrilla-type" demonstrations which extrem- ists in Paris were planning for President Nixon's visit could mushroom into something much bigger in the wake of yesterday's shooting of a student. The security forces are better organ- ized than they were last spring however We believe they will be able to keep any disturbances away from the US party. FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 50X1 Declassified in part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY President Nixon's stop in West Berlin was enormously successful.. The crowd of sev- eral hundred thousand which lined the motorcade route was as large as that which turned out for President Kennedy's visit in 1963 and much larger than any which welcomed any visiting dignitary since then. There were no significant anti-US dem- onstrations; in some cases would-be demonstrators were set upon by irate civilian bystanders. Newspapermen-say the Presi- dent came across as a "sympathiach," friendly American, 5 OX1 2 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY SOVIET AFFAIRS. The West Berlin representative in the talks with the East Germans was a trifle optimistic in his report of the first meeting when he said Pankow would be willing to meet again. In answer to his message proposing another meeting yesterday, the East German representative replied that no further talks would be held unless the West German presiden- tial election was switched to another city. Despite this hardening of the East German position, representative of the Foreign Office in Bonn reports that Chancellor Kiesinger will make one more approach to Soviet 3 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800200001-0 106 0 ' Baa Lac. ? ""si t.? -.(AN , . L6,11 Cai NI, ? 'Yen ??. ?,.