THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 DECEMBER 1970
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The President's Daily Brief
4 December 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
4 December 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The southbound flow of North Vietnamese troops is
examined on Page 1.
The Warsaw Pact renewed its commitment to a Berlin
settlement in a statement following the summit meet-
ing. (Page 2)
The military situation in Laos is discussed on
Page 5.
A Canadian journalist is in North Vietnam
(Page 7)
Chile is moving toward diplomatic relations with
Communist China. (Page 8)
The status of Soviet naval units in and, around Cuba
is reported on Page 9.
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North Vietnam: Infiltration Starts
40,000
30,000
1968 SVN, Total 240,800
1969 SVN, Total 84,600
1970 SVN, Cambodia, and Southern Laos
1970 total: 97,500 to 30 November
20,000
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JAN
. FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
1968 SVN
21,000
18,900
32,600
38,900
32,800
23,500
21,800
11,000
2,200
2,800
5,200
30,100
1964 SVN
19,200
25,000
17,100
2,300
1,100
100
100
600
600
4,500
7,800
6,200
1970 SVN, Cambodia,
and Southern Laos
14,200
11,700
10,600 a
3,100
3,800
' 2,100
4,100
4,400
11,000
15,200
17,300"
Southern Leos
600
-
700
700
900
700
3,300
10,200
3,400
2.600'
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Totals for 1968 and 1969 include troops bound for South Vietnam only;
those for 1970 include troops bound for South Vietnam, Southern Laos,
and Cambodia.
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NORTH VIETNAM
About 17,300 North Vietnamese troops started
south in November, the highest monthly total since
February, 1969.
More than 10,000 of the infiltrators de.,.
tected were earmarked for COSVN, which,
commands Communist activities in Cambodia
and southern South Vietnam, An additional
4,400 are headed for northern South Viet-
nam, About 2,600, including whatseems
to be a regiment of North Vietnamese Army
regulars, are believed to be en route to
southern Laos.
Continuing deployments of regular North
Vietnamese units in and around the in-
filtration corridor reflect the priority
Hanoi has placed on securing its supply
lines through Laos. The 46th and 52nd
regiments of the 320th Division, for ex-
ample, have arrived in southern Laos and
are committed to the defense of the in-
filtration corridor. The 88th ?Regiment
of the 308th Division, which recently was
located just north of the DMZ, may also
be bound for security duty in Laos. Head-
quarters elements of both the 320th and
308th divisions have moved southward in
North Vietnam and other elements subor-
dinate to them may follow. In addition,
major elements of the 24th Regiment of
the 304th Division--a division which nor-
mally rotates its units in and out of the
DMZ area--seem to have remained in south-
ern Laos.
Farther down the infiltration corridor,
eZements of the North Vietnamese 2nd Di-
vision that were pulled out of South Viet-
nam last summer are moving south through
Saravane Province of southern Laos. The
available evidence suggests they are
headed back to South Vietnam. Still far-
ther south, elements of two regiments
which normally are targeted against 'the
western highlands of South Vietnam appear
to be helping expand and defend the Com-
munist supply Lines running south through
the Laos-Cambodia border area.
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WARSAW PACT
Warsaw Pact leaders announced their support for
a mutually acceptable agreement on West Berlin in a
statement released a day after their summit meeting
in East Berlin. The statement said such an agree-
ment should meet the interests of detente in central
Europe, as well as the requirements of the people Iof
West Berlin and the lawful interests and sovereign
rights of East Germany.
The statement appears to be a reiteration
of the goals of detente in central Europe
without providing. any clues on how this
is to be accomplished. These tactics have
the advantage of creating the impression
of forward movement on East-West negotia-
tions on Europe without chipping away at
East Germany's sovereignty. Nevertheless,
the statement does nothing to assuage UZ-
bricht's unhappiness over his allies'
eager responses to Bonn's Ostpolitik, and
the statement's support for Czechoslovak
negotiations with West Germany indicates
that the next bilateral agreement could
be a Bonn-Prague affair.
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FEDAYEEN
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USSR-EGYPT
Satellite photography in June and August showed
at least eight Egyptian-marked TU-16s at Severomorsk
and Malyavr naval air stations in northwestern USSR.
Six of them carried air-to-surface missiles (ASM).
In July, four TU-16s arrived at Aswan, and were ex-
changed' for others that had been there since April.
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LAOS: Current Situation
THAILAND
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Communist-controlled territory
Contested territory
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LAOS
Government forces are still encountering no
significant opposition as they :move closer to the
Communist supply lines in the ?Ban Ban valley. Ele-
ments of the 850-man force closing on Ban Ban from
the north got close enough to Routes 61 and 7 on
2 December to observe enemy truck traffic. The
1,300 irregulars moving north from San Tiau captured
two high ground positions on 2 December against
only token resistance.
On the western edge of the Plaine, Communist
forces kept up their shelling of government posi=
tions near. Khang Kho and Ban Na, but no ground con-
tacts were reported. Intercepts indicate that ele-
ments of the NVA 148th Regiment, which have been
carrying out these attacks, are involved in some
redispositioning of their forces and are having
difficulty in evacuating their wounded.
In southern Laos, the government force which
has been sweeping the area north of Paksong to
determine the enemy presence in this area continued
to report no contact. Farther to the southeast,
on the edge of the Bolovens Plateau, North Vletnam-
ese units seized the government position at Site 40
on 2 December,
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Communist China:
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COMMUNIST CHINA
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NORTH VIETNAM
A fairly prominent Canadian journalist Michael
Macleer, is in North Vietnam for a visit of.several
weeks. He is representing Canadian television and
The New York Times.
Last year Macleer produced lengthy film
reports that presented Hanoi's position
in a favorable light. They were shown.,
widelyon Western television.
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CHILE
The government has announced that discussions
on opening relations with Communist China are unaer
way in Paris.
Allende is continuing his effort to carry
out rapidly his campaign promise to estab-
lish diplomatic relations with all Commu-
nist countries. Chile set the stage for
the move toward China at the UN this fall
by becoming the first country in Latin
America, other than Cuba, to vote for the
Albanian resolution.
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NOTES
USSR-Cuba: The Soviet missile frigate and sub-
marine tender have rendezvoused north of Puerto Rico.
A conventionally powered F-class submarine surfaced
in the same area yesterday and apparently is operat-
ing with the frigate and tender. The report in yes-
terday's Daily Brief that the Soviet rescue tug had
left Cienfuegos was based on an erroneous radio di-
rection signal. The tug is still in port.
Also yesterday, two Soviet TU-95 naval recon-
naissance aircraft flew from the USSR to Havana.
Last spring three pairs of TU-95s flew to Cuba but
returned to the USSR within several days without
conducting operations with Soviet naval units then
in the Caribbean.
USSR:
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