THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 JULY 1970

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President's Daily Brief 1969-1977 [2]

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0005977565

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July 14, 1970

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 The President's Daily Brief 14 July 1970 48 Top SecreP)xl Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27: CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 July 1970 PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS The fighting in Cambodia centers around the resort town of Kirirom. (Page 1) The Soviets' 24th Party Congress has been postponed until March 1971. (Page 3) FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 Cambodia: Current Situation THAILAND So m rang, Rovien BA TTA BANG Nit eta mbang hemarak ehouminville KH KONG ? Kiriro 43M pot aigon VI TNAM- GULF g. OF- - THAILAND 0 Communist-controlled location r A Communist-controlled SOUTH CHINA SEA 99194 7-70 CIA Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A00.8500130001-9 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27: CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY CAMBODIA The fighting continues to center around the resort town of Kirirom, southwest of Phnom Penh. The Communists appear to hold the town itself, but two battalions of Khmer Krom reinforcements have worked their way through the dense jungle to the southwest and, according to late press reports, may have retaken some enemy positions around Kirirom. An enemy message intercepted yesterday reported that a 600-man Communist force hit Kirirom Saturday, securing various Cambodian installations and cutting lines of communication. The intercept, sent by COSVN's strategic intelligence bureau, went on to re- port that "the government forces fled in confusion. The Cambodian troops were of insufficient strength to hold Kirirom." In the only other significant action, Communist forces penetrated government defenses at the Lovek ordnance depot in Kompong Chhnang Province. Counter- attacking government troops apparently were able to push the enemy out of the depot, however. Some mu- nitions are still stored at Lovek, but most have been moved to Phnom Penh for safekeeping. 1 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27: CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY LAOS Souvanna has been informed that Communist leader.SoUphanouvong,is sending a representative to-Vientiane to "examine the arrangements" for an "eventual meeting"-between the "interested parties:" The emissary will carry a letter from Souphanouvong-,- evidently in response to Souvanna..'s letter of late June which proposed that talks be held in Communist territory in? Laos. This initiative is probably the fruit of consultations in Hanoi involving Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Firyubin, the Polish ICC representatives, and presum- ably the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao. Firyubin is now on his way home. Stories about'anew Soviet peace.initiativeorig- inating from his stopover in New Delhi probably relate to this more modest Laos proposal'. 2 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY USSR A central committee plenUm yesterday. scheduled thejong7overdue,24th Party Congress for March 1971. The plenum also announced tha-tiBre2hnev and Kpsygin would give the main' reports at'the congress, suggest- ing thatuntil then at least, Moscow does not expect' top-level leadership changes. Party leaders earlier had committed them- selves to holding, the congress this year, a promise Brezhnev made again as recently as 2 July. Difficulties in working out the over-all guidelines for the next five-year plan may be one of the reasons for the last-minute decision to delay the congress. FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27: CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY NOTE 4 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 50X1 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9 Top Secret Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A008500130001-9