THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 12 DECEMBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977847
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: December 12, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
12 December 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
12 December 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Military activity in Laos remains at a low level.
(Page 3)
The. Soviets vill.host several high-level Arab.delega-
tions.this-month. (Page 3)
The, Berlin talks continue to be deadlocked because
the four powers are unable to agree on establishing
guidelines for substantive negotiations between the
two Germanies. (Page 3)
The Portuguese may be preparing a raid against Zambia.
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LAOS: Current Situation
BURMA
THAILAND
GULF
OF
TONKIN
? Government-held location
? Communist-held location
V TNAM
, .THAILAND
CAMBODIA
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NOTES
Laos: Military activity in both the north
and the south has remained relatively low since
the government!s successful defense last weekend
of Site 22 on the eastern rim of the Bolovens Pla-
teau. Communist probes and rocket-attadkS have
continued both there and at nearby Site 165, but
tactical air strikes have been generally success-
ful in keeping the enemy offbalance. In the
north, the government harassing operation directed
at the Communist logistic base at Ban Ban is moving
along slowly because of poor weather and sporadic
skirmishing with local North Vietnamese forces.
Enemy activity west of the Plaine des Jarres also
has been limited.
USSR - Middle East: Sudanese Defense Minister
Abbas is visiting Moscow and will be followed by
Egyptian Vice President Ali Sabri and possibly by
Libyan Chief of State Qaddafi. Qaddafi reportedly
will arrive On 15 December, and Sabri, accompanied
by senior Egyptian military and diplomatic offi-
cials, is scheduled to arrive two days later.
These visits suggest talks will center on the sup-
ply of additional arms for each of the three .coun-
tries.
USSR-Berlin: Moscow is still trying to bring
about-direct talks on Berlin between Bonn-and'Pan-
kow.. At the latest four power session on 10 Decem-
ber, Abrasimov again proposed that the four powers
instruct the Germans to begin such talks immediately
without any detailed guidelines, a formulation that
has been rejected by the Western ambassadors before.
The Soviets undoubtedly knew their proposal would
not'be.acdepted, but they may be attempting to
establish allied recalditrance for the record.
Meanwhile, the Soviets may be hoping that a solu-
tion on. accesswill evolve from the working-level
exchanges-between East and West Germany which will
resume later this month..
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CAMEROON
-\Santa
abeI *Yaounde
EOUAT
GUIWEA
RIAL
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
SUDAN
ETHIOPIA
Bangui
UGANDA
*Libreville
Kampala* KENYA
GABON
CONGO
Loire
VIciona
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
OF THE CONGO
*Nairobi
Brazzaville
mbura
UNDI '
Kinshasa
TANZANIA
Lake
Tanganyika
Luanda
ANGOLA
(PORT.)
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Port. training camp of
Zambian dissidents
Macondo
ZAMBIA
Lusaka *
RHODESIA
SOUTHWEST AFRICA
(INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY,
WALVIS BAY
*Windhoek
BOTSWANA MOZAMBIO
IPORT.I
.Gaborone
Pretoria
Mbaban
15Lourenco Marques
Maser
THO
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Area under white Control
0 200 4?0 MiI
0 200 400 NtIom.lers
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Portugal-Zambia: We have received some further
indications of a forthcoming Portuguese-sponsored
military operation against Zambia that we first
noted 10 December.
A Portuguese police message from a training base in
Angola for Zambian dissidents places a special group
of these dissidents in the border town of Macondo.
The message also suggests that the leader of the
dissidents will be flown from the base to the border
today. These insurgents are capable of conducting
a limited paramilitary operation via helicopter
against Zambian border posts and staging bases of
anti-Portuguese guerrillas.
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