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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 12 DECEMBER 1970

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FOIA [1]
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President's Daily Brief 1969-1977 [2]
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0005977847
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RIPPUB
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T
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10
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August 14, 2016
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August 24, 2016
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Publication Date: 
December 12, 1970
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 The President's Daily Brief 12 December 1970 49 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 50X1 , Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 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. (Page 4) FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 \ 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 _ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 1 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 s ? , ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14: CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY LEBANON 2 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 LAOS: Current Situation BURMA THAILAND GULF OF TONKIN ? Government-held location ? Communist-held location V TNAM , .THAILAND CAMBODIA 550679 12-70 CIA7 _ -- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 50X1 . _ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14: CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 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.. (continued) FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 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.) - ? ? 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 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 (-1,4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 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. 4 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5 Top Secret Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/06/14 : CIA-RDP79T00936A009000110001-5

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