rec- c a2 m Declassified in Pan - Seniti'zed Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 The sz dem if Daily Brief 11 june 1970 27 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 a if Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY THE DAILY BRIEF ll June 1970 The situation in Cambodia is discussed on Page 1 In agreements intermixed with ultimatums have led to an uneasy truce between the government_and the fedayeen Page 3 5OX1 Page 5 5ox1 So fary'no Soviet aircraft have challenged the intenr sive Israeli bombing raids along the Suez Canal Page 6 President Pak is looking for ways to stall the re duction of US troops ianouth'Korea Page 7 Page-8 55OX1 Page 9 i 5OX1 The Makarios government is alarmed over unfavorable trends in Greek policy toward Cypruso Page-10 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 CambrodiiraLCurrenl Situation I THAILAND 50 MILES SLEM REA SIem Reap Kompongr SomC Sihanoukvillv f- Governmentcontrolled location - I Communist-controlled location Ehe'm Wfor 4 Kom I a I I Senmonoro ego SUI CHNA SEA 98818 6 70 CIA 5OX1 Declassified in ISart - SJanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY CAMBODIA An estimated 1 000 Vietnamese Communist troops supported by artillery_and mortars are maintaining heavy pressure against Kompong Thom city and its air- port and only South Vietnamese air strikes have pre- vented its capture The government has four battal- ions at Kompong Thom but one is composed of young inexperienced recruits who reportedly are exhausted Ammunition supplies at Kompong Thom are running low and air resupply efforts are being complicated by bad weather Cambodian Army officers in Phnom Penh are_plan ning to move two Khmer Krom battalions immediately frOm Phnom Penh to Kompong Chhnang on Route 5 'south- west of Kompong Thom They then hope to be able to shuttle these troops in_South Vietnamese helicopters to Kompong Thom The military situation at Siem Reap has stabi- lized The airfield is open but only to military flights Communist troops continue to harass the town with sniper fire and some enemy elements are now said to be hiding out in the ruins at Angkor Wat A Cambodian military spokesman claimed yester- day that some Lao Communist forces are involved in the fighting at Siem Reap Although the government has not offered any evidence to support this charge it is possible such forces are in the area In mid- May-villagers in Sithandone ProvinCe in south Laos claimed that a substantial Vietnamese and Lao Com- munist force crossed into Preah Vihear Province in _northern Cambodia The troops reportedly told the villagers that they previously had been involved in the attacks on Attopeu In the northeast the town of Labansiek in Ratanakiri Province was hit by another mortar at tack yesterday Government counterfire reportedly caused some enemy losses however In the south the Communists attacked a military outpost near Route 4 the vital main_road between Kompong Som Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh Government elements there apparently were holding on despite continuing enemy pressure continued FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 2 g Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY that senior Cambodian Army officers are hopeful thatr arrangements can be made to train new Cambodian troops in South Vietnam This subject_was discussed initially with Vice President Ky-and South Vietnam- ese Army officers in Phnom Penh during Ky s recent visito The Cambodians want any such training to be con- ducted by the South particularly insistent that it be carried out with over-all US supervisione They emphasized that the trainees must remain under the cloSe'cOntrol of their own officers and-non-commissioned officers that eight weeks would be the optimum training period and that their troops should be fully clothed and equipped in South Vietnam before they return to Cambodia k According to a Radio Hanoi broadcast yesterday Sihanouk s defense minister claims he has estab lished a temporary command post in a I'liberated' area for the organization training equipping -and political education of He also reported that information centers had been set up in various liberated areas and said preparations are under way to install a liberation radio in Cambodiaa FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 50X1 50X1 5OX1 Declassmed In Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936AOO8400100001-3 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Yesterday s second cease fire agreement appar- ently succeeded in establishing an uneasy truce in Amman 7 but the situation remains tense The new agreement seems to have superseded a short-lived ten-v point settlement arrived at between King Husayn and Palestine Liberation Organization PLO chief Yasirx Arafat early yesterday The latest ceasemfire com- mits each side to return to their bases and to rem lease all those detained since the beginning of the crisisa Although gunfire generally subSided-wat least for a time- following theannouncementy ing into the capital shells could still be heard in scattered places and at least one police post in the southern part of the city was under_rocket attack The earlier Husayn Arafat agreement collapsed within hours possibly as a result of a government ultimatum that the fedayeen meet certain unspecified conditionsa A spokesman for Fatah in Beirut stated that at-least two refugee camps in Amman were being shelled by government artillery yesterday afternoony and that army trOops had blocked the main roads lead- He added that a Fatah supply base and two other fedayeen posts were under artil- lery mortary and tank attack at Suwaylih a village about ten miles northwest of Ammano Even before the breakdown of the ten point set- tlement however one of the more radical fedayeenr organizations the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine had refused to recognize it and announced stiff conditions for the acceptance of any c aseafire the withdrawal of all Jordanian Army forces to positions occupied before the outbreak of hostilities liquidation of all anticommando organim zations such as the Bedouin special forces dismis- sal from positions of authority of all anticommando elements and the release of all fedayeen under dew tention The PFLP is holding over 30 foreigners hos- tage in two of Amman's hotels and has threatened re- prisals if the government does not stop its attacks on fedayeen camps 2 I continued FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 50X1 50X1 50x1 5OX1 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY I - Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 The latest cease fire arrangement may not 'prove to be any more viable than its pred- ecessors Earlier Wednesday afternoon the central committee of the PLO was still insisting on the dismiSsal of three high ranking army officers including the King's uncle terms that Husayn would find diffi cult to swallow Even if the King succeeds in arriving at an acceptable compromise with the more moderate fedayeen organizau tions the radical groups particularly the PFLP-mwill be difficult for either side to control Meanwhile Husayn is coming under increasing pressure from Arab leaders to stop the shed- ding of Arab blood Iraq has requested an urgent meeting of the frontline states Egypt Syria Jordan and Ira ind a settlement 5OX1 FOR ONLY Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 Declassified in I5 ar1 - Si nitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-R6P79T06936A008400100001-3 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY USSR 5OX1 5OX1 I 50x1 5oX1 I 50x1 5OX1 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Despite daily Israeli Air Force saturation raids along the Suez Canal no Soviet aircraft have been reported active in the Canal area The occasional Egyptian aircraft that have risen to-meet the Is raeli attacks have been driven off or shot down Tel Aviv is intent on suppressing the construction of antiaircraft emplacements- both gun and missile - along the-canal The secondary purpose of eliminating Egyptian military been Virtually achieved in the northern canal sector ac- cording to the Israeli press By military pressure the Israelis prob ably mean the smallescale UAR raids that have raised the Israeli casualty rate in recent weeks Egyptian troops are not' likely to cross the canal in strength Even General Bar Lev the Israeli chief of staff has said publicly that he did net believe the UAR would attempt a major as sault across the canal FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY SOUTH KOREA Evidence continues to accumulate that President Pak however is beginning to face up to the prOspect of a reduction of US forces in Korea See Egg Presidentls Dailthri f of 8 June ' While making clear'his strong opposition-to any cutback prior to 1975 Pak has emphasized to Ambassador Por- ter that the key to South Korean concurrence is what the US is prepared to give in returno Pak flatly stated that until he knows the nature and extent of US plans for modernizing South Korean forces he canw not agree to any withdrawals Meanwhile Pak apparently has not entirely given up the idea that if he can persuade the US to under write the use of Korean troops in Cambodia he will obtain a lever to forestall the cutback in US troops in South Koreao Prime Minister Chong Il kwon has on several occasions informally indicated to the embassy that Seoul wants to enter the Cambodian conflicts 5OX1 5OX1 5OX1 50X1 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 A A Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 SAUDI ARABIA 5ox1 5OX1 IWJR Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 Declassified in Pen - S nitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 5OX1 5OX1 I 50x1 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Pan - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 Declassified in FSa rt - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 7 The Makarios government is becoming alarmed over what it sees as threatening aspects of Greek policy toward Cypruso One such item is AthensI failure to muzzle General George Grivas a'fiery' proponent of cyprus union with Greece enosis - Another is Athens continued retention on Cyprus of similarly minded activist Greek officers serving with the Cyprus National Guardo A further ominous sign _in the eyes of the Makarios government was the resumption of publication in Athens of a prOs newspapery which in-the past had been subsidized by the Greek Government Despite public protestations of solidar ity relations between Nicosia and Athens have shown signs of strain-ever since the attempt on Makarios' life last March At the time of the-March events the Cyp riots grew suspicious that a secret deal had been reached between Greece and Turkey aimed at deposing Makarios and dividing up the island These fears have been re vived by recent consultations in Home be- tween the Greek and'Turkish foreign min- isters A joint move of this nature is unlikely in the foreseeable future but' some other Greekusponsored_aotion against Maharios remains a possibility 10 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 5OX1 5OX1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 Declassifiedmin Part ISanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 NOTE USSR-Berlin At the Four Power meeting On Tuesday Sov1et Ambassador Abrasimov again insisted that-West Germany cease all political activity in West Berlin and attacked West German representation of West Berlin s interests abroad His remarks are pertinent to the negotiating package which Bonn see cretly proposed to the US last week That-proposal which was not tabled at the meeting would have the- Three Powers insist on Seviet acceptance of the legality of their position in West Berlin but would concede some limitation on Bonn's right to represent- West Berlin abroad Abrasimov s comments suggest that Moscow remains determined to sever Bonn s legal ties with West Berlin J11 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 CIA-RDP79T00936A008400100001-3 Declassified in Part Copy Approved for Release 2016 04 27 Top Secret Declassified in Pan - 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