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The President's Daily Brief

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This is the Central Intelligence Agency's President's Daily Brief for 6 February 1968, released in 2019. It reports renewed fighting in Saigon during the Tet offensive and South Korean anger over the Pueblo incident. It also covers Arab frustration with UN emissary Jarring, Soviet advisers in Egypt, the war in Yemen, the Panama election campaign and the British economy. A Special Daily Report on North Vietnam covers Hanoi's rejection of the San Antonio formula, shipping deliveries and AN-2 aircraft. The brief does not mention UFOs.

3 .. Middle East
4. Egypt
5. Yemen
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Arab leaders are getting fed up
with UN emissary Jarring. They say he
simply travels from capital to capital
without coming up with any new pro-
posals--while Israel digs in deeper in
the occupied areas. The Jordanians,
pointing to recent Israeli moves around
Jerusalem, are threatening to go back
to the Security Council unless Jarring
does something.
~~~-~~/ Since June the role of so~
viet advisers has progressed from test
flying newly arrived planes to in-
structing on tactics to flying opera-
tional patrols. Egyptian officers are
said to resent all this as a slur on
their ability and Egypt's sovereignty.
The military stalemate continues,
despite royalist claims that Sana is
surrounded, all roads cut, and "the
ring closing tighter." The royalists
admit that the republicans seem to have
plenty of ammunition and that republi-
can air strikes, although fewer, are
still hampering royalist operations.
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