CIA • 1969

THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 26 FEBRUARY 1969

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800180001-3 The President's Daily Brief 26 February 1969 19 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800180001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800180001-3 50X1 t Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800180001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800180001-3 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY MAJOR PROBLEMS MIDDLE EAST 50X1 1 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800180001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016/04/27 : CIA-RDP79T00936A006800180001-3 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY 50 EU.W.PE, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Thorn-, who has been seeing a lot of the French recently, has his own ideas about the genesis of the "Soames affair." Thorn says both:Debre and State Secretary Lipkowski:had been trying for months to per- SuadeDe-Gaulle that unless he made some,new initiative, the British would be in the Common Market "on their own terms" in 1974.. The two allegedly Urged the General to make 'a proposi- tion which would be. aimed at attaching the British...