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    "ocrText": "The President\nSE\n1\nJOINT DAILY SUMMARY #6\n(map attached)\nFrom 1000/02(EDT) to 1000/03(EDT)\nFrom 0001/03(KT) to 2400/03(KT)\n1. Weather: Past 24 hours: Generally fair throughout the area\nexcept west and south coast Korea, which had stratus and ground fog.\nClear and visibility unrestricted at 1000KT and stayed so. Next 24 hours:\nHigh and middle clouds, high based at 20,000 with tops at 22,000, middle\nbased at 10,000 with tops at 12,000. Visibility six to eight miles with\novercast stratus west and south coast Korea at 3,000 and ground fog by\n1000KT. Intermittent rain and visibility 1 to 3 miles by 2100KT (F' F)\n2. Soviet participation: A possible submarine contact at 1810/02\n(KT) is reported by FECOM® Investigating U.S. aircraft reported possible\nSnorkel smoke. FEAF reported sighting a submarine about 25 miles north\nof Chumunjin about 1700/02(KT). (SECRET) Comment: ONIhas no pre-\nvious information on the presence of Soviet Snorkel-type submarines in\nthe Pacific.\n3. Operations:\na. The buildup of North Korean forces, south of the Han River,\nand north and east of Suwon continues. At 0630/03(KT), an unknown num-\nber of tanks reportedly attacked south from Yongdungpoo, (a suburb of\nSeoul, south of the Han River). A North Korean column, including trucks,\nartillery and an estimated \"several hundred men** has been reported at\nKumyanggang. A second North Korean column, with an estimated strength\nof 450 men was engaged at Ichon by South Korean elements at 0630/03(KT).\nThe engaged North Korean column reportedly divided into two parts, with\none moving in a north-northwest direction, and the other in a south-south-\nwest direction. An undetermined number of North Korean troops reported-\nly landed at Wonsan Island (off west central coast) on 3 July. (FECOM)\n(SECRET)\nb. General MacArthur in Tokyo has requested the press, for\nsecurity reasons, to refrain from identifying U.S. units more specifically\nthan as the 5th and 20th Air Forces, the 7th Fleet, and the Eighth Army.\nC. The South Korean Government has moved 80 miles south\nfrom Taejon to Kwangju \"as a precautionary measure\", according to FE-\nCOM.\nTRUMAN\nDECLASSIFIED\n\"NATIONAL\n3\nO. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or\nARCHIVES AND\nLIMITED\n11-1-74\nRECORDS\nOSD letter,\nSERVICE\"\nNIT74.48\nNARS Date\n12.5.71\nGOVERNSON"
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