Declassified in Pan Sanitized Copy Approved for Release Daily 23 jmze 1969 I 18 50x1 Deciassified in Pan Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016 9497 CIA-RDP79T00936A007200190001-7 Deciassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Reiease 2016 0497 FOR THE PRESIDENT ONLY Birrenbach who arrives in Washington today _oomp1ained that he had not been ahle to see Brandt when he was preparing for the trip 'He said that_as a result he would be represent ing Kiesinger s_viewpoint rather than the coaiition's He claimed the coalition was in a parlous state and he made it clear he hoped it would not be reconstituted after the elec- jtiohs He said he felt that if Brandt returned as foreign minister most of West Germany's foreign policy resources would be harnessed to Branotts eastern policy rather than to more important tasks such as the construction of unity in West- ern Europe SOVIET AFFAIRS Recent satellite photOgraphy shows that the second of two 1aunch pads for the Soviets' huge'new space booster is nearing compietion at Tyurata A booster has been erected for-the first time on this pad located at complex J FOR THE PRESIDENT ONL Deciassified in Part sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2016104127 90001 7