CHANGE IN PLANS, AS A RESULT OF SOVIET PRESSURE ON NORTH VIETNAM, OF RUSSELL TRIBUNAL ON ORGANIZATION OF A PERMANENT VIETNAM COMMITTEE 2. PLANS FOR AN AID SHIP TO NORTH VIETNAM

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0005430752
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June 24, 2015
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F-2009-01396
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July 5, 1967
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REMOVEDAL INTELLIGENCE AGIN4 Inteltgence Information Cable _b1 (b)(1) (b)(3) COUNTRY JAPAN/NO x SUBJ RANGE IN ANS, AS A RESULT SOVI SION IN OMME NT . HE PLAN TO FORM A PERMANENT ORGA 1. (S R'Y. ALTHOUGH THE PARIS SEC#SNRh1F,'OONFo* A PERMANENT ORd AFTER IT CLOSES NORTH VIETNAM INTO OCTOBER, SOVIET PRESSURE HAS FORCED ITHDRAWING FROM THE PERMANENT CO S NOW PLANNING TO EITHER FRO-ASIAN-LATIN AMERI AS A BASE. ONE OF THE FIRST IVITIES OF THE S WILL BE TO SPONSOR AND COORDINAT FROM VARIOUS MEMBER COUNTRIES TO VIETNAMESE INTO WITHDRAWING THE ACTIVISTS RUNNING THE BERTRAN PARIS SECRETARIAT TO FORM ITTEE. ANIZE THE TO USE FUG ITY ORGANIZATION DING OF AN AID SHIP VIETNAM.) SUPPO RUSSELL WAR RIMES TRIBUNAL TION TO CARRY Or.TORFR NAUF HAD TO W /MATERIALLY ALTERED. ORIGINAL Y THE PARIS SECRETARIAT ORGANIZERS INTENDED TO MAKE THIS NEW, P RMANENT ORGANIZATION, TENTATIVELY REFERRED TO AS THE'WORLD ETNAM COMMITTEE (WVC) AND PREVIOUSLY REFS ED TO AS TW$ RLD OMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THE VIETNAMESE P PLE, A FULL-BLOWN INTER TIONAL ORGANIZATION WITH THE OF CIAL SUPPORT AND PARTICIPA ON OF THE LEADERS OF A NU ER OF SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST OUNTRIES AND OF THE L ADERS OF A NUMBER OF MAJOR OPPOSITION ARTIESIN CAPIT IST COUNTRIES. AN-PIERBEyITGffR PLEDGE OF SUPPORT FOR THE PROPOSED THE PARIS SECRETARIAT SUCCEEDED FROM PRIME MINISTER KIM IL-SONG OF CAMBODIA, HOUR' BOUMEDIE PHAN VAN DONG OF NORTH VIE UP SUCH LESSER FIGURES OF NORT OF FIDEL CASTRO HIMSELF. NING SIMILAR PLEDGES KOREA, PRINCE SIHANOUK E OF ALGERIA NAM. THE SECRETAR AND PRIME MINISTER IT HAD SENT LETTERS I ITING THE SUPPORT OF SUCH PARTY LEADERS AS IRMAN SASAKI KOZO OF THE JAPAN S PARTY (JSP) AND CRETARY GENERAL MIYAMOTO KENJI OF THE AL PLANS CALLED FOR THE SELECTION OF NATIONAL A PREPARATOR MEETING. THE WVC WAS THEN TO HAVE BEEN FORMALLY ORGAN ED ON I MAY. 4. AFTER THESE RELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS HAD BEEN ADE, SOVIET OFFICIALS PRE SURED THE NORTH VIETNAMESE I .0 WITH- DRAWING. THE SOVIETS HA TWO REASONS FOR OPPOS 0 THIS NEW WVC: FEAR THAT IT WOULD B TOO MILITANT AND NCONTROLLABLE BY THE'SOVIETS, AND FEAR THAN UNDERCUT, THE STILL PLANNED SO IT WOULD OV SHADOW AND THUS ET-SPO ORED WORLD COMMUNIST PARTY CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW. AFTER WITHDREW, KIM IL-SONG ALSO ADVISE WVC FORMED, IN SFITE OF 5. THE PARIS SECR ORGANIZE THE WVC NORTH VIETNAMESE E PARIS SECRETARIAT THAT SPLEA D BY THIS REVERSAL OF T TO CONTIN E ITS EFFORTS TO AS ALSO STATED H DESIRE TO SEE ARIAT HAS NOT ABANDONED ITS\LANS TO SOME FORM, TWO POSSIBILITIES A C-O-N-F-I-D- T-I-6Y-L . C-O-N-F- N