SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02406697
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: February 14, 1968

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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
14 February 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Hanoi Plays Down Tet Offensive: The North Viet-
namese are continuing to describe the Communist of-
fensive in South Vietnam as sart
effort.
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An article in the North Vietnamese party daily,
Nhan Dan, on 13 February also suggested that the
TITFF6E-Y-fighting would not be the final Communist ef-
fort. The article referred to the fighting as "the
curtain raising victories" and called it an example
of "relentless fighting and of firm maintenance and
development of the revolutionary struggle."
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Hanoi Allows Some Non-Communist Visitors: After
several months of denying visas to applicants from
non-Communist countries, Hanoi is apparently once
again allowing selected non-Communist individuals to
enter North Vietnam. \
Hanoi Letter to General Westmoreland: Hanoi's
latest English language broadcast to US servicemen
in South Vietnam took the form of an open letter to
General Westmoreland. The letter ridiculed "false
optimism" on the part of the General and claimed
that his attitude did not fit with the fact that the
situation is growing worse for the Americans in
South Vietnam. The broadcast pointed out that the
General's "failure and that of Washington are as
clear as daylight," and that the lesson he should
draw from Vietnam is that "no violence can prevail
over people's war."
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Yacht Phoenix Completes Mission: The Quaker
yacht Phoenix reach7d Hong Kong on 13 February
after delivering $6,000 worth of medical goods to
North Vietnamese officials at the port of Haiphong.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Hanoi on Senator Kennedy's Speech: North Viet-
nam added a bit morfTfs coverage of Senator
Robert Kennedy's speech last week in Chicago. In a
domestic broadcast on 13 February, Hanoi quoted sev-
eral sentences of the speech and added that "press
circles in the US" consider Kennedy's statement a
"severe criticism of Johnson's policy." Hanoi has
not yet referred to the speech in its international
English language broadcasts nor have the North Viet-
namese provided any independent comment on it.
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