'PEACE ADVOCATES DUPED'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100750001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 14, 1971
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT
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CHICAGO, ILL. -
SUN-TIitiES
- 5 41 , 0 '8 6
S 67,966
\q7.1
(11 inn):
Ilavitrc recently returned
with "feace deiegation" of
the American T:rite:?,ds Service
Comtnittee, Feha s ot. ae-
concc?t'on and Clei OV and
Bymen Cancerned, I v;as
-? tecet,(ed to feed in :,.eur
12 paper the statements of fi--e
Chicago:ins stating that the
American delegation was
' "ideologically uptia,ht and iii-
his statement is cyr.?:tt
from the group which
. the lianoi line fro:h
ring of the trip uniii rr....?
' tui-aeC Itome and ,vitleh
'oohed firther into the issue;
than the end of their nose. T
? have 31,-2.,-;-:r been a "ha wit" on
? the Indochina cnnffiet, and
..have el, en bean in .on tia
grolind gone of .1110virT 1:1F2
? Shea gill th,:ough the Wsc:ci-
sin With this
peace-loving group I cro,t sus-
pected of being a CIA at,tent,
booed by (1,,c; 012, and si ono
point even threatened i iii
being on the menu as "hat..k
.meat."
The "Citizens Conference" ;
was doped by hour after hour
of Communist ideology, was
? Very courteous to the North
Vietname.se, the Pro????isional
Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam, and Laotian -
and Cambodian Communist
student groups, and was openly -
hostile to the GVN and the
rArnerican?delegations. In fact,
??none of us was able to question-.
?.Xuan Thuy and we were able
to quOstion Ambassador David
Dfuce, In fact, eve-i?y
intioT,nceitLoy .
Catl?dy PutLer as "Our friends
froin ." while th,-: ;grail.) did ?
not even have tic c;.it-tttesy to
cis o for Inc SOIn
Ti'e sirtIple fact is that Hanoi
clerrni.nds thc.i. the GVN and the
Unitorl S?a?:es 'agree to their
dert.n?IF: before ti!e;?? will be-
gin r,ogotintion. Est accordin--;
t,';:e Peace .Conference it is.
t'nited ?Stat.es v.lio is '-
ha non:.' .Tiy: Communists
tittit ti:ey will accept a coo-
titan 9:ovornment made up or
chose who bc1iove in "peace.
independonce and freedom" in
the presont South Vietnamese
government. That sounds fine
until you discover that. it is the
Cotiimunisis who will decide
who believes in those ?,.irtnies;.
I 'ill continue to v..orlt for
ponce in my state. at I will
not achieve it by boing duped
into accepting one party .line.?
for another.
Rep. Marlin D. Schneider,
2c1 Wisconsin District
Wisconsin -Rapids
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