CIA GIVEN ROLE IN PACIFICATION
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CIA-RDP73-00475R000401050002-6
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February 14, 1966
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STAT
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release
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' PHILADELPHIA, PA.
E. 718,167
8. 702.577
, FEB 14 1966
Viet Nam's Villages -
@ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000401050002.-6
The young organizers have been carefully
I schooled in the art of *recruiting f011owers in their,
villages, and establishing local political action teams -;
? CIA Given 'Role \
.ani day-to-day to assist the peasantsroblem in solving small but impor--;
t Ps. .. i
; These could be the basic establishment of a griev- i
i..-:''' ? ' . lit racificcition. ,,, ance , committee with needed liason to the province!-
! chief, or re-opening a school for youngstis, repair-
- . . ? , ? , ,ing a village well, nr.procuring needed medical sup-,
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Jerry ter Horst, writer of the following report. ;plies or seed rice or fertilizer. 0 '.r. ? ,
.'? is accompanying Vice President Hump*ey in his 1 , But above all, the CIA-trained political activists )
tour of Southeast Asia. ? ? , are skilled at spotting Viet tong infiltrators and eith-,i
By J. F. TER HORST i 1 '. er capturing or driving them out of their local area. 4,
Q . 1 They , havpo 1
' Bulletin-North American Newspaper Alliance , ? ?
e been provided with American weans,
. , including submachine guns,?' as well as communica-
t- Saigon?The Central Intelligence Agency, villain tion radio equipment,
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. In eve Commut?iiiiTpieee . Of propaganda, 'is perform- ! .
ing an unusual role in South Viet Nam's-rural rebuilding intimidated Villagers .
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. progratit:_;.7... . ? .. -....7.....,...?.???.....-?....--.?,?..,,,,r,;--,::! i As a result, Wet Nam's new leaders are able to.
s . Nobody ?talks about it officially, but tilt' CIA is i go into a village and effectively assure the intimidat-1
., primarily responsible for training the 1 ed residents that they no longer need fear, the Viet
-h-t-o-p?Watife- leaders whO' are.' charged.' Cong because the new political action teams (called;
?with-the job of helping Prime Minister PATS) will protect them , against tertiorism, intimi-1
,Nguyen,.Cao KY 'achieve his Johnson- i
i dation, and high taxes. ? , ,
approved goal of luring the farmers: and The expectation is that this CIA model of vii-:
peagants ? away' from the .Viet-Cong. '
ilage Peace Corpsmen will be copied and expanded mas-
The ploy, interestingly, is almost' a I sively under the economic and p,olitical aid the ,Johnson 't
carbon copy Of the highly sucCessfull
i administration, pledged to. Saigon government at i
method the Viet Cong themselves have,f,HOnolulu. .
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been using' to woo Vietnamese villagers ! . . ? . ? ,
. Initially, the PAT project will concentrate on en-
to their political cause. . :
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larging the ? areas of government-held countryside
1. Humphrey This story can be told,
Iaround Da Nang, where 'U. S. Marines protect thel it is already known in North Viet Namand Commw now because; nist China. . vital U. S. air. field; Qujntan Province, and around /
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4:s T Saigon itself. : ?n
i.: . It is all a vital part of the Delcaration of Hono.- i
? ti lulu, initialed last .Tuesday by President Johnson, I Perimeters' to Be' Enlarged
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# Prime Minister Ky, and Viet- Nam Chief of ' State'
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. ? If' the Saigon government can successfully en-. k
? Nguyen Van Thieu. .
large these three perimeters by 14 percent, it then'i
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INT ew Military Strength , ? , can claim control over about 62 percent of the coun-,t - , ,
try's geography, a vital point ? in the diplomatic
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-4 Implicit in that doctrine, according ' to some
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and military game of 'convincing the rest of Viet'
American American officials, is a belief that South Viet Nam,
Nam; Asia, and the world that the - Ky regime has
,with the streng and continuing military and econom-
staying power. , ,
lc support of the U. S., has now provided itself a .
Attempts to pacify, the countryside in past years
; match for the enemy on the battlefield. have .?ailed miserably, in spite of millions of dollars .
;e; Thus, it has become necessary now to attempt to,
In U.S. aid money, because of poor planning, poorly- '
,.. match the enemy in an equally vital but so far un- trained cadres, and failure to insist that the cadres stay I
I done job?the herculean task of convincing the vil- in the area until the job was finished.
4,
lagers and farmers in this predominantly agricul- . tural land that the wave of the future is with the South
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regime and the Johnson' administration have decided
? In, spite of this dismal record, however; the Ky
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i Viet Nan Government, not with' the communists. ? it must i;e tried .again,' it. for no other :reason Omni
I. ? Thiels where the CIA fits in: .. ' .. , ? ' . . ?
il that t4eyiiiit? eahriot, be Won .iff the .tOop14, low onsti
I. it has recruited approximately 50 young *Wagers, cietideatWrt ;a Ve 80V6inctieOld'i:kie )cth v .rtii.gial
:4,....0: .....t.ir N. ?41,44. .14 , i ,.. ..i,' . V. '
i ? given them thorough .anti?ComMunist 'indoctrination,
y and?sent them back to organize .theiNoWn.shanilet.p fOt,,
1.theiSouth.Yiet:Nalli09Vning4.1104i4iiitailttx:44.40.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @50-Yr 2014/01/06 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000401066002-6