CIA GIVEN ROLE IN PACIFICATION

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CIA-RDP73-00475R000401050002-6
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December 27, 2016
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January 6, 2014
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February 14, 1966
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STAT Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release ? - - ' 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-, - 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, m ? . In eve Commut?iiiiTpieee . Of propaganda, 'is perform- ! . ing an unusual role in South Viet Nam's-rural rebuilding intimidated Villagers . $. . 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. . ? . . -x been using' to woo Vietnamese villagers ! . . ? . ? , . Initially, the PAT project will concentrate on en- to their political cause. . : i, , 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 / ,1 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 . ,1 # Prime Minister Ky, and Viet- Nam Chief of ' State' ' 4 . ? If' the Saigon government can successfully en-. k ? Nguyen Van Thieu. . large these three perimeters by 14 percent, it then'i E. R INT ew Military Strength , ? , can claim control over about 62 percent of the coun-,t - , , try's geography, a vital point ? in the diplomatic . i -4 Implicit in that doctrine, according ' to some r 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 !'. regime and the Johnson' administration have decided ? In, spite of this dismal record, however; the Ky 1 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. ? ? , , ? . . Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @50-Yr 2014/01/06 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000401066002-6