THE FACELESS CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100300010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 14, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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' POPLAR BLUVV, MMO.
AMERICAN REPUBLIC
X. r3 4 '1966
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1oes si3'?'"'je quescon arses. from the controversy over
it leading article published in the April issue of Foreign d
,Affairs. The article, "The Faceless Viet Con," under
took to sport the State Department's contention that
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