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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200060027-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: February 13, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For RI"i999/09/07 : Cl
FE S 12 1957
CPYRGHT
^ FRANCES FITZGERALD, 26. One of the
youngest of the new faces, she already
has written for The New York Times
Sunday magazine, The Atlantic, The
Village Voice and Vogue. A 1962 Rad-
cliffe graduate, she has the social cre-
dentials to make the news rather than
report it (her mother is Marietta Tree,
former U.S. representative to the U.N.
Trusteeship Council, her father, Des-
mond FitzGerald, a Central Intelligence
Agency official). Instead, the tall, slender
Miss FitzGerald decided to pay her own
way to Vietnam. "I was scared about go-
ing out with the generals in helicopters,
she recalls, "because they'd fly where
someone could hit them." Back in Saigon,
Frankie FitzGerald often spent her eve-
pings with friends at embassies, some--
times at small dances. "We were fiddlinz
slightly while Rome burned," she says.
In an article in Vogue this month on'
"the fragile but dominating women of
Vietnam," she writes: "Perhaps because'
the alternative was too fearful to con ,
template, [the Americans] dismissed"
Mme. Nhu as an exception,, as a mon-
?strous aberration from the stereotype of
the submissive Oriental woman. In truth,
she was the norm."
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