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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200180040-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: August 23, 1964
• Content Type: TRANS

1904 23 AUG 64 EI
(TEXT)- PEXING--yACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON, CERTAIN
U. S. ?POLITICIANS "AND NEWSPAPERS _ HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED T{AT. IT IS
INFORMATION SERVICE
Approved For Release 2001/08/01 ~S~Cl5=
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-MATT'H'IAS PAPER
CPYRGHT
PEKING NCNA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE IN ENGLISH
INPOSSI,GLE FOR THE UNITED STATES TO SUPPRESS BY FORCE THE SOUTH
VIETNAMESE PEOPLE WHO ARE PERSISTING IN THEIR JUST 'AND
PATRIOTIC
STRUGGLE.
SENATOR WAYNE MORSE SAID IN A SENATE SPEECH FRIDAY THAT THE
UNITED 'STATES IS tkOVING CLOSER TO A FULL-SCALE OCCUPATION OF SOUTH
VIETNAN. '"WE CAN 'CO??NIT OUR ENTIRE ARNED FORCES TO THE WAR, BUT
WE NEVER WILL WIN ANYTHING," HE SAID. HE ONCE AGAIN: CRITICIZED
THE U.S. -POLICY OM ISOUTH VIETNAI* ,'SAYING THAT "THE TRAGEDY AND
FUTILITY OF THE AMERICAN WAR, EFFORTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM ARE BECOMING '
MORE EVIDENT EVERY PAY," THE WEAKNESS OF''TH AMERICAN-SUPPORTED
l`GUYEN: XHANH GOVERMENT; CANNOT BE. OVERCOME BY` AN;Y AMOUNT OF. U.S.
AID, HE ADDED.
WILLAI?D MATTHIAS, A MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC'Y'S.'
BOARD OF NATIONAL' ESTIMATES, VOICED "SERIOUS DOUBT THAT VICTORY:
CAN BE WON" IN SOUTH VIETNAM, ACCORDING TO AN A.P. DISPATCH
YESTERDAY., NO MILITARY END TO THE WAR. AGAINST. COMMUNIST GUERRILLAS
IS .II',} IG,HT, HE NOTED. IN A DOCUMENT ON "TRENDS IN THE WORLD
SITUATION," HE WROTE THAT ' "THE GUERRILLA WAR IN SOUTH ,VIETNAM IS IN
ITS FIFTH YEAR AND NO END APPEARS IN SIGHT' " "THE- VIEET CONG IN' THE
SOUTH, DEPENDENT LARGELY UPON.THEIR- OWN RESOURCES.., (NCNA ELLIPSIS).
ARE PRESSING THEIR OFFENSIVE. MORE.'VIGOROUSLY THAN EVER, HE'
CONCEDED.
TILE CHAI'RNAN. OF THE BOARD, SHERMAN KENT, SIGNED THE COVER SHEET
TO EI;1T;T}II;AS' PAPER AND NOTED TEAT TH1 PAPER "HAS. GENERAL 'GOARD
APPROVAL."
"THE SITUATION IN SOUTH VIETNAM 11i1S BEEN GETTING'WORSE,"
SAID T}IE. NEW YORK TIMES IN AN EDITORIAL ON 18 .AUGUST. THE "HARSH
REALITY IS9 ",THE EDITORIAL SAID, "A WEAK AND INSUFFICIENTLY'
OF FAITH IN' THE "REORGANIZATION WHEN IT ADDED THAT THE "REORGANIZA ION
SEEMS 'TO 13E A SHUFFLING OF THE SAME OLD DECK OF CARDS it
POPU R GOVERNMENT FACING AN ENI MY--THE VIET LONG--?/RICH IS GRADUALIL
GETTING STRONGER. THIS IS WHY NE':' MEASURES ARE BEING TAKEN TO
S1'REN6T}HEN THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE (MEAN ING THE RECENT "REORGr1NIZATI$
OF THE PUPPET REGIME IN -SOUTH VIETNAM w-NCNA) AND TO PROVIDE A
LARGER NUMD1:R OF AMERICAN FORCES AND GIVE THEN MORE AUTHORITY," THE
EDITORIAL SAID. BUT, IT IS CLEAR THAT THE NEWSPAPER'SHOWED LACK
WW-ALTER LIPP'IANN, THE U.S. COLUMNIST, ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IN
SPITE ;OF THE POWERFUL MILITARY' FORCE, THE UNITED STATES IS UNABLE
TO CLAMP DO''IN THE STRUGGLES FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION 'BY' THE PEOPLE
IN SOUTH VIETNAM OR ' IN OTHER ASIAN AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES. IN AN
ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE-NEW 'YORT HERALD TRIBUNE OF 21 AUGUST, '
LIPPMA:NN SAID THAT "THE POIIIT:' IS THAT MODERN WEAPONS, COi'iVENTIONAL
OR *NU(LEAR, CANNOT FIND TARGLTrS `O HIT WHICH WILL DEFEAT THE
CUERRI''LLA WARFARE. THE EXPEI IENCE OF THE BRITISH AND T}1E FRENCH,,
THE BELGIANS AND THE DUTCH, . IS THAT GUERRILLA WARFARE IN AFRICA AND
I AA PA v} 4 Fir ROleid C7QXRIZ 0 N Qq I fDi - g31RQW 1 4AI$DED.
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