DISSIDENT VOICE INSIDE CIA DOUBTS VICTORY IN VIET NAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200180044-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: August 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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,Washington, Aug. 22-(AP) -r y Matthias was, a lowed to
-A CTA officer it wr.s dir,'offer such a docur 6tIfor pub;
closed today, has voiced ". c lication.
ous doubt that victory can be; A cover sheet to Matthias' pa
won" in South Viet Nam and per was released. Signed by
suggested that the outcome Sherman Kent, chairman of the
night be a negotiated settle- National Estimates -Board, it
ment. stated that the paper "has gen-
Administration sources said eral board approval, though no
this is not the U. S. Government attempt has been made to reach
view, general agreement on every
The conclusion that no mill- point of it."'
ta'ry end of the war against Red Aside from the Viet Nam ref=
guerillas is in sight was express- erence,' the document appeared
ed by Willard Matthias, a mem- to be a routine summary of the
ber of the Central Intellinence obvious changes in the world
Agency's 12-man Board of Na-
brought about by the nuclear
tional Estimates, stalemate between Russia and
In a paper on "Trends in the the United States and by the
W,o r.1 d Situation," Matthias Chinese - Russian ideological
,wrote that the Communist Viet conflict.
Cong have stepped up their of- In releasing the paper, Admin-
fensive, and the counter-uer- instration iota effort "continues to floun- these sources emphasized
these views:
er" under poor prosecution by -Matthias was expressing
he Saigon government. his own views, not those of the
Continued large-scale U. S.
support of the anti-guerilla cam- U. S. Government or of any,i
paian and an end of "further agency within the U. S. Govern-1
political deterioration within ment.
South Viet Nam" could at least _Matthias', memo was circu-
achieve "a prolonged stale- lated among a few lower-rank-I
mpte." he said. ing officials, but was never giv-
Matthias said there also is a en tp the policy-setting National
chance that future develop- Security Council.
menu "could lead to some kind -The campaign ins Southl
of negotiated settlen6ent based Viet Nam may belong and ardu-
upon neutrall7ation." ous, but the U. S. Government is
. French President Charles rte fully committed to stemming)
Gaulle has suggested neutrali- the insurgents there and be-,I
zation of the area, an idea cool- lieves this will be done.
ly received by the U. S. Gov- -The Government also sees]
ernment. no grounds for negotiation with,
Administration sources made the Reds over South Viet Nam
the document available after at this time. A negotiated settle-
learning that it would be pub- ment was reached long ago at
lished in the\ Chicago Tribune. Geneva and-it is up to the Com-
A magazine had turned it down, munists to stop. violating the ac-
There was no explanation: of cord,
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