LODGE TO RETURN FROM SAIGON SOON FOR POLICY TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200410083-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: October 24, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

RK "111NMFS OCT 1963
Approved For Release 1999/09/0
LODGE TO RETURN
CPYRGHT
changes ? m po 1cy` towaid the
Governent of President Ngo
=
:, t e ID
FROM CpN'DON f
said. "B51 bad tt ,to make
OR PIILICYTALKS
wants to c=* ba88. 'I jt, sort
of thing is easier to discuss di.
wily with hlxn."
Envoy. to Brief Kennedy on
he Political and Military
Situation in Vietnam
MR OF CRISIS DENIED
Officials in U.S. Insist Visit
aloes Not Herald Major
Changes in Planning
rty HEDRICK SMITH
a,p c1al to The New Vat 710es
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 --~
ah scheduled to return from
Ligon shortly to confer with
.`resident Kennedy on the mill-'
taty and,political situation In
luth Vie0lam.
Stole,. Department spoke}.
gnn ' all- iMced tansy that the
= lbAsuatir wout(r~ ave "a few
cts,Ya of wx nsultatulns" at the
end : f #i month or early tit
Novembjof -l
)ffid1 consider this an op-'
portuni * a for Mr. Lodge to
return lrne for a top-level re.
View r ,! 'ilnited States policy.
J toss over his pest Aug. 22
peak of the Buddhist
arisi-~
l,f lnited Nations mission
in Saigon Thursday,
ady charges that the
insist that no dramatic
ments have necessitated
j {3oreshadow ,.ny important
;ongresstonal sources sata n
estified at a secret seksion' oo
tative Clement J ~tlocks;;'
.nocrat of Wisconsin.`t"A
Gent. Frank A. Osmanskl, a~-
member of the MilitaryAdvi-,:
sory Committee for South Viet-;,.
narn, declared that "si Cants;
progress" had been made In thef,
the last year in the war:rltgtltnst ~
proved For Release 1999/09/07 'CIA-RDP75-00001 R000200410083-0
his U s ,of sftitation
'Vashington is partkcuissly
interested getting Mr.
Lodge's estimate of Its at-
gibe by epp,ying a slow e;,o-
nomlo squeeze
films ,uguat. Wagninvton
?1a:: Curtn ed the flow' of new
economic aid to South Vfet.uc.m
in the hope of building tap pres-
sure for n olitical reforms among
Saigon's business community.
lariier this week, officials ciis-
~a~ d C.I.A. TransfeR
elosed doss financial tup1*ortJ
of South iVietnarn'$ Special
nessmen,would begin hoardings,
goods and thus start an infix-!'
tiottary spiral ,
? ,
,
This has n to occur, buts
only to . 4 ht !degree, Al--.,.
though the ese Govern,
ment has shown its irritation'='
M ith such poll ere are no
indications that' dent Ago'
Dinh Diem snd;:Ngo Dinh Nhul:'
h,s chief advise',, are about to
ease their. auttsititartan.oQltltrol
t r:i
J
rer
mr t.oage yVU reign to.
.'
'ashingtc,n, however, 'having,
won a number of
points In his
cs.rnpalgn for amore aggressive
American effort to eliminate
tie repressive aspects of the
N go Dinh Diem regimen
Ewen top mill Lary "officials
heve subscribed to Mr. Lodge's
vlew that the political situation
in Saigon ""remains serious" and''
tl?:at repressive actions by the:
S:.igon Government could;
aainst Communist Guerrillas,'
Mr. Lodge also achievW the
transfer of john IL Richardson,
th' Central Intelligence Agency
mission chief in Saigon
and he
,
were used in the August attacksihas been successful In. shl g
u
`
on B
ddhist pagodas. .souse of the
i itelligence agency
Officials here have been sur-,' opcrati functions to the
prised by the mild reaction in'inr3tcuViaalltu3'o:
S
i
t
th
a
gon
o
ese moves V1 ashh'
.- Mrrs~ Ric lson, who ington's general etpeetationiportdd to have clashed wi