U.S. AIDES CONFIRM WAR-PRISONER TALK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260051-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: March 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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U:S. AIDES CONFIRM -
WAR-PRISONER TALK'!
Spcclal to Tt,e Ncw York Times
WASHINGTON, March 27-'
nists in Vietnam." I
feet the release of United States,
an official of the Agency for
scribing the effort to negotiate
in February, 1965. 1
Private, 'however, officials!
confirmed the reports, which,
described contacts with the!
National Liberation Front, par-
ent movement of the Vietcong.,
The goal is to arrange the ex-
change of Mr. Hertz for a Viet-'
cong guerrilla, Nguyen Van Hai,'
who was arrested In Saigon last
March, as a participant in a:
bombing attack on the United
States Embassy. ,
Those involved In the nego
tiation effort are Senator Rob-I
ert F. Kennedy of New York,'
Sanford Gottlieb, national sec-
retary of the Committee for a
Sine Nuclear Policy, an re,
scrd'a ' f01?f
ligence A en
International Development who
was captured by the Vietcong
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