DEFENSE AIDES DEAF TO (Classified)PLEA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300280011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CHICAGO
DAILY. NEWS
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As one of his last acts be- been blocked by high Defense
re resigning, Roger Hilsman, Department officials. This dis-
ssistant secretary of State for mays many high-ranking sol-
ar Eastern affairs. urgently diers in the Pentagon, ;::slater
ecommcnded that American with the crisis of slur die in
oops be stationed in Thailand Southeast Asia who ac..:c with
lose to the Laotian border. Hilsman that soma;tn must
His intention according; to be done. Indeed, according to
eutagon sources was to stiff- White House sources, a i, not
n badly sagging morale even sure that Presidem J ohn-
hroughout Southeast Asia but son has been deeply briefed on
zest Cspecially in South Viet the urgency - at the VL,-y bast
tn, Thailand and Laos.
It is in Laos that the situation
as deteriorated the most with
he Communist Viet M i n h
roops - not native Pathet Lao
ut troops directed and armed
y Hanoi - having driven this
month to within 15 miles of
he Laotian-Thailand border.
And the strange administra-
ion silence on this new and
dangerous aggression in. Laos
as been inexplicable in light
of the fact that the Commu-
nists almost always take silence
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Ire: ill' of isle Central lam ll
:~CCni.1=h:;S SUIiCrCdl
ea .l:;lies His principal repre-
;;live i Viet N:int, J o h n
i icltardson, :::, r called last
a :Ilse ; t the result OTLodee.
l o.i e sycnt to Vic( Nam
teat tn.-led`e of
lil~
\, mrahic is of modern day,
IC: ^i~l :,nil Ills Ircc-whcel-
- of some public y,ar;;rig to ways ilrovcd tii son L.
Hanoi .:hour their urive to to handle I'nr instance several
Thailand's border. limes trier to the Nov. 1 coun-
And this is a typical exam-