U. S. POLICY CHANGE CROAKES VAGUE ROLE FOR AMBASSADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300430024-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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t1lard v a Viennese prob.!
nl U.S. car help not i is?i.llar Embass::y staff an(
tnai h1ougilt with him two n?'c.i.1
ras. tvar and
ac i, 1 this pioach, to l:r. Lodge talked Only to
'Jet-Ian curing s + ni r ``a hington, preferably only
5.,. , , un to tile While House.
~t'iie late Pr'r-s'-dr?i,r .Tnl~n
ci ion to chan'e U.S. policy
szr.?in_- anc sumnlrr'
~)Uviotlsly has c an,c,ed iv71'.
he prepama to return to
i -,- - isio ge's i2fluet lce. The U.S.
anus arnba,~saaor for the
Military I3-n'ti(- }? iOn R I
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before
.'Ti-. `Lodge wanL back to
irdiam.
S'o he \s...
apt a re .Of Ill,- rnew direr; nn of.
ltnerican activities is Viet- r
tt-heri he agroed to go
"cri:u : in Th+ role of Wa:sh-
;, civilians in Vietnam.
s e(' rtary of Slate Dean Rusk
7,: = eefl to Vietnam only
twete ill five ,t-ears,
J'. ` } ae policy ti '0`1 'little .as be beard abrut
view that a rite
tl ,; :.or or coneral
, v ,o.httion was not po?ibi(' i an ~Ci lc _ c i' f I: it ideas o f
in fT/lew now that it 1
he the only solution. rice they returned fa' Viet-
%'he military men In Vtcit f -:71 best 'L;I11nlcr.
,am dominatee the scene,
,ust '.i'i1a a ii List with Yfr. I%
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