WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300430032-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: September 20, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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..pU-ZIBLO, COLO.
CHIEFTAIN
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SE.P 2 01965
PPARENTLY . General Wessin, : As for the good general, we sup-
late of the Dominican Repub-. pose, he should consider himself
A..W.ha i Kind of MMMess4ge?
lie, just didn't get the message. He lucky. For failing'to heed the mes-
declined Uncle Sam's offer of $50; sage (in that new, subtle code of
000 for his house and a vacant lot U.S. "diplomats").-that he should`
in Santo Domingo, as much as to leav.e? voluntarily, he might have'
say that he intended to go on liv- suffered- the same fate as the late
ing there. So what happened? He ..'President Diem of South Viet Nam.':;
was evicted by Uncle Sam's agents , . Which reminds; us that Ambas-
who, it turned out, weren't real es- sador Lodge, the official, on-the-
*fitate agents interested in house and spot observer for Uncle Sun of
lots, but U.S. State Department and. : President Diem's demise, is now,
!'IA agents who, the general should back in Saigon. With him as a "spe-.'
liar" known, are more interested in cial assistant" is a reputed psycho-
coups and plots. logical warfare expert named Lans-'?
With anti-Communist General ' dale. They have a much-publicized .~
essin out of the country, the way plan which is supposed to I'moti-.',
now seems clear for Juan Bosch and .. vate". the Viet Cong enemy sol-
his various Marxist entourage to diers to throw down their, arms and..
set themselves up in power more' join the growing refugee popula-
easily than if their attempted coup tion in South Viet Nam - after
earlier this year had not been inter which, according to Senator Mari;-
rupted by General Wessin and the ; field, of Montana, some kind of gpo?'1
U.S. Marines. Quite , probably ? IVlr. litical settlement might be z ett.ched,
Bosch won't even demand a? public possibly reuniting North aifd South:;
apology` for that' interruption, pro- Viet Narn.
viding, that he gets enough of our,. We wonder if tl' ere's`?isonle ? kind
tax dollars. to support himself and of message in all ~ this or South
his regime in the manner to which Viet Nam's present premier, fer
they' .wish, to become aceustomed~ ~?vently anti-Communist General Ky.
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