LODGE ADJUSTS TO AIM OF WARDING OFF AGGRESSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300430043-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: September 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By John Maffre
eased last summer that
iet-Nam he included this'
it of philosophy in his re-
ide the Embassy:
as to_be,? conducted in ;
ilence, secretly - punctuat-'
This approach is expected
When he left, everybody
South Vietnamese prevail In
their fight against the insur-
gents.
ome to the conference to
In the year in which
ine if violent public reac
ion had proved that milita-;
ovqrly 'concerned about this.
nd to gather some inkling
f how to do it.
This, apparently, is part
it Force Maj. Gen. Edward
. Lansdale, who arrived
though today he was given
an of the U.S.. Mission
ry General of the Central
ural? Construction Council.
The Council - which isi
ss than one month old and I
hick in fact has not. yet
een convened-will morel
r less decide priorities in }
inking seep through to
on-official people, but it is
nown that he is even less
solutes in an area where
eything has become so
nditional.
ictory," for example.
liuv 'I
AAA
vis the military.
To this extent, Lodge will.
e more of a harmonizer of
ivergent opinions than 'he''
as two' years ago. His in
tructions then were that
hen President Ngo Dinh
iem had overstayed his
sefulness and that the rug
as to be pulled out from
nder him, and he firmly
aid down the law to the
S. Mission that this was
olicy.
Two years later his Mis
ion is concerned with keep-
ng an administration func?
ioning rather than toppling
ne.
Lodge will also be con- `
erned with sorting out the ?'
arious ' rivalries involving
he military and civilian
egments of the U.S. Mis-
ion, both of which have
rown tremendously since
e left.
In Qne sense Lodge's as-
essment of the Vietnamese
roblem has not changed.
Then he left he felt that if
he peasant could be given'.
,he boon of a guaranteed
ood night's sleep, and if ?
he lowly Vietnamese felt
onfident enough in the
overnment to' tell it what
e knew, the war would,,in.
ffect be over.
He still feels that way. ;
ow that he is back, he
ust satisfy himself how ;
or away from that ideal the'
ituation in Viet-Nam is.
is kind of a war. A phrase
am's commitment to self-
rotection ? at home but ? I , ? ( .. ; %..
ved by his former broth-
y an alternative to war-
ire, and he will make it
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