SAIGON MAY SLOW PACIFICATION PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300470009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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AUG 2 8 1966
a h 'inc 'director, Ma~Le Xu D4ai,
SAIGON~AY SLOW. was dismissed and the C.I.A.'-
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PACIFICATION PLAN'
Vungtauf alumniainterviewed
'near this provincial capital in,
the Mckong River delta either
jQut Seen in Program to Win,said they had not heard of, or:
SU t of Peasants ' not been influenced by, Major
ppor -'Mat's political activity.
They were members of the
f- ~: Special to The New York Timed which w ssgraduatted on May 21.
CANTHO, South Vietnam,'Its enrollment was 4,700. The
Aug. 26-The controversial pro-,present class is to be graduated
,gram for training South Viet-?" Sept. 15. One ether class will
namese ' rural ' pacification, be trained this }-car.
v orkers will be cut back "to. A Delicate Question
authoritative sources predictcd.j ..1,t. of the ratlure of th
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originally, enrollment at the went Ngo Dinh Diem, who was
Vietnamese Government's paci-.overthrown and kiUed in a coup
fication training center was to ; l ,tat three years ago.
have been almost doubled from under pressure from the
lcm Government, local officials
its present level of 5,240 -hastily grouped large numbers
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y January, of peasants into ill defended
Now, the sources said, enroll-'h amletss, many of which the
:'bent will continue near the Vietcong found easy to control.
`present level. Now the 59-man teams are
t,.. The original expansion plans 'being trained to work more
,reflected the emphasis at the 'thoroughly to make hamlets re.
Ionolulu conference between gist the Vietcong. They are
~~'resident Johnson and Premicrtaught to win the peasants'
?nonmwtary aspects of the Vict-11est c, food, and other aid.
;namese war. The expected cur-' Officials here and in Saigon
1?tailment of the program was' argue that it is too early to ap-
said to be largely the re- Praise the over-all performance
sult of a lack of experienced In. of the teams. But talks with
structors. team members and peasants in
this province, Phongdinh, indi.
Trainiig at Vungtau catcd strengths and weaknesses
At the training center, which ' implementation of the pro-
'is at Vungtau, a seaside resort gram.
'45 miles southeast of Saigon,' ? Hamlet residents were grate.
,pacification workers. are given dul for the aid of the teams.
i13 weeks' training to pre 'But at least one team had.
'pare for worst as 59-man teams moved out of a hamlet after.
that try t.o'wln over to the Gov-',two months without having
,ernment's side peasants who, managed to do its work in one,
'have been influenced ? by. the corner of the hamlet which is
'Vietcong. ".Mill used as a base by a Viet
The center stirred contro-'?cong squad. Another team had-
,versy earlier this year, when its worked in a hamlet by day but,
Vietnamese director, an cm-' many of its members spent the,
!ploy, .of the Central Intelli?I:nights in a neighboring cam
.trainees to support a minor na-,supposed to- live full time in'
etionalist political group that op-''the communities whose loyalty
!Dosed the saigon,,Govergment.1ahey~ ~?'Yinb,to.,~win.
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