CIA VIET PAPER IS CALLED 'ONE MAN'S OPINION'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300490080-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: August 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release ~004~%1~~/~9 ~~-~ 00
AUG 23 1964
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WASHINGTON, Auq. 2"
~(UPU.-High admfnistratlonl
!officials Bald today- that a cen-~
~tral nItelligence Agency docu-
ment declaring that victory'
lover the Conununist-11t Sou Wt
Viet Nam is doubtful and that'
'~eventualy it may be necessary.
'to make ? a? "noutralJzation"
ideal, does not represent U.S
tpolicy. .
I The 45-page paper, prepared ~~ ~ ,.,'t-
by Willia,rd Matthias of CIA'v
Board of National Estimates
attempts to assess development '
in various parts of the world?
within the framework of the -
~ Soviet-American power rely-~
ftianship, , .
1 STIRS OFFICIAT,S
It was writt.cn early this }gar;
~It has been circulated mm~n~
vvarious government ~:gencics
rwIth a notation that it h,ad
"general approval" of the f;TA ?
aboard which had, however, '~ ;
~lnade no attempt "to rra.rh
'complete agreement on eYery,?
Ppoint of it."
Administration officials were
obviously disturUed b,y the pos-~ ,
~sible political implofiations of
the document at this time inas-~
?much as Republican presi-
dential nominee Barry Gold-
water Ls charging them with a
"no win" foreign ?policyy.
' NEVER CON5IDT?Ri"sD
They said they wanted to
emphasize that the paper lead
never been presented to,? or
considered by, President John-:
son's National Security Council -
lior the top level U.S. ante]-' ,
ligence estimate board.
Official soul~r.es disclosed;
!existence of i.hc document
-when they lea.nted it had beclt
loffered for pubiica-lion as a.
~tna3or outline of American
policy. They as~ertcd that this
waF not true and t17at the ideas
{VPCP., a.5 071 P, Offlela-1 pLLt- it,I
"o1111' one stall's 0p11710It," ~ ,
Aside from Lhe Viet Naml
~neutralizatlon reference, they
document appearc.i to he a
routine summary of the obvious, -
changes bro77ght about by thel-
nuclear stalemate of terror be=
tween Russia and the United`': -
!Statea, complicated by the Red!
?Chinese-,Russian ideological.'
STA
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