SAIGON SEES REPRISAL AS POSSIBLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400240009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 31, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

BALTMIMME SUN
STATI N
Sanitized - ApprdIease : CI
CPYRGHT
Saigon Se 'eprisa` As Drmsible
es n i'l A U
Speculation As To Re
taliatory Strike in
4 North Grows
CP RGHT_
States may sit ukc direct1y al t
Communist North Vietnames
capital of Hanoi in reprisal for
he terrorist bombing of the
United States Embassy. The toll
from yesterday's blast rose to 20
(lead and 175 wounded.
am
creased today that the Unite
Ambassador U. Al(xis
Deputy
i
?' h
South Vietnam trere will be no
oleo .-
M?" 1 . ?;a';.
rea
were
, ,
place for them to hide even if
Air Base in the Philippines
they die,"
The Vietnamese dead methi d
U.S. Girl Dies
the car driver, felled as he lied
one
a girl secretary of the emba: sy,
with a
fellow
terrorist,
and sever-
Barbara A. Robbins, 21, of Den-
al Vietnamese 'policemen on
guard duty at the embassy.
ver.
The other victim was a United
The second terrorist, ' who
packed a .45 istol, was shot from
identity was withheld until his
the motorcycle and cap urea, se-
riously injured
ily
is
f
.
The explosion was heard for
himself slashed by Dv -
Johnson
miles around. It blew the sect io
l
,
into
5 c
Saigon, u'itlaln, C lies Ct
March 31 UP) - hpcculation I:
('marched in front of the United Wry -it!- ,tin use 1 lts, Iutrtuittmt
I ..__ __ _i_-. Nnrfh Vtntnam
r
Deputy \mbassauor . Johnson,:
Communist Viet Cong. Light was else can we no ,nr an tn-
if
f
it
'
k
d
h
d
for in yVa5hington, emerged f'rom'
e w
e o
a Un
e
as
e
t
l Saigon dropping core.
swe
e
,
t over r
)l mi,
t e
his wreck d fifth floor office with
p
p
States embassy worker.
1
p
slashed ba glass and
h;; face
1
the demon-
c!
:;
advertising Vietnamcse soldiers and G lv-
,
.
hino(t dripping on his'shirt collar.
t rti~ln 1 1 ? d I
ornment ollicra s slate it tat
Dill ing the night 2 more opinion telling Americans in e[ l
Praises Stiff
feet: "Now you have no choi 'e,
'Jietn-lmese died of wounds. That h
' ie said, however, the Aricri-
d
H
id
ic
i
i
you have to Hanoi," I
marls the toll 2 Americans and 18 bomb
.
e
t;n
e
nt
:
cans are not
b
-
ti
f th
d
n's governmental'
'Jiesnamcse killed and 45 110 Chi Mi h
stron
hold has never been
as
on ?n
e Jn
the reac
praise
so sh Jf, American and V ulna
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g
and 130 Vietnamese
mta leans touched in i aids solar b
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