LETTERS TO THE TIMES PROTEST URGED ON VIETNAM AMERICANS' DUTY TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST ATROCITIES STRESSED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100410018-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: September 16, 1953
• Content Type: NSPR

135P 1 6 1963
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-R
Protest Urged on Vietnam
Letters to ThT.rnes>i?
Americans' Duty to Speak Out
Against Atrocities Stressed
?p a EDrMRar Tun NsW YORK TuLes :
It seems now, from your co
r spondent (lesue Sept. 9) that th
" pecial forces" which have bee
a resting, beating and killing Bud
d Isla, school children, and others
Muth Vietnam hs.ve been doing s
ith money, arms and, tratnin
\?cn them by our own C.I.A.
Yet it also seems, according t
t ie same correspondent, that th
egular monthly payment" to they
f rces to to continue. Indeed, o
v hole military and economic pr
j ram in South Vietnam must a
arently go on because, in the word
f our President, "it would not
elpful at this time" to reduce it.
The recent events in the maj
ities of south Vietnam are horrib
nough. They are. scarcely more a
owever, than the less publicize
ut more extensive brutalities an I
trocities which for several yea e
he Government of South Vietn ,
n the name of anti-Communis ,
as been committing against 1
eople in the countryside.
To an American what is partic -
arly disturbing is the silence f
oat rank-and-file Americans. ? s
eem oblivious to the extent of 0 r
wii responsibility for what is ha
pening. Apparently we scare y
realize that in a very real sense e
Government of South Vietnam ? is
our government, inasmuch as e
were its primary creators, and wi -
out our massive support it could t
possibly do what it has done; Inds d,
it would long since have collapsed
The excuse of Germans under t-
ler was that they did not know w at
was happening, and could not h e
prevented it if they did. We as e-
sponsible citizens living in a dent -
cracy cannot use this excuse. W en
will we raise the voice of human ty'
and justice to Say: "This is ammo al.
" 7 n"M (
Philadelphia, Sept 11, 1963.
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