GOVERNMENT 'ITCHING' FOR 'WAR WITH CHINA'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200770004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 5, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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i ;PIiO~idIX,ARIZONA
I GAZETTE
'E. 83,965
T TH EDITOr
To the Editor of The Gazette:
All of the public statements being is-
sued from the White House indicate quite
tragically the extent that the President
has come under control of the military-
industrial establishment about which ex-
chief executive Eisenhower w a r n e d
Americans in, one. of his moments of
greatness.
The official "line" emanating from
the government is, of course, that we
were "invited" to come into Viet Nam
by the South Vietnamese government. {
(Have there been nine or ten govern-
:meets since then?) and we'll stay there
until we feel we are no longer needed,
or words to that effect.
.In one of the many coups that have
occurred, it is well known all over the
world - with the possible exception of
the United States - that the whole messy
business was engineered by the CIA, I
Apparently Diem, who was cruelly tnt r-A
dered.
our plans for his country.
If- the government were willing to be
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-honest with us, they would tell us they
are "itching" for an all-out war with
China. Perhaps the government has even
decided at last to "unleash" Chiang Kai-
shek on the Chinese mainland after, lo,
these many moons and after, lo, those
many billions of aid to the aging old
gentleman. I cannot think of anything
more satisfying to the Russians than to
see the United States and China in full
scale conflict in Asia.
THE SILENCE on events in Viet Nam
is deadening. It seems to me that it has
been a tradition of free societies, par-
ticularly ours, that given the full and
accurate facts, the people can' decide
what is best for their nation. This prem-
ise, however, a p p e a r s to have been,
shelved by our government when U.S."
actions.in Viet Nam are concerned. Hav-
ing read in a national magazine a list of
regulations for reporters in that area,
and truly shocked.
Military men will establish censorship
regulations at the drop of a brass hat..
They frequently make the assumption
that they know best what the American
public - including the soldiers - should
be told.
The.point is that such censorship
iallegedly in; the "public interest" - is
pretty close' to mass brainwashing, is an
affront to America's national conscience !
M. R. HAGPRTV
?.tefling Frcedom~`?`"':'.
a o thc 'Editor__- he recent
reign policy i.
. I' rom the beginning the Amer?'#
:'free elections, ree speechVand t,
the inherent right,tf the peo-;
.,, like it yr not, aeter-.a
mines much. of'-nnr interne-`'
}tarp ? dictatorship:; which sun} s
{i,rebs all or, thE' rights' arid''
vYlrivilpnnr which we ._ a a--_ 4
i=,l It is' time -now that the ad=
jvolt, throughout the wnrld,d
((ng People.
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