CONGRESSIONAL RECORD --SENATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300490009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 4, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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c. 1 s raze:?? bombs, ses, bom) o. y ::-~lr.: G :'.. e lea; ~ :71
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y: ~.lc a~o.t._ we can assu:ilc on the basis _s..c: a. .c:'r :
City -i:t rC170:'ts filar t11C S:LU.:.L:O:1 15 llttlC uO111TL-ii4'1 'u`:: \ .~? i:,CV. I':Oi7Crt ~V?
- ,,,,,,.. .sgr. George :iuesslcr, fol? o):ample, a IioV>eti to got ol:t :~t least to some o: tt:e
`L'a^es ... vJ'rich file School of Tenth for
Social Scrvicc ?;o:'.:nt work, but my hosts
co:aidcrcd,it to be too drngerots for n:e to
do so aad 3atly roiused to take n1c, I neither
sought nor brad int,:rvictes with any o33cials
of citii~. tl:~ ot'ti1 Vietna:nesc or the An:er-
ican goverm::3nts, ~r with members of the
:Tress.: did visit :ionic of file voluntary agen-
cies wl]cse ilcadqu:.rters are in Saigon, in-
cluding the Victnanles3 Christian Scrvicc op-
crated jointly by :he ~:ennonites, Church
\':%orid Sc:?vice ant Lutllcran R'orld Scrvicc;
flit American b'ricr.,is Servica Committee, the
International Connnittec of tae Red Cross,
...- .. ae to file acs11 of its unfortu- .
.c..., :?icairs,~~ ?: tor" bombs, ,, :ses, bomir
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y YP. ~/1C ., Tt.: lVC Call ^5511:i]C 0:1 `vile basis -
o: ~- a ~:o: ., filar t113 tut. io:: is ittlc
?ter. Gcor?gc ;=iucsslcr, for example, a
;?o.-i:anj~C:'.t:)Glic tiVcifarc representative in
1pr Victn aril t0 prep aYC f01 11Liliia~l]itar :. ]7
.. ro.. ~,Ves Gcrm.r:y, 1;4ports 7G ilea
. :i:tiC3 ilavc V'ocen nil or partially destro;'cci
i;J iiC r};g tiic4s,
I:1 ~Alo ~C1ti..:i: tl~ 3Siit~illtiii3o t;iifi iil~hG111~.,'(;,
1ncr3 t..:a1 E,G00 Americans iiavc giveli ti:cir
lives. l~-zany mere have been gravely n?ou :cieci.
IIo\v ::lany of diem could 'nave described,
Lowcver aridly, the rcoinl3 for whose per-
petuatio:l they gave their Putal :;acri.`lca?
IIO\: lllari}' havC bCC:l Splrltllrl:iy WO:ir1C1C:i
.? acco,zplices, hardened, i-eri:aps. for tL?c
- .:t o: their lives, to hlunan st:ficring a::d
:w:ur:iced a~~ainst the ;1ner i~lunau qualities
of sympathy avid cor.:passlon?
In the yea: that has passed since w3 last
spoke, the v; eight of evidence against this war
ilas reaci:cd mountainous proportions.
We ti:cretore call : ,^!n upon ottr coun-
~ryn:en and goverllrllerit:
Tc stop the air ; ttaclcs on both Norti: and
Scut h V:etuatn, .::. once, t1l:ilaterally, rot
simply .,s noliticai move in the direction
nc;;otiations, but because those attacks
arc :al . ?iroilt' to izuman decency and un-
7?orthy ci' a great people;
To e~: ress a clear intention to withdraw a12.
Ir.S.:ni]itary fc:?ces ;tom Vietnam, consistent
t11 t11c 1'J5?i Ge:eva Agreements, to take l:f-
-,,,, im:l:;;diatc:y on conclusion of satisfac-
tory ar:?augemel:ts to assure the Vietnamese
,conic a free choice of governnlcnt;
Tc state unequivocally U.S. readiness to ne-
.ate an crd to the :vat on-the basis of
ti:c I~Jo4 A~reelnellts, With the National Lib-
cr: flea Front as one of the principals in the
rc;otiat:ons.
We appeal to ail corccrned parties to pledge
he ]selves to mo::e representative anti re-
slwusible govcrnn:e:it in South Vietnam.
~:r3 ask our fellow Atrjericans to begin t11e
work of repentance and heaIlno in Vietnam.
We have paid for the maiming. ?STiTe cannot
excuse ourselves fronrt113 consequences.
We ask a:orc funclameutally for a national
.:aniit:ation of conscicace. We Alncrica:ls
laoast Gi a religious h3ritage; many spear: with
;tor:] of the "Godless:' ~'et no act of brutal-
Ity ir.i;;iated by Az11er:'can or allied forces,
secz:is to be a violation of the eti:ic::1 values
A:rcricaus profess; at rho saint time, enemy
at:?vcities of far lesser n:a~nitudo are decried
with vibor.
Bvcry life on this`pl:net is in sumo sense
suUject to the u'ecis>. 7' rondo by the world's
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Weinstein, Rao,il, ~i.A.3I. Temp
~r. etc. Aiost of :::y tizn3, ho\vovor, was spent
Herman Will, Jr?., Assoc. Genl: Secy, `v,til Vietnan-_ese i:lciividuals and groups to
Board of Christian Social; Concerns,
i\.ethodist Church. tvliom Nhat Ilanh's letters had given me ac-
_ cess. These fnclud3.l some of the top othciais
Vlsrr .o Sr.:corr o"i th3 Unilicd Bud~lllist Church, members of
lane Catholic pc: ce uiovenient; and students
(By Alfred Hassler, cxectaive secretary of and profcssor?s frori several of the five ilnf-
the eilotvsiiip of 13,ecorciliation, tl:e In- vcrsities ~f Sout11 \Tietnani.
teruational Committao of Conscience on The. most impor*.ant single obselroation to
Vietnam) make, I think, was the extent to .which Y
My visit consisted of two week-long stays found Thich Nhat: Hanh's analysfs of .tile.
in Saigon, separated by four .days in Hcng situation con?Srme~l: narncly, that .there is
Iicno, ar. arrangement that made it unnecas- rile potential for a =substantial Sniddle group=
sary to apply for a visa. The first week coin- irg of well-informed and sophisticated people
tided with the Vietnanleso New Year, (Ter) .;;lie are committed to peace but who also
and tiro truce arranged for that period, Dur- wish to have a sta:lce from which to .deal on
ing tills- time I stayed oile night at ti:e ev3n terms with the National LSberation
Hotel Caravelie and the rest 9f file Neel: 1t Front and rho Nor1:h Vietnamese.
rile Hotel Majestic, both heavily patron- Tae second half of this observation,'izow=
ized by Americans and widely r3puted to be ever, is n1o: c depreesing: St is that this middle
under the close survcillanco of the CIA, in- '~:oup is being bamcrica simply
able to talk frankly. and honestly: with r ::i? serves to ttndcl:ine and conflr:n these clnirrs
American-or indeed arty Westerner-'Per rile oP tlho National Liborntion Front.. This 1s