CIA OPERATIONS IN VIETNAM, ELSEWHERE RELATED

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 24, 1965
• Content Type: PREL

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CIA OPERATIONS IN VIETNAM, ELSEti RE RELATED
Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 1300 GMT 24 October 1965--L
(Commentators' Roundtable featuring IZVESTIYA observer Nikolay Polyanov and foreign`
affairs commentators Leonid.Zavyalov and Viktor Shragin)
(Text) Shragin; I should like. to open our discussion today with 'a certain episode
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have the required effect on the public, which condemns sordid U.S. aggression in
Vietnam.
The authors of these stories gleefully rubbed their hands, thinking that they would
were presented to readers with incredible pomp and accompanied by loud commentaries.,
that has become a shocking scandal in official Washington. The American radio and
press had recently begun to intensively disseminate reports alleging that patriotic
forces in South Vietnam had been terrorizing the local.population;. Such stories
with newsmen that.the U.S.,Central intelligence Agency was involved in brutalities
with premeditation in ordez' to discredit the South' Vietnamese partisans. Young stated
/that in accordance with,plans carefully.drafted in' Washington,,speciall.y chosen.
mercenaries had been sent by American intelligence to murder village headmen, rape
women, and plunder peasant houses,,and that this was being attributed to partisan
activities.
Suddenly a heavy blow was inflicted on American propaganda by none other than Senator
Stephen Young of Ohio. .1;h1s.senator, together with a group ofhis.colleagues, had
primarily.the newly. independent states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The methods used include the so-called "big-stick," gunboat, and "divide and rule",
policies, as well as armed intervention such as aggression in Vietnam or flagrant
brute force displayed,'for example, in the Dominican Republic. Other less visible
means are employed in the struggle against the national liberation movement. These,
methods are known as "cloak and dagger" polities.. The targets of such policies are
that the United States is openly interfering in the internal affairs of other states..
to American intelligence agency activities in various countries. Our listeners know.
It is indeed natural that Young's revelations should have enraged highly placed
Washington officials. At the same time, these revelations have again attracted attention
The invisible government is. not restricted to CIA,, although CIA forms its nucleus.
Nor is it restricted to the activities . of nine other government organizations which'
make up the U.S. intelligence community. It:comprises, first and foremost, the.
National Security. Council, the Defense Department's Intelligence Directorate, the
National Security Agency,'U.S. Army intelligence, V.S. Naval intelligence',,.U.S.
Air Force intelligence, the State , Department is Intelligence and Research tureau,.the?'
Atomic Energy Commission; and.th+e Federal Bureau of Investigation.''
government which in fact comprises the U.S. intelligence machinery and operates
throughout the world in a secret and unseen fashion.,
Zavyalov: The American press asserts that there are two governments in the United.,
States--a visible and an invisible government.., The first is the government about whose
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