AMENDMENT OF THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400200003-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 10, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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My second point is this: When Ire- i
turned, I urged the President to appoint
a special representative who would have
a title analogous to that given to
Averell Harriman in connection with
the Marshall plan in 1948 and 1949.
Such a special representative would co-
ordinate all the counterinsurgency paci-
AMENDMENT OF. THE FOREIGN fication efforts of the United States,
ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961 other than the military; and then, with
The Senate resumed the consideration the military, would adopt policies which
of the bill (H.R. 12169) to amend further would fit in with what the civilian agen-
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as ties were doing. That effort is now
amended, and for other purposes. being carried on by U.S. operations men
the
Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, with the in Vietnam Vietn who the
program, are administering Information
indulgence of the leadership, I should
like to say a word about the measure Service, by the civil affairs section of
which is now pending before the Senate, . the military forces,
are the efforts CIA.
each
the authorization for aid. I
trust the RECORD RD will show W this s as a part agency, they must be tied together to do
of the debate on the foreign aid bill. a complete job. I know that the Presi-
Mr. SPARKMAN. Mr. President, may dent has appointed Ambassador Porter.
I ask the Senator how much time he for the purpose, but I have seen little evi-
desires? dence so far of a strong hand to seize
Mr. JAVITS. Three minutes. control of the situation In order to carry
Mr. SPARKMAN. It might be well to on the program effectively.
remind ourselves that we are now op- Finally, I urge the Government most
erating under controlled time. earnestly to expand the opportunities
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The and goals Vung for political southeast action oftr Saigon,
time on the bill will run now.
Mr. SPARKMAN. Mr. President, as where we are training 3,000 of the finest
the acting majority leader, I ask for youth of Vietnam to be cadres in villages
recognition. and hamlets for general military pur-
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The poses, and to give leadership In their
Senator from Alabama is recognized for efforts to bring an understanding of the
30 minutes. objectives for which the entire South
Vietnamese people are fighting.
Mr. SPARKMAN. I yield 3 minutes I know of no effort that should be
to the Senator from New York. higher in priority in all of Vietnam. The.
r Mr. JAVITS. I thank the Senator goal for this year is to achieve a force
from Alabama. of 43,000 of these young people, 23,000
The problem concerning refugees in having already been graduated, in the
Vietnam has already been discussed. I hope of pacifying - a thousand or more
merely record again the facts set forth additional hamlets in 1966. But there
in my colloquy with the distinguished are 12,000 to go.
Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. KEN- I urge our Government and our au-
NEDYI : First, we should make certain thorities to maximize this, program
that the refugees are well handled, in- promptly, because it deserves parity equal
telligently handled, and effectively to the valorous military effort which our
handled. In order to do that, the United country is making In Vietnam.
States cannot allow the Saigon officials
to run the program themselves. We
should finance it, or help to finance
it, and we should also take the direct
responsibility to see to It that what is
done is done right.
Having visited Vietnam, I am con-
vinced that roughly 700,000 refugees can
be the most effective cadre of any we
I are financing there for the purpose of
dealing with the Communist Vietcong.
These are the basic people of the coun-
try. They have escaped to us in order
to avoid the terror and brutality of the
Vietcong. They have every reason to
feel deeply angered by what the Viet-
cong have done in raiding and ravaging
camps and killing men, women, and
children in cold blood. The Vietcong
certainly showed their hand.
So this is an initiative which is criti-
cally important to our Nation. I am
convinced, from having been in Viet-
nam, that our people there have left
much too much to the Saigon govern-
ment, a government which Is not nearly
so sensitive to the refugee problem as
we are and does not begin to under-
stand, as we do, its great significance.
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