PRESIDENT BACKS CIA IN VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400340030-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: January 1, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

- Approved For Release 2001%08%28 : CIA
~y Afartuerite :Iigin:s
~! TJte tlerald Tribune staff
::''e1Si1INGTON.
" persistent rumors that the Centr:i_ Iat?C1Ii~:cnra
. ?_; ;tad florae so:nc. tree u~hc::l(ng Ln Sott:h Viet i~arn.
e)ae contras, the President paid, the agerlc;f lttis teen
Troubled South Viet Niim. I3 American a~rti'ice men
cscy's director t:7;rc.
orted trars.er cram Saft;on of Johtt Aichardsa;z,
::=most certainly decd after plane and reltcoptcr .
~~~~. Yt u?as tY,c wnrst iT. S. c;isaster in the bitter strug;;ie
,~.fn; t the Comr.tur.L,t Viet Cong guerrillas. '
~.t?. Kcnnedy sia~ied out lair, Ttici~ardson as a "dedi-
::.::~c4 ,~u41ic scrvc.nt." The President said he had perrsonally
;uc;e over the CAA record in Viet 16ern for the pa, t nano
_.,an~,)~s 31:d hael ,atisficd h)mself that the a~,enCy had
'lily i'.resldat also did his emphat.fc best tc cicss the' a~ir.Ce throe and other rc.'p'resaive measures fnsiii,tated by
or, areas re;.ar?s from Saigon and Wastaitzr tan tt at Mr. lliem its August, Lhe Administration has :phi#;ed to poli-
~;~l.s u?tr:oi~t .;,t., Aciminictya1 inn nrr rnnz.i~~:st,a+. :,i~`S Ut overt patlrli~ pressure, inclttdin~ is slawziawri of certain
.,._....- _ . ;'~r mission io Vtct Na.u7.
:.... t.;~licy t:; to Cet ~;;i t1?;lh the r'ar fltlci rely ctn
of t>:+: P:~nLarot?, the CIh and the :Late S':c~- 8b wuu:u ue ic;~rcai z,nereiore, otzlc _ats argue, to replace
~' Mr, Ricl~axdFOn u?lth s new official ?a~hose appnnt;;rrnt
:rout lioc_rali%atlott of Prc~iclent Ngo Dinh )7)cm'a
:'':rgidF,a cor,crdrel that titer sad been tto stto-
cargo r:z Piet. ,stn ~i:;rc )Lis Z"V intnl'vir?n a
.~:: n,.:o in u?):ir.h )t~ cx)lrc :o? "changes !n parities
;3,;r .,JS pc...onrrcl' inr.i:ict Viet Nam.
:arthaaitatit'cly 1,?:;y'iur snld
soma of these mf>iltt even be u?ithdrAZt~rt by Chrla~.t*.t,~$ this
ycwr. if alt goes well. ?
` it didn't ao t~-ell in the past two da,;t.
'I',hrt disar.ter brt;an late `Tuesday a?hcn U. t~. Aft
- fiorrc Capt. Dean A. tFJadsuorth, of Catulle. T^x., ssn '
"advl:,er" who r.?as pilotin>{ a T-28 ItontLer-fltttrte, b^causa
of a ;:homage of Vtctnrantese personnel, went on c~ dlre-
banrbins raid en a Cnann;unfst stronghold iri thn tnor,rn-
tainot;s junrzic ,tear the Lsotian boriicr.
Copt, ~Vadt;worth's plant Crashed ors rx~?ttti~ d stud
he and a Victne.rtn,e contpatnfon aptrarc.;!:;, died in