GROUND BURNING UNDER THE AGGRESSORS' FEET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700540022-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: December 1, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

WORLD MARXIST REVIEW75
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DECEMBER 1964
Ground Burning under the Aggressors" Feet
AT dawn on October 15 Nguyen-van-Troi, a young South Vietnamese patriot, was
executed in a Saigon prison. While the death warrant was issued by the Saigon military.
'tribunal there are facts which indicate that the. patriot was executed on orders from the U.S..
These words brought out once again the, culprit really responsible for the tragedy of the
people of South Vietnam-U.S. imperialism. The thousands of Vietnamese killed by the
these crimes can be traced to U.S. imperialism, the real master of the servile ruling clique in
at all costs their control over South Vietnam which the Pentagon considers to be vital in the
struggle against the national-liberation movement in South-East Asia.
Everything is subordinated to this goal, for the attainment of which the U.S.A. is spending
half a billion dollars annually. It has flooded South Vietnam with arms and war material; it
puppets. In the past year the puppet rulers have been changed three times, not to mention
minor reshuffles and shifts. The rulers owed their power only to bayonets and the military
aid of the Pentagon. Each began his career by issuing decrees intensifying the repressions
against the patriots, by promising his Pentagon masters to extend the war against the
patriots.
The military iunta headed by Nguyen-ngoc-Tho and Zyong-van-Minh which succeeded
Ngo Ding Diem sought to "improve" the legal system by ... adding to the number of courts
with the "strong man"-General Nguyen Khanh, who a few days after assuming office.'
outlawed political parties, groups, associations and individuals who support Communist'!
. dividuals were charged with "endangering the security of the state".
Khanh was succeeded in office by the so-called "civilians".
The terror carried out by the various puppets is wholly in line with U.S. policy in South
Vietnam, a policy aimed at physical extermination of the patriots who are foiling the designs
1 U.S. Gazette and Daily. The more one ponders over the alarming course of events in South
Vietnam, the paper commented, the more one realises that the Pentagon and, no doubt, the
CIA, have imposed on the White House a policy which has nothing in common with wisdom,
decency and democracy. This view, the paper continued, is backed up by the news coming
from South Vietnam showing that the accent is invariably placed on murder, which, in turn,
demonstrates the character of the U.S. operations in that country. The aim of the U.S.
1 policy in South Vietnam, the paper concluded, is to kill.
And kill they do. They killed Nguyen-van-Troi merely because he had fought on behalf
j bombed the Phu-hu'u district, killing or wounding over 500 civilians. On November 7 more
than 100 tons of bombs were dropped on the civilian population of Fuok Thanh in re-
1 taliation for the guerilla raid on the U.S. air base in Bien Hoa. The Saigon authorities are
now preparing to kill another group of patriots-the student Le-hong-Tu' and his comrades.
The growing terror is yet another sign of the hopelessness of the position of the United
not only in the countryside but in the towns as well. Even the CIA chieftains are coming to
see that "victory" in South Vietnam is more than doubtful.
All the signs are that the patriot forces headed by the National Liberation Front are
rendering impossible victory for the aggressors and their puppets; day after day the liberation
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