OUR MISTAKES IN S. VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700540025-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: September 11, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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For: `Re1eas,e .2 ,O6Y4gQlNj41
'By ROBERT S. ALLEN"
AND PAUL SCOTT, . .' 'Isr_ Allwn?
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the wrong enrnly, uL'the wrong Ise mmu St. , stayrd will come high - neutraiizalion '
,ln?1 nnri in'tii wrLnty ninee- out of this world headline -bat-,' nF CnuLh vid% '1Tnnl 'at Mar.. nr, - .epresentative , Clement' Za'b-
1 Tile U. S. faces a major' con- . sleona uloui;lits have cat- dhe . Ptesident's advisers agree 71 ... -...._ _,
fl+ontxtion ht Scuttle Viet Nang with'. vihic od these policy makers that South Viet N:uii Nava : niud .a
that idle price for ,a, settlement startling discovery
the Chdn C
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= as one betlveen the U5. and '.I
~ aievvxit make Johnsorsn and have his found chief pot them- I .?~` North Viet Nam. -i. . worst, tUnlike the IM ? Cuban crisis e,, Freport, oreign that tonrier~ s 'U.
Significantl ',Presidel~t . Diemr
r,,, away. , , - y,. tl1G U. S; re. A,nlbassador Maxwell ' Tr)ylor's ,+ .
lniat's the inside. word lock-. 1 sponse to the Peking ;cloy. now "uncertain- Iruninnt" k adds ' -'He also had a' major. role tn-
Neither alternative is Very at- a. enemy In soulli Viet Nam Viet Nam, a second-rate Qam uaar.vu ? g1VLU [.itulvCiU 9 C0111-
,'`'ilnn..li.m nmcirlnnIinl and not the 'C.hlilesr ro miii vanlii nn.vn< II ae .,n1 'i6n inittee, Trueheart.,was the lead
p
Xclean-type war or agree o a 1 conflict Ptesldcnt Johnson is
{ -161-1 Tlinnh, nnhi, pet regime .in Hanoi m the . U. I iinn 'in 11,n 'I,,?Inl. Will, T%i't4, . AccOi'iln( g to. intelligence In-
r iletl" {v 11uau1 l:. I rucpearl is ; now wee
geious liosillon, of either having attack on North ietilai. Pon(a.tion between the U.S. and
i to involve the U.B. In 'another Mlcse bases, PresiJicut Joltuson ltussla, .the main encuiy in that director of the Office of South'
u i. . east Asian Affairs.
t ~siiotligll1cd the Gnniituillst
?n Saigon, level of government on wheat 'their big play in Soutll Vlrt With his "chugs of steel" mid-
action, it any, the US. can lake. Nam. 11 a Diem. from benlg overthrown.
J: taly strategy falling apal?t ? at
.i~ tub vUL - 11 oua..y yva..?j ~,v_ . m.. u,V a,'.ca,uuu gluey wg ,
Viet Nadi .lydson, the CIA a mission chief
??ball now go b lg on, at 'tbc hi, h i3 pleaders a free.' hand to male
e f' ii innia in South
LL'II:D1a Wi1L0 I%ii 4S.U .?n9 U- Fa, - - -^- ---. > ?+??? v.+?? .. .. T/av..11y 11U1.L .LR'1IIIiU 1{i.il;il .LV 1II,' - - -
i)%ved to those ominous strike back at China, gotiate the neutralization of.., lhcutralize South Viet Nanl.
`i' On the U.S. star, President that strife-toil oauii1ry afte tlle? In hiss new position; he it in
lJfives by a oomblllatan a( hnls-
LU .lava LLn: tiI ,..N:(jaaaua.,f', ,a ar- - -- ---- ---??? ?????? ; ???? Lou ]a:4U.,.~, SCL3IU1 ..l- -WJLUI U Ijj, - ? - -
. Lion 111 South Viet Nan. the heat on by, halm; t air' a (Inal call for the m establish-? facts with French nleili muc
Thu romencus of minion or 1 . North Vietnamese puppets: steU rr,yt nF' a "rlvili,.n'' arnrnrn and leftist groups in Europe, 1S
takes in Saigon and -Washing-.i Johnson is left, M15' Ate lcliolce November election, ctlaige ol furmulating:all policy
toll. of either mectin.i': the' new, But time and chants appear papers On Viet Nam and in,sSm-
ey' are ? carried out,:
r. T'ile' first 'invalv~es 'the .itrlar? 'threat with Marines and eRUettd ., to be 'against Ttq?lor:, ang that th
cut ? political trap that, Peking ing the war Into North Viet With the. now communist Viet both :in Washington. and Saigon.
He has.. been one, of the driv.
ducal. President Johnson into 1110 Nam or trying to ilegatla a a ` Gyn. offensive expetied, at any, Gulf of Zbnlcin when North Vi=, 'political settlement with the trade, the hour-of wuu 'far the I lug forces behind the move to
etnamcse PI' tnvtlts launclx'il Hanoi regMlje from ,p, t,ositiolt of, Pr?rsident could conic befbrc trle ' eliminate "military ot(icers"
their unprovoked attack against~i weaktleas, end of . the, month , ' ; ? , from the ' new ` South Viet Nam
..nt,Inldinn TT.fi ' tliawFMt.nrt If the . tat i . fwlh li Atloht&1 ?' N.,
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