U.S. SAYS RED VIETNAM SELLS MOVIES OF CAPTIVE FLIERS

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September 22, 1967
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CPYRGHT W Chi lest, IS~RDCttiE~15 i, 9; Ambassador IIu said terro bombing and subsequent shoo ing of Col. Chung Tao, nomina be embassy intelligence chie members of the Saigon - Gi )mh Viet Cong terror cell. Saigon police and intelligen sources here had linked t t activity, and police called the work of "Red Guards." "Warning To Chinese" "This was a direct terror Nationalist cause. At least a dozen murders prominent anti-communists, said. lieves the bomb was aimed figure in the anti-Commun camp here." Infiltration Obstacle The Nationalist Embassy Saigon is "a big obstacle" ty, Hu said, adding that a ye ago he received a letter Chinese warning him to sto pressing the Nationalists' cas among overseas Chinese. The bombing, Hu continue c t on the Chinese Commun 1 1 the United States and h ?red the Vietnames i' :is an internal Chinese affai t is thet Communist hop f' the United States will too this as an internal matter, i finer such incidents in the f measures are taken. llu said the routine guard five Chinese plainclothes mil time of the blast, with on Vietnamese policeman statione across the street. Embassy previously had co suited the Vietnamese Gover anent on increasing securit measures. Asked why they wen not then in effect, he sal "These things take time." .pp ,~(~J p~ Rpy eas lA c fr5'-0o1('4,R(~9 I'ti'P S i. - a .trine t41.:lich?i t?nn, front .olur...P), U.' S f: "','s fed' Vietnam - ells .~ , ovies Of Captive Fliers fly CHMtL1:5 W. CORfIRY PYRGHT rwasAinplnn Bureau nj T1 Sun] Washington, Sept. 21-Author- ities here, have evidence that picture films involving captured Attempts are being made to the United States and Europe, it is reported, at prices exceeding $100,000. In ore instance, $500,- figure for footage that runs for The films pr?eesumahly would crews were al=.owed to make the Cause Of Concern has caused great concern here. effects they believe the films stress that prisoners, film- ed with or without their knowledged, can he victimi- zed by doctoring of the films-by editing, dubbing of voices, etc. They also point ors` the possibility that some of the captives-predominantly airmen and hence inost hated by the North Vietna.niese-may have succumbed to combinations of mental and physical stresses ofi the types notorious in thei Korean war. No Red Cross Visits It is emphasized that, while agencies acceptable to Hanoi are allowed to film the priso- ners, International Red Cross representatives are barred from visiting them and inspecting the conditions of their captivity. Asked today about prisoner visits in genes al, a Red Cross spokesman said the internation- al committee has delegates in South Viet.iani who visit North Vietnamese and Viet Cong pri- soners, but there still is no success in gaining entry to n'Ision compo' ed of five sen five repreentatives and e public merlibers picked h President to evaluate the ress and performance of and so there is no need to sec Vietnam's newly elected Go them. t ment. Geneva Convention The New York P.(-pub who joinect Senator Kober Kennedy (i)., N.Y.) and o in pre-election criticism o arrangements for the bag; made by the ruling mil states that prisoners "must attjunta. said today he though all times be protected, part.icul-I had helped make the elect any against acts of violence orlas "free a ? they were." and public curiosity." North Vietnam signed the convention in 1957 with a reser- vation declaring "that prision- North Vietnam to see custody there. Hanoi says its captives are war criminals, not entitled to be regarded as prisoners of war. It says they are treated humanely Making propaganda films of captives scarecely seems to fit the protection and treatment terms of the Geneva Convention of August, 1949. Article 13 Seized By Polite Saigon, Friday, Sept. 22 (N1-- Vietnamese police seized a for- mer Economics Minister, Au Troung Thanh, today, hand- cuffed him and shoved him into a Jeep to be taken to police headquarters. Thanh, who had been under virtual house arrest during the night with about 70 armed po- r.' h ~n ,"-", ;r 80~?l~ >D .Tti2,i,e;rs observed. "1 am .vilh~r;; ept the jutgments of William C.! "'estmore-ian the Joint Cli,efs of Start. "I think w" must plc'~?v at to negotiations or victory. Senator -tavits (R... meanwhile introduced A r Lion to set up a li-m( Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000800080007-2 Op i ins Regained The most importtint ri .tavits saki, was that the tJ States hai: regained its op to decide he nature and de erg of war prosecuted and con-iof further participation in victed for war crimes or for!war and it was now esse crimes against humanity, in. ac- cordance with the principle laid down by the Nuremberg court The bip :rlisan cornmissic of justice, shall not benefit proposes to evaluate the from the present convention as~Governrii' pt's ability to c specified In Article 85." out reforms and reshape That article says the conven-linilitary .o relieve the Ui Lion applies to war prisoners I States of some of its cur accused of penal offenses, "even if convicted." No Convictions There have been no "convic- tions" as far as is known here. But Hanoi's reservations in- crease the aniety to have Inter- national Red Cross inspection of prisoner camps. The government does not say how many American service- men are believed to be captives within North Vietnam. In the combined action in the South and over the North, 206 men of all services are listed as captured and 539 as missing. Ex-Viet Aide to get the information on v to base it future course. war burten, Javits said. V assure insulation from "the litical pr,'ssures and consid Lions which seem to cola much of what we are told a the sitm`ion by Administri sources.' Thus, rc said, it could bridge the "credibility which e miributes so mucl divisiveness, bitterness and confusion surrounding the 5 nam iss: e." Repre tentative Ford ich,), House Republ ence wi iii Dirksen today, he was deeply concerned" the S?;ith Vietnamese at ''is'not .tying all it shouid." On Rigged Vot;ng in another development t Dr. D:ivid Warfel, of University of ;3d;ssouri, claimec to have spent 6 da South Vietnam during the r tion campaign and balloting an observer for the Division Peace and World Order of Methodist Church and the tional committee for .pane clear Policy, said he had i