SENATOR URGES MORATORIUM ON VIET BOMBING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170047-8
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: November 26, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Of our WashbMaon Bureau
WASHINGTON - Soo.. ..i? would not wish. to dis-
Stephen Young (ll., Ohin)?"has asked President Johnson' close to anyone except' you
to declare a five-day halt to the U.S. agency for which
bombing of North Viet Naan??. this American is employed,
The moratorium should he' else I feel some of' the 400 or'.-
.,Used "to give the Viet.,Cong; more 'CIA agents in Viet ;,
and-Hanoi officials an 0110"- ~Nanid-iiMatd probably inter-
tuiiit'y to agree to join us in view American officials of bona fide peace negotiaa ,ghat agency trying to deter' -;
;tinns,,' Young said. mine who knew me or had
In a letter sent to the talked with me," Young.told:
!White House, the senator; the President.
also describer) reports that' The, senator argued that..
Central Intelligence Agency
4 employes in Viet Nam ha,,e,i the CIA presence in - Viet
been responsil5le" for mna?-a Nam is. unnecessary.
aders, executions; and "out-, "I consider that our Air'1
rages against native' worn Force, Navy, ? Marine, and,
en. Army - intelligence officers '
are adequate," he said.
j Yuuni;', who' r e'e e'n t. I y' have confidence ' in them. Y
;,toured Southeast Asix, said a lack confidence in the CIA."
,,"If.S. /official told him that' He suggested that peace
"i Vietnapaese cmpinyca'' ut th(.: talks be held `fn Geneva or CIA had been guilty of finch some Asian city "with _ no.
x~sta.,Htiit~~" 111)X419 as" Viet'strings attached" and thatk
.+..:~r1.------they seek "a ceasefire with
neutrality and self-dete-?mi-
iiaifon for Viet Naim, both';
!,north and south, based on,';
the 1954 Geneva accords."
I '.Young's recommended
goal: "TQ achieve "a ceasefire
,and ultimate peace with nef
ther the Viet Cong and Ha-"
+? not government nor the Unit-t';
ed States an-arrogant win-., '
w nee nor,att abject tosser,
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