U.S. WON'T PROSECUTE JANE FONDA

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Won't Prosecute an,e
By Sanford J. Ungar
Washington Post Staff Writee
The Justice Department has
no intention of prosecuting ac-
tress Jane Fonda for her
broadcasts to American serv-
icemen over Radio Hanoi,
sources in the department?and
on Capitol Hill said yesterday.
? Although the department's
Internal Security Division is
conducting an "inquiry" at the
request ? of the House. Internal
Secu ty Committee, the
sources said, there is no plan
.for a federal grand jury inves-
tigation of. the -antiwar activ-
ist. .
The State Department ini-
tially reacted angrily to re-
ports of Miss Fonda's broad-
casts during a visit to Hanoi in
July. -
Justice Department lawyers
have apparently -concluded,
however, that. she did not vio-
late -any statutes?including
'the law intended to punish any-
you knew the Vietnamese
one who "advises, counsels,
. under peaceful conditions, you
urges, or in any manner would hate the men who are
causes or attempts to cause in- sending you on bombing mis-
-subordination, disloyality, sious."
tiny, or refusal of duty by any 0 "Have you any idea what
your bombs are doing when
member of the ? military or
pull the levers and push
riyal forces of Atte United you
, . the States"buttons?" ?
0 "Should you allow these
same people and same liars to
define for you who your
enemy is?"
Ichord said his own commit-
tee staff 'is carrying out a
,similar but separate analysis
:of her broadcasts and other ?
?activities ? during the trip." to
Hanoi.
But committee sources said?
that even this investigation is
likely to be dropped without
ever subpoenaing Miss Fonda
. to testify, as originally urged
by Republican Reps, Fletcher
Thompson of -Georgia and
.,John G. Schmitz of .California,
? presidential candidate of the
American Independent Party.
The committee voted 8-1 on
August 10 to put off the sub-
poena question until it had re-
-ceived the Justice Department
? ? report.
Iehord is opposed to calling
-Miss Fonda before the com-
mittee, the sources said yester-
day, because he fears ii Would
? .provide a forum for her strong
views against American in-
volvement in Southeast Asia.
known as the House Un-Amer-
ican Activities Committee; re-
vived the Fonda controversy
yesterday with a statement an-
nouncing it had received for-
mal notice of the Justice De-
partment inquiry front A. Wil-
lianf Olson, assistant attorney
general for the Internal Secu-
rity Division.
Committee Chairman Rich-
ard H. Ichord (D-Mo.) used the
occasion to release selected
quotations from transcripts of
Miss. Fonda's broadcasts to
GIs, provided by the- Foreign
Broadcast Information Scrvic
of the Central Intelligence
Agency.. ,1
Among the statements at-
tributed to her: .
"Tonight when you are
alone, ask yourselves: What
are you doing? Accept no
ready answers fed to you by
rote from basic training . . .
know that if you saw and if
That iS expected to be the
Justice Department's advice- in
its 'report to the House com-
mittee. ? :
Thb House panel, formerly'
?
? Both .congressional and Jus-
tice . Department sources said
that if anything comes of the
Fonda broadcasts, it could be
a push for new legislation .to
deal with such situations.
They rejected the earlier
suggestions of.. those angered
by the Fonda broadcasts that
her remarks were comparable
to those of Iva Toguri
D'Aguino, known as "Tokyo
Rose" for. her broadcasts to
American servicemen over
Radio Tokyo in World War
After a 56-day trial on.trea-
son charges?the longest in
; American hist or y ?M r s.
D'Aquino was convicted in
federal court in San Francisco
in 1949 and sentenced to 10
years in prison , and a $10,000
fine.?
She was paroled in 1956
after ',serving more than six ?
, years ' in the Federal Re-
..
:formatory for Women in Ald-
erson, W. Va., and later sue-'
cessfully resisted deportation
proceeding's.
After Miss Fonda's return
from Hanoi, Thompson urged
that she be prosecuted in a
similar manne r. "Declared
war or undeclared war, this is.
treason," he said last month.
But the Justice Department
has Interpreted the matter dif-
ferently and hopes the .contro-
versy will subside. The Nixon
administration has not. indi-
cated what. its position would
be On newl.egislation.
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? By ORR, KELLY .
H Star Staff Writer r
anoi R-adio complained re -; I u 13
? , tl 6e:a k eat,
peatedIy during the period'
-when unauthorized air raids
were being made against
North Vietnam that 1152 bomb-
ers and naval gunfire were
striking at targets In the
northern half of the demilitar-
ized zone.
The Air Force acknowledged
'last week that Gen. John 1).
Lavelle had permittted his pi-
lots to carry out 28 unauthor-
ized "protective r cacti() n"
-missions, involving single at-
tacks by 1.47 planes, against
_targets in North Vietnam be-
tween Nov. 8, 1971, and March
8, 1972.
Pentagon officials, asked.
last week about the North
Vietnamese charges, insisted
that B52s did not attack tar-
gets in the North between the
bombing halt in 1968 and the
'resumption of bombing in
-April 1972 after the beginning
of the current enemy offen-
sive.
Big-bomber attacks like
these described- by the North
Vietnamese would have gone
._ beyond the concept of "protec-
tive ?reaction" and would have
violated the "understand-
ings" that ended the bombing
in 1963,
- The officials did acknow-
ledge, however, that the rules
. covering "protective reaction"
had been relaxed in the
months preceding the current
offensive to permit large-scale
attacks not only on offending
-antiaircraft sites but also upon
surrounding ? barracks, fuel
dumps, trucks and other mili-
tary installations.
But they insisted that the
Investigation of the Lavelle ?
case, who was dismissed as
_commander of American air
forces in Southeast Asia be-
cause he exceeded the rules
on bombing, had uncovered
no evidence of violations in-
volving the B52 bombers or
collusion by the Navy in the
violations.
As commander of the 7th Air
Force, Lavelle had direct com-
mand over Air Force
fighter-bombers based in
South Vietnam and Thailand.
As deputy for air in the overall
American military command
in South Vietnam he had oper-
ational control over thR kkk,
tegic Air Command T11132".
bomber force based in Thai- ?
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.. .
land and on Guam, and coordi- limited-duration attacks from
wiled Navy and Air Force op-: Dec. 26 tof-)0 and on Feb. 16
ertions. - and 17.
eNavy planes participated in
Discrepancies Found about half of the attacks dur-
A review of broadcasts by jug the periods of concentrated
Hanoi Radio, published here t'oml-dug. But Pentagon ?f?fi"
by the government's Foreignjials insisted no evidence had
Broadcast Information Serv Ken uncovered that the Navy
ice, showed that there was a had either violated the rules of
broad correspondence betv,Teen engagement or falsified re-
American announcements of ports ? the two violations that
"protective r e a c t i o n" air led to Lavelle's dismissal and
strikes and North Vietnamese retirement.
complaints about attacks on
their country. There was fre-
quent disagreement over the
type of targets and the /num-
ber of planes involved, but
general agreement on - the
time and place that some-
thing had happened.
The difference between the
Air Force and Navy opera-
tions, one Pentagon official ex-
plained, was that the Air
Force planned and carried out
attacks regardless of whether
there was enemy-initiated ac-
tion that would justify an
America reaction. The Navy
Tile maim' dim...Pc-41U inh was always careful that it
volved the frequent complaint could justify its ? reaction be-
by North Vietnam that 1352's fore attacking.
were hitting in the northern As the evidence of the ene-
portion of. the Demilitarized my's inent spring offen-
Zone -- the area they call the sive into South Vietnam be-
"Vinh Linh Special Area." came increasingly apparent,
On some occasions, the re- the rules of engagement were
ports of raids in the northern relaxed to permit heavy reac-
part of the DMZ came on the tion raids, officials said. Pilots
same days that. the American were permitted to attack not
command reported .raids in only the gun, missile site or
the Southern portion. On other radar that had threatened
days, however, there were no
them, but also other in.stalla-
U.S. reports of B52 activity tions in. the area that could be
near the border, said to support the gun, mis-
A comparison of North Viet- silo, or radar.
namese and. American state- A nen nte rpretation was
merits at the time, and recent also permitted of the time in
conversations with Pentagon which the reaction could take
officials also revealed these place. Both American and
other aspects of the air war North Vietnamese accounts in-
during that four-menth period: .dicate that reinforcements
et Major air raids were eon- from the fleet offshore were
ducted in the first 11 days of 'called in to help out.
March, 3.972, but vere report- On Jan. 19 and again on
ed only as 25 distinct "protec- March 6, for example, the
tire reaction" missions. The Navy planes staged major at-
U.S. command refused to re- tacks on the Quang Lang air-
veal the number of planes in- field area north of Vinh. Hanoi
volved. Radio reported that "many
- A North Vietnamese group, waves" of planes were in-
the Commission for Investiga- volved in the Jan. 19 battle in
tion of the U.S. Imperialists, which the Navy claimed the
War Crimes in Vietnam, is- destruction of a Mig21 fighter
sued a special communique on plane.
March 16- in which it said 300 o During this period, both the
sorties had been flown against Navy and the Air Force pm-ac-
targets in the DMZ and three ticed a form of selective "pro-
provinces between March 1 tective reaction" according to
and 10. Pentagon officials. Recoil-
Large raids were also imp- naissance planes flying over
parently carried out on Nov. 7' North Vietnam were fired
and 8; Nov. 21 to Dec. 5; Dec. upon with increasing frequen-
1.8; .Tan. 19 to 30; Jan. 31, Feb.
. cy, but the reaction would of-
ttir, crc were announce
'hiferl 6a4110
ctitical areas ? such as the
Quang Lang airfield ? that
the military commanders were ?
eager -to hit.
o Reports from Lay elle 's
headquartersnot rily falsified
the enemy actions but report-
? ed some attacks as having
been carriea out against one
' target when the attack was
actually aimed at another tar-
get, Pentagon officials said. A
report; for example, would de-
scribe the target as a missile
site when in fact the primary
target was a nearby fuel
dump.
et Congressional sources said
the numbers of sorties report-
ed, by Hanoi Radio during
some parts of the four-month
period were much larger than
the number of sorties reported
in a classified document to
members of Congress. The
number of sort i. c s flown
against targets in the north
was not publicly announced in
the past but is being ?an
rimmeed dating the current
bombing campaign.
o Defense Secretary Melvin
R. Laird ended a 'isit to Sai-
gon on Nov. 6, just before Lav-
elle's unauthorized raids re-
portedly began. Hanoi Radio
complained on Nov. 8 about
attacks by "many planes" and
blamed the increase in air ac-
tivity on Laird. Pentagon offi-
cials have insisted, however,
that Laird remained unaware
of the unauthorized raids until
a sergeant wrote to. Sen. Har-
old Hughes, D-Iowa, and be-
an Air Force investiga-
tion.
? Pentagon officials say they
know of no explanation for the .
continued North Vietnamese
complaints about 1,152 attacks
on the ? northern portion of the.
DMZ. ?
During the period before 1352
I attacks on North Vietnam
were authorized in April, they.
said, the policy was to keep
the big planes away from
areas where the surface-to-air
missiles were located.
? On Feb. 8, however, the war.
crimes commission said in a,
broadcast that the big planes
had carried out 47 sorties and
dropped 1,410 tons of bombs in
. 0#0View) bombings"
._ 18THI of the DMZ
-during January. And on March
7, it said the 1132 attacks were
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NIXON TRIP NEVIS
'Reports to Indochina Kept
-
to a Bare Minimum
By TAD SZULC
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, March 11?
A survey of Peking's recent in-
ternational broadcasting shows
that President Nikon's visit to
the mainland posed problems
for the Chinese involving rela-
tions with their allies.
The Pekin* radio never told monitoring of
broadcasting.
Tailored to the Audience
In the judgment of American
analysts, Peking had to, tailor
its reporting on the reception
given Mr. Nixon to the listening
areas.
The silence on the Khmer-
language service was seen as
a gesture to Prince Norodom
Sihanouk, whose government
in exile has had its headquar-.
ters in Peking. It encourages
insurgency in Cambodia against
the American-supported Gov-
ernment in Pnompenh.
The low-key reporting in the
yietnamese-language service
was believed to relate to
Agency specializing in theilianoi's displeasure with the
its Cambodian listeners in the
Khmer-language service about
the Presidential visit and kept
to a bare minimum the reports
beamed at North Vietnam and
Laos.
In contrast, Peking's inter-
national service in English
carried fully daily accounts, in-
cluding he text of the final
Chinese-American. communiqu?
Broadcasts directed at South-
east Asia and South Asia in
Malay, Thai, Hindi, Bengali and
Urdu offered reports.
The survey was made avail-
able by the Foreign Broadcast
InformatiOn?Service, a bureau,
of the Central Intelligence
International
?
Chinese decision to deal with
Mr. Nixon while the Vietnam
war goes on. Hanoi never told
the North Vietnamese that Mr.
Nixon spent a week in China,
but it criticized the communi-
qu?
Peking devoted two broad-
casts in Vietnamese; totaling'
seven minutes, ,to President
Nixon's arrival and his meet-
ings with Chairman Mao Tse-
ttin'g and Premier Chou En-lai
subsequently news relating to
Mr. Nixon followed the main
topics.
American experts, saying
that North Vietnamese in the
urban centers could have been
reasonably well informed on
the trip, explained that many
listen regularly to the British
Broadcasting Corporation, the
Saigon radio and the Peking
radio's English-language serv-
ice. The limiting of the reports
in Vietnamese, they added,
would have chiefly affected
listeners in rural 'areas.
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SPACE AGE REPORT
usslans Review esigns
,For Earth many; Lir ft
? ?
1By FRANK MACOMBER
Military-Aerospace Writer
It 'Copley News Service.
There can .be no dress re,
? tearsal for a U.S.PSoviet link-
? 'up.. of manned spacecraft,
?,now tentatively schedtiled for
. ? 71975. Thus the Russians have
'decided . to do the next best
'thing ? resume manned
earth. Orbital flights this year
in advanced Salyut and rede-
. Signed. Soyuz space ? ye-
' hieles.
This. is apparent from re-
?cent reports by the Foreign
? Broadcast Information Ser-
vice, a U.S. gm'erriment ae-
tivity which picks up broad-
casts from other countries for
.
the State Department and the
Central --44114gen-
e.Y,, ? ?
? The Soviet decision to try
? . another Soyuz-Salyut flight
'
,,with. three cosmonauts
' ?aboard.grows out 'of two de-
velopments: (1) a deter-
? mination to correct the flaws
which contributed to the
deaths of three Russian
spacemen last June 30 as
they descended to earth in
their Soyuz 11 craft after a
record 231/2-day mission and
(2) to prepare for. history's
? first international manned
space mission if it should
'come off. ?
?
? REDESIGNED SPACECRAFT
The Russians are designing
and building the new Salyut
earth-orbiting spaceship to
eliminate some of the so-
called "housekeeping" chores
which take time away from
space-borne scientific ex-
?. periments. Salyut is being
patterned also to adapt a
"compatible" docking system
which would couple the earth-
orbiting craft with a surplus
? American Apollo spaceship,
? Each craft would carry three
spacemen as -they liakedup
in orbit about 185miAllEkrmve
earth,
So far there is no firm
agreement on the U.S.-pro-
posed 1975 space spect arm
President Nixon may tkt up
the loose ends during his visit
to Moscow this spring. But
his fisf,0,1?1.972-73 space budget
contains no funds specifically
for such a mission. The clock-
ing system alone would cost
about $50 million.
Of more urgent concern to
the Russians than the pro-
posed linkup is a solution to
the problems which beset. the.
Soyuz 11 craft as it sprung a
hatch leak and broke the vac-
uum which had given three
Soviet cosmonauts an earth-
like Atmosphere in space.
Georgi T. Drobovolsky, Via-
distal; N. Volkov and Viktor I.
Patsayev died from the, loss
of cabin pressure only 30 min-
utes away from touching
down after nearly 24 days in
space.
(The cosmonauts had been
launched aloft in the Soyuz 11
craft, then fastened on to the
Salyut for the record spin
around earth, transferring
back to Soyuz 11 for the ill-
starred ride back home.)
Konstantin Feoktistov, a
chief designer of both the So-
yuz and Salyut craft and a
cosmonaut himself, disclosed
some of the spaceship prob-
lems during a recent dis-
cussion of the Soyuz-Salyut
mission.
? For one thing, the cosmo-
nauts had to spend so many
hours maintaining their Sal-
yut spacecraft that. valuable
scientific research time was
lost, according to Feoktistov.
Moreover, weightlessness
hampered their efforts to op-
erate delicate instruments.
Even so, the cosmonaut-
physicist said, advanced Sal-
yut craft will carry more sci-
entific apparatus than the
previous one, so cosmonauts
Kre91M8 40OrgatC1
,resources, space phenomena
and biemedical studies.
TIME FOR EXPERIMENTS
New automatic controls
will be built into the 'new Sal-
yut, to, give cosmonauts more
hours for experiments and
less time for manual oper-
ation of their spacecraft.
The decision to increase
rather than reduce scientific
experiments during the. next
Salyut-Soyuz mission came
after long debate within the
Soviet Academy .of Sciences
and at a time when morale in
Russia's. space program was
low.
The death of three cosmo-
nauts shook Russian con-
fidence in the Soviet, space
venture. just as Americans
were shaken when three U.S.
astronatits died in flames on
an Apollo launch pad in
19S7.
The academy debate re-
volved around -the' future
roles of man in his spacecraft
rather than whether the Rus-
sians shold turn more to un-
manned, highly instrumented
space probes.
The decision of Russian sci-
entists to continue with man-
ned missions and even more
scientific experiments was
evident from Feoktistov's re-
marks. He would not have ut-
tered them ?without academy
sanction. ?
Stressing that the weight-'
less problem was perhaps the
most serious roadblock in the.
way of man's ability to per-
form scientific tasks in space,
Feoktistov observed:
"The (Soyuz 11) cosmo-
nauts experienced a per-
manent, shortage of time.
Weightlessness did not play
the smallest role in this, since,
it materially complicated the
work with instruments which
(' EPOCH BEGINNING ' - 1.
"It is very important that '
we understand this far-from-
trivial characterisitc of re-
search operations in space,
discovered as early as the
very first flight Of an orbital
, station.
"From this it does not fol- ,
Ilow that in the future we
must retreat from the prin-
ciple of scientific apparatus
on an' orbiting station, -or
from the concept of a satu-
rated scientific program.
"Actually, the epoch of de-
tailed study of our planet and
near space from manned
spacecraft is only begin- ?
ning."
The Russians have had
company in ,their problems
with man's inability to per-
form well in a. weightless
state. U.S. astronauts have
had trouble walking in space ?
, during earth-orbital flights.
They have fared better than
the Russians in operating
their spacecraft; however, be-
causp American spaceships
are mote fully automated
than those of the Russians.
demand fine and precise
coordination of movements.
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By TAD SZULC Mr. Nixon would go to China.
Specie! to The New York Times Since last summer, however,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22:? North Vietnamese commenta-
Two days after President ries have been full of oblique
Nixon's arrival in China, the warnings that the United
- North Vietnamese population States was attempting to split
apparently remains unaware of Communist unity through its
it?unless
have heard individual citizens approaches to certain Commu-
the news on the Pe- ?
king radio or other broadcasts. nist states.
As of noon today, the Nixon Most recently, this theme
visit had remained unreported was sounded in an authorita-
in the North Vietnamese press tive article, signed "Commenta-
and radio, despite extensive an- tor," in the official North Viet-
-
nouncements in Chinese broad_ name Communist newspaper,
casts this morning. There have Nha.1 Dan, a week ago.
also been discreet items on So- But Hanoi has also gone out
viet and North Korean radio
services.
'The handling of , the Nixon
visit by the Communist news
media was made available here
by the Foreign Broadcast Infor-
mation Service, a bureau of the
Central Intelligence Agency
specializing in the monitoring
of foreign broadcasts.
? Government analysts and for-
eign diplomats here who spe-
cialize in Communist affairs
took the view that the way in
which each Communist coun-
try treats Mr. Nixon's presence
in Peking in informing, or fail-
ing to inform, its people re-
flects the attitudes held by the
individual governments toward
the ndw Chinese-American re-
lationship.
? Thus North. Vietnam, which
Is involved in hostilities with
. the United States, has decided
-simply to ignore the Nixon
visit, ,at least for the time
being.
Specialists here recalled that
the Hanoi press and radio
never actually announced that
of its way to deny, indirectly,
Western reports that Le Duc
?
Tho, a senior member of the
North Vietnamese POlitburo,
would be in Peking at the same
time as Mr. Nixon. Speculation
in the Western press was that
Mr. Tho might meet with senior
American officials in Peking to
discuss peace possibilities.
Mr. Tho held several secret
meetings in Paris last year with
Henry A. Kissinger, Mr. Nixon's
chief foreign policy adviser,
who is now with the President
in Peking.
In a broadcast this morning.
Hanoi radio said that Mr. Tho
held a "cordial" meeting yes-
terday with George Wald, a,
biology professor at Harvard)
University and a' 1967 Nobel )
Prize winner, who is visiting
Hanoi.
The Moscow radio told the
listeners of its domestic and
International services this
morning that the "cool Wel-
come" given Mr. Nixon in
Peking was a "maneuver" by
the Chinese leadership to dis-
guise the Presidential visit in
order to "save face" with the
masses.
This broadcast, however, was
made before the appearance of
today's issue of the official
Peking newspaper slenmin Jib
Pao, with detailed coverage of
the Nixon visit, including pho-
tographs of the President with
Mao Tse-tung. .
? In its Mandarin-language
broadcasts beamed at China,
,the Moscow radio has been
'attacking the Peking leadership
for weeks over the Nixon visit.
Last Saturday, for example, a
Mandarin broadcast ,thastised
the Chinese for "ignoring Tai-
wan" in the preparations for
Mr. Nixon's arrival. The broad-
cast charged the Peking lead-
ers with setting aside their
?
claim to Taiwan in what it
described as a move to placate
Mr. Nixon.
North Korea's Pyongyang
radio, citing "foreign press re-
ports" as its source, today told
its public that the American
President was in Peking. The
dry and factual account of Mr.
Nixon's activities included his
conference with Chairman Mao
and his attendance at the ban-
quet given by Premier Chou
En-lai..
Last August, Premier Kim Il
Sung of North Korea said in a
speech, rebroadcast later by Pe-
king, that Mr. Nixon was going
to China with the "white flag
of surrender."
Last Sunday the Pyongyang
radio, reporting on the Nixon
trip, remarked that the Presi-
dent. was going to Peking with
"a white flag in one hand and
a beggar's bowl in the other."
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The Times withholds rebuttal to a erue
Washington. itself in tins case to publish.
A, -cruel deception is being ing merely a summary of the
perpetuated by heedless men exclusive statement it re-
to effect that all Presi-
dent .Nixon need do to secure
the release of prisoners of
, war .held in North Vietnam is
to,declare a specific date for
the complete withdrawal of
all American forces.
The depth of this deception
ceived from Hanoi, and did
not relate this response to the
questions it had asked except
to say that none had been
answe.red directly.
Nor, it was indicated, would
the, Times have done this
much had it not been for the
fact that the Foreign Broad-
is emphasized in a response.
cast_ information Service of
to questions submitted to the ?
the Central Intelligence Agen-
Hanoi government by the
cy had published in its week-
New York Times, which the
ly report the substance of the
.neWspaper decided not to
exchange in its regular tune-
publish. The reasons leading
to ,this decision are curious. tion of monitoring Hanoi's
:
public communications. page 10 of its January
'
21 editionunder a headline Furthermore, a good many
, saying "Hanoi's Cable. to readers would conclude that
Times Cites Peace Aim," the the Hanoi response confirmed
? ? Times gave this main reason beyond any shadow of doubt
for not Publishing Hanoi's re- the Nixon administration's
, sponse to the questions sub- claim that North Vietnam has
? mitted by its managing edi-
flatly turned down a prisoner
release in exchange for a
firm withdrawal date.
tor:
The response was no differ-
ent than previous positions
stated at the Paris peace nego- Senator George McGovern
tiations by Hanoi's represent- (D., S.D.), a -candidate for
atives, and published at the president, has, in effect,
time inthe Times. called Mr. Nixon a liar for
? This, excuse for not publish- making that claim.
big -Honors responSe can be Aside from revealing the
questioned for several rea- hazards of a newspaper
sons. First, the cable was an trying to conduct, or at least
official statement direct from influence, foreign affairs, the
Hanoi and. not filtered incident of this unpublished
through the North Vietnamese document from Hanoi nails
delegation in Paris. down hard what the Commu-
nist government will settle
for.
It will settle for the humilia-
tion of the --United States,
complete renunciation of the
Thieu government, and an.
end to all support for the
elected government of South
Vietnam. Then?maybe? it
will release American prison-
ers of war.
' Second, the Times, in an
interview earlier with the
head of. the Communist dele-
gation, had spread the
pression that releasing prison-
ers of war could be separated
' from other issues at the Paris
conference.
. And, third. the Hanoi re-
sponse might have helped to
clear the minds of those who
. cultivate the deception that
_ the. prisoner of war question
can -be separated from North
Vietnam's insistence that all
? troops must be withdrawn, all
support to the Thieu govern-
- ment'cut off and the policy of
Vietnamization abandoned.
The Times could have
placed these facts in high
? relief by publishing its ques-
tions and Hanoi's cabled re-
sponse, but it did not do so.
? Senator McGovern and,
The Times often has pub- more recently, Senator Mike
lished, and makes a special -
Mansfield (D., Mont.), persist
.
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plete withdrawal and Hanoi
will interpret that as letting
the Theiu government go
down the drain and promptly ,
release, the prisoners. The
war will then be over.
Hanoi's cable makes it a lot
clearer: President Nixon
.,imist pull out of Vietnam to-
tally stop backing the Ngliyen
Van Thieu bellicose cliquc
and conform to alt seven
points of Hanoi's peace pro-
posal, which would accom-
plish the complete humiliation
of Mr. Nixon in his attempt
to achieve a constructive end
to the war. ?
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New ? York Times managing editor
A. M. Rosenthal, in an effort to clarify
North Vietnam's position on the release
of American prisoners of war, cabled
eight questions to Thmier Pham Van
Dong. Upon receipt of Hanoi's reply, the
Times ' decided, after what it says was
much consideration, not: to publish the
reply, since, as the Times messaged North
Vietnam, "its content is identical to previ-
ous statements made by your government
and subsequently' ? printed by the New
York Times."
? Mr. Rosenthal cabled the paper's. de, ?
cision to Hanoi on Jan. 17. On Jan. 20,
and we quote from the New York Times
Service report, "The Times decided to re-
port on the exchange after it was. learned
that the United States government had
obtained Hanoi's reply to the paper as
well as the paper's questions and that a
?brief summary of the exchange was
ineluded in a weekly report distributed for
government use by the Foreign Broadcast
Information Service, a bureau of the Cen-
tralelligence Agency. The reportels
macre available to newsmen covering the
State Department."
Seemingly, the Times still prints all
the news that's fit ? even on second
thought.
But, considering the huge controversy
that erupted when the Pentagon Papers
were "leaked" to the Times, we wonder
who "leaked" the Times' "Hanoi Papers"
to the CIA. It would appear the Times and
federal government are about even. Truly,
turnabout's fair play.'
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As British influence in Africa declined, so did British secret serv
, sending hundreds of agents to African capitals like Accra, Lag
to buttress "sensitive" states against communism and protect
E. H. Cookridge continues his exclusive series on the CIA
HE adventurous operations
often bordering on the bizarre
which the Central Intelligence
? Agency pursued in many parts
of the world are usually /
ascribed to one man: Allen Dulles. J
They culminated in the abortive in-
vasion of Cuba in 1961. When Dulles
departed from the directorship of CIA
after the Bay of Pigs debacle, he
certainly left an indelible stamp of his
influence as the architect of the mighty
CIA edifice and its worldwide rami-
fications.
The policy of his successors has,
however, been no less forceful. CIA
acthrities under its present director,
Richard McGarrah Helms, may
appear less aggressive because they are
being conducted with greater caution
and less publicity, and because they
have been adroitly adjusted to the
changing climate iri international poli-
tics. In the past CIA gained notoriety
by promoting revolutions in Latin
American banana republics, and sup-
porting anti-communist regimes in
South-East Asia. Its operations in
Africa were more skilfully camou-
flaged. For many years they had been
on a limited scale because the CIA had
? relied on the British secret service to
provide intelligence from an area
where the British had unsurpassed ex-
perience and long-established sources
of information. But with the emergence
of the many African independent
countries, the wave of "anti-colonial-
ist" emotions, and the growing in-
filtration of Africa by Soviet and
Chinese "advisers", British influence
declined. Washington forcefully
stepped, through CIA, into the breach;
with the avowed aim of containing
communist expansion.
? . ?
Financial investments in new in-
dustrial and mining enterprises, and
lavish economic aid to the emerging
governments of the "underdeveloped"
countries, paved the road for the influx
of hundreds of CIA agents. Some com-
bined their intelligence assignments
with genuine jobs as technical, agri-
cultural and scientific advisers.
? The British Government ? parti-
pularly after the. Labour Party had
come to power in 1964 ? withdrew
most of their SIS and MIS officials
from African capitals, though some
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