LETTER TO MR. PRESIDENT FROM MARCIA L. MARKELL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000100070009-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 12, 1963
• Content Type: LETTER

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___ Tuesday, September 10, 1963
Time to Talk Turkey
Administration spokesmen at
Washington stated Monday that
this country's policy of rendering
aid to South Viet Nam "is continu-
ing for the time being." If this
means that our policy in that strife-
ridden Southeast Asian country is
being subjected to drastic reexami??
naticn, well and good.
For it has become next to im-
possible in the light of recent
developments-including Monday's
wholesale student arrests at Sai-
gon by the Special Forces of Col.
,e Quang Tung-to make head or
tail of our government's posture
there,
Only twenty-four hours prior to
vonday's explosion of protest by
students against the repressive
:anti-Eu. dhist campaign being con-
'lucted by President Ngo Dinh
r)iem's regime, reports from relia-
ile American correspondents in
Southeast Asia and Washington
lepicted once more the cross-pur-
aoses in which United States pol-
cy continues to flounder.
Our government is financing to
he tune of approximately $225.000
month, through the Central Intel-
igence Agency, the South Viet-
rarnese Special Forces, corn-
nanded by Col Le Quang, Tung.
(et these same forces were in-
,rolved in the raids and sacking of
3uddhist pagodas last month at
iaigon and Hue. They were also
)articipants in the arrests of hun-
lreds of protesting Buddhist stu-
lents In Saigon last week arid
4onday.
In other words, the family dic-
p
y
n
outh Viet
atorship of President Ngo Dinh Nam should be to halt all financial
)iem is utilizing these Special support of the misused Special
orces to frustrate the objective for Forces and subordinate the CIA
vhich they were on in 11
funds--war against the Commu-
nist Viet Cong which is striving to
take over the country.
Private denials by Washington
officials in this matter are vehe-
ment. Public statements to the
same effect are lacking because,
it is explained, the whole Special
Forces operation in South Viet Nam
is the affair of the CIA, about
whose activities few apparently are
informed.
Is it not time in dealing with
the admittedly complex and dif -
cult situation in South Viet Nam
that our government's right hand
were informed as to what its left
hand is doing? Especially since
there are strong indications from
Southeast Asia that liaison between
our able new ambassador in Sai-
gon, .Henry Cabot Lodge, and the
CIA leaves something to be de-
sired?
Our goal in South Viet Nam is
to save that country from grow-
ing Communist armed forces which
are actively pressing a war. That
Objective is being jeopardized by
the contemptuous anti-American
effrontery of the Ngo .Dinh Diem
family regime; by its reckless per-
secution of Buddhists, who consti-
tute the overwhelming majority of
the Vietnamese people, and by its
bold, confident assertions that the
United States must continue willy-
nilly to pour out millions of aid
and continue to hazard the lives of
14,000 American military who are
seeking to advise and guide the
anti-Communist struggle.
The first steps to retrieve this
country's
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have proposed is al
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ch has been part of
omic life for five or'
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to grow sufficiently,
high unemployment. i
tit that together with'
that we have to find!,
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ition in this country'
a tax reduction this,
.EY: Thank you, Mr,
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