(Sanitized) HANOI'S 'FOUR POINTS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500030018-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: July 27, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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4. The `'Four Pointe" era considerably rnort
concrete than those cnuncia.tcd by PAarn Yen Doxag. ': f,sy ~o:~t'ul~i~
one specific aciian (stopping the bombing of the North a~ir~ ihrce
relatively specific agreements (tv withdraw, to abide by the results
of an internsil eiectian within South Yietnsm, and to accept the
hotdiag of a referenduan on r:unification within a specified tin?.e
frame~~d not spell cut what thst election in South Yiitxxarn was
to t+a on for? nor did he iadieata the kind of tame fraLrae in
question (months, yaarsy for the refnaifitation referenduaxa.
saCl'bargai~aing theorsticslly -? qr at least ~stically -? possibte.
lerr, rpeciffc issues couched fn gunge why maker discussion
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though ey are not necessarily is rsdicai. cax~itict. Bang's speech
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~. Text of Phsrta. Van Dong's "Four Pn- ta"
3. Text of 24 JuIY Nh~n Daa article
4. VAS Research. Memo dtd S January 66
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