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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000600020013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 24, 1969
• Content Type: CABLE

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ROICIL EPOItT FURTHER DETAILS ON INCIDENT IN PHUOC DISTRICT
OF QUANo:'I'IN PROVINCE WHERE TWENTY CHILDREN KILLED ON 23 FEBRV-
PLAY ON THIS THEME BY VERY DRAMATIC" ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO OF
CRYING FATHER CARRYING HIS 14HILD D'O'ING OF WOUNDS INFLICTED BY
VC SHELLING OF SAIGON. THIS PICTURE GOT THREE COLUMN PLAY.
ON FRONT PAGE OF 24 FEBRUARY EDITIONS OF BOTH WASHINGTON POST
PROPAGANDA POTENTIAL. STAGE HAS BEEN FORTUITOUSLY SET FOR
AS PRELIMINARY REPORTING INDICATES, HAS TREMENDOUS PSYCH AND
Att,Y (PAP.A SIC OF REP). THIS INCIDENT, IF IT WAS INDEED DELIBERATE
AS SOON AS TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCES PERMIT, REQUEST I CORPS
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