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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000700070049-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: May 20, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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1. SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE STAFF MEMBERS
J ,\AIES G. LOWENSTEIN AND RICHARD M. MOOSE SPENT ABOUT TV O
HOURS AT HEADQUARTERS ON 19 MAY TALKING TO
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(jACK MAURY'S DEPUTY) AND MR.
THOMAS PICKERING, WHO IS lIANDLING A _LL ivIATT RS ?Erg;"ATE D TO
MOOSE-LOTWTENSTEIN VISIT FOR STATE D.PARTMENT. AS YOU KNOW,
LOWENSTEIN AND MOOSE WILL BE ARRIVING VIETNAM ON 24 MAY FOR
ROUGHLY TNO--WEEK SURVEY TRIP. HQS. SESSION ONE OF SEVERAL !
PRE-DEPARTURE BRIEFINGS BY EXECUTIVE BRANCH COMPONENTS
:C`I-TAT SENATOR FULBRIGI-IT, AS FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
CI1_" IRMNJ AN: HAD REQUESTED.
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2. OUR .SESSION MIGHT BEST BE DESCRIBED AS CORDIAL
ADVERSARY PROCEEDING. SURFACE ATMOSPHERE W'JAS ENTIRELY
FRIENDLY HOWEVER, AND STRESSES WERE LNIPLICIT RATHER THAN
OVERTLY ARGUED. LOWENSTEIN AND I' LOOSE LED OFF BY ASKING
A112OUIT OVERALL NORTH VIETN!,-,MESE INTENTIONS AND TP ETABLE,
1`, E EXPLAINED WHY RESORT TO MAIN FORCE WARFARE INITIATED IN
1972 RATHER THAN A YEAR OR MORE LATER BY EXPLAINING THAT
W'JHATEVER ITS U. S. CRITICS MIGHT THINK, HANOI WAS CLEARLY -'vORRIED
ABOUT PACIFICATION PROGRESS AND DID NOT r'ANT TO RISK LETTING
THE GVN HAVE ANOTHER YEAR FOR FURTHER CONSOLIDATION OF ITS
ADMINISTRATIVE HOLD OVER POPULACE. ALSO, HANOI PROBABLY FELT
IF VIETNAM REMAINED QUIESCENT THROUGH 1972, THIS COULD HELP
RE- ELECT PRESIDENT NI XON, "`.s lX WHOM HANOI WOULD VERY 1- MUCH
LIKE TO SEE OUT OF OFF ICS:. ON DETAILED TIvIING OF ATTACKS, IVE-
EXPLAINED REASONS FOR BELIEVING HANOI HAD :`y ANTED TO LAUNCII
O:= a I`r' , 1~ MID I~"EBRUA Y BUT ' i.' T T T
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