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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300380056-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: August 4, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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"DIRT POWER. In the Iced River Delta
which encompasses 1.1 of North Vietnann's 3t
provinces and produces most of the coup
try's rice, an intricate dike system keeps the
water level in the river under control durinc
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repair has a high value in ,the. scheme o:
.war, with every household in the Delta
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dike brigades in event of attack.. This scene
in the village of Gia Ninh, Ninh Binh Prov
ince, shows' workers, mostly women,-repair
ing a dike recently bombed by planes ... Al
News Features Photo e . . 1
THE DATE of the picture was clear. Leav'
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cently had been dropped on Borth Vietnam'
ese dikes and if one were so disposed coulc
also have Implied that the President was
lying: I.leaving out the date also omitted ail'
other important fact, that some dikes had
heed 'hit by American bombs for years rind
this had become a standard fear of the
North Vietnamese.
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been the result of haste, impelled by rushee:
deadlines. A relatively inexperienced cops
editor on the National Desk of The Post w?at
writing caption material as the 7:30 deadline
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