FULBRIGHT ACCUSES THIEU OF PERSECUTING A DEPUTY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000500080015-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 6, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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growing power as an opposi-
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quarters when they were both
junior army officers.
"It appears," Senator Ftzl-
bright said, "that Thieu's open
attacks on Chau began only)
after Chau had denounced the,
pharmacist Thang."
President Thieu succeeded
yesterday in obtaining the 102
signatures needed on a petition
lifting Mr. Chau's parliamentary
immunity, thus exposing him to
prosecution.
In his column today, Mr.
Kraft said Ambassador Ells-
worth Bunker had been directed
to intervene with President
Thieu on Mr. Chau's behalf but
"the embassy has not bestirred
itself."
starting in 1965, he was in con-
tact with his brother, Tran
Ngoc Hien, a North Vietnamese
Mr. Chau was designated by;
the Central Intelligence Agency'
s
thticized in the hearing
~,__1,__ ____ f Chau became head of the Op-
c au will prove to be the
1a: ohapter in the history of
round of its hearings
am in which the Nixon
tratioh's program of
ization had been criti-
r.'ulbright was evidently at
account, Mr. Chau also be~a n
to attack Nguyen Cao Than?
President Thieu's "political brag
in July. It was not until
November, however, that Presi-
Chau, a personal friend with
whom he had once shred
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Fuibright to focus Hearings
On Case of Saigon Fugitive
By United Press International
Chairman J. William Ful-
bright says the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee will turn
its investigation to the political
aspects of the Vietnam war, in-
cluding the case of a former
Vietnamese CIA contact.
Fulbright said the CIA con-
tact, Tran Ngoc Chau, was de-
serted by the. U.S. government
after he became an opponent of
S o u t h Vietnamese President
Nguyen Van Thieu and had to go
Into hiding to escape being
.&i._
q_p headed the opposition
bloc the South Vieamese na-
on,4*e iy and was elected
Its Secretary-genera'. Fuibrighit
W. Chan had "daily contact"
with the CIA and, at one point,
headed a CIA-operated training
cLilter for development of a rev-
olutionary cadre.
Chau is now on the lam,
charged by Thieu with failing to
t Saigon officials about his
cts with an enemy agent.
right said Chau, all the
ime, was reporting his activi-
ties fully to U.S. officials, includ-
A the CIA, and the real reason
QV wants him in jail is to
itfove a powerful opponent.
The chairman disclosed hitl-
arto unreported details of Chau's
case yesterday as he announced
fnv67vement in political pro-
F s in South Vietnam-an ac-
that occupies thousands of
U.S. civilian and military advis-
ers.
The chairman said he particu-
larly wants details on a South
Vietnamese program called Op-
et3t