COMMUNIST STATEMENTS REGARDING INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM AND POSSIBLE NEGOTIATIONS

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Washington 25, D. C.
30 March 1966
Attached is a compilation of Communist
statements on possible direct military inter-
vention in the Vietnam situation, and on pos-
sible negotiations toward a settlement, re-
ceived since our last biweekly report (OCI No.
0506/66) issued 15 March 1966.
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SUMMARY
NEGOTIATIONS
USSR Moscow's position on the
question of negotiations
remains unchanged.
INTERVENTION
The Soviet Union's recent
public expressions of sup-
port for the DRV have
given no indication. of
any shift in Moscow's posi-
tion.
China The Chinese continue to
assert that there can
be no negotiated settle-
ment of the Vietnam ques-
tion except on the Com-
munist terms.
DRV Hanoi's position on
settling the war has not
changed during the past
two weeks. The North
Vietnamese continue to
insist that their position
as outlined in their four
point statement of 8
April 1965 must form the
Peking's continued public
pledges of. support for the
Vietnamese continue to im- 25X1C
ply that it is. the US rather 25X1C
than China. which will in-
itiate a Sino-US war. F___1
Hanoi's oblique references
to volunteers . in. the past
two weeks represent an
effort to demonstrate that
nations throughout the
world are continuing to
manifest their. support for
the Vietnamese by coming
and fighting alongside them.
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NEGOTIATIONS INTERVENTION
DRV basis for any negotiated While acknowledging these
Cont'd solution to the war. In offers-, Hanoi has never
recent weeks Hanoi propa- publicly accepted them nor
ganda has played up the claimed such volunteers
support its position has are needed.
received from meetings
connected with the Tri-
continental Congress week
of solidarity with Viet-
nam and the statement on
Vietnam at the,Soviet
Party Congress.
The Liberation Front's The Liberation Front made
position cn bringing the no significant statements
war to a negotiated solu- on the subject of interven-
tion has not deviated in tion during the past two
the past two weeks from weeks.
its fives point statement
issued on 22 March 1965.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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COMMUNIST STATEMENTS ON INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM
Selected Soviet References to Intervention
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Selected Chinese Communist References to
Intervention
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Selected North Vietnamese References to
Intervention
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COMMUNIST STATEMENTS ON NEGOTIATIONS IN VIETNAM
Selected Soviet References to Negotiations
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Selected Chinese Communist References to
Negotiations
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Selected North Vietnamese References to
Negotiations
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Selected National Liberation Front
References to Negotiations
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COMMUNIST STATEMENTS ON INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM
Selected Soviet Statements on Intervention
Selected Soviet
Private Statements
13 'March 66: In a Pravda
editorial entitled Mi itant
Solidarity" Moscow reiterated
its public claim that, "The
Soviet Union is carrying out
its international duty by con-
tinuing to render the Vietnamese
people all types of support and
aid in the struggle against US
imperialism's aggression."
15 March 66: Radio Moscow to
China stated, "the Soviet
Union has helped and is still
giving necessary aid to the
ERV in order to strengthen its
defense capability. In the
past year because the US im-
perialists extended their
aggression, the Soviet Union
has especially increased its
aid to the DRV to strengthen
its defense capability." It
concluded that, "the Soviet
Union fulfills its interna-
tionalist duty and will con-
tinue to help the DRV streng-
then its defense capability
and rebuff aggression."
Moscow's public expressions
of support for the DRV remain
unchanged.
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Selected Chinese Selected Chinese
Public Statements Private Statements
These statements probably
reflect Chinese propaganda
charges that the US "aggres-
sors" are plotting an attack
on China. They may be intended
to lend credibility to Peking's
propaganda and in this way help
generate deterrent political
pressure against US military
escalation. There is no evi-
dence of the extensive activity
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Selected Chinese Selected Chinese
18 March 66: At a Peking
rally commemorating the 16th
anniversary of the "19 March
Vietnam day of struggle against
US imperialism" and the "week
of solidarity with the Viet-
namese people," Vice Chairman
of the Standing Committee of
the National People's Congress
Kuo Mo-jo declared that "The
650 million people of China
are prepared. If you /The US7
insist on another trial of
strength with us, suit your-
self. Come whenever you like,
alone or with others. We
won't shut you out; we will
wipe you out."
A repetition of Peking's
standard line implying that
it is the US which will in-
itiate a Sino-US war rather
than China.
26 March 66: At a Peking rally
welcoming a visiting Japanese
Communist Party delegation,
Politburo member Peng Chen de-
clared that if the US insists
"on escalating the war and on
imposing war on the Chinese
people, well, let them just
come and try. It can be
stated with certainty that
this will only expedite the
destruction of US "imperialism."
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Selected DRV
Public Statii-ments
15 March 66: A Hanoi inter-
nationa roadcast on Chinese
support for the DRV noted that
many letters from Chinese peo-
ple "express their readiness
to go to Vietnam to fight beside
the brother Vietnamese people
against the US aggressors."
22 March 66: A Hanoi VNA
broa cast oon the occasion of
the first anniversary of the
22 March 1965 five-point
statement of the NFLSV noted
that "A movement has surged
up in the five continents to
volunteer to go to South
Vietnam
and
fight
the US
imperialist
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sors."
against
aggres-
Selected DRY
Private Statii'ments
Hanoi propaganda has been
relatively silent on the
subject of intervention for
some months. This reference
is similiar to many others
broadcast in the past and
does not suggest that the
DRV plans to implement the
threat in the foreseeable
future.
The mention of volunteers for
Vietnam in the context of the
first anniversary of the Front
statement on a settlement of
the war does not appear to in-
crease the threat of possible
intervention. Rather, it ap-
pears as part of Hanoi's ef-
fort to demonstrate that the
Front enjoys world wide sup-
port.
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Selected Soviet Statements on Negotiations
Selected Soviet
Public StatemeHUS
Selected Soviet
Private to ements
13 March 66: In a Pravda
editorial, the Soviets re-
peated their public position
on the question of a Vietnam-
ese settlement, stating "There
is a correct basis for a solu-
tion of the Vietnam conflict,"
adding, "the Soviet Union is
in full agreement with the
position of the LRV and the
NFLSV on the question of
settling the conflict."
29 'Yiarch 66: According to the
TASS Summary Soviet party chief
Brezhnev stated in his speech
before the CPSU Congress that,
"The Soviet Union stands for
a settlement of the Vietnamese
problem on the basis set forth
by the DRV government and the
South Vietnamese National
Liberation Front."
por e y received no encourage-
ment from Soviet leaders when
he raised a Vietnam "peace com-
mittee" proposal with them.
This is consistent with Mos- 25X1
cow's response to similar
peace feelers from other
neutrals. The Soviets have
made it clear they will not
encourage such efforts un-
less asked to do so by the
North Vietnamese leadership
or when Moscow believes there
is a clear chance that its
efforts will be successful.
Moscow's public position on
this question has not changed.
This is a reiteration of
+ioscow's familiar public
position on the question of
a settlement in Vietnam.
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16 March 66: A Radio Moscow
commentary state "the S6-viet
people have helped and will
continue to help in every way
the Vietnamese people in the
struggle against US imperialist
aggression. The Soviet people
consider this their interna-
tionalist duty."
17 March 66: Deputy Premier
Novi ov, speaking at a recep-
tion in honor of visiting Cam-
bodian Deputy Premier Son Sann,
said that, "the USSR is adopt-
ing measures to prevent the
dirty American war from spread-
ing into other parts of Indo-
china."
This statement is consistent
with the recent Soviet pro-
tests about US activities in
Thailand and Laos.
29 March 66: CPSU First Secret-
ary Brezhnev, during his speech
to the 23rd Congress stated,
"we declare categorically that
in escalating the shameful war
against the Vietnamese people
they will have to contend with
mounting support for Vietnam
from the Soviet Union and other
Socialist friends and brothers."
This statement goes no further
than other previous Soviet
public expressions of support
for the DRV.
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Selected Chinese Communist References to Negotiations
Selected Chinese
Public Statements
Selected Chinese
Priva a tatements
18 March 66: At a Peking
rally commemorating the 16th
anniversary of the "19 March
Vietnam day of struggle
against US imperialism" and
the "week of solidarity with
the Vietnamese people." Vice
Chairman of the Standing
Committee of the National
People's Congress Kuo `vio-jo
declared that "The Vietnam
question can only be settled
in accordance with the 4-
point proposition of the
government of the DRV and
the 5-part statement of the
Liberation Front."
Kuo is reiterating Peking's
opposition to a negotiated
settlement of the Vietnam
problem except on the Commu-
nist terms.
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Selected North Vietnamese References to Negotiations
Selected DRV
Public Statements
Selected DRV
Private 91atements
11 March 66: In reporting
the mission of special Cana-
dian ambassador Ronning to
North Vietnam, Hanoi radio
stated that Foreign Minister
Nguyen Duy Trinh "clearly ex-
plained to the Canadian re-
presentatives the stand of the
DRV Government on the Vietnam
question which had already
been expounded in the letters
of 24 January 1966 of President
Ho Chi Minh and in the state-
ments of the DRV Government
on the Vietnam problem."
12 March 66: A Hanoi editorial
on the week of tricontinental
solidarity with Vietnam stated
in part that "the conference
fully supported the four-point
stand of the DRV Government
and the five-point statement
of the NFLSV and called on the
governments of peace-loving
countries to recognize the
NFLSV as the only genuine and
legal representative of the
South Vietnamese people."
16 March 66: A statement by
the Father and Front Central
Committee on the occasion of
its 11th Congress declared
in part "We earnestly appeal
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While being courteous to
representatives of the ICC
countries who have put forth
proposals for settling the
war, Hanoi has nonetheless
continued to insist that any
negotiated solution to the
war must be on its terms as
outlined in the four-point
proposal of 8 April 1965.
North Vietnamese propaganda
and public statements on the
occasion of the tri-continental
week of solidarity with Vietnam
heavily stressed that this was
a firm demonstration of the
world wide support and sympathy
that the Liberation Forces and
the people in North Vietnam
enjoy.
This represents a formal re-
iteration of Hanoi's position
on settling the war by the
chief North Vietnamese popular
mass organization.
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16 March 66 Cont'd: to all
justice and peace loving
organizations and strata of
people in the world to
broaden further the front
of unity with the Vietnamese
people in opposing the US
Imperialist aggressors, to
step up further, the movement
to support the Vietnamese
people both morally and
materially, and to demand
the US Government put an end
to their aggressive war
against South Vietnam, cease
for good and unconditionally
their bombing and strafing of
the URV, and withdraw US and
satellite troops from the
south, in order to let the
southern people settle the
south's internal problems
themselves, in conformity
with the NIFSV, which is the
genuine and only representa-
tive of the southern people.
Only by so doing can true
peace be restored in Vietnam,
peace in independence and
freedom, and can national
independence and peace in
southeast Asia in the world
be protected."
Private Statements Comments
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Selected DRV
Public Statements
21 March 66: In an editorial
comment on the Tricontinental
congress' week of solidarity
with Vietnam, Hanoi daily stated
that "the people on the three
continents have reiterated in
one voice their total support
for the four-point stand of
the DRY Government and the
five-point statement of the
25X1 NFLSV, considering them as
the only correct way to set-
25X tle i am issue."
21 March 66: The Hanoi party
daily in a sharply worded
article denounced the "new
act of the Tito clique aimed
at selling the peaceful nego-
tiations swindle of the US im-
perialists and bringing pres-
sure to bear upon the Vietnam-
ese people." The article went
on to list all previous efforts
25X1 by the Yugoslavs to promote
peace talks and condemned
25X1 them with equal vigor. E
Selected DRV
Private Statements
This attack on Tito once
again demonstrates Hanoi's
irritation at the efforts by
third parties to establish
some initiative on settling
the war. In Hanoi's view,
none of these initiatives have
been close enough to the Viet-
namese Communist terms for
ending the conflict. This
latest attack was provoked by
Western press reports that
Yugoslav Premier Stambolic was
touring a number of Asian
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Public Statements
22 March 66: On the occasion of
the first anniversary of the
NVLSY 22 `larch five-point state-
ment Hanoi radio stated in part
that "Some 22 international
organizations and 515 national
organizations in 92 countries
warmly applauded the 22 March
statement and considered the
five-point position of the
NVLSV and tie four-point posi-
tion of the DRY the sole cor-
rect basis for the settlement
of the situation in South Viet-
nam. Specifically, this is an
important political victory of
25Xlthe NFLSV, while it is an utter
defeat for the US aggressors
25X1and their lackeys."
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22 March 66: The Hanoi party
daily Nhan Dan in an article on
the occasion of the first anni-
versary of the Liberation
Front's 22 March statement
declared in part that the state-
ment "constitutes the national
salvation chart of the South
Vietnamese people and the
clarion call to all South
Vietnamese people to dash for-
ward and annihilate the US
aggressors and their henchmen.
The stand expounded in the
five-point statement of the
Selected DRY
Private Statements
countries to call for negotia-
tions on the Vietnam problem.
The anniversary of the Libera-
tion Front's 22 March state-
ment has afforded Hanoi the
opportunity to restate its
contention that the NFLSV does
enjoy broad and growing interna-
tional support as the representa-
tive of the South Vietnamese
people, and that its position
as well as that of North Viet-
nam must form the basis for
any settlement of the war.
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22 Idarch 66 Cont'd: NFLSV on
22 March has enjoyed the
deep sympathy and support of
the socialist countries, of the
national liberation movements,
the international working class,
and the mass of the people in
various countries of the world."
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Selected Liberation
Front Public Statements
Selected Liberation
Front Private Statements
21 March 66: According to Wes-
tern press reports Vo Cong Trung,
a member of the Liberation
Front's representation in Al-
giers rejected a recent peace
call by UN Secretary General
U Thant and emphatically denied
that in recent conversations
with leftist British ATP Lord
Brockway he had welcomed the
25X1 statement.
Western press reporters
have several times in the
past detected what they
claimed to be some soften-
ing in the Front position
as voiced by one of its
spokesman. These alleged
changes in the Front's
position have usually been
denied by the Front spokes-
man to whom they were
attributed.
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