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176-10038-10000 AGENCY : : 176-10038-10000 RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : RECORD NUMBER ORIGINATOR : FROM : TO: TITLE : : 8/26/1965 PAGES : DATE SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : -RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : : 9/10/2000 - OPENING CRITERIA : DATE OF LAST REVIEW COMMENTS : JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM — IDENTIFICATION FORM NARA Personal Papers of James C. Thomson Cooper Memo W/, Attachment 2 Thomson: Southeast Asia, vietnam, 1965, General, 8/65, box 26. Box 8
~, “oem ALMA 1M if feat CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Loe WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 - i \ 26 AUG 1965 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Chester L. Cooper , National Security Council SUBJECT: Alleged Plan for Joint SVN/GRC and SVN/ RTG Clandestine Operations Against DRV and Laos ~ Attached herewith for your information is information received through CAS channels from Colonel Donald D. Blackburn, Chief, MACV/ SOG. FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR PLANS: . William E. Colby Attachment: As atated. : GROW 1 ECR ET Excluded trem automatic . . downgrading and ~ . declassificatlen
“Taos Ouar ane ceo ee bps 1. At Ambassador Johnson's request, following information received from Col, Blackburn, Chief MACV/SOG, is being transmitted to addees through CAS channels: 2. ‘Blackburn! s information, received from responsible Vietnamese military official who accompanied Ky on recent trip to Taiwan and Bangkok, . follows: ; a. In Taiwan, Chinats told Vietnamese that they formerly and/ or currently associated with SOG maritime and airops in DRV and would like, with assistance SOG boats Vietnamese govt. support, attempt run / Chinat intel operations into former Nung areas along DRV Cowut from Haiphong North t to Red China border. b. In Bangkok, Thais said they anxious cooperate with Viet- namese in mounting joint operations from Thailand into Laos panhandle, _ but recommended strongly against consultation with Americans since Americans would probably cite Geneva Agreement or other political reasons why these joint efforts should not be undertaken. 3. Following additional information from Blackburn, same ultimate source, given CAS Saigon: Lao military and/or govt. urging establishment branch Vietnamese Strategic Technical Service (STS) in Vientiane for purpose of training far and later mounting joint operations into DRV. Informant indicated to Blackburn that these operations would not be cleared with us. 4,. All above for passage Ambassadors and Dept.. 0 . SECRET
476-10038-10008 _ JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10038-10008 RECORD SERIES : personal Papers of Roger Hilsman AGENCY FILE NUMBER : / ORIGINATOR : DOS FROM : TO: TITLE : Embtel 545 (Saigon) DATE : 8/27/1963 PAGES :#[ \ SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : ~CURRENTSTATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Hilsman, Countries, Vietnam, 8/27/63, box 3. Box 8.
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476-10042-10000 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM ; AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10042-10000 RECORD SERIES : Papers of Gordon Chase AGENCY FILE NUMBER : © ORIGINATOR : State FROM .: Chase TO : Bundy, McGeorge TITLE : President's Meeting on Covert Ops DATE : 4/2/1963 7 PAGES : 1 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : Paper, Textual CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 5/24/2004 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Chase 1, Chron File, 10/62-4/63, Folder 2 of 3
/ SPCU Viti gl egis vw ee wee term em we ET PtP mY DPV s OFFICIAL USE ONLY April 2, 1963 MEMOKANDUM FOR MR, BUNDY SUBJECT: President's Meeting on Covert Operations _1. The following people will be coming to the meeting tomorrow at 11:00 A.M.: Ed Martin ' Bob Hurwitch Tom Parrott Ralph Dungan Dick Helms Dez Fitzgerald By Vance Joe Califano 4. General Carter is chairing a USIB meeting tomorrow. _ He was told that there was no pressure to attend the 11:00 meeting and that he needn't postpone the USIB meeting. ; 3. Bob Hurwitch will let me know if anybody else from State | I | The Attorney ‘General is coming to the meeting. Gordon Chase . OFFICIAL USE ONLY
47-410001-10030 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information LBJ 177-10001-10030 NSF, INTELLIGENCE FILE, OSWALD, LEE HARVEY, BOX 9 . Document Information CIA CIA BUNDY, MCGEORGE 11/26/1963 2 CIA CABLES (USE FOR CABLES, TELEGRAMS, WIRES, WhRGRAMS) 1B Redact 06/04/1998 DOC. #30, CIA, E.O. 12356, Sec. 1.3(a)(4) 24 HY 50955 DBocld:322782670 Page i Date: 8/26/20 1
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47-40001-10060 ; AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : - RECORD SERIES : ‘AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : * RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information LBJ 177-10001-10060 NSF, COUNTRY FILE, CUBA, TDCS, VOL. I, BOX 32 Document Information CIA 12/18/1963 2 CUBA REPORT Unclassified 1B Redact 10/02/1998 DOC. #158 Date: 8/26/201 pp v9.1 25 HY 50955 DBoctd: 32262900 Page 1
7 bo CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY lee This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Tithe 18, usc Secs. 793 and 794, tha transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthor red “perion, is prohibited _by law. CLASSIFICATION. — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET /no rorzicN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/ (When Filled In) BACKGROUND USE ONLY COUNTRY CUBA “REPORT NO. TDCSDB-3/658, 582 SUBJECT CUBAN GOVERNMENT POLICY TOWARDS PRESIDENT DATE pistR. 1&8 DECEMBER 1963 ~ JOHNSON'S ADMINISTRATION PRECEDENCE ROUTINE DATE OF LATE NOVEMBER 196 , REFERENCES . IN INFO, 7 ; 62939 PLACE & 16 DECEMBER 1963 : DATE ACQ. ; APPRAISAL FIELD REPORT NO. SOURCE . 1. FIDEL CASTRO WAS VERY UPSET OVER THE CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION BROUGHT ABOUT BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION, FOR ECONOMIC BLOCKADE AND INTERNAL SUBVERSION AGAINST “wok bout NOT OVERTHROW THE REGIME, 2, THE PRESENT POLICY OF THE CUBAN GOVT, ON ORDERS FROM CASTRO, |S NOT ‘TO ATTACK PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN PUBLIC OR DO ANYTHING TO IRRITATE HIM. ACCORD ING TO CUBAN GOVT, LEADERS, CASTRO WANTS TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT PRESIDENT JOHNSON SAYs AND DOES ABOUT CUBA, be CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS _ nor oe S E fe R E Tino 7 FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/ —. ["diitedep ed” BACKGROUND USE ONLY. Lo eclassificotion are [orn [nies wae [ae [oer [oer] wea |e Lon ba oer [oe [oer [amr [a race eee REPCINGLANT — T8NS. se eeTREASURY. i “TELEG g, TON REPORT HORM 1K OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. (15-20) HY 50955 DBocld: 3227625900 Page ?
CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO. FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED. DISSEM/“)° °°" ace oy S EC R E Y No DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY =) -| IDES DB-3/ 658 “a When Filled in} AND GIVE HIM. AN OPPORTUNITY. TO IMPROVE, “IF-HE FEELS:SO.-INCLINED, | RELATIONS BETWEEN THE. TWO COUNTRIES. an FIELD DISSEM: “GINCLANT. “(END OF. MESSAGE) 2 CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION . CONTROLS . pio FOREIGN “ DISSEM CONTR LLED DISSEM SECRET/ / CONTRO a NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE, ONLY HW 50955 DBocld:32262900 Page 3
177-10001-10061 . JFK Assassination System Date: 8/26/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: LBJ RECORD NUMBER : 177-1 0001-10061 RECORD SERIES: NSF, COUNTRY FILE, CUBA, TDCS, VOL. 1, BOX 32 | AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Document Information * ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: TO: TITLE: _ DATE: — 12/13/1963 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : CUBA DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: IB CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 10/02/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : DOC. #170 v9.1 26 HW 50955 Docld:32762901 Page 1
COUNTRY SUBJECT DATE OF INFO. PLACE & DATE ACO. APPRAISAL THis Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. SOURCE JOHN F, KENNEDY, CUBAN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS ABROAD BEGAN TO RECEIVE A SERIES OF MESSAGES PLACING THEM ON A SPECIAL ALERT “STATUS, “BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUND ING “THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY MIGHT LEAD TO HOSTILE SECRET (When Filled In) IN. ORMATION REPSRT , CENTRAL ‘INTELLIGENCE AGENCY - This material contains information atfecti ing the National Defense of the United States within ‘the meaning. of the Espionage Lews,, Titie 18, U.SC Sees. 793 and 794, thea transmission or revelation of which in “any manner to an unauthorized perion is prohibited by faw. CUBA ALERT STATUS OF CUBAN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS, AS RESULT OF THE ASSAS— SINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY 9 DECEMBER 1963 9 DECEMBER 1963 ABOUT 2 DAYS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT ACTIVITY DIRECTED AGAINST THE MISSIONS, MISSIONS, AMONG OTHER EXTREME VIGILANCE, TO MOUNT A NIGHT-AND=DAY WATCH OF MISSION. PREMISES, TO BE CERTAIN THAT THERE WERE SECRET toa. «61K HW 50955 CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS No sneer IGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/ OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. Bocla: 3227827901 Page 2 oo CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/ — CONTROLLED DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE TDCS DB-3/658 , 469 . 13 DECEMBER 1963 5B UM TOY SMITH THESE MESSAGES WERE OBVIOUSLY DUE. TO APPREHENS I ON THE’ DIPLOMATIC THINGS, WERE EXHORTED TO EXERCISE "NO COMPROM | S ING
~~ SUASSIFICATION <> DISSEMINATION. CONTROLS yo. ‘NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM “ABROAD/ — . s E SECRET CONTROLLED _ DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE. ‘ONL: ADCSDB- 3/658, 469. | fo ot ‘DOCUMENTS ON THE PREMISES, " AND TO. BE ‘ON ‘GUARD AGAINST. HOSTILE -PROVOCAT IONS, oo ae 2. ONE CHIEF OF. MISSION, WHO, FOLLOWING HIS USUAL | PRACTICE, REQUESTED BY TELEPHONE. PERM SS ION TO ACCEPT A LONG-STAND ING INVITATION TO VISIT A COUNTRY FRIENDLY TO CUBA, WAS TOLD THAT HE MUST FORMALLY ‘SUBMIT HIS REQUEST BY CABLE. HE DID SO ON 29 NOVEMBER, BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL | 6 DECEMBER THAT HE RECEIVED THE AUTHOR ITY TO. QUIT HIS POST. 3. AS OF 9 DECEMBER THERE HAD BEEN No- INDICATION FROM HAVANA THAT THE ALERT ORDER WAS To BE CONS IDERED REVOKED. uy, FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, “END OF MESSAGE ~ "CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS “NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM. ‘ABROAD/ - CONTROLLED )_DISSEM/BACE <GROUND. USE ONLY . HW 50955 Docld:322829901 Page 3
47-40001-10063 v9.1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : HW 50955 DBocld: 322782903 JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form Agency Information . LBJ 177-10001-10063 NSF, COUNTRY FILE, CUBA, TDCS, VOL. 1, BOX 32. Document Information CIA 11/24/1963 2 CUBA REPORT Secret Consulted Withhold 08/13/1993 DOC. #188 Page i 8/26/20]
NI DRMATION REPC RT) “CENTRAL INTEL : GEN: » This: materiat contains information affecting the National Defense of the Us maa ‘ha’ of ihe. Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C_Secs. °-793 ‘and 794, thé transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthoraed perion is _Brohibi fed by fave. “TE LASSIFICATION = DISSEMINATION ¢ scout SECRET © a eae (When Filled In) . nN re AiG Hs COUNTRY, URUGUAY ro REPORT NO. a ‘SUBJECT CUBAN PRECAUTIONS FOLLOWING ASSASSINATION DATE DISTR, 24 NovemBer-19630D¥-SMI TYE. : OF ‘PRESIDENT KENNEDY “REE BADER oe PRECEDENCE ROUTINE . EK _— DATE OF 22 NOVEMBER 1963 REFERENCES em E7 DB INFO, vere ai A BE, 5 pone - PLACE & URUGUAY, MONTEV!DEO (23 NovemBER 1963) Labs DATE ACG. | APPRAISAL 2 FIELD REPORT NO. wumeo i - ao tap a Te THIS Is UNEVAL UATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT [S-TE! a RILDUE FF SOURCE . (CUBAN “TNTELLTGENCE 1. RICARDO ‘GUTTIEREZ TORRENS, THIRD SECRETARY AND cis/ SERVICE) CHIEF OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN MONTEVIDEO, TELEPHONED THE. _ | MONTEVIDEO POLICE AT 171@ HOURS (MONTEVIDEO TIME) ON 22 NOVEMBER TO REQUEST EXTRA POLICE PROTECTION FOR THE CUBAN EMBASSY, GUTTIEREZ | SA|D THE EHOASSY. HAD RECEIVED REPORTS THAT 4 MOB-WAS PLANNING TO STONE THE | EMBASSY.» (FYEL® COMMENT: THE NEWS OF PRES, KENNEDYS ASSASSINATION WAS! RECEIVED’ IN,MONTEVIDEONAT APPROX IMATELY: 166g HOURS, MONTEVIDEO: TIME). a 2, THE-POLICE FURNISHED EXTRA PROTECTION TO BOTH THES CUBAN | EMBASSY: AND .TO TAEPSSUTE ee THony ALTHOUGH THE LATTER HAD a “GROYP I . [Excluded tam eutomone downgradmng and declavficaton CLASSIFICATION. = - DISSEM I ATION CONT oe SECRET STATE/O tR (15-20) oem 1K OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. HW 50955 DBocld:32262903 Page 2
HY 0955 CLASSIFICATION. _ DISSEMINATION CONTROLS seca NO Fonte SE | eee ES MADE NO REQUEST, “AS OF 1648 Hours 23 ‘NOVEMBER THERE HAVE BEEN NO DEMONSTRATIONS AGA INST EITHER DIPLOMATIC INSTALLATION, (FIELD COMMENT = THE POPULACE OF MONTEVIDEO HAS BEEN PROFOUNDLY SHOCKED. AND. GRIEF STRICKEN: OVER PRES KENNEDY'S: ASSASSINATION, CROWD ESTIMATED BY PRESS TO COMPRISE 3000 PERSONS | MARCHED To AMER I CAN EMBASSY RESIDENCE EVENING OF 22 NOVEMBER TO EXPRESS THEIR SORROW). 23. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY-AIR’ e1NcS0. -END. OF ‘MESSAGE. - “CLASSIFICATION - _ DISSEMINATION CONTROLS BDoctlda: 3227327903 Page 3 A SPONTANEOUS
at Thursday, December 1, 1966 A woman telephoned me, who later identified herself as a Telephone - I had a couple of telephone conversations with , her, extending over two or three days, regarding what she described as the "brothel house on Capitol Hill," She particularly identified a girl whom she said worked for ESOS ; and who had telephoned her from a motel in Washington asking: "Why don't you give your husband a divorce. He's sleeping with me," She said that it was a common practice of secretaries on the Hill to cohabit with their bosses and with various lobbyists: "These are predatory females," she said, "They go for the middle aged lobbyist with large expense accounts. It's the girls who seek out the men. The lobbyists attend the staff parties. which is loaded iia lobbyists try- ing to ge ax concessions, She named and.acted as a procurer for the lobbyists. ees she gave further details Said she did not want to get involved and she did not really want to had telephoned her In a second conversation with about her ownlife, though she in a way that would hurt talk to me in person. She said that saying: "I am in a motel room with your husband. If you don't be- lieve me, I am going to have him talk to you, I am twenty years younger than you, and I have got the advantage over you," ss2ic that MM cot hysterical. She told her, "Ob- viously you are twenty years younger because you are hysterical," "Why don't you divorce hin?" asked. "Because he's never asked me," she replied. Eas: Said she was pregnant, which was the reason she was hysteri- Cal. Yben EE © ane to the telephone, he was obviously drunk. His wife told him: "I understand you have a pregnant girlfriend," "It's not my baby," he replied. "She's had an abortion before," In either this or another conversation PE 010 the girl: "Do you realize what you do to men's wiles and children, " SANTTIZED _ Authority Denes beec lL Of By. C_. NARA Datet-4-!4+
aa said that she had now separated from her husband, that she was not going to continue to live with a drunken ana promiscuous man, She identified him as a lobbyist, though she would not tell me whom he worked for, She said he was in » Where she said was just as well known as she was on the Hill. She Slept with many of the I gathered that was alobbyist in connection vith MN s2ic that the lobbyists, together with the staff members on Capitol Hill, had what they called "playpens", which were located at the She said, was full of Single girls. There was also the She described the ickup joint in Washington and that the We had tie-ins with the lobbyists. as the biggest She also said that of the gambling clique, » was head I forgot to mention that (MA reply, when WMA asked her if she realized what she did to men's wives and children, was "bull shit.”
HW 50955 SECRET In any event, we know of only two coun- tries--Mexico and Uruguay=-where Castro appears inclined for the time being to forego inciting violence, and this only because he wants a favorable climate for his operations into other countries. II. Even before the October missile crisis--and with increasing rancor since then--Cuban leaders ' have been exhorting revolutionary movements to violence and terrorism, and supporting their activities, A. Cuban support takes many different forms, — We have occasional evidence of direct participation by Cuban nationals, as in the La Oroya disorders in Peru in December. We know that some funds move, generally in ' cash by courier, from Cuba to the revolu- tionaries in other countries. While we have _ not been able to come up with the kind of DoctTd: 32205169 airtight proof a court would require that weapons move directly from Cuba to these. same groups, we do know that Cuba furnishes money to buy weapons, and that some guer- rilla forces in Peru, for instance, are equipped with Czech weapons which most logically would come from Cuba, ~Q— SECRET Page 3
47-10002-10034 JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form v9.1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES: | . AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : » RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW: OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : HW 50955 Bocld: 322705147 Agency Information LBJ 177-10002-10034 PAPERS OF SMITH, KEN, ADMIN. MTGS. ON VN. 8-11/63 DIEM COUP, B.24 Document Information WH BROMLEY SMITH 09/16/1963 I NEED SUBJECT ASSIGNED MEETING AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT Unclassified 1A Redact 04/21/1998 DOC. #25 Page i 8/26/201
TOP SECRET «+ MEETING AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT September 16, 1963, 11:00 AM «« Subject: Vietnam Present: Secretary Rusk, Secretary McNamara, Secretary Dillon, Director McCone, Under Secretary Ball, Director Bell, | Director Murrow, Under Secretary Harriman, General Taylor, General Krulak, Deputy Secretary Gilpatric, Assistant Secretary Hileman, Assistant Secretary Manning, | Mr. Colby (CIA), Mr. Janow (AID), Mr. Bundy, Mr. Forrestal, Mr. Bromley Smith The telegram from Embassy Saigon, No. 523, had just been received and wae read by the group. The remainder of the meeting was given over to listening to and questioning Mr. Huntingdon Sheldon, Deputy Director, Central Intelligence, who had made a special trip to Saigon, and| the Deputy CAS in Saigon. Both of these men had arrived in Washington that morning, flying directly from Saigon. The import of Mr. Sheldon's report, which was reflected in cables he had sent to Mr. McGone, was that there now exists no capability of over- throwing the Diem government and that building of such a capability would take many months if it were decided to initiate such action now. Mr. Sheldon speculated on the possibility that Nhu might make a deal with North Vietnam. The hypothesis is stated in the CIA mermorandurin, attached. Secretary Rusk was obliged to leave the meeting in order to keep a White House appointment. However, the rest of the group felt the need for a further meeting later in the day, preferably with the President, in an effort to reach agreement on the kind of instructions to be sent to Ambassador Lodge. (A limited meeting with the President was held later in the day.) Bromley Smith % . TOP SECRET - CODEWORD— HW 50955 DocId: 32205147 Page 2
1. North Vietnam —- a. North Vietnamese leaders South Vietnam are pressing their campaign for neu- tralization of South Vietnam. b. They can count on Cambodia's support. Prince Sihanouk has said he believes neutralization of South Vietnam to be the only way to keep his country and the rest of the area from falling eventually into Commu- nist hands, ec. The French feel the same way. Indeed, Souvanna Phouma re- portedly told a closed session of the Laotian National Assembly that the French were urging him to sup- port Hanoi in this. d. Moreover, according to one of our clandestine sources, the North Vietnamese have talked Souvanna into backing the neutralization proposi- tion in the UN. e. The troublesome Polish ICC delegate in Laos, Marek Thee (who will be going home soon), has just returned to Vientiane from Hanoi and is trying, with somewhat less suc- cess, to enlist British support too. (Cont 'd) For The President Only - Top Secret HY 50955 DBocld: 322705073 Page 3
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