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VOLUME I X, LETTER8

J ANUARY, 1967

Dear Reader,

H du B REPORTS FOR IGN FF RS L TT R

PARS, FRANCE

Your J anuary i ssue of H du B REPORTS i s l ate The reason your correspondent spentNovember and December i n Sai gon and Hong Kong I n Vetnamhe had tal ks, not wth a si ngl egroup or party or man wth a favori te to advance or j usti fy, but wth everyone Buddhi sts,Cathol i cs, northern refugees, Southern V etnamese resentful of

the northerners, off i ci al sof the government i n power, l eaders of the parti es that are out ; edi tors, busi ness mensol di ers, Cao Dai l eaders, members of the Hoe Hao sect, spokesmen for the Bi nh Xuyen (thatpri vate army which once hel d the Reds at bay fromSai gon to Cape Saint J acques) and V et-namese stil l l oyal to thei r deposed and exi l ed Emperor

Since then the resul ts of those hours of tal ki ng, questi oni ng and l i steni ng i n Sai gonhave been wi tten and rewi tten i n what i s almost a search for the impossi bl e the impart-i ng to you of V etnams opi ni ons, fears and hopes wthout marking the speakers for repress-i on or even assassi nati on One of the men wth whomyour correspondent tal ked, M Tranvan Van was ki l l ed a fewdays l ater

WHY AMERCA MUST HAVE THE TRUTH W are i n troubl e i n South V etnam On Ameri ca s strongand unequivocal wl l to vi ctory i n that war the fate of the West depends Meanwhi l eAmeri ca i s di vi deds

A powerful , art i cul ate negati ve group--doctors, l efti st professors, unkempt students,msgui ded l i beral s and out and out communi sts--cal l s for surrender Thei r number i s i n-defi ni te Fewof themhave any knowedge of V etnam The enem bel i eves they are powerfulenough to impose thei r wl l on Ameri ca, wth the hel p of i nternati onal pro-Red pressurewthi n U N and wthout

2 A l ethargi c segment of Ameri ca sees the V etnamwar as a nui sance, di srupti ng enj oymentof TVprogram and the Great Society

3 Patri oti c, conservati ve Ameri cans demand that l i ves be saved and the war shortened byremovi ng any doubt fromthe mnd of the enem that we i ntend to wn i t A so, that di vi dedgroups i n South V etnambe brought i nto the struggl e Much sociol ogi cal dri vel i s bei ngwi tten about the need to wn the peopl e of South V etnam Nothing i s sai d of the errorswhich made us l ose the peopl e; consequentl y the Ameri can peopl e are unaware of them Yourcorrespondent i s one of those who woul d wn the peopl e by recogni zing our past mstakesand recti fyi ng themwhere recti fi cati on i s sti l l possi bl e

4 Equal l y patri oti c, conservati ve Ameri cans produci ng booklets, newsletters, securi tyreports, radio commentari es and l ecture program preach that the l ate Presi dent Ngo di nhDemand hi s brother were good, l oved and vi ctori ous ; and that they were ki l l ed at thei nsti gati on of Ambassador Cabot Lodge because they were wnni ng (No commendati on ofCabot Lodge i ntended

The effect of this l ine i s negati ve Those who subscri be to i t ru e out the possi bi l i tyof correcti ng our mstakes and wnni ngback the forces we al i enated because, by thei rreasoni ng, the crushi ng of every rel i gi ous sect, pol i ti cal group and l eader who di d notl i ke thei r man was not an error Further, there i s an impl i ed defeati smi n thei r theme

One of Dems l eadi ng propagandi sts now l ecturi ng i n Ameri ca recentl y wote your corres-pondent, I f you woul d go to V etnamnow you woul d hear al l the V etnamese regretti ng (i nthe sense of wshi ng back) the days under Presi dent Ngo di nh Dem Thi s statement i sdishonest W were i n V etnam No one wshes that government back save those who l ostimportance and perqui si tes when i t fel l Ml l i ons hate us for imposi ng i t

To repeat such a fal sehood to trusti ng Ameri cans i s to run a pol i ti cal campai gn agai nstthe present regime or any government that mght succeed i t, since the l amented l eaders arel ong dead To tel l Ameri cans that al l V etnamese di strust and di sl i ke the exi sti ng or any

possibl e -regim and want the ol d one back i s to hamper the war effort and ai d no one but

the V etcong

Confused Ameri ca wl l remain confused unti l Groups 3 and 4pul l together Lethargi cAmeri ca wl l remain l ethargi c unti l the South V etnamese fi ght the V etcong i nstead of

each other Ameri ca s No questi on, therefore, shou d be Wat do they want? Wat

must we undo, to make the South V etnamese see thi s war as thei r war?

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OUR PRESS HAS BEENGU LTY OF MORE THANTHE SINOF OMSSION Good papers have been i n-terested onl y i n stori es deal i ng wth ml i tary acti vi ty i n South V etnamand wthi ndi vi dual s whose ori g n i s i n our ci rcul ati on area, as one of the better New Yorkedi tors expressed i t Sl anted papers, news agenci es, radi o and TV system and reportershave i gnored our bl unders (or del i berate acts which advanced the Reds) because whenthose harmul acts were bei ng commtted i t was wth thei r encouragemnt and approval NoAmri can newsmn, i nformti on agent, governmnt of f i ci al or psychologi cal warf are of f i certo date has sat down wth V etnams di sgruntl ed sects, groups or part i es to ask, i nthei r own l anguage or i n thei r l i ngua f ranca (French) what thei r gri evances are and whatthey wl l do i f thei r gri evances are ri ghted

know of no other Amri can to whomthe V etnamse would dare g ve a f rank repl y hadthe experimnt been tri ed Consequentl y, your correspondent, wth the conf i dence gainedby l ong years of f ri endshi p and acquai ntance wth the l eaders whose f ol l owers feel thatthey have been wonged, went to Saigon

WE WERE HAMPEREDFROMTHE START Pentagon press chi ef Arthur Sylvester was asked toaccord accredi tati on to your correspondent The request was never answered Enj oyi ngaccredi tati on and al l the assi stance thi s entai l s i s the mn descri bed by TIME Magazi neas the mst experi enced and respected correspondent i n Saigon I n 1946 he was pro-MaoTse-tung and Ho chi Mnh I n 1962 he was wri t i ng propaganda stori es for Demand Nhu,for whose i njusti ces al l but their own henchmn now reproach Amri ca

I n hi s book, The Lost Revoluti on , the mn we are speaki ng of eul og zes Col onel EdwardLansdal e But Lansdal e i s the mn V etnamse mnarchi sts, Cao Dai fol l owers, Hoa Hao

bel i evers and Bnh Xuyen f i ghters hol d responsi bl e for thei r gri evances Today thereporter mnti oned above i s a l eadi ng f i gure i n AMERCANFRENDS OF VETNAM the formrDeml obby organi zati on whi ch Ang er Bddl e Duke, Amri ca s present ambassador to Spai n,headed A commnt on Kr Duke, senators pl ease note : TIME Magazine of February 10,1961,reports M Duke presi di ng at an AdamC ayton Powel l testi mni al dinner . AMERCANFRENDS OF V ETNAMputs out a publ i cati on reputedl y f i nanced by the Pentagon

A J esui t pri est touri ng Amri ca preaches the them that Demand Nhu were l oved, vi c-tori ous, and ki l l ed at the i nsti gati on of our Saigon embassy, soberl y advanci ng as acl aimto recogni t i on the statemnt that he was sel ected by the U S Defense Departmnt(the of f i ce whose approval of anyone el se would be taken as proof of unrel i abi l i ty) i nAugust 1965 to mke a speci al tour of South V etnam

Let us l eave the fi el d of contri ved confusi on for a mmnt, and try to pi ck up the threadof V etnaminvol vemnt at the begi nni ng M C L Sul zberger, i n a f oreign af fai rs

art i cl e headed The Day I t A l Began , i n the New York Tims of J anuary 11, 1967, set thedate at Apri l 22, 1954, whi ch woul d put the onus on the Republ i cans M Sul zberger was ing dishonest Ambassador Bohlen, i n hi s Bohlen Papers , tel l s us how in December,1943, FDR had a secret meti ng wth Stal i n behi nd Churchi l l s back and pl anned how theywere going to ki ck the French out of I ndo-Chi na Thi s can honestl y be consi dered the dateon whi ch our present i nvol vemnt started

THEN CA? F PRESIDENT TRUMAN Teamafter teamof OSS of f i cers was sent i nto I ndo-Chi na onthe eve of V-J Day, to advi se and hel p set up the commun st, Ho chi Mnh, agai nst whomourboys are nowdying Rene J Defourneaux tel l s of hi s experi ences i n such a team i n LOOKMagazi ne of August 9, 1966 Wl l i amAtwood, the edi tor who publ i shed Defourneaux s art i c-l e,was Kennedy s ambassador to Guinea and Ghana Defourneaux wrote of hi s fi rst meti ngwth our present enemes, I t was on thi s mmrabl e day that I fi rst l earned of Ho chiMnh s tremndous Intel l i gence System . The OSS teamhad taken a French captai n along

and l i sted himas an Amri can Ho promptl y poi nted himout, gave hi s nam and rank and

ordered that he be sent back to China Wat was tremndous about i t? The French l earned

a short tim l ater that Defourneaux s team(perhaps he himel f ) had provi ded the ti p-of f

Hs Majesty the Emperor Bao Dai has stated that the f i rst tim he sawColonel Lansdal e

(now a general and No 3 mn i n the Amri can embassy i n Sai gon) i t was wth Ho chi Mnh,

duri ng the peri od when the Emperor was being hel d pri soner

UNDERPRESIDENT EISENHOWER or mre preci sel y Foster Dul l es, the Emperor Bao Dai was

brought to appoi nt Ngo di nh Dempremer I n hi s book, The Lost Revoluti on , Robert

Shapl en, correspondent for The New Yorker i n Sai gon, states that Al l en Dul l es hasti l y

di spatched Lansdal e to V etnambefore Dems arri val , to l earn al l about the Bnh Xuyen,

the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao sects and other groups Good l uckl wred the CA chi ef to hi s

emssary Then, wth the approval of Al l en Dul l es, the threat to cut of f Amri can ai d

was used to mke the arm turn agai nst General Hnh, V etnams hero of Wrl d Wr I I

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Next the Cao Dai sect army which had kept the Vetmnh out of Tay Nnh, where G s arenowdyi ng, was destroyed The Hoa Hao army whi ch protected Cantho was crushed GeneralLe van Ven, l eader of the nhXuyen pri vate army, who alone had been capabl e of es-tabl i shi ng securi ty i n Sai gon, Chol on and around the ai r bases where G s are now cutdown, was broken, dri ven f romthe country and hi s fortune conf i scated When these hadbeen destroyed there was nothi ng to prevent Demand hi s Ameri can advi sors f romdeposi ngthe l egi ti mate emperor

Congressman Wal ter J udd, i n September 1956, gave General I ronMke ODan el credi t

for these vi ctori esJ ean Larteguy, the French war correspondent who used the materi al he amassed as aj ournal i st to produce a stri ng of hi stori cal novels, gave another account i n hi s book, Le Mal J aune (Presses de la C te; 114 rue du Bac, Pari s V) Larteguy, cal l i ng Lans-dal e Li onel Terryman, descri bes a scene i n the presi denti al pal ace i n whi ch Lansdal e i stal ki ng to Ngo di nh Nhu, the President s brother who had been educated to be a teacherbut who had never been abl e to hol d a class wthout being chased out by hi s pupi l s

.

Now l i sten, he (Lansdal e) sai d The professor was shocked by such faml i ari ty Hewanted to be addressed as Your Excel l ency

In three days i t wl l be too late to attack Le van Ven, Lansdal e conti nued I n threedays hi s advi sor wl l arri ve and the sects wl l j oin them They wl l qu t betraying eachother and be stronger than you are The on y thi ng you can do then i s pack up and get

out .

Colonel, we wl l never qu t Vetnam I f we have to we wl l go underground i n themountai ns .

At that chi l di sh statement Lansdal e bl ewup I f I do not have your word at once that

tomorrow the troops sti l l l oyal to the Presi dent wl l attack the nhXuyen, I wl l never

come back to thi s pal ace I wl l return to Washi ngton and i nformthe State Department

that i t woul d be a mstake to support your government any l onger .

Thus the chai n of events which poi soned Vetnamagai nst us was set i nmotion

Surpri sed and wth an ai r of hurt i nnocence, Professor C aude A Buss, of the H story

Department of Stanford Un versi ty, wote i n the Los Angeles Times of J anuary 1 1967,

Three out of f our Vetnamese sti l l have no i dea why we are there, and they may wel l

bel i eve that we are at the root of thei r wetchedness.

Boys i n green berets, the creamof Ameri can youth, huddl e i n Speci al Forces camps i n

South Vetnam studying a book on paci f i cati on I t was wi tten by General Edward Lansdal e,

whose paci f i cati on vi ctori es to date have been agai nst anti -commun sts who woul d have beenwth us, whose rancors are unexpressed because they have no press

Here are a f ew of the repl i es recei ved i n your correspondent s search to pl umb the depths

of Vetnams recri mnati ons, and report on a muzzl ed peopl e s hopess

MR LE NGOC HO SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE MNSTRY OF FOREIGNAFFA RS i s an excel l ent,

i ntel l i gent of f i ci al Pati entl y he thumbed through a pi l e of mul ti - col ored brochures

adverti si ng books, bookl ets, speakers, col umn sts and commentators, al l sel l i ng Ameri ca

the l eaders whose assassi nati on date Vetnamcel ebrates as a nati onal hol i day He agreed

that thi s campai gnwoul d col l apse wth the di scredi ti ng of three or f our propagandi sts

He recogn zed the fact that huge sum had been spent on gu ded tours for sl anted wtnesses

He was surpri sed that l i t t l e or nothi ng had been pri nted i n Ameri ca about the torture

house mai ntai ned by Demand Nhu i n the botan cal garden Photographs and testimony had

been wdel y publ i shed i n Vetnam he stated I t seemed strange that they were not pri nted

i n Ameri ca

MR NGUYENHUULUONG Cabi net Chi ef i n the Mn stry of I nformati on, i s i mpressi ve and

l i keabl e I ama Cathol i c, he sai d, but I was not compromsed by the Demregime,

si nce I never accepted of f i ce under i t I amhappy to meet you because I have read your

book

Yes, i t i s correct on the whole I knew emwel l He woul d have made a good pri est,

but chi ef of state was not hi s vocati on And then there were hi s brother and si ster- i n-

l aw

He regretted that attempts to keep the Demmyth i nf l ated prevented recogn ti on of the

errors we commtted under i t Yes, he admtted, I f Le van Ven (l eader of the nh

Xuyen pri vate army, known on y as a vi ce l ord and pi rate to Ameri can readers) were to

come back, we coul d remove al l those barri cades i n Sai gon And he added, . and i f the

Emperor were to return, we coul d restore un ty i n the South.

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MR.TRANVANVAN OPPOSITION LEADER IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY hel d powerful hates andstrong, sometimes non-val i d, convi cti ons He was aware that Ameri ca i s not tryi ng town the war But, l i ke mny, he thought i t was for commerci al reasons, because J ohnsonwants to stay i n V etnamforever

Get that out of your head, we tol d him J ohnson wl l mve heaven and earth to getout of V etnambefore our next el ecti ons So you must qui t sni pi ng at Premer Ky and thenortherners i n hi s government and get on wth the war against the Vetcong A l you andthe other pol i ti cal parti es are doi ng now i s impeding the war effort .

I f we cease attacki ng the government, he protested, In a year and a hal f i t wl l be

so f i rmy entrenched we wl l never get i t out Ameri ca wl l force i t on us as she di d

Dem

What woul d Ky and Ameri ca have to do to get you to declare a pol i ti cal truce t i l l the

V etcong i s beaten? we asked Hs answer was short : Bri ng back our Emperor .

Wl l you cease al l pol i ti cal opposi ti on i f Hs Maj esty Bao Dai returns as a guarantee of

fai r pl ay?

Yes, he answered Three weeks l ater he was assassi nated

MR TRANVAN N (no rel ati on to Tran Van Van) i s another opposi ti on l eader As Pro-

fessor Buss woul d put i t, he al so bel i eves that we are the root of hi s wetchedness He

spent almost the whol e of Dems peri od i n power i n Paul o Condors Pri son, South V etnams

A catraz Now he si ts i n the Nati onal Assembly

What i s hi s pri ce for co-operati onunti l the communi sts are beaten? Fi rst, the return o£ General Le van Ven, to assure

securi ty i n Sai gon Then the return of Hs Majesty the Emperor, not to Saigon but to

Hue, the ol d imperi al capi tal I t woul d not be necessary to restore himimmedi atel y as

Emperor He coul d come back as a medi ator between the di vi ded facti ons, sai d M Tran

van An

MR TRAMQUANGVINH Former Mni ster of Nati onal Defense, member of the Nati onal Counci l ,

now represents the Cao Dai sect Boi l ed down to i ts essence, hi s apprai sal of the si tua-

ti on i s : The Cao Dai sect has some 2,700, 000 adepts FromMay 1955 to November 1963 the

Ameri cans l umped themi n wth the communi sts After Demfel l , some Cao Dai fol l owers

ral l i ed, but thei r enthusi asmwaned when they saw that Ameri ca had no i ntenti ons of

maki ng honorabl e amends By that, said M Tran quang Vnh, We mean restori ng Le van

Ven as l eader of the coal i ti on of the Oao Dai, Hoa Hao and Bnh Xuyen against the Reds,

then bri ngi ng back Hs Majesty I f Ameri ca woul d encourage the return of Le van Ven,

our 2, 700,000 Cao Dais woul d fol l owhim Add to that 1, 500,000 Hoa Haos and a ml l i on

Bnh Xuyen sympathizers The Ameri cans coul d stop worrying about Saigon, Chol on and

Ben Hoa ai r base There woul d be no more terrori sm

MR TON THAT (pronounced taht ) TH_EN(brother of General Ton That Dn, commander of the

Fi rst Ml i tary Regi on i s managi ng edi tor of the Engl i sh-l anguage dai l y, The V etnam

Guardian I commented on hi s report i n the (London) ECONOMST i n November- 196 In which

he stated that General Lansdal e had been sent back to V etnamto bring about the fal l of

the Ky government He repl i ed, That arti cl e got me i n troubl e.

We discussed the tragedy of the Ameri can Rght s i nabi l i ty to gai n the confi dence of

South Vetnam simpl y because one facti on of said Rght refuses to make an honest ma

cul e There i s nothi ng I can do, he l amented Ameri can publ i cati ons do not reach

m, and anything I mght wi te, i f they were to publ i sh i t, woul d get m i n troubl e here

Vo Hai (Dems former ri ght-hand mn) i s the onl y one who knows howmuch was pai d and i n

what formto those sti l l bl ocki ng any real backtracking, and he is afrai d to tal k Too

many were i n i t wth him

We wl l never get anywhere unti l al l the forces Ameri ca and Demal i enated are brought

i nto the war effort When PhamKhac Sum was chi ef of state (he resi gned i n J une, 1965)

he wanted to bring Le van Venback, but Premer Phamhuy Quat bl ocked i t We must

bri ng back Le van V en and the Emperor .

Three weeks l ater Ton that Thi en s paper was suspended for hi nti ng that the V etcong

mght not have been responsibl e for Tran Van Van s assassi nati on,

THCH PHAP TR AND THCH THENHOA V ce Presi dent and Presi dent respecti vel y of the two

l eadi ng Buddhi st groups, sat l i ke immovabl e mounds of f l esh Thi ch Tri Quang, the

pri ncipal Buddhist troubl e-maker i n Vetnam was recoveri ng fromhi s hunger-stri l c*, so

the two above-named Buddhi st l eaders, men wth huge heads-- l i ke Sum westl ers and

apparentl y devoi d of nerves--faced m i n thei r pagoda

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A l thei r reacti ons were negati ve When they tal ked of the sufferi ng of i nnocentci vi l i ans bombed by Ameri can planes, there was no real comassi on for the sufferers

They were counti ng beads of gri evances against the nati on doi ng the bombing Remndedthat, accordi ng to V etcong Defense Mni ster Vo nguyen Gap that there are no ci vi l i ansi n North Vetnam the l and of peopl e s war, peopl e s arm , they sat si l ent Askthemi f they would l ike to have Ameri ca drop the whole thi ng and pul l out, and they say No Ask themwhat they want Ameri ca to do and they ask what you thi nk Ameri ca shoul ddo Our repl y was Suppose we were to undo al l the mstakes that we can stil l recti fy

W cannot bri ng back General Hnh he is nowChi efof Staff of the French Ai r Force But Cathol i cs, Cao Dais, pol i ti ci ans and mny others tel l me that we shoul d showour

good i ntenti ons by faci l i tati ng the return of Le van V en and the Emeror and then l et-ti ng the Vetnamse decide whether they shoul d remi n permnentl y or not Wuld thatsui t you?

Yes , they answer

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Wth Le van V en here, peopl e coul d sleep at ni ght and the road to Cape Sai nt J acqueswoul d be safe agai n Wth the Emeror here, we would not fear the Cathol i cs and theywould not fear us Only the Emeror i s above pol i ti cs, rel i gi ous di fferences andregi onal di vi si ons .

Our conversati on was i n French, as were al l the conversati ons amquoti ng I t tooktwo and a hal f hours to extract a concrete suggesti on Fromthe pagoda where we metthe two mnks we went for a meeti ng wth a mn who, i f he is not to go the way ofM Tran Van Van, we shal l refer to as M L

MR L I S THE REPRESENTATIVE OF LE VANVEN the mn who started l i fe as a pi rate i n theswams, who escaped fromseemngl y escape-proof Paul o Condors Pri son three tims Themenwho fol l owed himaccepted death rather than betray him The Reds feared him Andaccordi ng to LI FE Magazi ne Ameri can agents (presumbl y the Lansdal e team spent ml l i onsto bri ng about hi s fal l Ameri can boys nowdi e where he preserved order

M L repeated what the Cao Dai representati ve and the two mnks had tol d us Hecl aimd that over fi ve ml l i on people would fol l owLe van V en against the V etcong i fhe coul d return Why do som V etnamese oppose hi s return, we asked He sai d they wereafrai d he would want hi s property back So Le van V en sai d he woul d not demnd hi sproperty, since i t had been sol d and resol d, but he woul d ask resti tuti on of the sixml l i on dol l ars Demconfi scated fromhi s account i n the Bank of I ndo-Chi na He has to

have mney for the wdows and orphans of the menwho di ed for himi n 1955, otherwse hewll l ose face, expl ai ned M L

Are you sure he can secure the area between here and the Cape? Yes, the V etcongare not operati ng between here and the Cape I t i s Muoi Tri He swore he woul d notral l y unti l hi s chi ef coms back (Muoi Tri was sentenced to death by the V etmnh i n1948 and saved by Le van V en. The Ameri cans thi nk they are fi ghti ng the V etcong

I n real i ty they are faci ng an anti -communi st who was dri ven i nto di ssi dence when

Colonel Lansdal e crushed hi s chi ef

COLONEL NGUYEN PHUOCDANGi s a tal l , good-l ookingV etnamese He was about to l eave

for his property at Cape St J acques Yes, he agreed Muoi Tri i s i n di ssi dence

there The area between here and the Cape would return to Sai gon control i f Le van V en

were to return

Were i s Vo Hai ? we asked, knowng that Colonel Dang was acquainted wth the ol d Dem

Nhu team Do you thi nk we coul d get Vo Hai to com clean and tel l us howmuch he pai d

out for free tri ps to Sai gon for pro-Demspeakers and wi ters, and support of papers

and so-cal l ed news agenci es?

Not a chance, he answered Vo Hai i s l yi ng l ow Hs brother, Vo Lang, was exceed-

i ng y correct on hi s trip to Sai gon, before Demand Nhu were ki l l ed Vo Lang l evel ed

a fi nger at hi s brother, and shouted, You wl l be hanged i n a Sai gon square for what

you are doi ng nowand you wl l deserve i t As your brother, I wl l be sad, but I wl l

not l i f t a fi nger to save you

Dang conti nued, On one of Madame Labi n s f irst vi si ts to Saigon I was del egated to

take her to Cape St J acques for a day of sun bathi ng on the beach, to keep her occupied

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and happy tri ed to tel l her a few thi ngs about Demand Nhu She was annoyed, andnever tal ked to me g in.

Conedrning Nhu and his wfe Yes, I l earned on September 1963, that the V etconghad rej ected Nhu' s proposi ti on A fewdays l ater Madame Nhu l eft for Belgrade, toseek support .

RESEARCHA LA PENTAGON Whi l e we were questi oni ng representati ves of regi onal , rel i gi ous

and pol i ti cal groups i n V etnami n search of a commn pol i ti cal denomnator, one which

woul d enabl e the di sparate facti ons to uni te behi nd Marshal l Ky and fi ght the V etcongi nstead of each other, the Pentagon was doing some pol l i ng on i ts own

The Pentagon's w y was to employ a hi gh-pri ced research organi zati on cal l ed SIMULMATICS

CORPORATIONOF NEWYORK After a staggeri ngwaste of time and taxpayers' mney, i t came

up wth the ponderous pronouncement The V etnamese di sl i ke Ameri cans and have i nsti tu-

ti onal i zed hosti l i ti es because they have unsati sfactory sex l i ves

In V etnams j ung es and swamps G' s went on dyi ng General Le van Ven sat in hi s

modest apartment outsi de Pari s (not themansi on fal sel y accorded himby TIME Magazi ne of

November 11, 1966) The Emperor Bab Dai recei ved countl ess appeal s, but cou d do noth-

i ng about them

INBELLICOSE REDCHNA STRANGE THNGS WERE TAKINGPLACE A woman who had fai l ed as an

actress became a fi l i ng cl erk i n a communi st l i brary some years ago There she attracted

the eye ofChi na' s agi ng l eader, Mao Tse-tung Mao's wfe was commtted to a mental

i nsti tuti on i n Russi a, thi s bei ng the peri od of Si no-Sovi et co-operati on, and there she

i s presumabl y st i l l al i ve Mao' s fri ends and ol d comades do arm did everythi ng they

coul d to dampen the ol d chi ef' s ardor for the ac*ress become l i brari an, but to no

avai l The best they cou d wi ng out of himwas a promse to keep her at home and out

of pol i ti cs Today th s ex-actress, Chiang Ching, better known as Madame Mao, i s sett l i ng scores

Some si xteen ml l i on youngsters are said to have been transported across Chi na, whipped

i nto adol escent fury and gui ded to the homes of those whose names were i n Madame Mao' s

l i t t le l ck book Cutti ng out tongues, l oppi ng off ears, l ooti ng, destroyi ng bel ong-

i ngs and spreadi ng terror, Madame Mao's hordes spread a wave of terror

Those who had snubbed Chi ang Chi ng commtted sui ci de i f they were i sol ated Those who

were not, whether i n the arm, pri vate l i fe or pol i ti cs, began to band together Today

Red Chi na totters on the hri nk of ci vi l war

I n Hanoi M Harri son Sal i sbury, as another NewYork Times man once di d i n Cuba, pounded

out typewi tten pages, tel l i ng an abused and confused Ameri ca what Hanoi wanted Ameri ca

to hear

Thus eg n the year of 1967

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VOLUME I X, LETTER 9FEBRUARY, 1967 H du B REPORTS

FOREIGN AFFARS LETTER

THE FOREIGNPRESSAS DCTATOR OF FR NPOLI CY

PAR S, FRANCE

Duri ng the presidenti al campaignof 1964 al l Europeans knewof Gol dwater was what thei redi tors gl eaned and transl ated fromthe anti -Gol dwater Ameri can press Ameri can foreigncorrespondents then retranslated i nto Engl i sh stori es on the hatchet j ob they themelveshadwri tten and, under foreign datel i ne, passed themback as examples of forei gn opini onwhich Ameri ca must not defy by el ecti ng Goldwater, under pain of ostracismby the restof the worl d

So successful has been the tacti c of usi ng arti cl es publ i shed i n l eftwng j ournal sabroad as arguments for pol i ti cal andmoral surrenders by Ameri ca that a study of thewhol e procedure i s i n order

THENEWYORKTI MESANDTIME MAGAZNE are the Ameri can publ i cati ons most wdel y acceptedby forei gners as unassai l abl e authori ti es on Ameri ca s thoughts, i ntentions and pol i ti calaspi rants (I t i s estimated that the U S I nformati on Agency purchases some twoml l i oncopi es of TIME each year for grati s di stri buti on abroad. The Wshi ngton Post i s l esswel l -known to forei gnedi tors I ts j ob i s to spread on each l awmaker s desk at the startof each Wshington worki ng day such foreign opinion as wl l make what the WshingtonPost supports or opposes Ameri ca s fi nal truth (I nci dental l y, the Meyer faml y whi chowns the Wshington Post al so control s NEWWEK Magazine, thus providi ng a second, sub-stanti ati ng voi ce to parrot, under another name, the parent paper s l i ne.

The NEWYORK TIMES pi pes i ts reports and columns to the Ameri can publ i c under a vari etyof names byprovi di ng i ts news servi ce to other papers across the country Thus aTi mes story appears in Los Angeles, I ndi anapol i s, Sal t Lake C ty, Fort Lauderdale andother ci ti es Each addi ti on to the l ong chai nof l ocal papers passi ng the Times l i ne tol ocal readers under a l ocal paper s name i ncreases the power of those pouring news i ntothe central funnel i n NewYork Wrse, i t i ncreases the stature, andwth i t the newsval ue, of those carryi ng dri vel to the funnel THEHONGKONGSTARof J anuary 11, 1967, featured as i ts front-page story an i nterviewwthM Harri son Sal i sbury of the NewYork Times Bri efl y, M Sal i sburyhad been to Hanoi ,fromwhi ch ci ty he put at the di sposal of Ho chi Mnh the wei ght of the most impressi vepaper i n Ameri ca and al l the other papers usi ng the NewYork Times news servi ce A comparable act woul d have been our gi vi ng Goebbel s anAmeri can mass-ci rcul ati on outl et i n1944

No wri ter wth nati on-wde coverage i n Ameri ca went back to compare Ho chi Mnh s per-suasi ve statements of 1946 when, on the eve of a massacre, he i nvi ted hi s dupe, a Frenchdipl omat named Sainteny, to dinner Sal i sburywrote of Hanoi hotel hostesses putti ngonhelmets and taki ng up thei r guns when ai r rai d al erts sounded, thenwent onwth thepretense that they were ci vi l i ans

Later he went to Hong Kongwhere, because of hi s paper s stature, hi s pronouncements werefront page news Wat di dhe tel l Hong Kong resi dents, apprehensi vel y eyeing Chineseri ots i n neighboringMacao andRedGuard atroci ti es i n chaoti c China? The headl i ne went TopU S J ournal i st Wrns DONT MAKE HONGKONGAWARBASE. I n other words, don t

l et Ameri ca have any faci l i ti es here I t was both nonsense and treason

The Hong Kong Star, i n whi ch thi s i ntervi ewappeared, i s both pro-Formosa and anti -Red I ts edi tori al offi ces are i n Carol i ne Mansi ons, HongKong M GrahamParsons, Edi tor,i s a veteran i n the Ori ent During the 1954 to 63 peri od of Ameri canmeddl ing i n the

i nternal pol i ti cs of V etnam Parsons was a Reuters News Agency correspondent i n Saigon

Ed Gul l i onwas pol i ti cal off i cer i nour embassy (He was ambassador to the Congo l ater,when we andU N were destroying stabl e Katanga to pl ease a Congolese l abor boss named

Adoul a. Gul l i on frequentl y i nvi ted M Parsons to l uncheon or di nner, wth an eye to

usi ng the Bri ti sh press as evidence that worl d opini onprecluded any pol i cybut the one

M Gul l i onwas tryi ng to sel l

M Parsons i nvari abl y stated, 14 Gul l i on, I en oy your meal s immensel y, but I wl l not

buy your man. Whythen di d he give Harri son Sal i sbury news-space i n apro-Formosa news-

paper? The answer The NewYork Times i s big I ts pronouncements are repri nted abroad

unquesti oningl y, as the l ast word on what Ameri ca thi nks

TWOLEFT-WNGFRENCHPAPERS regul arl y furni sh desi redFrench opinion quotes for Ameri ca

and transmt NewYork Times versi ons to the French publ i c i n the game of i nternati onal

Lefti st co-operati on W have a reason for remnding youof themat thi s time

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L EXPRESS ANDLENOUVEL OBSERVATEUR Let us l ook at L EXPRESS fi rst I t i s a weeklywth

TIMEMagazine format A publ i cati ons dealer on Th rdAvenue i n NewYork pushes i t as the

l eadi ng l i beral paper i n France L EXPRESS was founded i n 953 by the Servan-Schreiber

famly as the anti -war, peace-in-Indochna dri ve of the French Left entered i ts f i nal

phase Vetniki smi n Francewas where i t i s i n Ameri ca today And Pierre Mendes-France,

of the extreme soci al i st Left, was the man L EXPRESS was push ng

Dfferent pol i ti cal system requi re di fferent methods Today the obj ecti ve o£ the i nter-

national Left i s to hold the spectre of world opini onbefore a msi nformedAmeri can publ i c

and l ead i t to impose a pol i cy of no-wni smon a fri ghtened president hoping for re-el ec-

ti on I n 953 adapti ng tacti cs to the French system the aimwas to make the exi sti ngFrenchgovernment afraid to wn, then saddle i t wth responsibi l i ty for defeat, after

wh chnati onal i ndignati on wouldbe used to toppl e the government i n power and clear the

way for a manwhowould perpetrate the sel l -out I t worked

At the time of the battl e of DenBen Phu bothL EXPRESS and Le Nouvel Observateur were

under i ndi ctment for aidi ng the enem The precise charge? Passi ng information Both

i ndi ctments were quashed the mment Mendes-France became premer Today L EXPRESS i s pro-

Vetcong I t has always been pro-Castro A veteran of i ts edi tori al staff is Madame

Reyre, wfe of the head of Banque de Pari s et des Pays Bas, parent company of Paribas

Corporation of NewYork Barry Gray i s a frequent contributor The L EXPRESS i ssueof October 12, 96 at the height of De Gaul l e s purge of the French

army, featured Senator Fulbright s reasons why trigger-happy offi cers and fasci sts --

meani ng anti -comma sts--should be weeded out of the Ameri can arm The French Left then

used the forei gn opi nion argument to i ncrease the purge i nFrance

Last year, i ndi cati ve of the FrenchLeft s complete affi ni tywth the French government,

L EXPRESS became a carri er agent for the reports of AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, the offi ci al

French government news agency Thereafter Monsieur Franci s Lara de Chaban, noble and

marri ed to a descendant of Napoleon s brother, became our Wshngton correspondent ,

and aprovider of soci al respectabi l i ty to marxist L EXPRESS

LENOUVEL OBSERVATEUR i s of parti cular i nterest to the Ameri can publ i c at th s time I n

essence, here i s the l atest pro-Redhoax I n md-January a short i temappeared i n Ameri -

can papers, stati ng that a beauti ful Frenchgi rl war correspondent namedMchele Ray had

di sappeared i nVetnam A fri ghtful pi cture of femnine l ovel i ness hel pl ess i n the hands

of the Vetcongwas conjured up

After the f i rst announcement of her di sappearance, more detai l s appeared, mostl y deal i ng

wthher beauti ful auburn hai r Who employed her, who sent her to Vetnami n the fi rst

place, fewpapers bothered to menti on LIFEMagazi ne of February 3 cal l edher a free-

l ance photographer who shared combat patrol s wth the Green Berets, who gal l antl y named

an operation for her

She i s 29 years old She was tryi ng to dri ve fromSaigon to the deml i tari zed zone i n

the north i n awh te Renaul t car One or two reports quotedher parents i n France as

stati ng that theywere not greatl y worri ed, as thei r daughter had expressed intenti ons

of reporting frombeh nd the Vetcong l i nes after her stay wth the Ameri cans But th s

was soft-pedal l ed I t hurt the suspense bui l d-up

V l lagers of Bong Son, 29 mles northeast of Saigon, near where her car was found, told

of her arri val , accompaniedby two Vetnamese i n ci vi l i an clothes i nside the car and two

Vetcong soldi ers walking slowy besi de i t One Ameri can correspondent destroyed any

real effect Mss Ray s forethought mght have had, i f the capti vi ty story hadbeen genu-

i ne, by wi ti ng that she had succeeded i n conceal i ng her Ameri canml i tary assi stance

ID card i n her car Wl ter Cronki te over CBS on J anuary 25 967 gave another boost to the mrket for

Mss Ray s eventual di sclosures He showed CBSman Murray Fromon intervi ewngMajor

Bobby Porter at anAmeri canbase i n SouthVetnam Yes, Mss Ray was stubborn, said

the major He had di ssuaded her fromtryi ng to ri de north on abi cycle, di sgui sedwth

awg But she refused al l advice and drove northon her own

MADEMOSELLEMCHELE RAY Let us tal k sense Not evenHUMANTE i s as effecti ve a

propaganda sheet for Ho chi Mnh as Le Nouvel Observateur, for whomMss Raywas accredi -

ted as a correspondent Mss Ray s boss i s i n constant contact wth Ho chi Mnh s Pari s

mssion He i s a NorthAfri can namedBen Saidwho, for greater effecti veness, took the

name of JeanDani el We shal l refer to hmby hi s proper name Formerl y he wote for

L EXPRESS Unti l recently he was French correspondent for the NewRepubl i c, whose

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edi tor, Gl bert Harri son, M Ben Sai d extol l s i n France as an i nterpreter of Ameri can forei gn opi ni on

Nouvel Observateur was known as France-Observateur unti l a l i t t le over a year ago I twas co-defendant wth L EXPRESS i n the 195 treason i ndi ctment Dani el Gueri n, the FrenchRedwho set up communi st cel l s (real l y sovi ets ) i n the French army to report on Frenchoff i cers duri ng the De Gaul l e purge, was an Observateur edi tor Though the treason caseagai nst L EXPRESS andFrance-Observateur never came to court, the scandal i t created wasused to get a number of l oyal French general s, i ncludi ng the i rreproachabl e Chi ef ofStaff , General Georges Revers

Such i s the background of Mss Ray s edi tor and paper On February 5 1967, she calmywalked i nto a ml i tary outpost at amQuan, about si x mles fromher pl ace of contactwth the Vi etcong, and was f l own to the S 1st Caval ry Dvi si on CommandPost at An Khe

The gueri l l as who sei zed her were cheerful , Mss Ray tol d the Ameri cans at An Khe Shehad been stopped once before at a roadbl ock, but was permtted to proceed after she ex-pl ai ned what she was doi ng and had a cup of tea wth the gueri l l as wai ti ng to ki l l ourboys al ong the road

What di d she tel l the Vi etcong? Anyone sent to Vi etnamby Le Nouvel Observateur woul dtel l themeverythi ng she had seen, l earned, and been tol d by the Green Berets who

gal l antl y named an operati on for her Thi s i s the l ogi cal expl anati on for her touri ngour si de of the l i nes fi rst She has announced that she wl l conti nue her attempt to

dri ve the l ength of South Vi etnam after some rest i n Sai gon

She sti l l has her press credenti al s, sai d an Ameri can spokesman She can go wherevershe wants to.

Some mght consi der i t a betrayal of Ameri ca s soldi ers, consi deri ng that the war i nwhich they are f i ghti ng and dyi ngwas termedbyMss Ray s paper on J ul y 18, 1966, An

Absurd Crusade.

LI FE of February 3 1967, quoted her as sayi ng, To the Ameri cans, who never l eaveSai gon by road, I amei ther a sweet dope or a heroi ne. We consi der her nei ther, and

shal l watch for the stori es Nouvel Observateur s Ben Sai d wl l publ i sh i n Pari s SAGONS ENGLI SHLANGUAGE PRESS I f Ameri ca i s msi nformed and i l l - i nformed as to what

i s done and thought i n SouthVi etnam the same can be sai d for the Vi etnamese Bear i n

mnd, the censorshi p machi ne set up by the DemNhu regime i s stil l i n pl ace No suc-

ceedi ng government has dared di smantl e i t, any more than a newadmni strati on i n Washing-

ton would dare throwone of our ponderous agencies out i n the street Consequentl y, evena story favorabl e to the Ky Government, or a book exposi ng the errors of the Demregime

for whi chAmeri ca i s blamed, has l i t t le chance of reachi ng aVi etnamese addresseebypost

Senator Ful bri ght s i nsul ti ng statement i n J anuary that Premer Ky i s onl y there because

we put himn and shoul d be booted out i f he does not do what Ameri ca tel l s himto, wl l

reach the Vi etnamese peopl e through Premer Ky s enemes That ml l i ons of Ameri cans

despi se Senator Ful bri ght, the Vi etnamese wl l never know On the other hand, the story

that made f ront pages i n Sai gon l ast November when an Ameri can negro arti st was arrested

for ki dnappi ng a13-year-ol d gi rl and hol di ng her capti ve i n hi s room( f or the game of

the pi g , as a Sai gonpaper put i t) wl l never reach Ameri ca

Shoul d Ameri cans wsh to wi te l etters to Saigon edi tors or subscri be to a Sai gon Engl i sh

l anguage dai l y, to make certai n that both apprehensi ve Vi etnamese and our boys patroni z-

i ng the newsstands i n Tu Do Street recei ve encouragement, the addresses of three such

papers are as fol l ows THE VIETNAMGUARDAN 26 Ho Huan Nghi ep, Sai gon (Address l etters To the Edi tor )

THE SAGONPOST, 399Tran Hung Dao, Sai gon

SA GONDAI LY NEWS TaxBui l di ng, 135 Nguyen-Hue (or Boi te Postal e 693), Saigon CONCERNNGTH S PREMERNGUYEN CAOKY whomSenator Ful bri ght brands as an Ameri can puppet

whi l e vaunti ngWashi ngton s ri ght to meddl e i n Vi etnamese i nternal pol i ti cs The al l ega-

ti on i s as i nsul ti ng as the statement that Vi etnamese general s were i ncapabl e of setti ng

up thei r own November 1 1963, coup d etat wthout i nsti gati on andpl anni ng by Ameri can

off i ci al s Ky i s young He was wthout experi ence i n pol i ti cs As a pi l ot he showed great courage,

and when the previous government, through i neptness or i ntent, appeared to be sacri f i ci ng

f i ghti ng men wthout tryi ng to wn, Ky and a group of fel l owoff i cers took over

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Whoever i s i n power wl l be hampered, attacked andmali gnedbyeverygroup that i s outConsequentl y, Ky i s shot at fromal l si des Buddhi sts threaten himwth ci vi l war i f hei s decent to a Cathol i c Most Cathol i cs i nVetnamrecogni ze hi s di ff i cul ti es and respect him Afewwho enjoyed importance under DemandNhu stil l campaign for the deadbrothers i n Ameri ca, and i n so doi ng undermne Ky--or any other non-Cathol i c whomghtri se to power Thi s makes the Buddhi sts more i ntractabl e, for they see i t as a pl otto stage a Cathol i c comeback

Al i n al l , Ky i s doing an i ncredib yexcel l ent j ob Hs pol i ti cal j udgment hasastoni shed everyone Therewas no experienced l eader, for the simple reason that wehelpedDemand Nhu run out or arrest everyVetnamese who was not a yes-man NowthatKyhas acqui red experi ence, those of the Fulbri ght i l k would l i ke to destroyhim Fewpapers i nAmeri ca defendhim The American pub i c should come to hi s defense An i dealsolution for Vetnamwould be the return of the l egi timate head of the government, theEmperor, wth Ky as an appointedpremer No Ameri canpub i cati on, translati ng foreignpress stori es to be used as ammuni ti onbyArthur Goldberg i n advanci ng U N. ' s aim, i sl i kely to tel l us thi s

ATLASMAGAZNE i s one of the pub icati ons l ooti ng forei gn soci al i st and communi st perio-di cal s of arti cl es and reports for pub i cation i n Ameri ca QuincyRowe, as ATLAS edi tor,some years ago described the offi cial j ournal of the Ageri an rebel s as moderate El Mou-j ah d (El Moujahidmeans thefi ghter . Never translated for ATLASpub icati onwasEl Moujahid s account of the trip to Cuba byAgerian FLNrepresentative to U N ,Abdekader Chanderl i , to drawup an accordwth Castro Today the FLNAgeri ans whom

ATLAS supported are running training camps to teach the Vetcongmore effi ci ent ways ofki l l i ngAmeri cans

ATLAS Far East authori ty i s 0 Edmund Cubb, the State Department securi ty ri skwhom

DeanAchesonpermtted to resi gnwthpensi on, agai nst the recommendati ons of hi s own

commttee M Cubb, nowat Columba Uni versi ty, i s a member of the l obbyadvocati ng

admssionof Peking (and the RedGuards) to U N

Consi dering thenumber of pub i cations inundating Ameri cawthextreme lefti st materi al ,presentedas worl d opinion whi chwemust byno means offend, a report on a timely sub-j ect froma j ournal which nei ther ATLAS nor the NewYork Times wll ever menti on, i si n order

MNUTE OF PARIS, i s a ri ght-wng weekl y, pub ished at 12 rue du Croi ssant, Pari s 2Ameri can subscription 19 per year) OnDecember 1, 1966, MNUTE carri ed a story thatmeri ts study The story of communi sms march fromrags to ri ches, an i ncredib e tale

whi ch, si nce America s l egal i zation of the Communi st Party, on J u l y 1 1966, i s due to

be repeated here

I n 1935, as comnamsts and social i sts uni ted to takeover France and start the disarma-ment programwhi ch left the countryhelpless four years l ater, FrenchReds acqui red anol d, run-downbui l di ng at 44 rue Le Peletier Later on the street crossing i n front ofthe p acewas cal l ed Carrefour Chatesudun Nowi t i s known as PlaceKussoth, a namethat remnds FrenchReds of Budapest every time theyopen thei r mai l

Acorporation owned the bui l di ng, so communists i nfi l trated the corporati on When

Emle Duti l l eul , treasurer of the French Communi st Party, became head of the board of

di rectors of the corporati on, the rest was simp e Theyhad thei r home

There was one obstacle ABerl i n i nsurance fi rmnamed TheVctori a had some 80,000

i nthe bui l di ng, but Htler' s i nsurancemagnates did not qui bbl e about the transfer, or

grantingFrenchReds a b gmortgage under parti cularly favorabl e term

The oldbui l di ngwas completely transformed Bul let-proof doors were i nstal l edbetween

fl oors Reasonfor the securi typrecautions was the party' s monster fi l i ng system the

b ggest i n France after the pol i ce' s, i nwhich i ntimate detai l s on some four ml l i on

Frenchmenweremeti cul ousl y recorded (I n Reuther s GROUP RESEARCHandArthur Larson s

NATIONAL COUNCL FORCVCRESPONSIB LITYwe had the beginning of the same thing i n

Ameri ca One of the questi ons eachpartymember had to answer i n France was, Do

you have any rel ati ves i n the pol i ce?

The custodian of this fil e on communists (and thei r enemes) was sel ected for hi s

rel i ab l i ty I t was aman namedMauri ce Treand, who l ater negoti atedwth the Germans

i n 1940 for permssion to resume pub ication of HtMANTE, the communi st publ i cati on,

after the French government had shut i t down

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DURNGTHECVLWAR IN SPANa group of French anti -Reds, enraged by the compl i city ofPierre Cot, France s pro-communist A r Mni ster, attacked the Red HQ occupied the groundfl oor and tri ed to set fi re to thebui l di ng Out i n the streets, cheeri ng themon, weredi si l l usioned fighters fromthe I nternati onal Bri gade, cursingAndreMarty, the FrenchRedwhose summary executi ons i n Spaingained himthe name of the butcher of Abacete

In the fal l of 939 out of the Redheadquarters fl eworders to sabotage the war efforti n the name of peace Htl er had not yet i nvadedRussi a Accordi ngl y, on September 28, 939 the French government di ssolved the Communi st Party and sent pol i ce to occupy thebui l ding But the ml l i ons of dossiers onFrench Reds and thei r enemes had di sappeared

Rumors ci rculated that they hadbeen shipped to Russi a vi a Germany (l i ke Lenin i n 9 7 Ohers affi rmed that they had been sealed i na secret underground hidingplace, preparedl ong i n advance No one knows Thi s i s one of the careful l y guarded secrets of theRedHouse I t mayhappen again

AFTER THE LI BERATION top Red l eader J acques Duclos reoccupied the bui l di ngwhi l e communist workers i n theRenaul t automobi le plant got thei r boss, Loui s Renaul t Thedeserter, Mauri ce Thorez, was brought back by De Gaul le fromMoscow where he hadbeenhiding si nce hi s death sentence i n 939 and a newera started

The forb ddingbui l dingonPlaceKussoth has seenmany inner storm of whi ch the outsi deworl d has never heard In 1952 i t was shakenby a three-day fi ght behind cl osed doorsas the Central Commttee expel l ed AndreMarty fromthe party Then came the period of

French communi smsimlar to that through whi chAmeri ca i s passi ng today

THEWARININDOCHNA The French army sawi ts mssion i n Indochina as a struggle forhumani ty and the survi val of the West French Reds and no fewAmeri cans sawi t only asa sordid fi ght to perpetuate col onial i sm Peace commttees, demonstrati ons agai nst war,sabotage i n defense plants and a drive to urge deserti on and i nsubordinati on on Frenchsoldiers--thesewere the order of the day The pattern i s cl assi c I t was di rectedfromthe i nner sanctumof the Mauri ce Thorez house of treason

Nei ther Frenchpatri ots nor France s Reds had any delusi on about who caused the surrenderi n Indochina I t was not that France, as a nati on, had lost her wl l to fi ght I t wassimply that the l eaders i n the Red HQ aidedby i nternati onal Reds, had the power totopple governments wl l i ng to fi ght, and to i nstal l a government wl l i ng to surrender

I t was French Communi sms vi ctory, not Ho chi Mnh s The same tacti cs are nowbeingused i nAmeri ca

Not unti l 956 when Russi an tanks roared through Budapest, didthesoldi ers who hadbeen betrayed i n Indochina have a chance to make thei r repl y OnNovember 7 956

thousands of i ndignant menandwomen fol l owed the nowexi l ed former premer, GeorgesBdaul t, downChamps El ysees Inthe chi l l of Pari s autumnthey stood for a mnutewth heads bowed i n si l ence for the vi ctim of Budapest Crying Burn the Communi stParty Headquarters , an immense mob surged toward Carrefour Chateaudun, as the cross-street before the bui l di ngwas then cal l ed

Another group marched onthe offi ces of HUMANfE The attackonHUMANTE was repul sedby party strong-men, throwngprevi ousl y-prepared bottl es of aci d fromupstai rs wn-dows At the RedHouse, however, the veterans fromIndochinabroke the door downEnteri ng a neighboring cafe, one of themwent upstai rs and cl imbed along the si de ofthebui l ding into a second storywndrow But i t was no use The i ron doors betweenfloors b ocked further progress Whi le fri ghtened Reds scrambled over the rooftopsthe sol di ers theyhadkni fed i n the back in Indochina fi red the bui ldi ng once more

1958 THEBOYSFROMINDOCHNAAGAN Two years passed A l argeb ack stain sti l lcovered the nerve center of subversi on and treasonwhi ch legal i zati on of the party

obedient to a foreignpower (Russi a) hadmade possib e Agroup of general s headed

by Raoul Salanand supported pol i ti cal l yby such men as J acques Soustel l e andGeorgesBdaul t brought De Gaul l e to power Looki ng at themen di recti ng the acti on, theFrenchCommuni st Partywas sei zedwth pani c A commando rai d on the Red House was

expected anymnute I n a md rush for safety, partyb gwgs skipped the country Tons

of party fi l es were transported to I tal y The expected cl amp-down never cam, though

Red deputies were swept out of the Nati onal Assemb y I n a fewmonths the fi l es

wereback

France i s movi ng i nto a newphase of communi smas this is wi tten Communismmade

attracti ve The palati al period The rank and f i le are as always unwashed, hating

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andhated, treasonabl e and vi cious, but the vi si bl e ugl i ness wl l be removed Bui l d ngsl i ke the drab monstrosi ty onPl ace Kussoth (formerl y Carrefour Chateaudun) are out

Archi tects' model of the newpal ace FrenchCommn sts wl l bui l d at Pl ace Col onel -Fabi eni n Pari s as a nati onal headquarters

THENEWREDPALACE Nemeyer, thearchi tect who desi gned Brasi l i a,wnner of the Leni nPri ze, 1963,wl l bui l d i t I t wl l be afuturi sti c pal ace of seven f l oors,reposi ng on supporti ng sl abs,si tuated onPl ace Colonel Fabi en,

at the corner of Boul evardde l aV l l ette andAvenue Mathuri n-Moreau where the l abor uni onhousenowstands Need of morespaceanda home i n keepingwththe party' s present importanceare prime reasons for themove

Among i ts features An under-ground amphi theater, an exposi -ti on hal l , several restaurants(upper echelons do not eat wththe hoi pol l oi ), amonster l i b-rary, a garage, rel axati on roomand agymnasi um

MOST IMPORTANT I ts securi ty precauti ons An automati c door-closi ng systemwl l slamshut sol i d steel doors at the press of abutton, seal i ng off f l oors and sensi ti ve areas,

l i ke bulkhead doors on a sinki ng shi p Secret panel s and camoufl aged exi ts wl l pro-

vi de escape exi ts for those on the i nside Anetwork of el ectron c rays wl l shi el d al lentrances despi te the fact that, as HUMANTE puts i t, the pal ace wl l be erected i n the

heart of popul ar (read commest) peopl e' s Pari s E ther to faci l i tate protecti on or

because thi s i s the mode, therewl l be no ground f l oor to speak of for anti -Reds to

break i nto Thi s i s why the pal ace i s rai sed f romthe ground on supporti ng slabs

One f l oor wl l be reserved for the ol d Col on al Secti on , formerl y l ocatedon rue St Georges when Moscowwas usi ngFrenchmen to i nci te revol ts i n French col on es The new

anti -col on al i st off i ce wl l d rect an ag tprop bureau for Afri ca

FI NANCI NGOF THENEWPALACE The party has pl enty of property i t canmortgage--some

hundredvi l l as i n andaround Pari s, i ncl ud ng the three Thorez used to occupy, and af l eet of rad o taxi s (Phone BOL77-77) whose di spatching center i s also a pol i t i cal

post Neverthel ess, a subscri pti on dri ve i s i n theworks The BANQUE DES PAYS DE

L' EUROPE DUNORD Russi an-ownedPari s branch of the Sovi et State bank, wl l put up most

of the l oans Fi nanci ngwl l not prove aprobl em As anAmeri canwoul dput i t, I t ' s

i n the bag.

TH PARALLEL Ameri cancommuni sm

ei ght months after l egal i zati on of the party i s where

France was i n 1935 Mss Betti naAptheker i s movi ng to set up a commun st house on the

Berkel ey campus, where Cal i forn a taxpayers are currentl y paying most of her tui ti on

mul ti -f l oored headquarters f i tted wth i ron doors to protect party records and smear

fi l es col l ectedbyReuther and Larson onAmeri canpatri ots wl l shortl y fol l ow man

namedArthur J Goldsmth, l i vi ng i n a prol etari andwel l i ng cal l ed theWaldorf Towers,

l ong ago di d the groundwork The peri od of pal ace communi smwl l come i n a few

years- -maybe adecade Our current bri dge-bui l d ng to theEast fad canonl y hurry

i t As regards the anti -war, peace-i n-V etnamphase Go back to French papers of

1939 and 1953 Or read Margueri te Hggi ns on thewar i n Al geri a

Address domest i c busi ness correspondence toH du B Reports, Box 855 Hunti ngton,

I nd ana

Subscri pti onpri ce 10per year Extra copi es of thi s newsletter, 20¢ each to regular

subscri bers, rates on l arge quanti ti es on request East coast subscri pti on off i ce Mss Ruth Noble, Sui te 356 18 Brattl e Street,

Cambri dge, Massachusetts Hl ai re du Berri er, CorrespondentJ enn e Edmonds, Managi ng Ed tor

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VOLUME I X LETTER 10 H du B REPORTSMARCH 1967 FOR GN FF RS L TT R PAR S, FRANCE

THE V ETCONGGOVERNMENT WTH WHCHAMERCAMAYNEGOTI ATE

On February 22 1967, a report was i ssued i n Saigon by M Mai van Dai Under-Secretaryof I nformati on, i nformng the worl d that a V etcong Government i n Exi l e had surfacedand woul d si t i n Pari s Presumabl y i t woul d represent the V etcong at any eventualconference wth us THE V ETCONGGOVERNMENT I NEXI LE The St Petersburg Ti mes (Fl ori da) devoted four l i nesto this i mportant devel opment Readers of the Los Angeles Times of February 23 weregi ven 18 l i nes on i t Short stori es appeared i n the Pari s edi ti on of the New YorkHeral d Tri bune of February 23 and the Pari s edi ti on of the New York Times of Febru-ary 24 Thei r substance

Pri nce Buu Hoi, a sci enti st, l ong-ti me member of a l ef tw ng Pari s group headed by theformer premer of V etnam M Tran van Huu, had thrown of f the mask and emerged as headof the V etcong s government i n exi l e then bei ng set up i n France (Tran van Huu hadvi si ted Ameri ca i n 1965 to seek support for a neutral i st government headed by himel fwhi ch woul d be abl e to come to term wth Hanoi and provi de an out for the Ameri canadmni strati on.

Few authori ti es doubted the story Most fel t i t was premature, si nce Buu Hoi i ssued adeni al on February 24 and announced that a meeti ngwoul d be hel d on Apri l 19 i n Pari s,at which he and Tran van Huu woul d both make statements Oher than that Buu Hoi was a rel ati ve of the former Emperor--an i ndi rect way of smear-

i ng the Emperor for whommany South V etnamese are cl amori ng--the publ i c was tol d nothi ngof Buu Hoi s past

Behi nd the bri ef announcement and deni al of hi s appoi ntment l i es a story the Ameri canpubl i c shoul d know

THE DAY BEFORE AMER CANS READOF BUUHOPSAPPONTMENT, word came out of Pari s that a32-pagemanuscr i pt by Madame Nhu had al so seen the l i ght of day The story behi nd theappearance of thi s manuscri pt i s al so i nteresti ng

I n md-J ul y, 1966 i t wl l be recal l ed, the Pari s weekl y, NOUVEAU CANDDE, publ i shed ani ntervi ewwth Madame Nhu wri tten by a noted anti -communi st author named Lucien Bodard I n thi s i ntervi ewMadame Nhu admtted that she and her husband had been negoti ati ng w ththe communi sts for months before Nhu s death and that she had advi sed her husband not tosay anythi ng to the Ameri cans She was she cl aimed, about to send her two ol destchi l dren to Hanoi as trai l -bl azers--more

l i kel y as proofs of good fai thWhen the edi tor of NOUVEAUCANDDE sawthi s story, heNhu put i t i n wri ti ng and si gned i t knowng that the

was capabl e of awai ti ng i ts publ i cati on, then denyi ng

refused to pri nt i t unti l Madamel ady wth whom he-was deal i ngeverythi ng and sui ng the paper

Madame Nhu s repl y was to gi ve M Bodard some ni nety pages of manuscri pt i n whi ch,amongother declarati ons our enemes i n Hanoi and Washi ngton mght use, was the cl aimthat her husband and hi s brother had never i nvi ted the Ameri cans i nto South V etnam

Your correspondent studi ed thi s manuscri pt thoroughl y and showed i t to other Ameri cans I ts appearance i n Pari s coi ncided wth the Saigon announcement of Buu Hoi s governmenti n exi l e

FI RST I NTIMATION THAT SUCH AGOVERNMENT WAS I N THE WORKS came on September 28 1966two months after the famous i ntervi ew wth Madame Nhu Thi s ti me i t was an AP di spatch

out of Tokyo Wl fred Burchett, the Austral i an communi st who regul arl y serves astransmtter of Hanoi propaganda beamed at the West, and who gui ded our NewYork Timesapol ogi st for the V etcong, Harri son Sal i sbury, on hi s recent tr ip to Hanoi , reportedan i ntervi ewwth Nguyen huu Tho, Presi dent of the Communi st NATIO14AL LI BERATION FRONT

Burchett announced the i mpendi ng formati on of a broad V etnamese government i n exi l e which woul d i nclude representati ves of al l soci al strata, nati onal i ti es, rel i gi ouscommuni ti es, patri oti c personal i ti es and even Sai gon s ex-rul ers.

Out of Rome and Pari s immedi atel y fl ew reports that Madame Nhu would fi gure i n the newV etcong government Then si l ence

I n the days of her honeymoonwth Ameri can conservati ves whomshe had duped, Madame Nhuacqui red an extensi ve mai l i ng l i st which she had bombarded wth pri nted matter Thesesupporters- -some honest patri ots and others cel ebri ty chasers--had campai gned for

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thei r heroi ne To themMadame Nhu s admssi on that she and her husband had negoti atedwth the V etcong behi nd our backs was a catastrophe Afl ood of l etters descended onMadame Nhu, pl eadi ng wth her to save face for her fri ends, but the parl eys conti nued Thi s bri ngs us up to February 23, 1967, and the announcement that the V etcong governmenti n exi l e had been set up and that Buu Hoi woul d head i t

BUU HO--WHO IS HEY The answer : An i nsi gni f i cant-appeari ng V etnamese who si nce hi syouth has been a Red He studi ed medi ci ne and for a time worked wth France s l eft-wng sci enti st, J ol i ot-Curi e, i n the Radi umInsti tute of Pari s Later he di d cancerresearch, but

hi s penchant was for l eft-l eani ng pol i ti cs He l onged to be a l eader, andsi nce he was the son of a l oyal Ho chi Mnh fol l ower named Pri nce Ung Uy, great grandsonof the Emperor Mnh Mang, hi s rank and ti tl e made himval uabl e as a front for the Reds Nothi ng that he does now shoul d surpri se us (Buu Hoi s background i s referred to sixtimes i n your correspondent s book, Background to Betrayal --The Tragedy of V etnam .

The camp i gn to sel l Buu Hoi i n Ameri ca was run by Mss El l en Hammer, a former researchstaff employee of the COUNCI L ON FOREIGNRELATI ONS She was not a di si nterested wri ter,accordi ng to V etnamese who poi nt out her years of associati on wth Buu Hoi Heri nterest, they claim lay i n becomng V etnams fi rst l ady Buu Hoi s was i n havi ng anAmeri can backer wth access to the Stanford Uni versi ty Press, at a time when Ho chiMnh s former propagandi st, M Harol d R I saacs (now at M T. was associated wthStanford Press and Stanford presi dent, Dr Sterl i ng, was head of the I NSTI TUTEOFPACI FIC RELATIONS

So successf ul was Mss Hammer i n sti rri ng up support for her fri end that i n l ate Apri l ,

1955, we f i nd Kenneth Todd Young, the State Department s whiz ki d on Southeast Asi a andl ater our ambassador to Thai l and, admtti ng to a V etnamese l eader that Ameri ca wasconsi deri ng Buu Hoi as a possi bl e successor to Dem

Thi s being the case, Buu Hoi s career, whi ch was open for anyone wl l i ng to l ook at therecords, i s of great si gni f i cance

I n J ul y, 1946, we fi nd Ho chi Mnh at Fontainebl eau i n a conference to hoodwnk theFrench Buu Hoi was a member of Ho chi Mnh s mssion to thi s conference, whi ch compri sed, accordi ng to Mss Hammer, the beat that V etnamcoul d offer . I n her book, The Struggl e for I ndo-Chi na, 1945-1955 (Stanford Uni versi ty Press), Mss Hammer sneersat the French del egati on as unimpressi ve men--men l i ke General Sal an and Pi erreMessmer,the present French Mni ster of Nati onal Defense, who wth a companionhad been a pri sonerof the V etmnh i n 1945 when the compani on di ed because Ho s Ameri can advisors preventedthei r l i berati on The onl y French del egati onmember Mss Hammer approved of was PaulR vet, who represented the French Soci al i st Party

Three years l ater, i n 1949, we fi nd Buu Hoi i n Pari s, hel pi ng stage protests againstthe immoral war whi l e hi s father was worki ng wth Ho chi Mnh I t was a forerunnerof what i s goi ng on i n Ameri ca today

I nsi gni f i cant as Buu Hoi was, and l ooked, he was nonetheless a pri nce whomthe V et-

Four years passed I n February, 1953, the French l eft was sabotagi ng the war effort in

I ndo-Chi na as a means of bri ngi ng about a defeat whi ch woul d permt Pi erre Mendes-France

to di rect the anger of the nati on agai nst the government and create a wave that woul d

carry himi nto power There i s a cl ose paral l el between Mendes-France s maneuveri ng

then and Bobby Kennedy s today As part of the February, 1953, strategy, Buu Hoi was

sent to Rangoon to meet Ho chi Mnh s emssari es Mss Hammer (i n The Struggl e for

I ndo-Chi na ) expl ai ned hi s choi ce by wri ti ng that i t was i mportant that the manwho

was to l end hi s good off i ces to such an expl oratory mssion shoul d be above suspi cion

of parti al i ty so that the free worl d, and part i cul arl y the Uni ted States, shoul d have

no reason to bel i eve that thi s woul d be the prel ude to any pol i ti cal surrender to the

Communists . : I t woul d be i nteresti ng to know i f C A f i nanced publ i cati on of The

Struggl e for I ndo-Chi na by Stanford U

HowBuu Hoi , wth hi s past Red record, coul d be suspected of anythi ng but parti al i ty

i s a questi on Ameri cans shoul d be aski ng i n the months ahead

ANAMERCAN-INSTALLEDRULER I n the fal l of 1954, i t wl l be remembered, the vast

mnh propaganda teamcoul d quote when he wrote that France, i f she wshes to retai n

some i nf l uence i n V etnam shoul d enter i nto rel ati ons wth Ho chi Mnh and seek wthhima peaceful sol uti on to the war based on j usti ce and f raterni ty. I t has a faml i arri ng

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maj ori ty of South Vi etnamese sti l l refused to accept Demand hi s famly, and GeneralHnh, the l eader of the army, prepared to throwthemout Mke Mansf i el d, who nowopposes our doi ng anythi ng to wn the war i n Vi etnam l ed the dri ve to force Demon hi scountrymen, whether they wanted himor not Others advi sed us to cut our l osses and l etthe Ngo di nha drop as a bad bargai n

The time was propi ti ous for Mss Hammer s dri ve, i n The Paci f i c Spectator and StanfordUni versi ty Press, to advance her boy f ri end and wth himhersel f She wanted to SeeBuu Hoi i n power therefore we read that the Vi etnamese became di si l l usi oned wth Demi n 1954s

Thei r onl yal ternati ve was

tosingl e out one man to speak for them

I n the fal l andwnter of 1954- 1955, soundi ngs by Vi etnamese and foreign j ournal i sts reported that the

man wth the greatest popul ari ty i n southern Vi etnamwas not one of the pol i ti ci ans whohad been i n the l imel i ght i n the past or who was presentl y i n off i ce, but Buu Hoi , whowas promnent not onl y for i ntransi gent nati onal i smbut al so for the acti ve rol e hehad pl ayed i n the struggl e agai nst French col oni al rul e duri ng the nati onal i st phaseof the Vi etmnh War .

There never had been a nati onal i st phase Ho chi Mnh s war had always been a communi stwar of conquest wth a fewnati onal i sts mai ntai ned as a screen and even these, such asBuu Hoi , were i n the know Mss Hammer conti nues

Buu Hoi s pol i ti cal i nf l uence had l ong been overl ooked i n favor of hi s acti vi ty asa sci enti st of i nternati onal fame, but the very fact of hi s i nternati onal reputati onenhanced hi s standi ng among hi s own peopl e, who respected himas a di si nterestedschol ar (emphasi s ours) above the pol i ti cal mel ee.

Thi s of the ti tl ed stooge who had fought tooth and nai l for Ho chi Mnh ever since 1945

When i n August 1954 Buu Hoi returned to Vi etnamon a visi t, Mss Hammer tel l s us, He was greeted as a nati onal hero H s name was put forward by the Cao Dai and theHoa Hao, by l abor groups and by army l eaders .

The truth of the matter i s, any acclaimBuu Hoi ever obtai ned was due to the nati on sattachment to the imperi al faml y And because of i t he fancied himel f as a l eader

THE FALL OF 1954 was a peri od of feveri sh acti vi ty for Buu Hoi I t was the cl osest hehad ever been to achi evi ng what he had dreamed of, schemed for and wooed the researchgir l f romthe Counci l on Forei gn Rel ati ons to attai n

South Vi etnamwas wi thi ng i n a mghty effort to throwof f the Ngo di nha Ameri ca wasnot yet so hopel essl y compromsed that she coul d not get out fromunder i n fact,General Lawon Col l i ns, our ambassador to Saigon at the time of the Bi nh Xuyen

origi n i nApri l and May, 1955, was al ready of the opi ni on that we shoul d not buck the current anyl onger where Demwas concerned Onl y Col onel Edward Lansdal e and a smal l cl i que ofAmeri cans who had made South Vi etnamthei r footbal l fi el d and sawDems fal l or survivali n term of defeat or vi ctory for thei r team were keepi ng the unwanted faml y i nthe saddl e

I t i s a safe guess that El l en Hammer had ral l i ed enough State Department and Counci l onForei gn Rel ati ons bi gwgs to put Ameri ca i n the rol e of ki ng-maker again, thi s tim byi nstal l i ng Ho chi Mnh s ol d errand boy Then re-uni ti ng of North and South Vi etnamwoul d have been attempted

To hel p hi s candi dacy along, Buu Hoi and hi s gi rl f ri end poured out arti cl es for l eft-wng papers, tel l i ng what he woul d do i f he were in Ga Long pal ace On November 6,1954, we fi nd BuuHoi i n L EXPRESS, Mendes-France s extreme l eft weekl y whi ch had beenunder i ndi ctment for passi ng i nformati on to the enemy unti l Mendes-France rose to

power and quashed the i ndi ctment I n a l ong arti cl e BuuHoi cal l ed for strong ti es i nV etnam not onl y wth the Uni ted States and France but al so wth Asi an powers of theCol ombo group

For a true i dea of what he and Ho chi Mnh were cooki ng up, however, one shoul d turnto Mss Hammer s l atest book, Vi etnam-Yesterday and Today (Hol t, R nehart andWnston, 1966) I n i t Mss Hammer exposes BuuHoi s aim, and who was i n a betterposi ti on to know? Bear i n mnd, thi s book was publ i shed a year before there were anyreports that the author s f ri end would head a Hanoi puppet government

BUU PS PLATFORM Mss Hammer tel l s us that what Buu Hoi was worki ng for was thei nstal l ati on of a regime that woul d avoi d a purely negati ve anti -communism H s wasa pol i cy that i n forei gn af fai rs cal l ed for neutral i ty and cl ose l i nks wth such new

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Afro-Asiati c states as I ndi a, wth the ul timate aimof taking both Vi etnam i nto theUni ted Nati ons. Ever since the days of hi s 1953 mssi on to Rangoon, Buu Hoi hasbeen Nehru s man as wel l as Ho chi Mnh s

THE BUU HO-HAMMER TEAMJONS NGODNHDEM-FORA PRI CE I n 1957 Demand Nhu broughtthe Red pri nce and hi s fri end to Saigon on a red carpet tri p pai d for by the Ameri cantaxpayer Thereafter the anti -Demarti cles by Mss Hammer ceased, and paeans ofprai se took thei r pl ace I t i s hard to say what was behi nd the move to buy off thesetwo whether Demand Nhu had deci ded i f you can t si l ence them hi re them orsomeone had passed Nhu the word One theory i s that the taki ng of Buu Hoi and hi s gi rl -wth-a-press i nto the fol d wasdone at the i nsi stence of J ohn J McC oy, David Rockefel l er, the Ogden Rei de and therest of the Counci l on Forei gn Rel ati ons group who went i nto a huddl e wth Demi n thehome of J ohn D Rockefel l er, I I I , i n Tarrytown, NewYork, on May 11 1957 I n ei thercase, Buu Hoi had no further f i nancial probl em, thanks t o Ameri can ai d to South Vi et-nam and Mss Hammer s attacks ceased

One of the other thi ngs for whi ch Buu Hoi i s prai sed i n Mss Hammer s l atest book i sthat I n the south Buu Hoi created the Vi etnamAtomc Energy Ofi ce to i nvesti gate the

mani fol d uses of nucl ear sci ence i n an underdeveloped country. Thi s center, set upwth Ameri can money by a known Ho chi Mnh fol l ower, i s par for the course

I N 1958 ANOTHER DANGER SIGNAL Mss Hammer (i n Vi etnam-Yesterday and Today ) statesonl y that a new i ndependence i n Saigon s dipl omacy was put i nto operati on by a group

of young and abl e dipl omats l ed by Pri nce Buu Hoi , who himel f became ambassador-at-

l arge to several countri es and to vari ous Uni ted Nati ons bodi es .

Who were these dipl omats Buu Hoi was l eadi ng? To what countri es were they sent? And

to what countri es and U N bodi es was Buu Hoi ambassador- at-l arge? El l en says not aword, but i t i s worth noti ng that Morocco, whi ch had become a Red base duri ng the wari n A geri a, was the foremost nati on to whi ch Buu Hoi was ambassador Thi s newpol i cy, begun i n 1958 wote Mss Hammer, rapi dl y succeeded i n bui l di ng

abroad a new image of an i ndependent and dynamc (read no l onger negati ve anti -

communi st ) South Vi etnam I ts most notabl e successes occurred i n the Afro-Asi ancountri es .

On P 178 of the same book one l earns that i n 1963 a l ast attempt t o medi ate

between the Buddhi sts and the Demgovernment was made by Buu Hoi, who prevai l ed onmembers of the Uni ted Nati ons to agreeunanimousl y on sendi ng a fact- f i ndi ng mssi on

to Sai gon.

I t took no great doi ng for a Red fel l owtravel er to tal k U N i nto a fi shi ng tri p

i n troubl ed water@ but that i s not the most important part of thi s msleadi ng state-

ment The truth of the matter was that Nhu and Buu Hoi were al ready up to thei r

necks i n negoti ati ons wth the Reds and Buu Hoi e mother, who had become a Buddhi st

abbess, was about to hurt thei r pl ans by burni ng hersel f Consequentl y, Buu Hoi was

summoned to Saigon to persuade her to stop rocki ng the boat

THE NEGOTIATIONS BEHNDAMERICA S BACK The most shocki ng of Mss Hammer s revel a-

ti ons, to a l oyal Ameri can, i s her confi rmati on on 177 that Nhu was negoti ati ng

wth the Vi etcong And i n the l i ght of recent reports namng Buu Hoi openl y as a

Red puppet, Mss Hammer s account of secret deal i ngs t o whi ch she was pri vy take on

ever greater importance Ameri can impati ence wth Demi ncreased, she wote, when i t was l earned that hi s

brother Nhu was i n contact wth North Vi etnamand Vi etcong i nsurgents (Note they wereonl y i nsurgents) and was seeking an agreement by whi ch Hanoi woul d l et the Vi etcong

rebel l i on subsi de i n exchange for a restri cti on of the Ameri can presence i n Vi etnam

These contacts had been encouraged by I ndi a s Pri me Mni ster J awaharl al Nehru and by

France s Presi dent Charl es de Gaul l e.

I n the pages that fol l owed, Mss Hammer repeated the theme preached by those whomwe

descri bed i n our report of J anuary, 1967 as GROUP 4 namel y, that Demand Nhu were

l oved, and that thei r deaths ended a peri od of rel ati ve calmand that therefore unseat-

i ng themwas a mstake For those who l i ke Buu Hoi , were staking everythi ng on

secret negoti ati ons wth the enem, the unseati ng of the brother through whomNhu

rul ed was undoubtedl y a cal amty

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SO MUCHFOR BUUHO The above shoul d gi ve Ameri can readers a clear pi cture of theVi etnamese Red whoma si gni f i cant number of Ameri cans i n academc and off i ci al l i f ehel d i n reserve or attempted to advance duri ng the past twenty-one years Thi s i sprobabl y the onl y comprehensi ve report on Buu Hoi which Ameri cans wl l have to referto duri ng the months ahead Whether our government wl l openl y, or secretl y, back himand Tran van Huu as a means of reachi ng an accommodati on wth the Vi etcong before ournext el ecti ons remai ns to be seen

I t i s possibl e that those seeking an out i n South Vi etnamby renounci ng what El l enHammer cal l s negati ve anti -communi sm wl l f i nd Buu Hoi too hot to touch si nce Sai gonhas turned the spotl i ght on him I n thi s case, a number of hi therto

unknown ci vi l i ansacceptabl e t o Ho chi Mnh and hi s pri nci pl es are on tap onl y wai ti ng to be unvei l ed One such i s the Vi etnamese protege of Davi d Rockefel l er and J ohn J McCoy who hasbeen appeari ng at Wshi ngton social functi ons wth these two men i n recent months On the other hand, i t i s sti l l possi bl e that Buu Hoi i s the man our exi t-gropers havesel ected as the l eader our teamwl l face at the conference tabl e- -hence hi s reportedappoi ntment by the V etcong

Whi l e pi eces of the enem desi gn fal l i nto pl ace, Ameri can patri ots are sti l l strai t-j acketed i n thei r attempts to undo the errors our supporters of Nhu and Buu Hoicommtted i n Vi etnamby a spate of books, arti cl es and l ectures whi chmaintai n that

i t was not a mstake to force out of the country every l eader or potenti al l eader who

opposed Demand Nhu

THE ACD TEST FORAMERICA S AUTHOR TIES ONVI ETNAM Most of these books, arti cl es,

speeches and broadcasts have one thi ng i n common Thei r i nformati on i s based on theword of someone who knew the two l eaders i n the pal ace. None of thei r authors todate has gone to the country- -the montagnards, CaoDai, Hon Hao B nh Xuyen, Dan Xa,animsts, ancestor worshi ppers, fol l owers of the nati onal tradi ti on (the Emperor),pol i ti cal part i es and refugee groups- -and asked thei r opi ni on

A case i n poi nt i s the recent book V etnamCri si s , which should be exported i nquanti ty to Saigon by USIS and put to publ i c vote

VIETNAMCRISI S publ i shed by The Free Paci f i c Press, P 0 Box 316, A ton, I l l i noi s,pri ce 75~ i s by Dr Stephan Pan and Father Dani el Lyons, S J

Dr Pan i s Chi nese He hel ped wite the Uni ted Nati ons Charter and was empl oyed asan advi sor and consul tant to U N qual i f i cati ons that mght di scredi t himi n manymnds fromthe start Hs acquai ntance wth the l ate Presi dent Dem the book states,stem fromthe si x months i n whi chDeml i ved wth himi n Wshi ngton and many vi si tsto Saigon He therefore cannot be sai d to be di si nterested. (A l previ ous accountsof Dems stay i n Ameri ca have himl i vi ng at Maryknol l Semnary, taci tl y pi cturi nghimas a devout student for the pri esthood.

Dr . Pan i s l ess i nterested i n corrssti ng our errors i n Vi etnamthan i n convincingAmeri ca that we made none as l ong as we were supporti ng Dem whose famly and f ri endswere the onl y Vi etnamese Dr Pan appears to have known

Father Dani el Lyons, S J . the other author, i s currentl y on l eave fromGonzaga

Uni versi ty Leaders of al l the nati ve Vi etnamese groups menti oned above declare thatthey have never met Father Lyons, who i s neverthel ess a V etnam authori ty on thestrategy board of the Ameri can Securi ty Counci l (Wshington, Chi cago, Los Angel es) whichputs out i ts own pol i ti cal report He i s al so chairman of the Free Paci f i c Associ ati onand the Asi an Speakers Bureau. Chances that the Vi etnamese who di sagree wth FatherLyons (at l east 9096 wll ever get thei r vi ews before the students of Gonzaga Uni ver-

si ty, Ameri can Securi ty Counci l readers, Free Paci f i c Associ ati onmembers, Asi an SpeakersBureau audiences or Free Paci f i c Press readers are therefore ni l Further, the l i beral useof Free i n the names of two of these bodi es makes anyone who contradi cts Father Lyonsopen to charges of being opposed to freedom

The theme of V etnamCri si s i s the faml i ar one The Demgovernment was good, l oved,vi ctori ous, and cut down by our Saigon of f i ci al s because i t was wnni ng Father Lyons,however, according to hi s statements, was sent to South Vi etnamby the S DefenseDepartment i n August, 1965 and agai n by the Whi te House i n md-J une, 966 I t i s hardto see why McNamara and J ohnson sent a man to Saigon who preaches that our embassyoff i ci al s (admttedl y no good) murdered Vi etnams former l eaders, unl ess our governmentwould rather have the publ i c bel i eve such a story than know that the V etnamese hate usfor foi sti ng the Ngo di nh faml y on them one member of whichwas negoti ati ng wth theReds behi nd our backs .

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The book i tsel f i s i ncredi bl y badl y wri tten, whi ch l eads one to suspect that the Chi nesemember of the teamhad mre to do wth i t than the Gonzaga professor No attempt i s madeto fol l ow chronol ogi cal order France' s desi re to get Chi nese troops out of I ndo-Chi naafter Worl d War I I i s l ai d to underesti mati ng of the communi sts

Important detai l s i n the deteri orati on of South V etnamare passed over wth a sentence

Whol e pages- -12 on the Geneva Conference, 17 on SEATO and i ts j usti f i cati on under Arti -cl e 52, Secti on 1 of the U Charter--are devoted to materi al obtai ned through perusalof ol d records

On what real l y happened i n South V etnamand the other actors on the stage there i s very

l i ttle, onl y the assurance that Demand Nhu were good The Emperor Bao Dai i s wri ttenof f as a playboy: obvi ousl y nei ther author bothered to meet hi mor l earn hi s vi ews

General Le van V en, a central fi gure i n the drama, whose bani shment by Demi s costi ngus ml l i ons of supporters and the l i ves of thousands of Ameri cans now i s menti oned onl yonce, and then hi s name i s wrongly wri tten Madame Nhu's father, Tran van Chuong, i sal ways referred to, even i n the i ndex, as Tran Van Thoun General H nh, whose ousti ngwas our fi rst step toward creati ng the l eadershi p vacuumpl agui ng V etnamtoday i s onl ypassi ngl y referred to, and then as General H ng Demf i nal l y managed to di smss him

i s al l the reader i s tol d of the devi ous maneuvers of Demand our embassy (thi s ti m

our embassy real l y was i n i t ) to get hi mout of the country

Among the seemngly overwhelmng obstacl es Demi s credi ted wth overcomng i n hi s

fi rst six mnths of power i s the suppressi on of the V etcong, an organi zati on not formed

unti l six years l ater O the torture house i n the botani cal gardens, through whi chmany members of V etnams present Nati onal Assembl y passed, not a word

On P 100 the reader i s tol d, It was one of Dems weaknesses that he di d not have apubl i c rel ati ons programto support hi m . He had not a singl e news agency abroad for

protecti ng hi s i mage or correcti ng fal se reports . The authors knewvery well of Harol d

Orems hummng publ i c rel ati ons machine, howmuch i t cost, the free tri ps to Sai gon i t

obtai ned for cooperati ve wri ters, and the powerf ul Deml obby, AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VI ET-

NAM wth Angi er B ddl e Duke at i ts head, behi nd whi ch Dramoperated from1955 on

On F 107 we are tol d that several coup d' etat attempts had al ready occurred, wthout

success, before the f i nal one of Nov 1 1963- Unti l that day, no pl otter coul d hope

for success because the Uni ted States woul d have opposed hi m P 125) That i s why

Ameri ca i s nowhated by every man who suffered under the Demregime

DUB REPORTS OF FEBRUARY, 1967 quoted a l etter fromone of Dems l eadi ng propa-

gandi sts stati ng that i f we were to go to V etnamwe woul d hear al l the V etnamese regret-

ti ng (i n the sense of wshi ng back) the days under D em I rate V etnamese demanded to

knowwho had wri tten such a thi ng We sent themthe paragraph i n questi on, signed byFather Raymnd J de Jaegher I t was pri nted i n the SAIGON POST of February 17, 1967 On

February 20 the paper ran the fi rst repl y, fromM Nguyen Be Mnh (of 48/1 Phan Thenh

Gan, Sai gon) I t l i sted fi ve charges agai nst the D emgovernment, and ended, I woul d

be honored to di scuss wth Father Raymnd J de J aegher before the tel evi si on i n any ci ty

of Ameri ca about thi s subj ect, on the i nvi tati on of any Ameri can organi zati on.

Ameri can TV and radi o networks, pl ease note

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to H du B REPORTS, Box 855, Hunti ngton, I ndi ana, 46750 Extra copi es of thi s newsl etter

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The weedi ng out of the terrori sts, however, takes l onger, sai d M Lodge I t i sal most whol l y a j ob for the V etnamese. Thus the AP report i n the Chri sti anScienceMoni tor of J anuary 13, 1967, stated a fact that shoul d have been sel f-evi dent

I n anAP report of Apri l 9 1967, M Lodge put i t more strongl y : The real canceri n V etnami s the terrori st i nner ci rcl e I f we coul d destroy thi s terrori st i nnerci rcl e the war woul d be vi rtual l y over The hard-core professi onal terrori sts whodress and l ook l i ke everybody el se are the bi ggest probl emfaci ng us now

The questi on no Ameri can asked was : Why hasn t the j ob been turned over to a V et-namese? I s there a V etnamese capabl e of handl i ng i t? I f so, why i sn t he on thej ob? The answer to these questi ons i s a l ong story

TBRRORSM ORENTAL STYLE At the base of terrori smi n the Ori ent i s the age-ol dsecret soci ety A worl d of facel ess agents, hideouts, arm caches, fri ends, ob-servers, i nformers, associates that no one knows or suspects; i nfi l trators wthl i nes and sub-networks runni ng through every l evel of busi ness A society of spi es,col l ectors andexecuti oners, wth secret si gns andpasswords The soup vendor onthe corner, the l i t t le boy pl ayi ng wth hi s dog, the ol d womn weavi ngbasketsal l serve as messengers, l etter-drops and observers About themswrl s an ocean ofhumni ty I ni ti ates of the secret soci ety recogni ze and knoweach other

Ori ental s have spent centuri es perfecti ng thi s system and the chances are ni l that

CA s Bl oworch , Robert Komer, wl l be abl e to i nfi l trate and outwt i t when hestarts work wthAmeri ca s newSai gon ambassador, El l sworth Bunker

Onl y one V etnamese ever succeeded i n outwtti ng the Communi sts at thei r own game General Le vanV en Ameri ca ranhimout Why Ameri ca di d so, and why he has notbeen permtted to return, since weeding out the terrori sts wl l wn thewar andsave thousands of Ameri can l i ves, i s the subj ect of thi s report

LORDOF THE SWAMPS ANDMARSHES There was no way of mki ng a l i vi ng i n the swampsthat l i e to the south of Sai gon, save by kidnappi ng for ransomand pi racy Adsince thi s was practi ced against the ri ch, themj ori ty of humn ants i n V etnamhadnothi ngbut admrati on for themanwho coul d do it successful l y

Hdden i n the impenetrabl e mrshes bel owSaigon s Chi nese suburb, Chol on, was avi l l age cal l ed Bi nh Xuyen (pronouncedBean Zuyen I ts name meant towards thepeace Ahundred sml l bands mde up of the toughest ruffi ans of I ndo-Chi na, on

the run fromthe French pol i ce, mde sporadi c rai ds anddi sappeared i nto theaarshes again

Out of the mss that mde up thi s outl awstate wthi nastate rose the greatestl eafier ever produced i n modern V etnam Thi s was General Le vanV en, whomRaymond Carti er descri bed as the V etnamese who rose closest to nobi l i ty when thechi ps were down, who rose above hi s past and acqui red respectabi l i ty

Duri ng the smear years Margueri teHggins, who l ater was to champion the cause ofthe Reds i n Al geri a, cal l ed hima gangster TIME Magazi ne of Apri l 4 1955, sawhimas a brute who l ed a band of bul l i es and kept pet crocodi l es Ei ght yearsl ater J ohnMeokl en, the author of the TIME report, was back i n Saigon, on l oan totheU S I nformti on Service and kni fi ng the Ngo di sh brothers, for whomhe haddone the hatchet j ob on Le vanV en

That wth Le vanV en gone there was no one capabl e of a,3suringorder i n Saigon,

nei ther J ohnMeckl ennor Wshi ngton has admtted I t i s hardl y l i kel y that ex-C A agent Robert Komer, wl l do so i n hi s newj ob as Ambassador Bunker spaci f i cati on expert 71re i s the T vanV en story

GENERAL- LE VANV EN Nei ther the French nor the J apanese were ever abl e to conquerLe van en, o~effi ci ent was the secret organi zati on he bui l t up Duri ng theWorl dWar I I years i t was a mtter of immense pri de to theV etnamese that thei r Bai V en , as he was cal l ed, was abl e to defy wth impuni ty the great power thathad defeated the Ameri cans i n the Phi l i ppi nes and the Bri ti sh i n Singapore

Le vanV en became a popul ar hero When the war was over, he was no l onger regardedas api rate but as a nati onal i st Had he thrown i n wth Ho chi Mnh, our own

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government, whi ch was armngHo chi Mnh at the time, woul d no doubt have enri chedhim but Le van V en never l et the communi sts i nto hi s swamps

I n 1947 Ho chi Mnh' s southern oommander, NguyenB nh, murdered the l eader of theHoa Hao sect andmade the Hoa Hao members, numberi nga ml l i on andahal f, mortalenemes of the Reds (Congressman Walter J udd, i n a speech pri nted i n a bookl etcal l ed Symposi umon Vetnam, which the Dem l obby put out i n September, 1956,credi ts General I ron Mke ODani el wth i nsti gati ng the crushi ng of the HoaHaoand Cao Dai sects andGeneral Le vanVen' s anti -communi st forces ei ght years afterthe assassinati on of the Hoa Hao l eader Actual l y, A lenDul l es' CIA man Colonel

Edward Lansdal e, was as responsibl e as ODani el .

Le van Ven' s fri end, Muoi Tri , was sentenced to deathby the communists for tryi ngto save the Hoa Hao l eader i n 1947 Le van V en i n turn saved Muoi Tri As aresul t, Muoi Tri i s al i ve today and wth hi s B nh Xuyen fol l owers occupi es the areabetweenSai gon and Cape St J acques He has vowed to hol d out unti l hi s ol d chi efreturns Ameri can newsmen mai ntai n the fi cti on that the forces i n Cape St J acquesare V etcong By l ett i ng one man go back to hi s country, the whol e cape woul d bepaci fi ed

The bast dee; ri pti on of Le vanVen' s character has been wi tten by Luoi en Bodard,author nP a number of books on the war i n I ndo-Chi nas Eachmanworked knowngthat Bri Fi en woul d never abandon him What he woul d not do to save one of hi sown When a B nh Xuyen was touched, he was l i ke a l i on I n exchange he demandedcompl ete l oyal ty He puni shed pi ti l essl y those who were not regul ar wth thei rcomades THEBI i MSTAKE OF TIMCOMMUNSTS OnMay 19, 1948, the communists tri ed to ki l lLe vanVen, and whi l e doi ng so cut down over a thousand of hi s men i n col d blood

Thi s drove Le vanV en i nto the arm of the French

AMERICA' SBGMSTAKE, where Le vanV en was concerned, came i n 1955, when Al l enDul l es gave hi s favori te, Col onel Edward Lansdal e, the j ob of seei ng that theVetnamese accepted Dem the l eacf-6r Ameri ca had decided they were goi ng to have To Lansdal e the probl emwas vi ctory for our team, wth no hol ds barred Thevi l l ai ns were the di rty French, not the communists I f V etnamrej ected Ngo di nhDemandhi s brother i t was because the French, stri vi ng to mai ntai nby fai rmeans andby sl y means a remnant of i nfl uence and profi t i n the l and they had

expl oi ted for seven deoadesp were obstructi ng Dem wth the wly rear-guardmaneuvers of col oni al i sm (TIME, Apri l 4 1955)

Wl l i amTuohy, of the Los Angeles Times, was sti l l tryi ng to keep the Lansdal emyth i nfl ated twelve years l ater OnMarch 26, 1967, Tuohy descri bed Lansdal e asEi senhower' s special envoy duri ng the crucial 954 56peri od when Dem agai nstl ong odds, wonout over the warri ng sects who chal l enged hi s regime. There wereno l ong odds What happenedwas that Lansdal e, wth the unl imtedbri bingpower

of Ameri canmoney and the f i repower we had provided,destroyed the three forces

that hadbeen warri ng agai nst the Reds Lansdal e l ater soured on Dem was the way Tuohy gl ossed over Lansdal e' s belated

real i zati on that he hadbeen wong Tuohy made no mentionof the pri sons, and the

torture house i n the botani cal garden, through whi ch hal f of the members of Vet

nams present Consti tuent Assembl y passed between the years when Lansdal e began

crushi ng those who di d not l i ke hi s man and the day he soured

By then 400,000French troops had gone home, bi tter agai nst Ameri ca The Cao Dai

pope hadbeen despoi l ed, dragged i n the mud and dri ven i nto exi l e Communi sts

were entrenchi ng themelves i n the pope's ol d fi ef, i n Tay Nnh, and hi s fol l owers

had a score to sett l e wth Ameri ca The HoaHao sect was being trackeddown and

i ts stronghol ds taken over by the Reds Le vanVen, the onl y man the communists

feared, was i n exi l e, andhi s forces dri ven underground

No ri ghteously i ndi gnant professors ever bothered to hol d a teach-i n to demand

what was done to the B nh Xuyenpri soners who were captured whi l e coveri ng thei r

l eader' s escape The truth i s, they were shot, by order of the manwhomColonel

Lansdal e was advi si ng

Wth the onl y three organi zed forces i n the country broken, the next step was to

destroy the throne and repl ace l egi timacy wth Colonel Lansdal e' s concepti on of

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l egal i ty, tow the ri gged el ecti on Under the l egi timate rul er Buddhi st mnksmght cri ti ci zebut they di d not di spute Under Western-imported l egal i ty ,everyone di sputed

ONNOVEMBER 1963, THE AMERCAN-ERECTEDGOVERNMENT FELL TheAmeri cans who weresti l l dupedby i ts propagandi sts gratui tously i nsul ted the V etnamese general sby i nferri ng that they were too stupi d to pl an a coup d' etat on thei r own, wthoutthe help of Cabot Lodge The parents of Ameri canboys who are wading i n theswamps whi ch Le vanV en once kept cl ear of Reds may wel l askwhy Le vanV en wasnot permtted to go home after Demand Nhuwere deposed

There are several reasons Fi rst, bear i nmnd, General Bg Mnh andhi s fri endGeneral Don l ed the coup d' etat of November 1963 Mnh got hi s general ' s stari n 1955 for tracki ng down Le vanV en and capturi ng hi s 26-year-old son, Col onelLe Paul , whomNhu then threwi nto PhuLampri son, i n Chol on Through the fol l owngyear typi cal ori ental negoti ati ons went on betweenNhu' s agents andLe vanV ensFi rst, reports of Le Paul ' s harsh treatment woul d be l eaked to hi s father, thenwould come an offer fromNhu to rel ease the son i f Le vanV en woul d tel l where hehad hidden hi s mney

Le vanV en' s personal property, and 6ml l i on i n the Bank of Indo-Chi na hadal ready been grabbedby Phu, but he and hi s wfe were aware that Le vanV en hadl eft a cache of buri ed treasure behi nd him Le vanV en had no confi dence i n themanwth whomhe was deal i ng ut there was nothi ng el se he coul d do He orderedhi s son to l ead Nhu' s men to themoney Nhu, i n return, promsed to send the son

to Pari s to j oi n hi s father

On Apri l 14, 1956, Le Paul was taken fromhi s cel l i n Chol on He di d as hi sfather i nstructed Nhu' s offi cers then shot himand l eft hi s body besi de theroad By ways avai l abl e to aman i n Le vanV en' s positi on, detai l s of what hadtranspi red dri ftedback When Demand Nhu fel l , the offi cers who hadparti ci patedi n Le Paul ' s death were afrai d to permt Le vanV en' s return

In earl y 1965 M Phan khac Suu, himel f a vi cti mof Dems pri sons, was Chi ef ofState Phan khao Suumved to bri ngback Le vanV en Thi s time the proposal wasbl ockedby Premer Phamhuy Quat I n J une, 1965, the Phankhac Suu government fel land Sai gon ci ti zens agai n cl amred for Le vanV en' s protecti on agai nst V etcongassassi ns ut another obstacle arose

Le vanV en made no demand that hi s property be restored I t hadbeen sold andresol d si nceNhuappropri ated i t What he di d i nsi st on was the return of the 6ml l i on

sei zed fromhi s bank accounts

He poi nted out that he coul d not go backto Sai gon wthout something to gi ve the wdows and mthers and orphans of theB nh Xuyen sol di ers who were ki l l ed coveri ng hi s retreat, or shot by DemandNhuafter thei r surrender nd there the matter rested Ameri ca had pai d 3.6ml l i onto bri be the Cao Dai general whose defecti oncausedLe vanV en' s defeat, and somemre mney for the Cao Dai troops (accordi ng to LI FE Magazi ne of May 13, 1957) butno one wanted to return the 6ml l i onour menhad sei zed Consequentl y, Le vanV en remai ned i n Pari s and G I . ' s go on dyingunder terrori st attacks and i n theswamps

I n September, 1965, Edward Lansdal e, promted to Bri gadi er General andweari ng theDsti ngui shed Servi ce Medal whi ch A l enDul l es pi nned on himfor destroyi ng theonl y effecti ve anti -communi st forces i n V etnam returned to Sai gon When Lans-dal e became our seni or l i ai sonoffi cer, wth the rank of mni ster, andmember ofAmeri ca' s 10-man mssion counci l , Le vanV en' s chances of bei ng permtted toprotect Sai gon

grewdimmer than ever

THE THREATOF ASSASSI NATIONHUNGOVEREVERY VIETNAMESE INPUBLIC LIFE.As pl ans forel ecti on of a consti tuent assembly took shape, the cal l s for Le vanV en' s returngrewl ouder On J anuary 19, 1966, Robert C Cody, of U S TVNEWFI LMS, i nter-

viewed LevanV en i n hi s apartment, outside Pari s

I f theAmeri cans wl l l et me return to Sai gon and regroup my forces, the general

sai d, I wl l guarantee the securi ty of Sai gon, Chol on, B enHoaai rbase and al lthe area down to Cape St J acques . (Cape St J acques, i t wl l be recal l ed, i s

where Le vanV en' s ol d l i eutenant, Muoi Tri , i s nowoperati ng In the Pl ai n ofJ unks ei ght mre battal i ons of Le vanV en' s ol dB nh Xuyenarmy are i n di ssi -denoe under ay Mon, the general ' s ol d Chief of Staff .

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Le van V en conti nued, i n the Cody i ntervi ew Al so, I wl l guarantee to l i berate9C~ of the Ameri can pri soners hel d belowthe 17th paral l el . I t was no i dl e boast

Thi s was hi s thi rd appeal On June 9 1960, he wrote al etter to Presi dent Ei senhower, warni ng of what was ahead There was no answer On Apri l 23, 1965, headdressed apl ea to Presi dent J ohnson, begging to be permtted to return to hi scountry and run the V etcong out of zones where every passage was known to hi s menIf i t was ever broadcast i n Ameri ca, the Cody i ntervi ewbrought no more responsethan the appeal s to Ei senhower andL

IN SAIGON INNOVEMBER, 1966, M Tran vanVan, opposi ti on l eader i n the Consti -tuent Assembl y, sai d, Le vanV en must come back so we can sleep i n peace agai n.

Tran vanVanwas assassi nated on December 9

TIME Magazine of November 11, 1966, wth i ts usual di sregard for truth, pi cturedLe van V en as l i vi ng i n a mansi on outsi de Pari s Actual l y, he i s l i vi ng i n asmal l apartment i n a working-men s suburb The week the TINE story appeared,Le vanV en was i ntervi ewed by Gl l es Mermoz for the French Cathol i c weekl y,RIVAROL The RIVAROL story, pri nted on December 22, i s i nteresti ng, both for i tsi nformati on and for the general s f rankness

THE INTERVIEWWTHGLLES MERMZ Mermoz Youwere born i n a l unar year, under

the doubl e sign of runni ng water and the dragon Your f ri ends cal l ed you nhBay, but to the French youwere the unseizabl e a Ven, l eader of the

secret society of theBi nh Xuyen To the l i ttl e peopl e of V etnamyouwerethe redresser of wongs nd thenHs Majesty aoDai madeyouageneral -

General Le vanV en ut a l egend sti l l persi sts that you possessed a pet

ti ger whi chyou petted l i ke acat and to whi ch, when he was good, you tossed

a pri soner f romtime to time I s that true?

Le vanV en That ti ger onl y ate a dogonce, and then by acci dent

Mermoz Ddyou tel l a j ournal i st, I know the V etmnh too wel l to l et

themassassi nate me l i ke an imbeci l e I l l assassi nate them

Le vanV en I di d

Mermoz t the age of 30 you had al ready made yoursel f l eader of the

Bi nh Xuyen You commtted armed robberi es You taxed the merchants Why?

Le vanV en t 18 I l earned the msery of the l i ttl e peopl e and I wanted

to hel p them Wthmy nati onal i st f ri ends I was al ready dreamng of

i ndependence For that I needed money--l ots of money ndwe struck on ameans whi ch those who knewV etnamfound onl y amusi ng

The V etnamese i s aborn gambl er and Cholonwas the ci ty of gamblers W

organi zed gambl i ng games outsi de the Chinese and European establ i shments Wth the money we set up funds for the most mserabl e of the V etnamese

communi ty I t was not bad, when you consi der that we were al l under 20

Mermoz nd then?

THE MASTER OF PRISONDELIVERIES

Le vanV en When I was nineteen, I i nheri ted some ri oe l and, whi ch I

sol d to buy ol d cars to be converted i nto taxi s I t was a communi ty proj ect Many of my dri vers were ex-convi cts, escapees f romFrench pri sons, men

banned f romSai gon W were tryi ng to hel p the nati onal i sts i n the pri sons

of Sai gonandPoul o Condors, but the taxi venture fai l ed At twenty-si x I

was rui ned, but by that time the l i ttl e peopl e of Sai gonandChol on knew

me and fol l owed me

I n Cholon the weal th was Chinese The Chinese control l ed everythi ng So I

deci ded to tax them nd they pai d At that time the pri sons were f i l l ed

wth youngV etnamese who had studi ed i n France They had heard Maurras

prai se nati onal i smFrench nati onal i sm nd they had heard the soci al i sts

tal k of i ndependence for the col oni es These youngpri soners had no l aw

yers Thei r l etters woul d reach me throughmy cl andesti ne messengers Though I was 120 mles f romSai gon, ten days l ater they woul d have al awyer

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VOLUMEX LETTER H du B REPORTSMAY1967 PAR S FRANCE

FOREIGN AFFARS LETTER

Tour of aTroubl ed Hori zon

du B REPORTSf or J anuary February MarchandApri l of 1967 dea t wth pressi ngaspects of the war i n V etnam-a war whi ch U S Del egate toUN Arthur Gol dbergtol d Ameri caandthe worl d over nati onwde tel evi sion on May7 1967 i s not bei ng foughtwth vi ctory as i t s goal I t i s nowti m to cast an eye over a troubl ed gl obe and the con-sequences of such a declarati on

THEBI LDERBERGERS AGAN As Marchdrewto a close 90 some i nsi ders i n the hi ghl ysecret group of i nternati ona i sts whi ch Pri nce Bernhard of Hol l and heads were convergi ngonCambri dge Engl and where the 16th meti ng of the Bi l derbergers was about to convene Thi s ti m Pri nce Phi l i p Queen E i zabeth s consort was taken i nto the i nnerci rcl e H s contri buti on was hi s name The i nternati ona i sts whi l e essenti al l y l ef t i st

are al so snobs

Davi d Rockefel l er Presi dent of Chase ManhattanBank and the i nseparabl e comani on ofJ ohn J MCoy was there To underst and the i mortance of M Rockefel l er s speech i nwhi ch he i mressed--even shamed- - Europeans wth examl es of thei r economc andtech-nol ogi cal backwardness comared to Amri ca there are a number of thi ngs the readermust bear i n mnd M Rockefel l er was camai gni ng f or mre than Ameri can l eadershi p

an economc and technol ogi cal l eadershi p i n whi ch he andhi s bank are not coml etel y

di si nterested He was doing the ground-l ayi ng f or Ameri can entry i nto the European super-state whi ch i s every B l derberg member s ai m Secondl y thi s 16th Bi l derberg reuni on and

the sel ecti on of Cambri dge as i t s pl ace was f or the purpose of prepari ng Brita n s entryi nto the European CommonMarket as aprecedent f or bri ngi ng i n Ameri ca That i s why

Pri nce Phi l i p was the meti ng s guest of honor

M Harol d Wl son l eader of Bri tai n s Labor Government i s faced wth decl i ni ng presti ge

at home and l oss of Labor seats i n the recent el ecti ons Consequentl y he i s determned

to del i ver Br i ta i n bound and gagged i nto the burgeoni ng conti nental super-state whi l e hes t i l l has power t o do so whi ch i s to say before he f al l s By the reckoni ng of the Bri ti sh

Left the sacri f i ce of soverei gnty necessary t o get Bri ta n i nto the CommonMarket w l lprevent anyf uture Conservati ve government f romgetti ng her out Attacked by Conserva-ti ves on hi s ri ght and adi si l l usioned el ectorate onhi s l e f t an extreme l e f t whi chi ncludessuch Labori tes as Emmanue Shi nwel l Mchael Foot and Koni Zi l l i acus Wl son pushes

Bri ta n toward the regi onal super-state Thi s meeti ng of the Bi l derbergers was convokedto gi ve himahand H s pri nci pa a l y wt hi n the Common Market group i s Pi erre WernerLuxembourg s Pri m Mni ster

Al l that went on behi nd cl osed doors i n Cambri dge we wl l never know Leaks have di s-

closed that M Kohnstamm V ce Presi dent of the Acti on Commttee f or aUni ted States of

Europe madea pl ea f or Atl anti c communi ty uni on Thi s i s i n l i ne wth the obj ecti ves pur-

sued by J ohn J MCoyi nhi s vari ous capaci ti es as head of the Counci l on Forei gn Rel a-

ti ons l eader of the steeri ng commt tee of the Bi l derberg group i t s e l f andPresi dent of the

Atl anti c I nsti tute WenWl son has shaved Bri ta nof enough soverei gnty to f i t her i ntothe European super-state i t w l l be M McC oy s turn to del i ver Ameri ca

THEHORSE TRADNG Comng at thi s ti m on the heel s of Labor s setback i n Bri ta nand

wth Wlson racing to take the hel pl ess el ectorate i nto regi onal one-worl di smwhi l e he i s

i n the dri ver s seat the deal s that went on i n Cambri dge were far-reachi ng Lefti sts had

accusedWl son of weakness over Rhodesi a Si r Frank Roberts hi s ambassador to Bonn

warned hi mhat Wst Ger many under Bi l derberg member Chancel l or Ki esi nger and hi s

extreme l e f t Forei gnMni ster Wl l y Brandt woul d bl ock Bri ti sh i ni ti ati ves unl ess great

concessi ons were made TheMchael Foot group i n parl i amnt whi chhadthrown Bri ta n

behi nd communi st terrori sts i n Al geri a and Castro revol uti oni sts i n Cuba refused a l -out

support f or Wl son unti l hi s government condemnedAmeri can acti on i n V etnam Such was

the cl i mate i n whi ch the Bi l derbergers sat wth Pri nce Phi l i p as a novi ti ate Shoul d the

Bi l derbergers succeed i n remvi ng the stumbl i ng bl ocks Brita n s entry i nto the seed

group f or a Uni ted States of Europe woul d automati cal l y bri ng 235 ml l i on peopl e under the

supra-nati onal government onthe seventh f l oor of the Bel gi an Mni stry of Forei gnAff a rs

Thedecidi ng factor maybe Wst Germany

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H NGNGWESTGERM NY LI FE Magazi ne of Apri l 28, 1967, sai d there are si gns thatthe twoGermanys are s l y l y i nchi ng cl oser The i nference was t hat thi s, l i k e Amri ca' sbri dge-bui l di ng to t he East, woul dbe good f or t he Wst Thoughtful Herbert Whner, Soci a-l i s t , the newmni ster i n charge of East German af f ai rs i n Chancel l or Ki esi nger s Wst Germangovernment, was credi t ed wth t he newtrend by LI FE s Hugh Moffet

Thi s Soci al i s t Whner whomLI FE prai ses i s anol d-ti m communi st revol uti onarywho wentto Moscow i n 1933 and stayed there unti l Hi t l er f el l , af ter whi ch, on Stal i n s orders, he r e-turned t o Germany Hs r ol e i n cert ai n of Stal i n s purges has never been f u l l y ai red A thi ck

f i l e knownas t he LuxDossier , af t er t he Moscowhot el i n whi ch the GermanReds onwhomWhner was i nformng were l odged, i s known t o be i n existence t coul d be extremely usefulas a means of putt i ng pressure onWhner today

Af t er the war he j oi ned Wl l y Br andt s Soci al Democrat Party, became t he pr i nci pal l i eutenantof Wst Germany' s soci al i s t l eader andmoved steadi l y forward t o t he posi ti onhe nowhol ds He i s a keyman i n t he Wl l y Br andt pl an t o reconci l e East andWst Germany bymakingWstGermany pi nk i n hopes that the East w l l i n tu rn di l ute i t s r ed hue Thi s i s bri dge- bui l di ng tot he East German styl e The br i dge- bui l der s are anchori ng thei r western span t o a dangeroustheory, t o the ef f ect t hat peaceful co-existence w l l br i ng about Russi a s progressive ral l yi ngt o the Wst

BRIDGE-BU LDINGTHROUGHTRADEWTHRUSSIA An i ntense propaganda camai gn astutel yorchestrated by pol i t i ci ans and i nt er nat i onal organi zati ons nowpi ctures Moscowas the home

of whi tecommuni sm, whi ch theycl aim s no l onger dangerous or aggressi ve Wth commer-ci al exchanges between East and Wst on the r i se, Sovi et Russia proposes technol ogi cal col -l aborati on as wel l Wi l e l i beral pol i t i ci ans oppose the el ecti on of conservati ves on g roundsthat i t w l l bri ng back the threat of war whi ch peacefulco-exi stence has ended, Russi a pro

vides 80 of t he war materi el usedby t he Vi etcong S t i l l t he myth i s maintained that a neweraof f r i endshi p wth Russia has dawned, despi te t he f act that Russi an espionage soars and t he

Uni ted Nati ons commttee on col oni al i smwhi chwe so l ong f anned i nto whi te heat against our

al l i es i s nowbei ng asked byMoscowt o l ook i nto Ameri ca' s presence i n Puerto Ri co Russi a sobj ecti ve Enl argement of the Cuban threat onAmeri ca' s doorstep

For proof of the fal l acy of anycl aimt hat Russia has abandoned r evol uti onary ml i tancy and

assumed the r ol e of Ameri ca' s f r i end and a l l y i n keepi ng t he peace, against Red Chi na, a study

of theAfri ca-Asi a-Lati nAmeri ca Axi s i s i n order

THE TRI -CONTINENTAL ONFEREN EOF

J ANUARY, 1966, was the great meeti ngof Af r i cans,Asi ati cs and Lat i n Ameri cans i n Cuba, t o concreti ze communi st acti on against Ameri ca by br i ng-

i ng Lat i n Ameri ca i nto the worl d Red coal i t i on The choi ce of Havana as the seat of thi s con-

ference was nat ural , f or not onl y i s Havana the base f or t he Red dri ve i n Lati nAmeri ca, but t he

Kennedyadmni strati on made i t a Red sanctuary

t w l l be recal l ed t hat the f i r s t axi s-type coal i t i on i ncl udi ng Cuba was formd i n 1959 Thi s wa

t he Egypt-Cuba-Panama axi s i n whi ch Nasser offered t o t r ai n Cuban andPanamani an underwater

demol i ti on team f or acti on against Ameri ca, andCastromade anaccordwth theAl geri an terror-

i sts- -whomAmeri ca conti nued to support As Ameri ca gave way i n Panama, thi s l i ne-up crum

bl ed f or l ack of opposi ti on

The f a l l of 1962 brought the Cuban mssi l e c r i s i s Twoweeks before a congressional el ecti on,

Presi dent Kennedy j ol ted Ameri ca wth photos of Russi anmssi l e si tes i n Cuba European

i ntel l i gence servi ces observed t hat Khrushchevwas aware of Ameri canobservati on f l i ghts overCuba Abundant reports had poured i nto Europe, announci ng t he constructi on of underground

mssi l e s i tes i n t unnel s, caves and conceal ed si l os AGNTER PRESSE, of Li sbon, stated i n a

speci al report onthe Tri -Conti nental Conference, t hat Khrushchevhadundoubtedl y set up a sml

par t of hi s Cuban pl atf orms i n open ai r f or the del i ber at e purpose of testi ng Ameri ca' s w l l

Ameri ca made no r eacti on, Russia coul d esti mate t he extent of our deteri or at i on and forman

i dea as to howf ar she coul dgo I f Ameri ca reacted w th vi gor, Khrushchev coul dalways nego-

t i ate Kennedy, wth the aid of a coml i ant press, made pol i t i cal hay of t he i nci dent Ameri ca

was l ed to bel i eve t hat he had stood up to Russia Actual l y, not a Cuba-boundRussi an shi p wa

boarded AndKennedyhimel f was duped Wi l e Khrushchev agreed t o di smntl e the above-

groundpads whi ch hadbeen photographed, andpromsedto send no moremssi l es to Cuba,

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al l of the conceal edand thus unphotographabl e si tes andmssi l e stockp les remai n

Kennedy, on the other hand, commttedAmeri ca to apromse that Ameri cawoul dnever i nvadeCuba nor permt anyterri tory on theAmeri canconti nent to be usedas a take-off point f or aCubani nvasi on Thus, f or thed smantl i ngof afewvi si bleRussi anmssi l e si tes Ameri caagreednot onl y to tolerate acommuni st sanctuaryonher doorstep but accepted responsi bi -l i t y f or i t s securi ty Si nce 1962 Cubacannot be i nvaded, andtheAmeri canpeopl e wereg vennothing i n return Thecommuni sts, whi l e prepari ng to expl oi t thei r newposi ti on,l et Kennedy procl a mthat he hadwon a vi ctory thereafter Cuba becamean i nvul nerablecommuni st base

For thi s reason i t was chosen as theexteri or cap tal f or communi st revol uti on Si ncethe securi ty of the i sland wasguaranteed by the Kennedy- Khrushchev agree-ment, what better pl ace for conspi raci es, preparati onof pl ots revol uti ons and wars?

Forti f i ed by thi s assurance, Fi del Castro f rom1963 onward had no other concernthancon-quest of theAmeri cas I n 1964 he cal l eda secret conference of 19 Lati n-Ameri can communi stparti es f or the purpose of plann ng agreater conference whi ch woul dun te the Reds of Ari ca,Asi a and Lati nAmeri ca i n a common dri ve The 1964 meeti ng was a personal success f orCastro One of theAsi ati c l eaders onwhomhewas counti ng most was Sukarno of I ndonesi a

For an exampl e of the sort of l eadership our l e f t i s t admn strati ons have foi stedonAmeri caOnThursday, Nov 19 1964, whi l e Castro wasbui l d ng hi s hopes onSukarno, a meeti ngwas heldby the Wrl dAfa rs Counci l of Los Angeles Here M Roger H l sman, ha led as

the State Department' s former speci al i st on theFar East , i nformeda hal l f u l l of awe-st ruckl i steners that what Ameri ca needs t o save the nasty si tuati on i n South V etnam s a strong

l eader l i k e Sukarno of I ndonesi a

THETHREE CONTINENTALLIANCE of whi ch Cast ro dreamedhad i t s beg nn ng at aconferencewhi ch Nasser sponsored i n Cai ro f romDec 6 1957, to J an 1 1958 Nasser was anxi ous toestabl i shEgypti an leadershi p over bl ack Aricaandassure hi mel f of the support of Asi aas apreparati onfor the l ong-desi red hol ywar agai nst I srael Arica woul d furn sh cannon fodder

andAsi a thebacki ng i nUNNasser cal l ed thi s meeti ng the Conference for theSol i dari ty

of Aro-Asi anPeopl es

I n l ate 1958 another conferencewas held i nAccra I n vi ewof thi s the confessi on of ThomasWardel l Braden i n the Saturday Eveni ng Post of earl y May, 1967, that he had onceg ven

$50, 000 i n f i f t y-dol l ar bi l l s to theReuther brothers, plus other sum to I rvi ng BrownandJ ayLovestone, takes ongreater i mportance M Braden says he del i vered thi smoney to our

l abor revoluti on-spreaders onbehal f of CAchi ef A l enDul l es

At thi s December, 1958, conference i nAccraappearedM I rvi ng Brown, accompani edbyM Lawence McQuade ThePari s ed ti onof the NewYork Heral dTri buneof J anuary 13

1959, carri ed api ecebyM . McQuade enti tled Ghana' s B d f or Leadershi p Wth the cryof A ri cans, un te Youhavea conti nent to rega nandnothi ng to l ose but your chai ns

M McQuadewent al l out to sel l Ameri ca on Nkrumah ear l ater M McQuadewas

pra sing Nkrumah' s communi st hel l as TheShowplace of Bl ackAri ca (YaleRevi ew I n

Apri l 1967, as Assi stant Secretary of Commerce f or Domest i c and I nternati onal Busi ness,

M McQuade l auncheda move to send medi cal suppl i es toRedChina(1) Ageri a, whi chI rvi ng BrownandJ ayLovestonehad supported to the h i l t wth CAand l abor uni on funds, i s

runn ng tra n ng camps f or theV etcong

I NCONAKRY AT SECONDCONFERENCE APR L 11-15 1960, theOrgan zati on f or theSol i -

dari tyof Aro-Asi an Peopl es was off i ci al l y formed TwoAmeri cans, Frank Montero and

Wl l i amX Schei nman (Schei nmancarryi ng an extra passport i n thename of J ohnBal l had

al readyenteredAngol a onFeb 5 to contact te r ror i s t l eaders and s t i r up the bl oodyupri si ng

whi ch Ari can l eaders, ag tatedbyGeorge Meany Walter Reuther andGMennenWl l i am,

conti nue to support Thus was created theAri cancoal i ti onwhi ch Castro was to i nheri t

Ater the ConakryConference other meeti ngs fol l owed i nrapi d successi on No 3 took

pl ace i n Moshi , Upper Vol ta, f romFeb 4 to Feb 19 1963 Twoyears l ater May9 to 16

1965, the synchron sers of A ri canvi ol encewere back i nAccra At the i nsti gati onof

Sovi et Russi a Havanawas sel ected for the f i f t h andmost i mportant conference of thema l l

the one that woul d packageAri ca, Asi a and Lati nAmeri ca i n acommuni st coal i ti on, en-

vel opi ng the three conti nents . Thedate set was J anuary 3 to 17 1966

THEBIGTR CONTINENTALCONFERENCEI NHAVANA Not enough attenti onhas beenpai d to

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the rol e of Morocco s Mehdi BenBarka i n setti ng up thi s Havana meti ngwhi chwas, among

other thi ngs, to pl ot the overthrowof the ki ng i nMoroccoandestabl i sh BenBarka as f i r s tpresident of the Moroccanrepubl i c whi chwoul d take i t s p ace i n the communi st camp For

BenBarkawoul d never have been anythi ng but a down-at-heel coffee house revol uti onaryhad

i t not been f or the backi nghe received f romAmri can l abor s I rvi ng Brown, whoi n turn was

usi ng themoneysupp i ed byA l en Dul l es andCAvi a the stup d or subversi ve i t i s amootquesti on which) M T Braden Acursory study of TMEMagazi ne over the years pri or

to Mehdi BenBarka s ki dnapp ng i n l ate 1965wl l di scl ose that TIME supported the Moroccan

Red as doggedl yas TIME supportedM Braden on May19 1967

Though Ben Barkawas not present i n Havana f or the l ong-pl anned meti ng, representati ves ofal l the communi st Nati onal Liberati on Fronts were there Over 600 del egates, representi ng

82 countri es wth thei r parall el organi zati ons andf ronts were present Thedeci sions mde by

t h i s vast assembl y are vi tal l y important to the free worl d They canbe p acedunder 3 headings

GLOBALREVOLUTONARYSTRATEGY hel d top pri ori ty Havana was sel ected as the operati onal

and l ogi sti cal commndcenter for the struggl e agai nst imperi al i sm Member nati ons agreed

to provide f i ghters andpsychol ogi cal support f or the campai gn to wnthe masses V ol ence

andarmd struggl es were unanimousl y approved I n essence the Tri -Conti nental Conference

was commnisms decl arati onof war agai nst the f ree worl d, wthHavana as abase The aim

was to l eave Moscows hands cl ean andavoi d embarrassi ng Senators Kennedy and Fu bri ght

Si gni f i cantl y, Moscows representati ves made nomnti on of peacefu co-exi stence

Sabotage and gueri l l a warfarewere to be steppedup, from V etnamto Aden to Chi l e,and

acommttee was appoi nted to studynewways of assi sti ng l i berati on movemnts around the

worl d I n the end, the conference sawLati nAmri ca no l onger apoor rel ati on but an honored

mmber of theworl d revol uti onarymovemnt I t s 27 del egates were namdto head OLAS -

the Ogani zati on of Lati n-Amri can Sol i dari ty - whi chwl l have Havana as i t s base and h3l d

i t s ownf i r s t congress i n Jul y 1967 OLAS aim s to supp y, armandai dby al l mans the

l i berati on movemnts of Lati n-Amri ca

WAT I S NOWNOFTHEGLOBALREVOLUTONARYSTRATEGY agreedupon i n the accords si gned

i n Havana coms most l y fromEuropean l eaks andthe newspaper GRAMMA, publ i shed i n Havana

Br i ef l y ai d to V etnamwas pl aced at the topof the l i s t for thi s war s outcom w l l affect al l

other l i berati on movemnts around the worl d Ater V etnam stepp ng upof the struggl e of

patr i ot i c peop e of Lati n-Amri caagai nst the imperi al i st Uni ted States takes second pl ace

Pro ect No 3 i s the war of l i berati on i n Arica, parti cu arly agai nst Angol a, Mozambque,Rhodesi a, and theUnionof SouthArica Barri nga sudden awakeni ng i n Wshington, commu-

ni st vi ctory i n Arica seem vi rtual l yassured, si nce the UN backedbyAmri ca, i s unti l

nowsol i dl y on the si de of the Cuba-based conference

ANTI-COMMUNSTS INWSTERNEUROPEwere surpri sed that NorthAmri ca andWstern

Europe were not gi venmore attenti on at thi s conference The exp anati on I n the end i t was

avi ctory f or Marshal Li n Piao s theoryof f i nal tri umph of the countryside over theworl d s

ci ti es , i n the struggl e f or worl dconquest ; as such i t wasa part i al vi ctory for MaoTse-tung

The co-ordi nati on of twotacti cs--the pretense of peacefu co-exi stence whi l e acti vel y fo-

mnti ng and supporti ng wars--i s tobe an accepted fact of l i f e wherever communismcoms i n

contact wth the free worl d, whether our l eaders recogni ze i t or not Russi a, whi l e preachi ng

peacefu co-exi stence, f i nds no contradi cti on i n her part i ci pati on i n thewar i n V etnam f i r s t

on the techni cal andl ogi sti cal l evel thenon the po i ti cal and psychol ogi cal f ront Thedemonstrat i ons for peace i n V etnamwhi ch pro-Russi ancommuni st s have l aunched i n Europe

andAmri cahave aHo chi Mnhvi ctory as thei r aim There i s nopl ace i n thei r pl an f or a

no-wni smpol i cy. Yet, i nthecommnist worl d, V etnam s a Chi nesepawn I t must be

remmbered that i n 1965 Ho chi Mnhwas desi gnated Del egate General f or Afai rs of the

Mekong byMaoTse-tung

Wi l e Russi a pretends to be theWst s al l y agai nst Peki ng, though advanci ngPeki ng s aim

i n worl d communi st ci rcl es, our recent ambassador to J apan, EdwnORei schauer (formrl y

of the I nsti tute of Paci f i c Rel ati ons) bl i thel yadvocates support f or a strong RedChi na and

tradewth Peki ng Howmenl i ke Rei schauer, Roger Hl smanandLawence McQuade

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acqui re suchposts no off i ci al can ever expl ai n, un ess furtherance of worl d communi smwasour obj ecti ve fromthe start

COOPERATI ONWTHCOMMUNSTPLANNERSi s equal l yapparent i nAfri ca Thegovernmentof theAbbe Ful bert Youl ouwas toppl ed i n Brazzavi l l e-Congo bya concerted effort of twoCIA-f i nanced l abor uni ons andoneuni ondi rected f romPrague, though theoreti cal l y i t was to f i ghtthe l t t er that CAwas f i nancingAmeri can l abor Ful bert Youl ou was anti -communi st, pro-Tshombe, and opposed to ml i tary acti onagainst PortugueseAngola Accordi ngl y, Ameri ca sCIA-supported uni ons took the l ead i n destroyi ng him Since 1964 Russi ans, Cubans and

Chinesework together i n Brazzavi l l e Russi anadvisors and i nstructors runthe army Over400Cubanml i tary speci al i sts teach gueri l l a warfare and sabotage Chi nese techni ci ansteach underground subversi on

I NTHE MDDLEEAST as Nasser-di rected terrori smi nAden i ncreases andbui l d-up f or thewar against Israel conti nues, the i nf l uence of the HavanaTri -Conti nental bl oc grows OnJ anuary 17 1967, thepresi dent of the Federati onof Syri anWrkers, the president of theSyri anStudents Associati on and Syri a s Mni ster of Labor di spatched thei r pl edge of sol idari ty to Cuba

Oneobj ecti ve of Nasser s cri si s wth Israel i s to toppl e the Saudi Arabi a ki ng and restore hi spro-Egypti anbrother to power Saudi Arabi a i s supporti ng the royal i sts i n Yemen, againstNasser I f Nasser takes a warl i ke stance against I srael the king of Saudi Arabi a must dropYemen s Imamel Badr andral l yto Nasser or ri sk being overthrownby h s Nasser-i nci ted

subj ects But whydi d the Kennedy admni strati on rushto recogni ze the Egypti anpuppet Republ i c of Yemn?

PARTTWOOF THETR CONTINENTALACCORD ARMEDWARFARE Onone th ng al l the del e-

gates agreed Thecommuni st revol uti onmust be advancedby al l means, i ncludi ng viol ence Consequentl y, armed confl i ct was accorded pri ori ty over peaceful co-exi stence Thi s doesnot manthat peaceful co-exi stence w l l be abandoned, but that i t w l l be reserved as anal ternatemans f or parti cul ar areas

I n h s cl osing speech Fidel Castro tol d the more than 600delegates present that condi ti onswere i deal for armedrevol uti on i n al l thecountri es of Lati n-Ameri ca Herecommndedthat

pressure be redoubl ed i n Venezuel a, Peru, Col ombia andGuatemal a Indoctri nati on, pol i tical dri ves, underground organi zati on, creati onof fronts andother i ndi rect maneuvers cl assi ci n a prol onged struggl e were proposed f or the rest of Lati n-Ameri ca

iml ar classi ng of ri pe andnot yet ri pe nati ons was outl i ned for Afri ca Plans for terrori st

attacks wthi nandarmedattacks fromwthout against Portuguese provi nces i nAfri cawereexpl ai ned i n mnute detai l by M Aml car Cabral , whorepresented the revol uti onari es i nAngol a Shortl y af ter theHavana congress theTri -Conti nental Conference hel d another meet-i ng i n Brazzavi l l e, under the sponsorshi p of thegovernment whichtwoAmeri can-di rectedl abor uni ons i n l eaguewth aPrague-control l eduni onbrought i nto power

Here i t was decidedto make the crushi ng of Rhodesi a the No goal of communi smnAfri ca,

evenaheadof theUni on of SouthAfri ca, i f the U cannot bepersuaded to undertake an

i nvasi onunder i t s ownfl ag

CubanandAl geri angueri l l a experts tol da hal l f ul l of hushed delegates that to l i berate

zones i n enemy-hel d terri tory andattai nobj ecti ves, a speci al type army i s necessary One

does not rai seasubversi ve armyas onewoul d recrui t avol unteer corps Ahard-core revol uti onary starts byorgani zing smal l groups Later, l i t t l e by l i t t l e as themovemnt gains

strength thegroups amal gamate, ready to str ike as auni ted force or spl i nter anddi sperseas

the si tuati onwarrants

AMERCA S CONTRADCTORYPOSTIONas Redrevol uti on-spreader and freeworl d l eader wl l

perpl ex future h stori ans more thanRussi a s rol e as bothadvocate of peaceful co-exi stence

andsuppl y camp f or communi st wars Exampl es I n 1945- 46 Ameri canagents armed, advi sed

andset i n moti onHoch Mnhagainst theFrench Manyof the French troops capturedby

thecommuni st force wehelped to set up were fromFrance s col oni es i nAfri ca Hochi Mnh s

psychologi cal warf are speci al i sts i ndoctri nated them After thei r rel ease theywere anti -

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European, i nsubordi nate andworthl ess as westernsoldi ers . I t woul dhavebeen i nhumaneto take themout and shoot them so they were sent back to thei r nati vecountri es Therethey spread thevi rus of Ho chi MnhandMaoTse-tung

I n earl y 1957, speaki ng i nNkrumah' s vi olent Ghana, COl abor boss GeorgeMeanyi nci tedAfri canmobs wth a speechabout Al geri anpatri ots depri ved of l i bertyandnowl ocked i n af i nal and I amsurevi ctori ous, strugg e f or i ndependence f romFrench col oni al i sm the

mst degradi ngexpressi onof anoutworn anddecl i ni ng imeri al i sm

Thepatri ots Meanyextol l ed were patr i oti c to Moscowand Peki ng, thedegrading expressi onof imeri al i smfromwhichMeanywoul d del i ver themwas nothi ng to what hewas l etti ng

themin for . Todaygueri l l a speci al i sts of the Tri -Conti nental Conferencego over and overthe l essons l earned i n V etnam Algeri a and Cuba--seeki ng the correct sol uti on --i . e theweak points of theWest Presi dent J ohnsonandArthur Goldberg state that vi ctory i s not our goal i n Vi etnam The

goal of the Tri -Conti nental Conference i s vi ctoryover us . The uni ted Reds of Asi a, Afri ca

andLati n-Amri caarenot fi ghti ng f or adraw Herei n l i es the greatest mral ebooster f or

the Tri -Conti nental Reds .

PARTTHREEOFTHEHAVANAAGREEMENTDEALSEXCLUSIVELYWTHLATINAMERCA By i ttherevol uti onarygroups of Lati n-Amri ca are off i ci al l y i ntegrated i n the communi st worl d

revol uti on. For the f i r s t ti m Lati n-Amri can revoluti onari es sat as equal s wth thei r

counterparts fromAfri caandAsi a, andengagedtheAmeri can conti nent i n thecommonstrugg e For over a year Fidel Castrohadbeen prepari ng for thi s mment, i roni ng out

di scordandprepari nga surface pi cture of conti nental cohesi on. OLAS--theOgani zati on

of Lati n-Amri can Sol i dari ty--was the resul t . The programhe elaborated i n accord wth

theresol uti ons takenbytheTri -Conti nental Conference , cal l s f or :

I ncreasedai d fromabroad i n mteri el andadvi sors, part i cul arl y forei gn speci al i sts

i ngueri l l awarfare .

2 . Unconditi onal support of anyarmed rebel l i on, regardl ess of i t s pol i ti cal tendency,

as ameans of s t i r r i n g up themsses .

3 . The spread of pol i ti cal confusi onbyacti onwthi nuni versi ti es .

4 Creati on of economc condi ti ons favorabl e to the spread of revol uti onanddiscontent .

5 . Thesetti ngup of organs capable of di recti ng revol uti onary strugg es .

HAVANAWASUNANMOUSLYAPPROVEDHQFOROLAS Ageneral staf f completewth cor-

respondingml i tary branches was set up. ubversi ve school di rected by the Sovi et general

Val enkeszky opened i ts doors, i n conj uncti onwtha Sovi et i ntel l i genceandcounter-

i ntel l i gence school knownas theKGB Co-ordi nati on i s handl edby thehead of theGeneral

Ofi ce of CubanGueri l l as, Manual Pi nei ro Lozada, knownas RedBeard . Topstudents

are sent to Moscowfor further trai ni ng Thestudent movement i s co-ordi nated byOCLAE

(Ogani zati onConti nental e Lati no-Amri cai ndes Etudi ants) .

Counteracti onto datehas beenti md . Look f or mre troubl e i nAfri ca, theMddl eEast,

Asi a and Lati n-Amri caas Ameri ca fi ghts for a drawand communi sm i ghts town

Address domesti c busi ness correspondenceandrequests f or extra copi es of thi s newsl etter

to du B REPORTS, Box 855, Hunti ngton, I ndi ana, 46750 Extracopi es of thi s numer

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East coast subscri pti on offi ce Mss RuthNoble, Sui te 356, 18 Bratt l e Street, Camri dge,

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H B REPORTSOLUME X, LETTER3JUNE, 1967 PARS, FRANCE FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER

The June i ssue of H duB REPORTS was unavoidably del ayed The reason yourcorrespondent underwent surgery

THUNDER OUT OF THEMDDLE EAST

Came the spring of 1967 Nasser was desperate 38,000 Egypti an troops were ti eddowni n Yemen, powerl ess to subdue the el usi ve royal i sts under the ImamBadr Egypt cou dnot conti nue the drai n i ndefini tel y Yet on vi ctory i n Yemen depended Egypt s dri vef or control of Aden, the federati on of South Arabi an rul ers whi ch Aden protects, andeventual l y the rich oi l sul tanates, of wh ch Kuwai t i s the ul timate pri ze

Bri tai n s l abor government hadannounced i ntenti ons of cutti ng adri ft Aden and theFederati on sul tans who hadplaced thei r fai th i n Bri tai n November 1967, or, at thel atest, February 1968 was the date set by the Wlson government I t was no secretthat Nasser was pl anni ngwhat he thought woud be a master stroke Arch vi l l ai ns ofthe scheme, f romthe start, were Egypt and A geri a

VEWED FROMCARO THE SOLUTIONWAS SIMPLE Cut the Yemen royal i sts of f f romSaudArabi an support and the resi stance that was tyi ng down 38,000 Egypti an troops anddrai ni ng the Cai ro treasury woud col l apse There were two ways by wh ch the Imam

Badr coul d be del i vered i nto Nasser s hands One: by forcing Saud Arabi a sK ng Fei sal to ral l y to Nasser Two : by deposi ng Fei sal and restori ng hi s brother,K ng Saud, who was l i vi ng i n Cai ro as Nasser s guest

Ei ther cou dbe ach eved by provoking a cri si s wth I srael --a cri si s i n whi ch Arab

passi ons coudbe wh ppedup and Fei sal presentedwth the two al ternati ves : al l i ancewthNasser i n the l ong awaited J ehad (HolyWr), or Fei sal s ousti ng by hi s owni nfl amedpeopl e

THROUGHTHE FIRST TWOWEEKS OF MARCH 1967 Bri tai n and Ameri ca tal ked The l aborgovernment i n London preferred a wait and see atti tude, d spatch ng arm and a fewi nstructors to Saudi Arabia wthout stati ng what Bri tai n s standwoud be in theevent of an Egypti an adventure

Dean Rusk, i n a personal message to Prime Mni ster HaroldWlson, urged that a j oi nt

message be addressed to Nasser, warni ng that any warl i ke mve woud be opposed bythe i nf l exi bl e determnati on of Bri tai n andAmeri ca

Among the fi rst to support the Rusk proposal i n Bri tai n was Forei gn Secretary GeorgeBrown But the l eft wng of the Wlson government paral yzed al l i ni ti ati ve Aroundsuchmembers as M AnthonyGeenwoodandMs Barbara Castle a sol i d bl oc for ap-peasement was formed, i ts cry: Don t be rude to Nasser ; youwl l onl y f orce himtoharden hi s stand. At that poi nt M George Thomon, Mnister of State i n theForei gn Of f i ce, was rushedfromAden to Wsh ngton to try to hammer out a commonposi ti on

Whi l e Bri tai n s emssary was wnging hi s way to Wshngton, Russi anDeputy Forei gnMnister Semenovwas on hi s way to Cai ro andDamascus Hs mssion to promsecompl ete Russi an support against the dogs of the imperi al i sts i n Amman and Ryad(meani ng J ordan s K ng Hussei n and Saud

Arabi a s Fei sal .

To attack the Z oni sts wth any hope of success, Semenov toldNasser, accord ngto confidential reports reachi ng Pari s, youmust fi rst el imnate the trai tors i nyour rear--Hussei n and Fei sal Then youwl l have nothi ng to fear fromthe d versionary tacti cs i nWsh ngton The Republ i cans (Nasser puppet forces) wl l at l astbe vi ctori ous i n Yemen and the oi l royal ti es of Saudi Arabi a wl l f i nance your wari n Pal esti ne.

Overnight the rad o attacks agai nst Hussei n and Fei sal were steppedup Out ofCai ro came an endl ess fl owof hate f romNasser s Voice of the Arabs , condemning

Hussei n to death Dr Nur-ud-Dn Atassi , the Presi dent of Syri a went on the ai rto procl aimthat the days of Hussei n and Fei sal were numbered Terrori st commando

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team began stri ki ng dai l y i n Saudi Arabi a and J ordan bomb, a r i f le shot, a pal acecoup dtetat coul d at any moment upset the del i cate bal ance of theMddl e East Yemenconti nued to drai n the Egypti an treasury faster than Suez coul d bri ng profi ts i nBecause of Yemen somethi ng had to be done

BEH DTHE STUBBORNRESISTANCE OF YEMENS ROYALI STS l i es one of the greatest adventurestori es of our time, a story which shoul d have appeal ed to Ameri ca s tradi ti onal sympathy for the underdog had the Ameri can publ i c been tol d what was going on

In 1962, i t wl l be recal l ed, Moise Tshombets forces, whi pped i nto shape and l ed by ahandful of French offi cers under Commandant Roger Faul ques, a hero of the Fi rst Para-troop Regiment of the Forei gn Legi on in Indo-China, i nfl i cted a crushi ng defeat onUNs cocksure Bl ue Berets An i rate Hammarskj ol d, seei ng himel f more and more asGod s vi ceroy on earth, contemptuousl y brandedTshombets forei gnadvi sors despi cabl emercenari es Hammarskjol dts outburst set the tone for the enti re Ameri can press,whi ch proceeded to muster publ i c opi ni onbehind aml i tary offensi ve to crush stabl eKatanga and cl ear the way for the Simba massacres which fol l owed

I n the months to come, Faul ques and hi s teamwere forgotten The Ameri can publ i c wasnever tol d that they had suddenl y popped up i n Yemen and, under merci l ess Egypti anbombings, were runni ngaml i tary school i n mountain caves, forgi ng the royal i st armythat was tyi ngdown 40,000 Egypti ans

There are many unexpl ai ned thi ngs about Ameri ca s role in the pl ot to serve up Yemenon a pl atter to Nasser The Egypti an-contri ved revol t agai nst the ImamBadr coul d i nno sense be consi dered anati onal movement I t was a naked Egypti an act of aggressi onfromthe fi rst hy then di d the Kennedy admni strati on j ump i n, i n a matter of hoursto recogni ze the f i cti ti ous Yemen Republ i c, headed by aNasser puppet?

The onl y possi bl e expl anati on i s that a smal l group of Ameri cans i n posi ti ons of powerthrough personal fri endshi p wth Kennedy were able to use Ameri ca i n an effort tostri ke adeal which they thought would be advantageous to themel ves or a cause whichthey were espousi ng Though i t meant putti ng a kni fe between the shoul der bl ades ofBri tai n i n Aden and cleari ng theway for Egypti an control of the Arabi an Peni nsul a,they were wl l i ng to l et Nasser devour the Imamate of Yemen i n an attempt to bri behimaway fromI srael

Common sense shoul d have tol d themthat an Egypti an strangl ehol d on Saudi Arabi a andthe oi l sul tanates of the peni nsul awoul d onl y hasten the i nevi tabl e Fi ve yearsl ater Nasser was sti l l bogged down i n Yemen Every promse to pul l out hi s troopshad been broken Each month the ImamBadr grewin stature Commandant Faul ques andhi s teambrought i n gasol i ne engi nes, l athes and tool s I n conceal ed caves theywere teachi ng Yemeni tri besmenhowto make arm and ammuni ti on

AS 166 DREWTOA CLOSE NASSERS INTELLIGENCE SERVICE nomnal l y headed by the mys-teri ous Col onel Mahmoud but backed by Nazi off i cers fromHtl er s Arab bureau, beganfeedi ng i n encouragi ng reports I srael was facing mounti ng tensi on on her Syri anborder An i nternal struggle between orthodox rel i gi ous l eaders andmodern I srael idoctors was di vi di ng the newnati on i nto two hosti l e camps, spl i t on the i ssue ofwhether or not autopsi es were permssibl e under rel i gi ous l aw Unemployment had morethan doubl ed i n 1966, despi te the fact that for the fi rst time i n I srael ts exi stence

more Israel i s had l eft the country than had come to i t The fi gures were 122,000departures as agai nst 115,000 arri val s, wth most of the emgrants going to Ameri ca

Worst of al l , i n the deadl y undergroundwar between I srael and her neighbors anoperati onhad gone wongwhich cost the l i ves of al l of the agents of an enti re

I srael i network So great was the di saster that the survi val of the Eshkol govern-

ment i tsel f was at stake

THE I SRAELI SECRET SERVICE I S KNOWNAS SCHN BETH - the i ni ti al s of thewords

Sheroutei B takhon - servi ces of securi ty The founder of Schi n Beth and i ts di rec-

tor under Davi d Ben Guri on, i n the days of i ts greatest vi ctori es, such as the

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Ei chmann kidnappi ng, was the dreaded I sser Harel Harel was a smal l man, i ncl i ned totake great ri sks and endowed wth excepti onal l uck Oten he himel f went abroad ondangerous mssi ons When Ei chmann was spi ri ted out of the Argenti ne, Harel and one ofhi s top NewYork agents--the NewYork bureau chi ef of El Al Ai rl i nes--personal l y part i -cipated At the time the j ubi l ant I srael i newspapers proclaimed that three i ndependentbut paral l el i ntel l i gence l i nes protected I srael s i nterests around the worl d

At a word fromHarel the boasti ng stopped Nati ons watchi ng tax-free donati ons pourout to hel p struggl i ng I srael , and al ready worri ed over the matter of dual l oyal ti es,were not l i kel y to take ki ndl y to the i dea of three paral l el espi onage ri ngs operati ngon thei r soi l , at thei r expense, staf fed perhaps wth nati ve ci ti zens, worki ng for a

forei gn power Harel s recrui ti ng methods were hi s own What he was after was resul ts I f a cri mnalcoul d produce resul ts hi s past record coul d di sappear Consequentl y, under Harel the

Mossad -- Schi n Beth s Acti on Secti on, whi ch i s a di pl omati c way of sayi ng assassi na-ti on team- -became an ef fecti ve armagai nst I srael s enemes

Wth the rise of Levi Eshkol to power as prime mni ster, Harel was repl aced by Colonel

Meyer Amt, al so fromSchi n Beth but wth other i deas Amt was tal l , outgoing, verypl easant, and a compil er of fi l es Methodi cal army off i cers, not desperados wth

pri son records, were to Amt s taste Reports were cl ear and precise Then came Uthe

affai r as i t i s referred to i n whi spers, the I srael i secret servi ce operati on sodi sastrous that i t became a state secret

Leaks fromthe I srael i espi onage school i n Pari s pl ace the date at sometime i n md-

1966 t appears that Amt had l i t t le stomach for what had to be done fromthe start,

and asked the prime mni ster for a si gned l etter authori zi ng what he was about to do Eshkol , wth hi s usual i ndeci si veness, wrote the l etter, but i n such vague term that

i t provi ded l i t t le cover for Amt

After the debacl e an i nvesti gati ng commtteewas set up to deci de who was responsi bl e

On the commttee sat Ms GoldaMei r, secretary of the Mapai Party (Levi Eshkol s

party) I srael Gal i l i , Mni ster wthout Portfol i o i n charge of i nformati on, and Yi gal

Al one, Mni ster of Labor and head of the Akhduth Avodah Party whi ch i s cl osel y al i gned

wth the Mapai Al one, a former shock troop commander i n the haganah, was no stranger

to such operati ons

The commttee concl uded that Eshkol shoul d accept responsibi l i ty for the enterpri se

and i ts setback Not wshi ng to request the resi gnati on of a prime mni ster over a

sordi d cloak and dagger affai r, they agreed that Amt would be the scapegoat Eshkol

asked himto resi gn, expl ai ni ng that i f the story were ever to l eak out he would then

be abl e to smother i t at once by stati ng that the responsibl e off i cer had been rel i eved

of hi s functi ons Amt came back wth a refusal and added that i f he were ousted he

would tal k

By thi s time BenGuri on, l eader of the opposi ti on, and Isser Harel were maki ng pol i -

ti cal hay of the Eshkol -Amt conf l i ct Out through Z oni st organi zati ons abroad

ri ppl ed recri mnati ons and counter-recri mnati ons Syri an terrori st attacks were

stepped up mne i n the Hebron regi on exploded, ki l l i ng three I srael i sol di ers

Pushed todo somethi ng, Eshkol approved a repri sal rai d against Samua, i n J ordan

I n a stormof protest the opposi ti on announced that under Harel , acti on squads of the

Mossadwould have simpl y l i qui dated the l eaders of El Fattakh, the Pal esti ni an Arab

organi zati on, and the matter would have been settl ed I n earl y J anuary, 1967, the

Executi ve Commttee of Wrl d Z oni sts charged that Eshkol had l aunched the operati on

agai nst J ordan, and endangered the throne of Hussei n, the most reasonabl e l eader i n

the Arabworl d, sol el y to strengthen hi s weakeni ngposi ti on at home, and conceal the

fact that Amt coul d not react against Syria, fromwhere the troubl e stemmed

I n the ensuing scrambl e Harel s past expl oi ts at i ntimdati ng Nasser s German tech-

ni ci ans through expl osi ve packages i n the mai l and threats on thei r faml i es, were

hel d up as examples of the way thi ngs shoul d be done When the edi tor of the

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MDDLE EAST OBSERVER, publ i shed i nBri tai n and fi nanced by Bri ti sh Z oni sts, added hi s

opini on, he was promptly sacked

Granted, there was reason for Nasser to bel i eve that I srael was ri pe for attack Hadhe taken a second look, however, he mght have concl uded that a moment whenEshkol was

fi ghting for hi s pol i ti cal l i fe and being ri di cul ed for l ack of decision, was no time

to force himinto proving himel f manof acti on

THE I SRAELI ARFORCE, WHENNASSER DECDED TOBLOCKADE THEGULF OF AQABA consi sted of

between 350 and 400 planes--FrenchMrage andMysthre fi ghters, Ouragon i nterceptors

and fi ghter bombers On the groundwas a mxed force of old Ameri can Sherman tanks,M48 Patton tanks, Bri ti sh Centuri ons and French armored equi pment

France s providi ng I srael wthmodernmateriel began i n the days of the Ageri anwar,

before De Gaul l e s return to power The Arab and communi st blocs were throwng sup-

port to Ageri a and threatening a Pan-Arab coal i ti on against France As a deterrent,

France s l eaders signed an agreement to sel l I srael the latest pl anes of the French

ai rforce I t was as an outcome of thi s peri od of col l aborati on that the I srael i

espionage school i n Pari s was started After De Gaul l ets sel l out of Ageri a and

swerve toward the Arab world andMoscow the sale of French planes and armor to

Israel conti nued for economc reasons

AMERCAS SUPPORT OF THE ALGERANSWAS BOTH SHAMELESS AND INEXCUSABLE In vi cious-ness, the Ageri ans were second not even to the V etcong No thi nkingman could have

doubted that, when the time was ri pe, our proteges would turnagainst us and l ine up

wth the enemy camp The on y possi bl e explanati on for our acti ons i s, as i n the

case of Kennedy s recogn ti on of the Nasser puppet government in Yemen Powerful

Ameri cans were conducti ng thei r own diplomacy, compounding i n 1962 the errors of

1954 to 1961

The NewYork Times andWashington Post, both defenders of I srael , threwthei r

weight behind the Ageri an FLN TIMEMagazinets Edward Behr stopped at nothing to

provide the l ast component for war i n Afri ca and the Mddle East : an i ndependent,

Red Ageri a In U N our delegate, Henry Cabot Lodge, an avowed crusader against

colonial i sm, backed the Ageri ans who have nowturned against us

In early 1956Ameri ca s foreign trouble-sower on the l abor l evel , M I rvi ng Brown,

addressed a meeting of the I nternati onal Brotherhood of Electri cal Workers, i n the

WaldorfAstori a Hotel i n NewYork Hs l i steners doubted the wsdomof bui l di ng

up another powerful , i ndependent Mosl emstate that would be potenti al enemy of

Israel Brownhad no mandate to make pol i cy decisions or speak i n Ameri ca s name

However, he assured the i nnocent electri ci ans that he personal l y had di rected

North Afri cannational i smi nto channel s of democracy whi chwoul d destroy the

total i tari an forces i n the Arabworld and make for un ty between the Arab countri es

and Israel Brownhas never been cal l ed to an accounting

Senator John F.Kennedy, i n June 1957 fromhi s vantage point on the Senate Foreign

Relati ons Commttee, tol d the thenwavering Ageri ans that theymust not give up

George Meany, Soapy Wl l i am, CA, USIS and every l evel of Ameri can offi ci aldom

supported the Agerian Reds against our NATOal l y Ageri an students, selected

by a commun st-di rected student un onand fl own to Ameri ca in planes careful l y

routed to avoid French soi l (where our schol arship recipi ents would have been

arrested) were poured i nto Ameri ca at the taxpayers expense Professors, l aw

yers, columni sts--al l i n pri nci pl e pro-Israel --glori fi ed the Ageri ans From

Cty Col l ege of NewYork M Stanford Gri ffi th became thei r fi ery propagandist

The Hearst press sent l eftwng wi ter An ta Ehrman to Ageri a to l i ve wth and

extol the FLN CBS Televi sion took up thei r cause

I n 1959 the Overseas Press Cub of NewYork gave i ts yearly award for foreign

reporti ng to Joe Kraft, for an out-and-out A geri a propaganda arti cl e wi tten

whi l e he was a guest of terrori sts who put on a *show for him

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No Ameri can paper reported the vi si t of Ageri an representati ve to U N , AbdelkaderChanderl i , to Cuba and the signi ng of a treaty wth Castro, though EL MOUDAHD theFLN offi ci al organ, proclaimed i t to the skies

OnDecember 1, 1960, M J ay Lovestone, AFL-COrepresentative to U N wote hi sfamous l etter to the U N ambassador fromcommuni st Mal i , cal l i ng for support ofa resoluti on that can onl y hastenAgeri an i ndependence and serve the cause ofworld peace. (Lovestone sti l l heads the foreign affai rs secti on of AFL-COand

has never been cal led to an accounti ng.

Thus was created by Ameri can l efti sts the vi ci ous, hosti l e Ageri a which i n June,1967 broke off rel ati ons wth Ameri ca Since independence Ageri a has been onlya factor for war The fi rst offi ci al act of i ndependent Ageri awas to offer200,000 men for a war against I srael , estab i sh training camps for terrori smi nAngola and trai ni ng of the Vetcong

NASSERWTHMORE THAN 500 RUSSIANBULT PLANES, FELTSECURE On May 5 1963, hi sel i te assaul t force, EL SEAKA, formed and di rectedby Htler s Waffen-SS, presentedan impressi ve spectacle when, under an ai r umbrel l a of Russi an MGS, more tanks

than Rommel had ever had at his di sposal i n North Afri cawent through thei r pacesin the Sinai Desert Nasser knewthat I srael had tested

a smal l atomc bomb in September, 1962

H

duB Reports, May 1963 He l i kewse knewthat on May 6 1963, Ben Gurion hadbeeni nformed, pri or to hi s appearance before the Knesset (Parl i ament) that Egypt wasprepared to use mssi l es armedwthwarheads packedwth foreign-purchased, rad o-active wastemateri al , which Nasser s German sci enti sts had developed

Therewas onl y one drawback the huml i ati ng bog-down i n Yemen For four years

i t was to occupy Nasser s every considerati on Yemen had to be taken, and Feisal

andHussein neutral i zed

THROUGHFEBRUARY, MARCH 1967 the Ben Guri on-I sser opposi ti on to Eshkol mountedThere was tal k of replacing the primemnister wth Yigal Aone, the national i st

of the Left , as he l i ked to cal l himel f, or General Dayan, or even GoldaMeir i fher heal thwouldpermt

Candestine pamphlets l ampooned the harassedprime mnister Wat i s the di ffer-ence between Eshkol and Choukeri (the Palestine Arab l eader)? went a popul ar j oke Choukeri onl y talks about destroying I srael , was the answer What i s the d fferencebetween Eshkol and J ames Bond? was another ri ddle The

answer was 7

Concerning the primemni ster s i ndecision, hi s detractors said that when asked

whether he wanted coffee or tea, he repl i ed, A l i ttle of both.

InMay, 1967, Nasser threwout the so-cal l ed peace-keeping forces of the U N

which I srael i Forei gn Mnister Abba Eban had prai sed to the skies i n LOOK Magazineof J une 29, 1965 The bl ockade of Aqaba went into effect Nasser provided theprovocati on He did not expect war, according to rel i able

authori ti es i n WsternEurope He was out to amputate Yemen

On J une 5 General Dayan, recal l ed to command

a decision at l ast, opened the war, wth the

three weeks U N stood exposed to the world

by a Levi Eshkol forced i nto making

resul ts we know For the fol l owng

as the expensi ve absurdi ty i t i s

De Gaul l e, j ol ted to ful l real i zation of hi s entanglements wth Russi a and theArabbl oc, cut off suppl i es for I srael , al l owng one week before the embargo onFrench shi pments of parts for the ai rforce that gave Dayan hi s l i ghtning vi ctory

would go into effect I srael had had her fi rst i ntimati on that a French positi on

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shi ft was n theworks when De Gaul l e s ambassador, Monsi eur de l a Sabl i ere, refusedto attend the ml i tary parade marki ng the anni versary of I srael s i ndependence, onMay 15 in the I srael -control l ed secti on of J erusal em short time l ater i t wasannounced that French arm and planes woul d be made avai l abl e to King Hussein

Howsoon the next roundwl l come depends on I srael s wl l i ngness or refusal to

wthdraw fromthe terri tory sei zed between J une 5 and J une 10

What Washington and the Ameri can press wl l do next, havi ng hel ped to create thecancer i n Yemen and the pro-Nasser, pro-Russi an threat to Europe in A geri a, s

anybody s guess

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J enni e Edmonds, Managi ng Edi tor

BACKGROUND TOBETRAYAL The Tragedy of V etnam by H l ai re du Berri er (316 pages,

5 . 00 may be ordered fromWestern I sl ands, 395 Concord Avenue, Bel mont 78, Mass

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VOLUME x LETTER4 H BREPORTSJULYAUGUST 1967

A FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTERPARI S, FRANCE

SPOT CHECK OF THEWORLD

SVETLANASTALINS BOOK Through the fi rst hal f of 1967 European conservati ves awaitedarance of Svetl ana s book, Twenty Letters to a Fri end , wth msgivi ngs There

were many unknowns, questi ons unanswered and apparent contradi cti ons One of the ob-scuri ti es that bothered anti -communi sts was the rol e and personal i ty of Prisci l l a J ohn-son, described as a j ournal i st i nwhose l arge Long I sland estate, Kaintuck Farm

Svetl ana was sent to l i ve, guardedby seven detecti ves

Presumably Prisci l l a Johnson i s the Prisci l l a J McMl l an l i sted as Svetl ana s trans-l ator But a translator, under the condi ti ons i nwhi ch Svetl ana was permtted to cometo Ameri ca, could be at once both ghost wi ter and censor The high spots of thestory Svetl ana mght tel l and Prisci l l a deformwere wel l known The l i st of husbands,l overs and fri ends who brought Stal i nts daughter unhappiness unti l the l ast one atl east made her a ml l ionai re

She was eight years old when her mother, Nadia, went to the home of Vorchi l ov to dineon that night when Stal in and most of the Pol i tburo were there to celebrate the anni

versary of the October Revoluti on, on November 1932 Before themNadia protested

against the impending executi on of a student Stal i n tol d her to mnd her own busi nessand Nadia walked out of the dinner wth her head in the ai r Stal i n fol l owed a shorttime l ater, to calmher , he said Nadia was never again seen al i ve An offi ci al

communique announced that she had died of a sudden attack of appendi citi s

Whether hermother had ki l l ed hersel f or Stal i n, i n a wld rage, had shot hi s wfe, we are not

going to l earn fromSvetl ana

Eight years l ater, at si xteen, the precoci ous Svetl ana met a Jewsh student named

Gregori Morozov and fel l i n l ove wth him Stal i n, vi ci ously anti -Semti c, sent himto

Si beri a and marri edhi s daughter against her wll i t was claimed-- to Yuri J danov,

son of the bel l i gerent Andre whowas cl ose to Stal in

The Wst had al l but forgotten Stal i n s only daughter when, i n December 1966, she

suddenl y arri ved i n the I ndi an State of Uttar Pradesh wth the ashes of her 59-year-old

common l awhusband, an Indian communi st named Brej esh Singh ThoughBrej esh Singh,

l i ke Svetl ana, was a translator for the Soviet publ i shing house Progress , i t was hi s

good l uck to have an uncle who was important Dnesh Singh, the Maharajah of Kalankar,

a smal l state i n the Indian federation He had al so been under secretary of state for

forei gn affai rs i n I ndi ra Gandhi s previ ous government and was one of the l eadi ng

voi ces among the ri sing young members of the Congress Party

It was to avoid :offending the uncle and the party Moscowwas courti ng that Svetl ana

was granteda passport and exi t vi sa on December 20, 1966, to accompany her l over s

ashes

Svetl ana stal l ed i n Indi a vi si ti ng her husband s famly, then hi s uncle, fi nal l y

meeti ng Indi ra Gandhi Two offi cers fromthe Russi anEmbassy i n NewDelhi descended

on her i n Kalankar, demanding to knowwhen shewas going home OnMarch 6 she was

cal l ed to the Russi an Embassy i n NewDelhi , where she signed a tel egramannounci ng

that she would fl y to MoscowonMarch 8 I nstead, earl y on the morning of March 7 she

boarded a Qantas Ai rl i ne planewth a ti cket for NewYork (presumabl y paid for by the

Ameri can Embassy), accompanied by embassyattache Robert F Rayle

Presi dent J ohnson, tryi ng to bui l d bri dges to the East and at the height of a new

fl i rtationwthMoscowdi d not knowshe was comng unti l after khe was on her way

Across the Atl anti c went a series of codedmessages Suddenl y Svetl ana s fl i ght was

hal ted i nRome She was bundledoff the plane wthout I tal i an vi sa or l andi ng permt

and rushed to the home of an Ameri can embassy offi cial i n the residenti al quarter of

Pariol i , a suburb of Rome There she remained unti l March 11, when Rayle, taking no

chances of the plane being hi j acked and f l own to Algeri a, hurri ed her aboard a char-

tered I tal i an ai rl i ne V scount onwhi ch he and Svetl ana were the only passengers At

dawn the V scount came i n for a l andi ng on Runway23 of the Geneva Cointrin ai rport,

where a black Mercedes under the protecti on of two Swss i nspectors was wai ti ng I ts

destination the convent of Burgbuehl , near Sagine, i n the Canton of Fribourg, i n

Swtzerland

Both the Federal Government of Swtzerland and the pol i ce of Fri bougg took measures

to assure the secrecy of Svetlana s hiding place But the I nternati onal Left, through

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i ts vari ous shadi ngs, has means of pi erci ng the l ayers of of f i ci al secrecy Three men,wth the consent of the Bern government, soon contacted Svetl ana i n the house of rel i gi ousretreat where she was l i vi ng i ncogni to

One was the French communi st l eader, Baron Emmanuel d' Ast i er de l a V geri e, known asthe t edBaron Svetl ana went for a meeti ngwth d Asti er i n the home of hi s ni ece,Bertrande, wfe of the Fri bourg i ndustri al i st, C aude B ancpai n The reason theRed Baron contacted Svetl ana through hi s ni ecewas to try to persuade her to go backto Russia Fai l i ng thi s, i t i s qui te l i kel y he gave her some i nstructi ons as towhatshe shoul d and shoul d not say--or el se

Bertrande, the ni ece, had had a hand i n many pol i ti cal events, f romthe days of the Frenchresi stance to her acti ng as go-between, arrangi ng meeti ngs between furt i ve gentl emenduri ng the Al geri anwar Thi s, however, was Bertrande' s l ast pol i ti cal rol e ; she di ed i nan auto acci dent the day Svetl ana l anded i n NewYork

V si tor No 2 was George Kennan, Ameri ca' s former ambassador to Russi a, nowa professorat Pri nceton Uni versi ty Though the ex-di pl omat di d not make the trek to the convent of

the Si sters of Sai nt Cani si us i n an off i ci al capaci ty, i t was clear i n the chancel l eri esof Europe that the purpose of hi s vi si t was to l ay down the term onwhich Svetl ana

mght enter Ameri ca Womshe woul d see andwhomshe woul d not see, what she woul d say

and what she woul d refrai n fromsaying Out to the worl dwent the story that Svetl ana

was not choosi ng f reedom she was choosi ng God

Were she woul d l i ve and who woul d assi st her i n the wri t i ng of the book was put to

her f i rmy by Kennan At thi s poi nt the mysteri ous Pri sci l l a J ohnson, j ournal i st wth

a l arge property on Long I sl and, came i nto the pi cture, and the chances of any anti -

communi st getti ng i nformati on he coul d si nk hi s tbeth i nto di sappeared

M Kennan may al so have speci f i ed who was to publ i sh sai d book, si nce the contract wth

Harper Row negoti ated by Mr Edward Greenbaum(V si tor No 3),was si gned at the con-

vent i n Fri bourg before Svetl ana got wthi n reach of any other Ameri can publ i sher I t i s

doubtful that any publ i shi ng house except the one run by the son of Norman Thomas, Ameri -

ca' s l eadi ng soci al i st, coul d have gotten to her

The Book of the Month C ub i s report ed to have pai d 325,000 for di stri buti on rights i n

October Harper Rowput up 250,000, and the NewYork Times 25Q000 for condensed

versi on ri ghts Forei gn ri ghts, handl edby Knowton &Wng, I nc were qui ckl y grabbed

upby J apan, I srael , Hol l and, Lati n Ameri ca and ei ght European countri es for a total of

2 5 ml l i on

Wat conservati ve Ameri cawatchers want to know i s Who i s Pri sci l l a J ohnson, al soknown as Pri sci l l a J McMl l an? I s she a conservati ve or a l efti st? Wat has she wri tten

before? Wthwhat groups, fronts or party i s she aff i l i ated? I n sum what i s her past?

Thi s woul d provi de a cl ue as towhether she i s servi ng as Svetl ana' s i nterpreter, or her

ghost wri ter and censor, her hostess or her i nsul ater, i n the year precedi ng an Ameri can

el ecti on

WHLE SVETLANA REVI SEDHERMEMORS ai ded by the j ournal i st wth the Long I sl and estate,

Moscowwas busy purgi ng Russi a' s securi ty servi ces Out went Semtchasny as chi ef of

the Commssi on of State Securi ty, the dread KGB and i n went Yuri Andropov, a sml i ng

f i f ty-year-ol d party stal wart Simul taneousl y Ambassador Bendi ktov, Russi a' s ambassador

to I ndi a, was cal l ed home, and Gaspodi n Lapi ne put i n charge of Tass news agency, l ong

recogni zed as a carri er body for Russi an i ntel l i gence

There was tal k of two top l evel Russi an agents havi ng been di spatched to NewYork to

ki dnap Svetl ana and bri ng her home, a report whi ch l edAUXECOUTES, the anti -Gaul l i stPari s weekl y of J une 14, 1967, to est i mate that some 4,500 Russi an agents are operati ng

i n NewYork C ty, through 18wel l -organi zed networks UN UNESCOand Russi a' s two off i -

ci al news agenci es, Tass and Novosty, were recogni zed by AUXECOUTES as pri nci pal nerve

centers and transmssi on bel ts

WHLE THE SHAKE-UPW SGONGON I NMOSCOW Fabri ce Laroche observed i n hi s ri ght-wng

Pari s weekl y Observateur European that Mr J ohn Daly, 53-year-ol d son-i n-l awof Chi ef

J usti ce Earl Wrren,woul d henceforth head Voi ce of Ameri ca wth i ts 2,372 employees

di f fusi ng the message of Ameri can l i beral s over the worl d i n 58 l anguages

Al l of these events may be di rectl y or i ndi rectl y rel ated to the f l i ght of Svetl ana

Stal i n and the memoi rs which were dest i ned to pass through Pri sci l l a J McMl l an

and Harper &Rawbefore reachi ng Ameri ca and the worl d

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I F RUSSIA IS HAVNGHERTROUBLES ABROAD SO IS AMERCA The admni strati on has said l i tt le

about i t, but_Am am-troops-, i n number of European bases, parti cularl y those at Heidel -

berg, where was oustedby Kennedy and a l i beral press for trying to

prepare our soldiers to wthstand subversi on, are being f l oodedwth brochures Thei r aim

to persuade Gti . todesert rather than go to Vetnam

Signatori es of the appeal are twel ve paci fi st and/or communi st groups of di fferent nati o-

nal i ti es Siml ar tracts are pri nted i n Bri tai n and Canada, urgi ng G ' s to desert or

claimconscienti ous obj ecti ons to war, wth the assurance that Lord Bertrand Russel l ' s

Commttee of 100, the International Wr Resisters (of whi chM DavidMcReynoldsi s thehead) and the Peace Pl edge Union, of London, wl l be behind them

I nFrance the Ameri can deserti on dri ve is run by the Revol uti onary Communist YouthMove-

ment, accordi ng to Observateur Europeen 9 rue aux Ours, Pari s 3. ) The J CR as i t i s

cal l ed (fromJeunesses Communi stes Revoluti onnai res), i s Trotskyi te in tendency, and one

of i ts main cards i s the recent announcement by French authori ti es that G deserters

apprehended on French soi l wl l not be turned over to Ameri can authori ti es Thi s i s

contrary to NATOagreements and explains why the 20-year-ol d Ameri can negro, Loui s Arm

fi eld, was granted right of asylum Supporters and perpetrators of the Ameri can deser-

ti on dri ve in France are the people Ameri ca appl auded in 1961 when Simone Signoret,

J ean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoi r and 118 other ml i tants of the extreme Left

l auncheda mani festo cal l i ng upon French draftees to desert or resort to i nsubordi nati on

i f ordered to A geri a

INBELGUMTHE ANTI-AMERCANDRVE i s pushedmost strongl y be a pro ommuni st

movement cal l ed Acti onfor Peace and the Independence of Peopl es AFZ4 As more

i nformati on coms out on the fi re in the Innovati on Department Store in Brussel s whi ch

caused 317 deaths, many see the Peki ng-i nspi red ri ots shaking Hong Kong and the wave of

black terrori smand looting sweeping Ameri ca as part of a concerted Chinese acti on

throughout theWst

The Innovation had l aunched a 15-day U S Parade peri od Ameri can fl ags covered the

front of the huge bui l di ng I t was ri ski ng troubl e A l Bel gi umknewthat in Apri l ,

1966, pro-Chinese Reds, i ncl udi ng l eft-wng Cathol i cs, had staged a monster peace march

i n Brussel s, shouti ng anti -Ameri can sl ogans Through Brussel s and Liege pass the funds

to finance pro-Chinese subversion i nEurope

eBel gi ums. ,Peking group are wel l -known Aside fromAPIP, there are the Young Guard

Social i sts, theWl l oonWorkerst Party and the Movement Against Atomc Wapons The

di rectors of Innovationwere defying a formdabl e coal i ti on

Two days before the fi re, members of APIP surged through the store, beari ng pl acards

proclaimng Theanti -imperi al i sts wl l not hal t unti l they have cleared the I nnovati on

store of the fl agwhi ch sympol i zes aggressi on and crime. Reds pi cketed the door, and

threatening l etters were sent to the di rectors of pro-Ameri can enterpri ses Fi nal l y

fi re-crackers were thrown i n the store i tsel f Pol i ce cleared the premses Then came

the catastrophe That i t broke out simul taneousl y i n two places removed any doubt of

i ts crimnal ori gin

Though Ameri ca's war i n V etnamwas the ostensibl e reason for these communi st di sturb-

ances, j ust where Ameri ca stands i n that war i s far fromclear

VIETNAM AMERCA S AREAOF CONTRADCTIONS On the night of July 17, your correspondent,

aboard an A r Vetnamplane bound for Saigon, suddenl y found himel f i n PhnomPenh,

Cambodia, where the pl ane had been di rected after being unable to l and i n Saigon Very

pol i tel y, seri ousl y and in fl awess French, Cambodian offi ci al s asked, What i s thereason for your vi si t to Cambodia? I f thi s seem ridi cul ous, i t i s no more so than the

two-faced game being pl ayed by our own government on i ts voters and the people of South

V etnam

EXAMPLES U S News Wrld Report of January 16, 1967, tol d Ameri cans, Henry Cabot

Lodge, U S Ambassador to South V etnam i s trying to tal k Premer Ky out of the i dea

of running for offi ce on hi s own The Uni ted States would prefer to see civi l i ans, not

ml i tary men, running things in South V etnam

Name wi ters, TV commentators and dai l y papers in Ameri ca hai l ed the forthcomng el ec-

ti ons that would bring i nto power acivi l i an government in SouthV etnam, as though

the el ecti on of a ci vi l i an was assured and such a vi ctorywouldbe an end-al l i n i tsel f

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I n Sai gon, on J ul y 15, U S Ambassador Bunker decl ared that there had been andwould beno Ameri can i nterference i n South V etnams el ecti ons Representati ve J ohn E Moss ofCal i forni a had cal l ed onAmeri ca ni ne days earl i er to force the South V etnamese toco-operate

The pressure upon Premer Nguyen Cao Ky to step down i n hi s race for the presidency andpermt himel f to be sandwched, as V ce Presi denti al candi date, between the moremaneuverable General Thi euand a premer to be appointedby the Chi ef of State must havebeen terri fi c Yet Everyone was surpri sed, sai d oneU S off i ci al i n Sai gon, accord-i ng to the Nati onal Observer of J ul y 3

Audi ences wth the premer are ordi nari l y made through the Ameri can Embassy Shoul d anAmeri can conservati ve attempt to bypass thi s roadbl ock and get to the premer di rectl y,a second obstacle i s standi ng guard--the Ameri can conf i denti al advi sor whose j ob i ti s to attach himel f to and i nf l uence the V etnamese l eader i n power Consequentl y, Kyhas no way of knowng that a ri sing conservati ve force i nAmeri ca i s behi nd himi n hi sdetermnati on to f i ght for vi ctory

THEPHENOMENON OF THEAMERCAN ADV SOR Premer faci ng newsmen i n Chri stchurch,NewZealand, on J anuary 23 1967 declared, I am a puppet of the Uni ted States orany other government Asked i f he or any other V etnamese off i cer coul d overrul eGeneral Westmoreland i n V etnam Ky repl i ed, Yes We are i n charge of overal l ml i taryoperati ons south of the 17th Paral l el

Aweekl ater J oe Kraft, not so l ong ago a l eadi ng apol ogi st for the Reds i n A geri a,

tol d Ameri cans that the danger of Premer Ky bl ocki ng a negoti ated settl ement (meani nga sel l -out to the V etcong and Hanoi )i s .manageable For Premer Ky cannot make a

move agai nst the wl l of the Ameri can command

Ameri ca s way of imposing thi s wl l i s through the f ri endl y advi sor system Under

Ngo di nh D emAl l en Dul l es man, Col onel Edward G Lansdal e, was eased i nto power-behi nd-

the-throne by bei ng made Presi dent E senhower s personal envoy After ruthl essl y des-

troyi ng every effecti ve anti -communist l eader and force that would not accept hi s

candi date , even to deposi ng the onl y man i n V etnamabove regi onal , pol i ti cal and

rel i gi ous di f ferences--the Emperor Bao Dai --Lansdal e, we are tol d by the Los Angeles

Times of March 26, 1967, soured on Dem Having cleared the f i el d for the communi sts

by crushi ng the Cao Dai andHoa Hao sects, the B nh Xuyen army of the swamps and the

l egi timate monarchy, Lansdale came home to be promoted, decoratedby Al l en Dul l es, and

towite V ETNAM Do We Understand Revol uti on? for Forei gn Affai rs Quarterl y of

October 1964 (publ i shed by the Counci l on Forei gn Rel ati ons)

Si nce that time succeedi ng Ameri can pol i ti cos, wthout attempti ng to undo the wong,

have spouted dri vel about wnni ng the peopl e of South V etnam, the ef fecti ve groups

of whi ch Lansdale turned agai nst us

GENERALN U _9 WROSE TOPOWER I NTHE SUMMER OF 1964, whi l e Lansdal e, the al i enator

of thousands of South V etnamese, was tel l i ng the Counci l on Forei gn Rel ati ons what

Ameri ca ought to do The CIAmanwho l atched onto General Khanh by persuadi ng hi mthat

he needed the ai d of a smart Ameri can f ri end , i n the knowandwth powerful backers,

was an Ameri can l i abi l i ty named Conein

AnAmeri can-natural i zed V etnamese named Nguyen Xuan Oanh, who hadbeen f i f teenyears

i n Ameri ca and had al l but forgotten hi s nati ve tongue, was brought back and foi sted

on the V etnamese as premer, wth no protests f romthe press that habi tual l y pratt l es

about democracy The l eader of the anti -communist Dai V et Party, Dr Nguyen tonHoan,

was gi ven the vi ce-premershi p as a sop, and Khanhwas persuaded to l aunch a campai gn

against pro-French pl otters wthi n the army, the most vi ci ous and ri di cul ous the

country had seen since Lansdale s 1955 determnati on to see di rty col oni al i sts, not

communists, as SouthV etnams onl y danger

On the advi ce of hi s Ameri can fri ends, Khanh exi l ed Dr Hoan fromhi s own country when

Hoan tri ed to bl ock the return of Lansdal e Today Khanh himel f i s an exi l e, l i vi ng at

26 rue Emle Zol a, i n Chavi l l e, France, among the peopl e he revi l ed, and Lansdale i s

sel l i ng himel f as the f ri endwth savvy and connecti ons to Premer Ky

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LANSDALE S STARSEEMS INECLIPSE, woteWll i amTuohy i n the Los Angel es Tims of

March 26, 1967 The questi on the real speci al i sts askedwas What i s Lansdale s gam?

I s he fi ghti ng to hold Premer Ky s ear and confi dence as a mans of cl i ngi ng to im

portance for himel f whi l e he i s sl i ppi ng?--of retaini ng power a l i ttl e bi t l onger as

the one manwth a claimto being able to i nfl uence the premer? Or was he assigned the

j ob of working on Ky, to persuade himto stepdown and accept second pl ace under

General Thi eu?

Whi le Lansdal e pretends, ri ghtl y or wongl y, that he has a monopol y on the premer s

ear, the new even l ess popul ar power-welder i n our embassy i s presidenti al appoi ntee

Komer hi s sol e qual i f i cati on i s the fri endship of LBJ , which makes himresentedbyAmeri can associates and V etnamse al i ke

MORE ANDMOREAMERCANS BEGANTOBE ALARMED Carl T Rowan, the col ored columni st who

as a governmnt offi ci al once stretched the truth to breaking point i n hi s personalsmar j ob agai nst Tshombe and Katanga, wote anarti cl e cal l ed Secret Key to Vetnam

Peace (Los Angeles Tims, February 8, 1967. In i t Rowan stated, Secret contactsbetween representati ves of the Ky regim in Saigon and spokesmn for the Communi st

Vetcong nowseemto be the key to ending the Vetnamwar And, qui etl y and gentl y,

you can expect the Uni ted States to nudge Premer Nguyen Cao Ky and Sai gon s ml i tary

j unta i n thi s di recti on during the next several months . Ky s refusal to be nudged

may have hadmuch to dowth his being edged out of the race for the presidency R W Appl e, J r had already wi tten i n the NewYork Tims of July 13, 1966, that

Abba Schwartz, who resi gned as Admnistrator of Securi ty and Consul ar Affai rs i n the

State Departmnt, arranged for som i ndi rect contacts wth the Vetcong and i nterested

the Soviet Union i n the si tuati on.

To try to unravel a pol i cy that fl uctuates between no-wni smand treason, three

conservati ve candidates for Congress i n 1968 travel ed fromWashington state to Saigon

i n J ul y, 1967, to seek i nformti on fi rsthand Al l three were Republ i cans, two Cathol i c

I t was the fi rst ti m any Amri can fact-seeker had ever eschewed the offi ci al guided

tour, the bri efi ng sessi on by an i nformation offi cer fromthe embassy, pl ane ri des to

bases passedoff on impressed vi sitors as the front , i ntroducti ons to V etnamse

ready to confi rmwhat the vi si tor had been told

There are som 750,000 montagnards i n South Vetnam including thewarl i ke Nungs Leaders of the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao sects claimto represent 2,700,000 and 1,500,000

respecti vel y The three Republ i can candidates fromWshington state were the f i rst toever si t wth the representati ves of these groups and ask questi ons A commnder i n

the Bnh Xuyen cam to promse the l oyal co-operation of hi s eight battal i ons at Cape

St J acques and the Plain of J unks, as well as thei r ml l i on supporters, i f hi s general

were permtted to return fromexi l e AV etnamse devoted to the monarchy which we helped abol i sh andwhich i n a country

wthout any real checks and bal ances, composed of di sparate mnori ti es, is the only

possi bi l e counterpoi se to the msuse of executi ve power, sat wth themfor hours A youngmanwho had been trained in Amri ca at our psychol ogical warfare school

readi l y admtted that he hadworkedwth Col onel Lansdal e Yes, he knewof the tor

ture house i n the botani cal gardens, he had helped set i t up I t was supposed to

be an i nterrogati on house, wth l ie-detector mchi nes, he sai d, but when the

mchi nes did not el i ci t the proper answers, Nhu turned i t into a torture house.

Unable tobel i evewhat he had heard, one of the congressional candi dates put the

questi on to M Phan khac Suu, the 61-year-old Presi dent of the Consti tuent Assembly,

who fromSeptember 1965 to May 1966was Chief of State andwho i s nowa candidate for

the presi dency of Sotth V etnam I spent tenmonths i na subterranean dungeon in

the torture house, the statesmn repl i ed I bear i ts marks onm body.

For the f i rst tim a party of sol i d Ameri cans began to understand, on the spot, why

off i cers returni ng to Amri ca fromVetnamare forbi dden to tal k

Canwe wn the war? the candidates asked I f we denounce the Amri cans who

treated you unjustl y, and i nsi st that your wongs be ri ghted, wl l youhelp us?

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And i f youdo, howlongwoud i t take to wn the war?

A fewmonths, was the- answer But youwoud have tomake i t clear that youare fightingfor vi ctory 1

An immedi ate consequence of our prol ongi ng thewar by ru ing out ml i tary victory is theconstant appearance i n V etnamof newandmore deadly Soviet weapons whi ch, had the warbeenwon qui ckl y and effecti vel y, woud not be there today Whi l e Vetnamruns i ts courseas the ci vi l i zedworld' s cancer, A geri a, a product of the same American po icy that

created Ho chi Mnh, bu lds up explosive power i n North Afri ca

ALGERAS LEADER, COLONEL BOUMEDENNE was named i n H du B REPORTS of May, 1963, as themanwhowoud u timately sei ze power when the pol i ti cos had had thei r day I nApri l , 1958,Robert Murphy tol d NewYork Times newsmen i n Paris, The Uni ted States i s i ncreasinglyconvinced of the need for a non-mli tary settl ement of the A geri an rebel l i on. The tim

l agbetweenAmerican-imposed nowni smi n A geri a and our Ageri an proteges commni st

offensive agai nst the West i s about the same as between our 1945-46 backi ng of Ho chi Mnhand our having to help fi ght him

Ofi ci al l y, som 3,000 Russian techni cians are i nstructi ng Boumedi enne s Nati onal Popul ar

Army What 2,000 of themare do ng i s anybody s guess 200work out of Batna, on some

msteri ous mssi on i n the Aures mountain ranges The 200 Sovi et tanks, heavy automated

arti l l ery and newdel ivery of MG17 s over whi ch Russi ans and thei r students are swarmng

are rel ati vely unimportant I t i s assumed that they were brought i nto the country for

war agai nst Morocco

What theWest shoud be consideri ng i s the l ong range mssi l e si tes which the Russians are

reported to be i nstal l i ng on the fri nges of the Sahara Agerian off i ci al s have i nformed

French agents that Soviet i nstal l ati ons wl l never threaten anythi ng but Ameri ca s Sixth

Fleet

I n La Cal l e, the smal l port east of Bone, Russi a nowhas a submari ne base Despi te the

fact that four- f i fths of hi s popuation i s unemployed, Boumedi enne i s urgi ng Nasser to

reopen thewar against Israel i n October I f he refuses, French experts outside the

reach of De Gaul l e s i nfl uence are convinced that Boumedienne wl l l aunch the same cam

paignagainst himthat Nasser has waged against Hussei n and Fei sal I f Nasser fal l s or

i s defeated, Boumedienne, safely entrenched i n A geri a, i s expected to be Russia s l eader

of an al l i ed Afri ca andArab a agai nst Europe s fl ank and the Mddle East

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THE CONGO-- AMERCAS BAD INVESTMENT

Jul y : The word Mercenari es fl ashed over the tel etype wres again Revol t i n the Congo Back of i t a l were thedespi sed forei gners at whomHammrskj old shri eked wth imotent femnine rage i n 1961, when hi s plans were frustrated

I t started i n Ki sangani , formrl y Stanl eyvi l l e The Congo, eighty ti ms the si ze of Bel gi um had peri odi cal l y beenscene of i ndescri babl e horrors since i ts i ndependence i n 1960 For three years som 120 foreigners headed by ColonelRobert Denard, the Frenchmn, and Major J ean Schramm the Bel gian, tri ed to mintai n a seml ance of order i n Presi deMobutu s country Thei r i nstrumnts : two troupes of Katanga gendarms l eavened wth a fewSima rebel s who had ralafter the sensel ess Sima revol t of 1964 The Sima revol t had taught America nothing Open support and f i nancinga camaign to destroy Tshome and hi s stabl e provi nce, pl us Amri can l abor s rol e i n toppl i ng the neighbori ng governmnt of pro-Wstern Abbe Ful bert Youlou i n Brazzavi l l e Congo, i n 1962, laid the mst prosperous part of Afri ca openSima savagery Among the scores of whi tes massacred was Dr Carl son, the Amri can mssionary The horror was hal teby an Amri can ai rli ft of Bel gian sold ers

I n J une 1964 Tshome returned to restore order Wth order restored, Mobutu wanted himout again, and i n Novemer 1the Amri can amassador and CA agent Devl in persuaded Tshome to accept Mobutu s promses of a fai r el ecti on and stedown

By J une 1967 savagery was again on the rise I n spi te of the horror, the viol ated women and the Europeans ki l l ed fothings as mnor as possession of a transi stor rad o, som 100,000whites sti l l refused to l eave thei r bel oved Afri caAfter three years of l oyal ty to Mobutu, i t becam clear to the whi te offi cers trying to imose restrai nt and commonthat they were at a cross-roads The momnt of decision had arri ved whether to act l i ke civi l i zed human beings orwatch a blood bath, beginni ng wth thei r old fri end Tshome

Had there been a Congol ese capable of assumng responsibi l i ty, there would have been no reason for Mobutu s employinthe men our press cal l s mrcenari es

PAR S MATCH of J ul y 29, 1967, di spl ayed a two-page, double-spread photograph showng four young Europeans down on theknees, wth thei r hands i n the air, under the guns of scowing black sold ers A seri ous-l ooki ng Mobutu offi ci al , n

l y dressed i n gray fl annel trousers, dark j acket, whi te shi rt and wearing

somer ti e, stands at thei r ri ght, hol ding a book and solemnl y peeri ng

through thi ck glasses The young whi tes on thei r knees were wai ti ng tocei ve bul l ets through thei r heads

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THE KIDNAPPING OF TSHOMBE ON JUNE 30 was the l ast straw Someone had tosomthing HHour for the revol t was 3:30 A.M on J ul y 5 Troops underDenard and Schrammwere to forma j uncti on and take the governmnt camKetel e, near Stanl eyvi l l e That hour was chosen because the Congolese feevi l spi ri ts at night and fi ght onl y by day Schrammwas l ate ; the roaddi ff i cul t As a resul t the attack was delayed three hours I nstead ofthrowng thei r arm away and fl eeing, the Congol ese fought as they wthdrto the other side of the Congo Rver For the fi rst ti m Congolese natiotroops made a stand

Denard, Schrammand the Europeans wth themcarri ed the weight of the att

agai nst Ketel e s 1400 Congol ese regul ars Thei r 300 Katanga gendarmes

occupied the posi t i ons that Denard and Schrammcaptured At the ul ti mte

momnt before vi ctory, wth Ketel e i n thei r grasp, a Congolese mortar shehi t an ammni ti on truck and decimted the column Denard was hi t i n thehead by a sniper shot fromacross the ri ver, and conti nued to di rect hi s

commando group si tti ng upri ght i n a j eep t i l l , on the thi rd day, he fel tri ght side going dead He col l apsed on J ul y 7 hal f paral yzed, and

wasfl own

to Sal i sbury, Rhodesia, som1300 mles

away, i n a requi si t i oned DC-3

I T WASTHE END OF THEWARFORCOLONEL ROBERT DENARD at l east temorari l y Denard had been i n tough spots before Asixteen he entered the naval schoo at Saint Mandrier I n 1947 he was sent to I ndo-China, to serve under Domnique

Ponchardi er, the gori l l a whose commndo raiders sal l i ed out of j ungl es and swams to raid V etmnh stronghol ds at

night, festoonedwth cart ri dge bel ts, stark naked Those who sawSchoendoerfer s sti rri ng documntary, The 317

Secti on, unknowngl y sawDenard He was No 2 i n commnd

I n 1952 he was back i n the regul ar navy FromIndo-China he went to Morocco to train an anti - terrori st pol i ce force

protect the Sul tan Then cam the war i n A geri a and the upsurge of the French Left Denard was accused of pl anning

an attack on Mendes- France, l eader of the extreme soci al i st Left , and barel y weathered the storm

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When Tshombe returned to the Congo as premer i n J une 1964, Denard went back to hel p hi mput down the Simbas, who hadsl aughtered an esti mated 50,000 Afri cans since UNs vi ctory, whi ch UNCEF and Ameri ca hel ped fi nance Wth theSimbas defeated, Tshombe was run out again, and sentenced to death i n absenti a to prevent his comng back, but Denardwas kept on by Mobutu wth the rank of colonel

W had to, Denard answered The Congol ese arm i s

occupati on, on what they can l oot and shake-down t

nothi ng of ml i tary mtters, i s ever going to restore

we owed Tshombe a debt of honor He was the fi rst to

worthl ess crowd i n Leopol dvi l l e We would rather see

everywhere .

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1961 sawhim i n Katanga wth his ol d friend Roger Faul ques, hero of the di sastrous 1950 retreat fromCao Bang i n I ndoChina Faul ques and Denard, wth a sml l group of pals from I ndo-Chi na, trai ned the Katanga arm that defeatedHammrskj old' s cocksure UN bl ue berets FromKatanga Denard went to Yemn to fight for the ImmBadr against a communi st -backed Nasser puppet whose j ob i t was to put a kni fe at the backs of the Bri ti sh i n Aden The Kennedys j umpedto recogni ze the i l l egal governmnt i n Yemn before i t got off the ground

What mde you and Schrammdeci de to stri ke? an ol d fri end asked Denard i n the hospi tal i n Sal i sbury

You shoul d have seen i t Mobutu' s offi cers mde the nati ves pay for vacci nati ons, whi ch were supposed to be free Medi ci nes, everything the outside worl d sent i n went through a l ocal bl ack mrket, wth off i ci al s getti ng the proceeThings got so bad we had to share our rati ons wth the vi l l agers, whi l e we hel ped thembui l d roads .

When told of AP reports that the rebel s were holding Europeans as hostages, Denard bl ewup Hostages W never hadany hostages The Europeans were taking refuge wth us Furthermre, a l ot of Simbas whomwe had been tracki ng fortwo years rushed to j oi n us rather than face the advancing Congol ese, who amuse themelves by hacki ng thei r pri sonersto pieces wth hatchets .

You must understand We know the country W know i ts l eaders I n the end we had to face the fact that therewas

no other sol uti on but revol t Wthout us the whol e Congo woul d be at the mercy of murderers and cannibals Last yea

when there was an upri si ng we stuck by Mobutu and l et the Katangans l ose t was wth a heavy heart , I admt One

of thei r l eaders, a colonel named Boyo, told m as he fl ed the country, Colonel , we have l ost W' re f i ni shed But

l et me tel l you, one of these days you won' t be abl e to stand what i s happening any l onger You wl l revolt al so

After Denard's departure, command passed to Schramm hi s No 2 by then a colonel

a horde of crimnal s They l i ve off the Congo l i ke an arm ofought to be di ssolved Howdo you thi nk Mobutu, who knowsorder i n that immnse country al ready ful l of gangrene? Besidehave Europeans i n his arm We fought together against thea corner of the Congo sane and l i vabl e i nstead of anarchy

J EAN SCHRAMM Thi rty-seven years ol d, son of a l awyer i n Bruges, Bel gi um One brother i s a l awyer, another a pedi a-

tri ci an Schrammwent to the Congo for his ml i tary servi ce After that he di d not want to l eave When he got out

of the arm, he begged fromhi s famly, borrowed fromfri ends and bought a coffee pl antati on Easy-going, l i kabl e,

Schrammwas the l ast man l i kel y to lead a rebel l i on, but to mke hi msound si ni ster the Amri can press began cal l i nghi m B ack J ack.

REASONS GVENTHE WEST FOR THE REVOLT TIME of J ul y 21, 1967, stil l sneered at the rebel s as mercenari es who had

not recei ved thei r pay and mght have decided to sei ze everythi ng worth taki ng before Mobutu coul d send thempacking

Gudgingl y TIME admtted that the kidnappi ng of Tshombe may have had somthing to do wth i t adding that i t was onl y

a hi t-and-run affai r The U S A rforce had been ordered to fl y i n sol di ers and motori zed equi pment to put i t dow

TIME had been fu l of i ndignati on when the French fl ew the communi st A geri an revoluti onary Ben Bel l a to A gi ers i n

1956 For Tshombe TIME coul dn' t care l ess He had been l i vi ng i n Madri d si nce our Congo teampersuaded hi mto step

down i n 1965 Adoul a, Ameri ca' s protege whomhe rep aced, conti nued to work agai nst hi mi n Wshington as Mobutu's

ambassador I n Madri ed the i ntel l i gence servi ces of hal f a dozen countri es, pl us several Afri can i ntel l i gence servic

- - another nam for gunmn di gni fi ed wth a rank -- had been swrl i ng around hi s hom, tryi ng to contact those l i vi ng

off hi m

When the cri me occurred, i t was al l but impossibl e to separate the wol ves fromthe sheep Tshombe had been persuaded

to fl y to I bi zza vi a Palm de Majorca, i n a chartered Bri ti sh pl ane wth theequi val ent of 60,000 i n hi s bri efcase Reason for the trip : to i nspect property he was being urged to buy as an i nvestmnt The day before the trip Tshombe hesi tated He suspected a trap Somone wore hi mdown Tshombe' s expl anati on befor

the A geri an j udges who ordered that he be turned over to J oseph Mobutu for executi on was, I ama vi ctimof the C A.

I n Ameri ca the statemnt was ri di cul ed As the pieces fal l i nto p ace, attenti on i s drawn to a French underworl d

character namd Francis Bodenan who had been given twelve years for murder i n 1957 and rel eased before the end of hi s

term I nto Madri d, London and Pari s tri ckl ed reports that Bodenan' s firm Barracuda, at 90 rue de l V ctoi re, i n

Pari s, was a front for other busi ness than real estate

Bodenan had fl own to Madri d fromLiechtenstei n, the pri nci pal i ty regarded as a C A operati ons center i n Europe Ws

there any rel ati on between Liechtenstei n off i ces and Leopol dvi l l e? Possi bl y one No C Aman i n Leopol dvi l l e i s

Frank Devl i n, a f irmMobutu supporter And i t was for Mobutu that Bodenan was assi gned the j ob of l uri ng Tshombe on

a chartered Bri ti sh pl ane

Wrki ng on the hypothesi s that a l ine exi sted fromDevl i n to Liechtenstei n to Bodenan, Madri d i nvesti gators probed

further Two women secretari es fromthe Amri can embassy i n Leopol dvi l l e, one whi te and one colored, had been watch-

ing Tshombe's movements i n Madri d and showng i nterest i n hi s entourage Wth themwas a Mobutu pol i ce offi cer namd

N col as Roul et, reputed to enj oy the confi dence of Congo C A chi ef Devl i n

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Somewhere between Spain andMajorca the Bri ti sh pi lot was forced to change course and fl y to A gi ers A swaggeri ngBel gi an namedMarcel -Emle Hubursi n, i n Tshombe s service, i s credi ted wth hol di ng a gun to the pi l ot s head Butwhocovered Tshombe and hi s personal staff i n the cabin? Hs bodyguard, Hans, a 25-year-old German who had served i nthe Fi rst Paratroop Regiment of the Foreign Legi on, was wth him J eannine Bel vi l l e, the pretty bl onde secretary whohad fol l owed Tshombe fromKatanga was there So was Greco, an i nternati onal adventurer whohad once worked forNKrumah

The two Spani sh offi cers escorti ng Tshombe are not suspect, but what were they doing through al l thi s? Eventual l y who

was paid, and howmuch, for hi s or her part i n the drama i n the cabin between Spain and A giers wl l be known Forthe present si l ence Not a word fromthe great powers, much l ess the secretary-general of the UN Si l ence fromAgeri a s Boumedi enne Si l ence fromAngier B ddl e Duke, our ambassador to Spain, and hi s Internati onal RescueCommttee

TIME of August 4 began prepari ng Ameri ca for a publ i c executi on by remnding i ts readers that Tshombe i s wdel y be-l i eved to have been responsi bl e for the death of Patri ce Lumumba i n 1961. Wdel y bel i eved by whom The story ofMobutu s shi ppi ng a dying Lumumba to Katanga i n a pl ane that was permtted to l and because the pi l ot cl aimed he wasout of gas i s well known Lumumba and hi s two companions, beaten to the verge of death by the Bal uba guards Mobutuhad gi ven them then di ed on Tshombe s hands, and the pi l ot would not take off the fol l owng morningwth threecorpses (See H du B Reports, Apri l 1964

I N MOBUTUS CAPITAL ALLWAS J UB LATION a fewdays before the kidnapping On June 26, from8A.M to 4P.M spear-wavi ng, kni fe-wel di ng war-dancers, regu ar sol di ers, store empl oyees, garment workers i n sum the ri ffraff of anat once chi l di sh and savage popu ation, marched past Mobutu s reviewng stand i n K nshasa (Leopol dvi l l e A frenzy ofenthusi asmwas being rai sed i n preparati on for anythi ng that mght happen when the hi -j acki ng of Mobutu s sol e con-tender for power took place Two paraders carri ed a monster banner showng Mobutu shaki ng hands wth Lumumba Thus

the ti me table was establ i shed Four days l ater Tshombe was kidnapped Mobutu announced that he hadTshombe abductedbecause of advance i nformati on that Tshombewas pl anni ng an upri sing wth the code name Keri l i s, and that Bob Denard

had been i n Madri d to recei ve i nstructi ons for an attack on the ai rport at K sangani (Stanl eyvi l l e)

ON J ULY 5 THE MERCENARES REVOLTED The attack caught Stanl eyvi l l e by surpri se Commandant Brousemche, a former

offi cer i n the Belgi an arm, said, I was wth m fri ends, the Laurent faml y, near the market pl ace when the Congol es

arm started shooti ng at us Madame Laurent was ki l l ed immedi atel y I escaped and hid under the rafters When I cam

out, M Laurent s body was near hi s wfe s, hi s head spl i t open by a bu l et fi red at cl ose range.

APaki stan merchant wth a shattered armand an I ndi an wth blood pouring fromhi s head went to the ol dest doctor i n

Stanl eyvi l l e He tol d them They have stol en al l m i nstruments again.

Whi l e Schrammand Denard were attacki ng Stanl eyvi l l e, another group rai ded the garri son, arm depot andmotor pool i n

Bukavu, capi tal of K vu provi nce, thenwthdrew toward the north Thei r pu l out permttedMobutu to shout vi ctory and

throwa hundred paratroopers i nto the empty town, which ti l l then had suffered no casual ti es Berserk paratroopers

ki l l ed four Europeans and sacked the Belgian consulate

After Denard s departure for Rhodesi a, Schramml oaded the 120 Europeans and some 500 Katangans i nto 27 trucks, and onJ u y 13 headed southward for Puni a, to regroup What fol l owed was the usual story Congolese troops crept back into

Stanl eyvi l l e and, f i ndi ng the pl ace empty, vented thei r rage on anyone they cou d f i nd I ndi scri mnate ki l l i ngs sent

more peopl e fl yi ng to Schrammfor protecti on The Ameri can press descri bed themas hostages . Meanwhi l e, the three

Ameri can C-130Hercu es transport planes were rushi ng i n arm and troops to the Congol ese, whowere by then busy eati n

thei r pri soners Why did we do i t? EDTOR AL RESEARCHREPORTS, compil ed i n Washington, opened a revi ewof U S

government acti vi ti es by stati ng, Wth an i nvestment of more than hal f a bi l l i on dol l ars i n the government of General

J oseph D Mobutu i n the Congo, the Uni ted States has a ri ght to be concerned wth what i s happening there.

On J u y 19 Schrammoffered to negoti ate The Ameri can press said he was l osing and could not hope to wn TIME of J u

21 again sneered at themercenari es ; LI FE of that same date cri ed vi ctory for Mobutu By August 3 the l i d shou d have

been blown sky-hi gh Mobutu s forces had been badly beaten i n a four hour batt l e i n the bush, northwest of Bukavu

sol di ers were throwng away thei r arm As the di sorgani zed horde streamed back i nto Bukavu, some thousand Europeans

became pani c-stri cken Schramms arri val was thei r onl y hope

K l l or capture al l the mercenari es . orderedMobutu, whi l e press reports conti nued to carry stori es of the three

U S A rforce transport planes shuttl i ng l i ght arti l l ery and Congol ese sol di ers i nto the fi ght to try to stop Schramm

before he could rescue the doomed Europeans

UPI on August 8 reported that Schramms col umn had been cut i n twooutside Bukavu by Congol ese sol di ers ai rl i fted to

the battl e by U S A rforce transports Twenty-four hours l ater UPI brought word that the whi te mercenari es were

f i ghti ng desperatel y to break out of a trap set upwhen Ameri can C-130 transport pl anes secretl y f l ewmedi umrange

arti l l ery i n to the Congol ese

Despi te Ameri can aid to the Congolese, whose victorywould face Americawth the necessi ty of ai rl i fti ng a rescue

mssion for the forei gners or watchi ng themgo theway of the I tal i an avi ators whomMobutu s cannibal sol di ers ki l l ed

and parti al l y ate i n 1962, Schrammtook Bukavu and gave Mobutu ten days to reorgani ze hi s government

By that ti me another thousand Katangans had flocked to Schrammfor protecti on, and ten of hi s so-cal l ed mercenari es ha

been ki l l ed Before settl i ng down i n Bukavu, he sent a commando group to rescue the nuns whomMobutu s Congolese were

about to ki l l , before crossing the bri dge i nto Rwanda I f enough of themseek refuge there, Rwanda wl l reap a huge

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Add to the above the fact that U S Ambassador to Madri d, M Angier B ddl e Duke, has for years encouraged anti -whi teterrori sts i n Afri ca and anti -Francopl otters i n Spain, and often saved thei r necks through hi s I nternati onal RescueCommttee (nowsil ent i n the case of Tshombe

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harvest of arm, but face seri ous troubl e f romher guests.

SCHRAMM WTH HS HQ I N THE ROYAL RESIDENCE HOTEL, I N BUKAVU was regarded by l ocal whi tes as a savi or . Wen4 000Katangan gendarmes revolted l ast year, the whi te mercenari es put themdown for Mobutu, sai d Schramm Between fi veand six hundred of the men we disarmed were murdered by Mobutu I coul dn' t go through that agai n

I n K nshasa, Mobutu' s capi tal (formerl y Leopol dvi l l e), rampagi ng mobs attacked the Ameri can, French and Bel gi anembassi es Two Ameri cans were beaten up. Unfortunatel y C Aman Devl i n came out unscathed And Edmund Gul l i on, oneof the archi tects of our debacle i n V etnamand ambassador' to the Congowhen 100 ml l i on i n U S Bonds was put upto hel p f i nance Tshombe s destructi on i n 1962, was safel y back i n Ameri ca i n a professor' s chai r . Each June a cropof students, thei r diplomas conti ngent on thei r subscri bi ng to the hi ghl y questi onabl e views of Professor Gul l i on onAsia and Afri ca, wl l fan out i nto the worl d as j ournal i sts, state department empl oyees, C A recrui ts and Peace

Corprevol uti onari es As of thi s wi ti ng, the 47-year-old Tshombe, whowanted to make the Congo vi abl e, i s si tti ng on a strawmattress i none of Boumedienne' s humd pri sons i n A gi ers One of the few reports al l owed out about hi mi s that he i s suf feri ngf romheart troubl e and stomach pai ns (Tshombe always feared that he woul d be poi soned i n A geri a Wen a voluntarvi si tor there, he ate onl y canned food opened i n hi s presence . Somewhere i n another of Boumedienne' s dungeons, andforgotten, i s Ben Bel l a, over whose del i very to the French i n A gi ers both Ameri ca and the A geri ans were i ndi gnanta bare el even years ago

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MEDTERRANEAN secretari es i n f i l e-packed of f i ces meti cul ousl y i temzed the sal i ent points othe chai n of events :

The f i erce parti sanshi p of CA s man i n Leopol dvi l l e for Mobutu The l i ne between Leopol dvi l l e and Ameri can cover of f i ces i n Liechtenstei n Bodenan, the French hoodl umappears i n Liechtenstei n Bodenan f l i es to Madri d .

Bodenan dangles a pi ece of over-val ued property before Tshombe, to get himon a pl ane

Tshombe i s abducted to A geri a and what l ooks l i ke certain death

Tshombe s foreigners stage a revolt to try to save hi mf rom the Ameri can-backedpresi dent who i s out to execute hi m

The case begins to bui l d up against Ameri ca

At that point three C-130 Ameri can Hercul es cargo pl anes carry arti l l ery andCongolese troops to Mobutu's forces (who admttedl y had j ust eaten severalEuropeans) i n a desperate move to save Mobutu frombei ng pushed i nto a cornerwhere he woul d have to di sgorge Tshombe to save himel f .

The three transport planes cl i nched the case, they and the fact that Wshi ngtonhad so l i t t le conf i dence i n the rabbl e we were bol steri ng that Ameri can para-troopers were al so sent al ong to protect the crews agai nst bei ng eaten The Belgi an newspaper, LA CTE, reported that C Ahad organi zed the pl ot to

spi ri t Tshombe i nto A geri a, agai nst the advice of the State Department The Sunday Express (London) of J ul y 23 cal l ed i t Anact of total barbari sm

addi ng Ameri ca has the moral responsibi l i ty of seei ng that Tshombe not be

assassi nated. Ameri ca i s di rectl y impl i cated i n the Congo I t i s wel l knownthat the government there i s Ameri ca' s puppet They transport troops here and

there i n Ameri can planes Wthout Ameri ca's support Mobutu coul d not l ast a

day Can they real l y permt hi mto extend hi s acti vi ti es across theworl d,

to extermnate hi s pol i ti cal ri val s?

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AFOREIGNAFFARS LETTER

PARS FRANCE

Nasser' s star s on the wane The man to watch - - the man l i kely to start Wrld WarI I I -- s Ageri a' s Boumed enne

The speci al i sts refer to himas Afri ca' sMao.

Egypti an d scontent grewas month after month passed wth 38, 000 sol d ers hopel essl y bogged down n a costl y adventui n Yemen .

Two men were on the ri se i n the shadowof Nasser One, a swarthy, si ni ster fi gure named Ai Sabri, was Nasser' spri ncipal orator agai nst the West at the Bandoeng Conference of a decade ago Now47, he i s Nasser' s l ead ng negoti ator wth Peking and Secretary-General of the Arab Social i st Union, the al l -powerfu party which smashed Nasser' senemes i n the Mosl emBrotherhood Sabri ' s power l i es n the l abor uni ons and hi s Soci al i st Part y which, sometimesabove ground and sometimes bel ow extends al ong the Med terranean to i ts numerous al l i es i n Agiers .

Facing Sabri s 49-year-ol d Zakari a Mohi edd ne, Nasser' s companion i n the p ot that overthrew Farouk Mohi edd ne' spower l i es n the l eft -wng mdd e class, and the rumr that CA and beyond CAAmeri ca, wl l back him n a p nchAdd to th s the fact that he control s the secret servi ce and the pol i ce, s a master p otter and has spes at everyl evel of Egypti an l i fe

Watching events and ready to ti l t the scal es i f necessary are the Russi ans usi ng Aexandri a harbor as a naval base

85 Russi anml i tary techni cians, 475 of themoffi cers, swarmover Aexandri a, and since Podgorny' s recent vi si t some2000 wel l - trai ned Russi an team d l ute the Egypti an armed servi ces

On the economc front chaos rei gns Gone are the profi ts from touri sm S nai oi l and the canal Lack of i nsecti ci detook 80 of the current cotton crop Food rati oni ng sal ary cutbacks and mass unemp oyment presage troubl es ahead

Ms. Ghand , schedu ed to vi si t Cai ro on October 19 could offer no hel p and chances are sl i ght that Bri tai n, whosediplomats Nasser has ki cked out three times n fi fteen years, wl l do much to strengthen the fal l i ng d ctator At thmment, London feel s that Nasser s worried over a possibl e new I srael i off ensi ve, and onl y wants a Bri ti sh ambassadoso he wl l have a wtness when he cri es, Aggressi on.

I T WAS I N 1965 THAT THE CHRSTIANEDUCATEDALI SABR WAS NAMEDHEAD OFTHE ARAB SOCALI ST UNON He reorgani zed i t, bu l t i t up strengthenedi ts cel l s . n I smai l i a he set up an Insti tute of Soci al i st Studies wheryoung Egypti ans debated such questi ons as What i s the d fference betweea revol uti on and a coup-d' etatl

The arm and Egypti an mdd e cl ass were not happy . Tracts began ci rcu ai ng denounci ng A i Sabri ' s nestof communists . Sabri went further anl aunched a youth mvement which Nasser protected

On J une 8, after I srael ' s l i ghtni ng vi ctory, Sabri and Nasser wanted toforestal l an angry revolt by g vi ng arm t o Sabri ' s Youth Mlitia Thearm sai d no. The fol l owng day, on Fri day, June 9, 1967, events came ta head. At 6:30 i n the eveni ng under pressure fromhi s Defense Mni steCham Badrane, General Mortagu of the Arm and S dki Mahmud, hi s A r-force Chi ef of Staff, Nasser went on the ai r and wth a heavy voiceannounced hi s resi gnati on

Thi s the Russi ans could not accept wthout a f i ght I t meant the col l apof ten years of work Khrushchev, aided by Ike and J ohn Foster Du l es,gave Russi a her great opportuni ty at the ti me of the Suez cri si s, i nOctober 1956 NowRussi an cru sers and submari nes anchor n the Red SeaFromDamascus to Cai ro Russian agents are entrenched i n l ocal pol i ti cs,sl owy turning Egypt and Syri a i nto Sovi et satel l i tes Brej nev andKosygin cou d not see Russia' s dreamof mastery of the Med terranean goup n smoke

Tipped off i n advance that the resi gnati on speech was i n the works, Sabri and the Russians spread pol i ti cal agents frothe Arab Soci al i st Uni on -- 40, 000 strong n Cai ro alone - - through the worki ngmen's quarters, sti rri ng up a massdemonstrati on for Nasser . I n vai n the ai rforce p l ots swooped l ow tryi ng to d sperse the crowd I t was no useRussi a won and the offi cers l ost .

THEN THE PURGE STARTED Marshal Zakharov, Moscows V ce Mni ster of Defense and Chief of Staff of the Russi anArm,came up wth an i ntel l i gence report denouncing the Egypti an A rforce Chi ef of Staff, General S dki Mahmud as an agenof Bri ti sh I ntel l i gence Nasser was eager to bel ieve anythi ng of S dki since the huml i ati ng resignati on of J une 9

Next, the Egypti an secret services were charged wth bei ng anti -Russi an The offi cer body -- save those trained n

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Moscow was hel d responsibl e for the defeat Russi an-trained off i cers were mrked for promoti on

ASTAGGERNG EVENT FACLITATEDTHE RUSSIANOFFENSIVE One week before General Moshe Dayan l aunched hi s dri ve to thecanal, Lieutenant Col onel Naguib Mohammd A1 Mohad got i n a j eep and set out for a reconnaissance patrol along theS nai fronti er Wth himwere Major Abdel Nessi Sai d Ahmed Aechi , Captai n Nagui b Mohammd AemAddine and twoEgypti an sol di ers 130 feet i nside the Israel i l i nes they were cal l ed upon to surrender, and smrt war correspondenthereafter sneered at thei r stupi di ty The truth was, Mohad hadbeen a top I srael i spy since 1956 and the offi cerswth himwere on hi s team The bungl ed reconnaissance tri p was thei r way of crossi ng the l ines Wat Mohad andhi sfri ends took to the Israel i s was a complete outl i ne of Cai ro s troop di sposi ti ons, i ncl udi ng the preci ous i nformti othat at 8:30 each morning, i n spi te of the state of al ert, Egypti an pi l ots sti l l took f i fteen mnutes off for breakf

Moscowassured Nasser that i t was Mohad s treachery which permtted the Israel i s to wpe out hi s ai rforce at a singl estroke The gul f between Nasser and the arm i ncreased Mohad, whose real i denti ty i s known on y to General Yari v,

the head of I srael i Arm Intel l i gence, i s now l i ving i n a secret apartmnt i n Tel Aviv The sleepi ng cel l he commandwthi n the Egypti an arm mde Nasser suspi cious of everyone The damge to Egypti an presti ge was enormous

Though Russi an mteri el fl ows i n to repl ace that destroyed by the Israel i bl i tz, Nasser has had hi s fi ngers burned

Nowhi s seemng rel uctance to fi ght provi des the opportuni ty Ageri a s Colonel Haouri Boumdi enne has l ong been wai tiIsrael s refusal to gi ve up the terri tory she occupied gave Boumdienne hi s batt l e cry Israel i s expansi oni st Aramust l aunch the j ehad now or be dispossessed pi ecemal

_BOUMEDENNE S REASONNG I S REALISTIC The Mosl emwho takes the l ead against Israel wll automti cal l y becom the

fuhrer of the Arab world On y Morocco, on Boumdienne s western f l ank, presents real resistance Morocco has to bebrought i nto l i ne, so a hate camai gn i s being stepped up to i nfl am the Moroccan msses wth charges that thei r king

i s protecti ng the J ews Thi s, after the weal thy J ews i n Morocco were stri pped of thei r propert i es, i s to som extent

i n Back Afri ca

Ol , natural gas and foreign aid are hi s pri ncipal resources for the momnt Hs eyes are on Amri ca s oi l hol di ngs

i n the Arab world European anal ysts see Boumdienne not as a l i on but as a fox Hs pati ence i s i nfi ni te, and hi s

tal ent for treachery and ruse i s developed to the nth degree

By grace of the support which America gave the Ageri an FLN Russi a i s now i n positi on to becom the second greatest

naval power i n the Medi terranean and a mjor war i s not out of questi on North Afri ca, which gave France the depth

fromwhich the comback for reconquest of Europe was l aunched, i s nowa conti nual communist l and mss, turni ng Europe

f l ank, envel opi ng Europe i n the gi ant Sovi et bear-hug that extends fromthe Bal ti c to the Medi terranean and now the

Atl anti c HowAgeri a cam to be added to thi s scimtar-curve of hosti l e nati ons i s part of a story of twenty-two

years of treachery or stupi di ty i n hi gh pl aces which the Amri can publ i c shou d be to d

FROMPROTEGE TO ENEMY I N 13 YEARS I t i s di f f i cul t to say who di d mst to fomnt the bl oody mssacre of Frenchmn on

November 1954, which started the Ageri an war Russi an agents or Amri can l abor s revol uti on-sower, M I rvi ng

Brown The seeds were pl anted when Amri can troops occupied North Afri ca i n Wrl dWar I I Lieutenant Colonel Robert

Esmt Rhodes was head of the North Afri ca secti on of our wartim Ofi ce of Strategi c Servi ces (OSS) at that tim By

J une 1955 Rhodes was proclaimng i n an offi ci al bul l eti n of the AFL-CO that the free nati ons shoul d i ntervene i n

North Afri ca, on the si de of the Ageri ans

French col oni al despoti smi s a mnace to the cause of the Wstern A l i ance i n North Afri ca, j ust as i t was i n Indo-

China wote Rhodes The reasoni ng was specious Only a mn bent on destroying the Wstern A l i ance would ever hav

approved of the mddl i ng of which we were gui l ty i n both areas unl ess he were an utter foo

Obviousl y Rhodes was not speaki ng for himel f alone, because the pol i cy he advocated was adopted Fromthat momnt

America was stil l France s al l y i n Europe, against a hypotheti cal Russi andri ve that was unl i kel y to com, since

Russi a preferred conquest by subversi on I n North Afri ca Amri ca was France s enem, supporti ng the mn whonowseem

mst li kely to tri gger the Wst s destructi on The NATOal l i ance was doomd

Mchael Cark, NewYork Tims correspondent, was recal l ed fromAgeri a for tryi ng to tel l hi s readers the truth abou

the revol uti onari es Amri ca was supporti ng Later, i n hi s book, A geri a i n Turmoi l , C ark to d howour l abor uni on

arsoni st, Irvi ng Brown, l u l ed the fears of the Internati onal Brotherhood of E ectri cal Wrkers, at a dinner i n the

Wldorf -Astori a i n 1957 The el ectri cal workers had grave doubts about the atti tude of an i ndependent Ageri a toward

Israel After al l , the Ageri ans were Arabs

Brown pooh-poohed the fears of the el ectri ci ans by tel l i ng themthat he had di rected Ageri an energies away fromthe

destructi ve path of Arab nati onal i smand i nto demcrati c channel s I n pl ai n Engl i sh The Ageri ans and thei r known

or unknowng pro-communist accompli ces conned a gul l i bl e Amri ca i nto thi nki ng that, i n return for ai d i n forcing

surrender i n France, Free Ageri a would pl ead Israel s case wth the Arab world

I n J une 1957 the Ageri an revol t was on the verge of col l apsing when Reuther andMeany got up at a l abor conference

i n Tuni s to provide the encouragemnt necessary to mke the men i n the fi el d conti nue f i ghti ng whi l e thei r l eaders

l i ved i t up i n safety Aweek l ater Senator J ohn F Kennedy spoke for Amri ca and hi s Senate Forei gn Affai rs Commt

Kennedy to d the Ageri ans to ho d firm not to gi ve up he was sure that i n the end they would have thei r i ndependen

Whi l e Brownwas msleadi ng hi s el ectri ci ans, NewYork Tims correspondent J oseph Kraft and Abdel kader Chanderl i , the

Ageri an terrori st representati ve i n UN were cooki ng up a guided tour for Kraft wth the troops i n the fi el d. Th

true The king i s expected to wthdrawhi s protecti on fromthe J ews that remin as ameasure to save himel f

Across the pol i ti cal tabl e Boumdi enne i s wnning Hs pri nci pal spokesmn, wl y Boutefl i ka, pays for such aid as

China can gi ve Ageri a by pl eadi ng the cause of Peking Tshombe s i ncarcerati on i n an Ageri an pri son an act of

pi racy which nei ther U Thant nor UNas a body has dei gned to condemn -- has strengthened the Ageri an col onel s hand

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i s reason to bel i eve that this hol i day wth the A geri an FLNwhich got Kraft the 1959 award of the Overseas Press Cuof NewYork, was not i n A geri a at al l but i n Tuni si a, wth Kraft not knowng the di fference

I nstructi ons taken from the body of a dead A geri an near the Tuni si an border told how the vi si ti ng j ournal i st shouldbe treated, emphasi zi ng the pro-I srael b as of hi s important paper and the necessi ty of constant reassurances that thheroi c A geri ans had no interest i n the Arab war agai nst I srael A l A geri a wanted was an i ndependent, democrati cstate. Translati ons of the A geri an i nstructi on sheet were wdely di stri buted, but never sawpri nt i n any Ameri canpaper, news magazi ne or agency di spatch

The ease wth which the most astute busi nessmen on earth were taken i n by a group of uneducated terrori sts shouldperpl ex future hi stori ans and psychol ogi sts al i ke Men who woul d not have bought a goat from the wly A geri ans

wthout wtnesses, guarantees and a si gned statement froma veteri nary del i vered a nati on i nto thei r hands and thecapaci ty for i gni ti ng a war

CUBA ENTERS THE PICTURE I f there was any doubt that our press, State Department, C Aand l abor l eaders were knowngbacking communi st implanati on i n North Afri ca, i t should have been di spel l ed by the famous March 1960 Ageri an mssito Cuba . I n earl y March Ameri can Ambassador Bonsai l eft Havana for Wshington on a trip that had al l the earmarks oa timel y pl anned absence The moment he left Havana, FLN representati ve to UN Abdelkader Chanderl i , fl ew i n Therewas no secret about i t EL MOUDAHD the off i ci al paper of the A geri an rebel s, splashed detai l s of the newFLN-Cubaccord over i ts front page of March 31, 1961, accompanied by a photo of Castro and Chanderl i

A l efti st edi tor named Quincy Howe repri nted EL MOUDAHDS propaganda stori es i n hi s ATLAS Magazi ne, and, though i tmeans The Fighter, descri bed hi s source as moderate EL MOUDAHD.

Wthin UN an Ameri can l efti st named J ay Lovestone, who i s supposed to have l eft the Ameri can Communi st Party i n the' 30s over a di spute as to whether Leni n or Trotsky was Marx's true hei r, represented the AFL-C O Lovestone scurri edthrough the l ong hal l s of the gl ass bui l di ng on NewYork' s East Rver, regimenti ng Afri can votes behind the A geri ans

On December 1, 1960, he wote the representati ve of communi st Mal i ' s l eader, Modibo Kei ta, promsing AFL-C O support

for Afri ca' s revol uti onari es and cal l i ng for a massi ve Afri can request that UNdi rect a piebi sci te i n A geri a whi chsaid M Lovestone, could only hasten A geri an i ndependence and serve the cause of world peace.

THE NEWLEADER Ameri can l abor' s pol i ti cal j ournal , prai sed to the ski es theA geri an rebel s, to f i nance whomuni oni z

workers were being shaken down Fromthe NewYork Times i n the east to the Los Angel es Times i n the west, one messag

was dri ven home A French surrender woul d clear the way to an i dyl l i c world The A geri ans at Bone di d not di e i

vai n, a Los Angeles Times columni st, named Pol yzoides, told hi s readers

A great octopus known as the I NTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FREE TRADE UNONS (ICFTU) met i n Brussels fromMarch 3 to 17

1961 Thi s i s the uni on-of-uni ons through which Ameri ca's AFL-CO the gang that has the money, meddles i n the in-

ternal pol i ti cs of some 117 countri es, and, by pul l i ng the str i ngs i n those countri es, dabbl es i n diplomacy

The press rel eases that came out of the Brussel s sessi on never reached the Ameri can publ i c i n general , but they

brought hope to Afri cans fromA geri a to Ghana i n thei r march toward savagery and an A geri an vi ctory . AFL-C Ohad

agreed to turn over 3,250,000 of Ameri can l abor dues at once to fi nance the ICFTUs (Read AFL-COs) i nternati ona

acti vi ty for the second trimester of 1961 Another 220,000was thrown i n to clear up the previ ous tri mester' s

backlog, and an addi ti onal 3t per month contri buti on (as though i t were voluntary) woul d be extorted fromeach AFL-

C Omember for the next six to ni ne months, wth the understandi ng that the total woul d not exceed 18 cents perperson. Mul ti pl y 18 by the 14 to 16 ml l i on workers AFL-C O cl aimed to be presenti ng, and the A geri ans got a l ot

of pennies

Whi l e thi s was goi ng on French booklets showng A geri an atroci ti es were barred from the Ameri can mai l s Harl ems

B ack Eagl e Hubert Jul i an -- was crossing the Atl anti c wth ml l i on dol l ar checks for A geri an arm purchases An Ameri can cal l i ng hi mel f Ahmed Kamal (hi s real name, Cmarron Hathaway) was rai sing contri buti ons from the now

despoi l ed oi l magnates who feared to be on Arab books as having refused, and Mennen Soapy Wl l i am was encouragi ng

the throat-cutters for our State Department Soapy, as Under Secretary of State for Afri can Affai rs, went to the

4th I nternati onal Labor Conference, i n Forest Park, Pennsylvani a, on May 29, 1961 There he got up on the pl atform

and said

Ameri ca's attachment to l i berty i s clear and unambiguous Htherto the Afri cans have asked i f Ameri ca i s going to

fol l owher revol uti onary tradi ti ons or i f, i nstead, we are going to l et ourselves be guided exclusi vel y by our

al l i ances wth the col oni al i st countri es . He assuredhi s audi ence that we would be agai nst our al l i es, and added

Our own l abor uni ons have furni shed support, both moral and materi al , to the young l abor unions of Afr i ca, ei ther

di rectl y or through thei r i ntermedi ary, THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNONS . (Transl ated fromthe 6-page bookl et i n French di str i buted i n Afri ca by the U S I nformati on Servi ce.

Thus our NATOal l i es were i nformed that, should confl i ct ari se between themand vi ol ent Afri cans, Ameri ca' s weight

would be thrown agai nst her al l i es A short ti me later J ay Lovestone l eft hi s post i n UN to become head of the

Forei gn Affai rs Secti on of the AFL-C O I rvi ng Brown became AFL-COs ambassador to the I CFTU and ICFTUs del egate

to UN Possi bi l i ti es for future troubl e-maki ng were unl imted

THE PROALGERA MACHNE I N AMER CAWAS ALL-POWERFUL From the pages of TIME Magazine, Edward Behr gl ori fi ed the

A geri ans and smeared thei r enemes J oe Kraft championed the FLNcause i n the NewYork Times and Saturday Evening

Post Margueri te Hggins pai nted themas heroes i n syndi cated col umns and the N Y Herald Tri bune Ani ta Ehrman

and her fri ends turned the Hearst press i nto a propaganda organ TV and radi o commentators repeated the Moscow

l i ne on A geri an rebel s wth the monotony of a commerci al

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A hi gh point was CBS' documntary of J anuary 26, 1962, which showed bad Europeans murderi ng good Mosl em, whi l e

f asci st off i cers wai ted i n the wngs, ready to destroy France i f the good Moslem shou d tri umph Today CBSauthori ty David Schoenbrunn i s tel l i ng Ameri cans that Ho chi Mnh, hi s guest of other years, woul d have been our f ri ehadwe kept on supporti ng him I n 1962 Schoenbrunn was f l yi ng between Pari s andWshington, sel l i ng Amri ca theA geri an cause CA Nati onal Student Associ ati on, professors, l abor uni ons, USIS and State Departmnt formd acoal i ti on to whitewash Ageri a s Reds

I n our Moroccan embassy a Bri ti sh-born l i beral namedWll i amPorter, who had been furtheri ng Arab mvemnts f romi nside Amri can consul ates and embassi es ever si nce he got hi s natural i zati on papers, was working li ke a beaver toadvance the Free A geri a to which he was to becom ambassador when a thousand Ageri ans a day, whowanted no partof M Porter' s fri ends, were f l eei ng the country (M Porter' s l ast post costl y to Ameri ca was Sai gon.

Looki ng back on the fol l y of those days, a formr I srael i offi cer ref l ected, i n J ul y, 1967, i n I srael , si x yearsago, al l you heard was what a hel p Ageri a would be after i ndependence.

By Apri l 24, 1967, som 10,000 A geri an students were rampagi ng through the streets of A gi ers, smshi ng wndows i nthe U S Cu tural Center and burning Presi dent J ohnson i n eff i gy to cri es of Ameri can ki l l ers' J ohnson ki l l er

Georges Bade] wote i n Pari s weekly CARREFOUR of August 2, 1967, The Amri cans are payi ng today for the errors theycommtted i n bl i ndl y supporti ng the subversi on Moscow fomnted and armed around the world. Joe Kraft, however, was

sti l l prai si ng De Gaul l e i n hi s synd cated col umn (Septemer 15, 1967) for hi s pol i ti cal courage i n forcing a settl emnt i . e abandonmnt of Ageri a), despi te the worst kind of j i ngoi sti c pressure fromhi s ml i tary advisors and

pol i ti cal supporters .

Ageri a at that momnt was cal l i ng for reopeni ng the war agai nst I srael Russi ans were i nstal l i ng mssi le si tes i n

themountains behi nd the coast and prepari ng to mve i nto the great naval base of Mers-el -Kebi r which the Evian

Treaty (si gned against the advice of the general s Kraft despi ses) agreed to l et France use t i l l 1977 Truckloads of

A geri an arm rol l ed across Libya, Egyptbound Bri tai n and Amri ca were requested to evacuate the costl y bases they

had bu l t i n Libya as soon as possi bl e

I t i s hard to unsel l a publ i c that has been purposely duped by experts Back i n NewYork Amri cans conti nued to f i l e

past a ti cket wndowand pay money for a chance to sit enthral l ed through a pro-A geri an propaganda f i lmcal l ed THE

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THE POUNDSTERLING

Theword pound, obviousl y, refers to a uni t of wei ght

Sterl i ng i s derived fromthe old French, estrel i n, sometimes wi tten estrel i n, which i n turn came fromthe Angl o-Saxon term easterl i ngTh s was the name gi ven to traders fromthe Hanseati c ports and the LowCountri es, the men of theEast .

In 1964, for purel y el ectoral advantages, M Harold Wl son, Bri tai n' s present Pri meMn ster, ci r-culated exaggerated reports on his country s trade defi ci t and started the undermningwhich even-tual l y destroyed confi dence i n Bri tai n' s money Wlson' s demagoguery carri ed his party i nto power,but the pound never recovered

There was nothing ori gi nal about th s typi cal soci al i st- l abor fi nancial treason for pol i ti cal gai n

Four years earl i er an equal l y unpri ncipl ed Ameri can pol i ti ci an had used a ri gged pol l , tending to showthat European

conf i dence i n Ameri cawas sl umping, as an argument for h s own el ecti on Certain y i t was sl umping, but onl y because

of pol i ci es which Kennedy and his i l k had imposed And cryi ng fromthe housetops that confi dence i n Ameri ca was on

the skids was as mortal a bl ow to European conf i dence i n Ameri can l eadersh p as Wlson' s ranting over the pound s

weakness was to confi dence i n his country' s banknotes

In October, 1964, when Wlson and hi s teamrode thei r anti -pound campai gn i nto power, somethinghad to be done todelay the accounti ng which putti ng pol i ti cs before nati on hadmade i nevi tabl e Themental i ty of Chamberl ain s

Peace i n our time rode again

The al ternati ve to removal of the cancer was a 1000ml l i on l oan fromthe Internati onal Monetary Fund, which serves

as a sort of supranati onal bank for UN (See H du B Reports for J anuary 1966) The l ast 250 ml l i on of the

Internati onal Monetary Fund s 1964 grant of borrowed time was due to be paid on December 2 1962 As November

approached, M Wlson and hi s mni sters conti nued to dismss deval uati on as a di rtyword Endlessly they deni ed

the possi bi l i ty that Bri tai nmght consider reneg ng on her debts, which i s what deval uati on entai l s

The Dai ly Telegraph (London Nov. 20, 1967) estimated that Wlson and hi s mn sters had deni ed at l east twenty times i n

thei r thi rt y-seven months i n power that the poundwould ever be deval uated

THE LESSONAMERCANSMGHT LEARNFROMTHEWLSONEXPERENCE IS Bri tain has never had a Labor Government for more

than four years wthout sufferi ng a devaluati on of the pound The three peace-time deval uati ons of th s century have

fol l owed on two, four and three years of Labor Party rul e The onl y Labor Government which d d not bring devaluati on

as an i nevi tabl e by-product was the f i rst Ramey MacDonald government, and then onl y because the government fel l less

than a year after assumng power I n 1929 MacDonald came back on a promse to set ri ght what he cal l ed years ofTory (Conservati ve) msmanagement .

In earl y 1931 confi dence i n the pound sterl i ng began to pl ummet By md-J ul y the si tuationwas dangerous ALabor

Chancel l or of the Exchequer namedPhi l i p Snowden hel d the pound s fate in hi s hands I nstead of bal ancing the books,

Labor elected to formwhat was cal l ed a Nati onal Government and spread the blame The bank rate was raised twce

wthi n a week to a f i nal resting place of 4-1/2Y and the Bank of England attempted to stemthe ti de by going i nto

the foreign exchange market I t was no use The poundwas slashed by a quarter Th s by menwho had been elected

on the promse that theywoul d sol ve probl em and get th ngs done

BY 1949 BRTANWAS BACK INTHE SAME SPOT WTHANOTHER LABORCHANCELLOR Th s ti m i t was Si r Stafford Cri pps, the

manwho i n 1932 defended Ho ch Mnh against a French demand for hi s extradi ti on fromHong Kong Because of Cri pps'

extreme Lefti st l eani ngs, he was the emssary Bri tai n sent to Russi a to try to enl i st Stal i n on the si de of the al l i e

i n 1939 Even i n th s he fai l ed, and the von Rbbentrop pact betweenMoscowand Berl i n was si gned

At war s end Lord Keynes, among other fal se prophets, eagerl y assured Bri tain and the worl d that Bri ti sh exports

would ri se qui ckl y, that ful l converti bi l i ty of the poundwould be attai ned i n two and ahal f years That th s was

impossibl e shoul d have been apparent, for the Labor government had bought the votes which brought i t i nto power by

maki ng sui cidal promses to l abor Fromthe fi rst i t was the party of devaluati on

In md-July, 1949, i t was clear that Bri ti shmachine tool s and other export i tem were 30-40%hi gher than those of th

Uni ted States Cri pps, who had become both Chancell or of the Exchequer andMni ster of Economc Affai rs, ducked the

i ssue by taki ng off for Swtzerl and for a si x-week rest, rather than tel l Bri ti sh workmen they had pri ced thei r

country out of theworldmarket

Th s left Harold Wlson, h s Presi dent of the Board of Trade, i n charge As Wlson' s biographer put i t, He si gned

the ch ts to sel l the gol d reserve. I t has an omnous ri ng to Ameri cans who are being tol d today that the dol l ar

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no gol d backing By the time Cri pps returned the wheel s of deval uati on were i n moti on n the afternoon of Sunday, September 18, Cri pps summoned Churchi l l , then l eader of theopposi ti on, to i nformhimofthe deci si on Churchi l l ' s reacti on was a resounding attack on Cri pps and the soci al i sts That evening at 9 P.Mri pps stood before themcrophone, wth Harol d Wlson stoi cal l y puffi ng a pi pe beside him to tel l a stunned and

Bri tai n that, after sweari ng n ne times that he would never deval uate, he was cutti ng the currency i nwhi chthei r l i f e savings and pensi ons were stored by 30. 5%

t was 18 years after Bri tai n' s fi rst peacetime deval uati on By 1964 the Bri ti sh el ectorate had forgotten And thebor-Social i sts had never learned

N 1961 HAROLDWLSON DECLARED that further deval uati onwould be regarded al l over the world as an acknowedgement offeat Yet every Labor move tended to hasten such a defeat Howardentl y the Kennedy Admni strati on desired a

government i n Bri tai n and the ri se of Wl l i Brandt i n Germany, Bri tai n' s conservati ves never understood Evenuentin Hogg came out against Goldwater i n 1964, and in so doi ng hel ped hi s own party s enemes

en Wl son basedhi s 1964 campaign on attacks against management and capi tal i smhe i gnored the fact that i nternati onali gh fi nance today ri des the soci al i st wave An 800mll i on pound defi ci t greetedWlson when hi s party took over i n

Wlson bl amed i t on the Conservati ves and proceeded to adverti se hi s di l emma to the world

n the evening of November 24, 1964, l ess than amonth after Johnson s vi ctory i n Ameri ca, the pound hovered on theri nk of the abyss I nternati onal bankers came i n to save i t, andWlson knewfromthat moment on that i nternati onal

i nancewoul d not work against a l abor government I n May, 1965, he cal l ed on the I nternati onal Monetary Fund again,ather than face the fact that soci al i st claptrap i s i ncompati bl e wth a heal thy econom He remai ned a l eft-wng

ol i ti ci an rather than an economst

REASONS OF THE LATEST CRSIS ONLY TONAMEAFEW SHOULDHAVE BEEN OBVOUS Labor' s animosi ty toward pri vaterofi t prevented i t fromwnning the support of i ndustri al i sts, on whommuch of nati onal prosperi ty depends I nstead,

s in Ameri ca, the trend was to rai se taxes, which i n turn ki l l ed i n ti ati ve Redi stri buti on of weal th rather than

ansi on remained the party s aim Hgher pensi ons were used to buy pol i ti cal support , at the cost of hi gher growh he bl ocki ng of wage hi kes was rejected Everywhere social i smclashedwth economcs Wth every el ecti on Labor

ntinued to l ose seats, andWlson' s remedywas to prol i ferate offi ces and overl oad the government payrol l

ne of Labor s stupidest moves was Wlson' s l evel l i ng of sancti ons against Rhodesi a and South Afri ca, for purel y

ol i ti cal reasons, to court a vi ndi cti ve Left which wl l never be sati sfi ed, though i ts demands rui n the country xports to Rhodesi a droppedby 31 ml l i on pounds I t was a l uxury the pound couldnot afford efusal to sel l defensi vearmament to South Afri ca caused Bri tain to l ose 20 ml l i on pounds i n 1966 Nasser' s closure

f Suez cost Bri tai n an immediate 20 ml l i on pounds Then came the seven-weeks dockers' stri ke at London and Liver-

at the moment when currency fromexports was most sorely needed Bri tain s trade defi ci t for October fel l to a

ecord 107 ml l i onpounds 100ml l ion pounds of that defi ci t was due to the l oss of forei gn sal es because of the

ckers' stri ke alone The dockers, had they wshed, mght have provi ded the poundwth a chance for survi val

ri tai n s pound sterl i ng was an i nternati onal reserve currency because other countri es used i t to sett l e thei r

bl i gati ons Some 15,000 ml l i on pounds were i n ci rcul ati on around the worl d The range of the fl uctuati ons wth

hi ch the Bank of England had to contend was tremendous Since Bri ti shworkers, by thei r exorbi tant demands and

l dcat stri kes, and government, by i ts crushi ng tax system were pri cing Bri tai n out of competi ti ve trade, someher means had to be found to make forei gn exchange avai l abl e

ri ti sh bank adverti sements beganappeari ng i n foreign papers LOMBARDBANK NG Ltd. was an example 6%interest

he deposi tor would have peace of mnd; i nterest, i f desired, would be automati cal l y credi ted and compounded No

ri ti sh i ncome taxwould be deducted and the deposi tor' s own country would knownothi ng about the account

owmany trusti ng forei gners converted thei r money i nto pounds i n such accounts to beat tax system at home andwere

dl ed by deval uati on, there i s noway of knowng

attempts to stave off the debacle were feebl e and i nsuffi cient On Fri day, November 17, over 300ml l i on pounds

orth of the Bank of England s gol d and dol l ar reserves were passed over the counter to buypounds that no one el se

ould accept, but there efforts to restore confi dence stopped Specul ators had recei ved advancenoti ce and cost

ri tain an estimated bi l l i on pounds i n thei r rush to sel l the pound short

he cycle was complete Another eighteen years had passed since Cri pps, acti ng as aworld banker, had decimatedhi s

eposi tors' accounts i n 1949 From$2. 80 thepound fel l to i ts newl owof $2. 40 and bank rates i n Bri tain rose to

n al l -ti me hi gh of 8% The corporati on tax j umped fromi ts al ready i ni ti ati ve-ki l l i ng 40 to a stil l more murderous

2-1/2 Stri kingdock workers stil l refused to negoti ate a settl ement ri tai n i s very, very si ck Her Bri ti shMajesty mght wel l say, Lord, God of Hosts, be wth us once more W forgot,

e forgot

OURTEEN MONEYS SOON FOLLOWEDBRTAN I N DEVALUATION Cyprus, Spai n, Denmark, I srael , I rel and, J amai ca, former Bri ti sh

uiana, Bermuda and the Bahamas, Malaw, Mauri ti us, Mal ta, Mal aysi a, NewZealand andHong Kong Actual l y they were

down i n the vortex created by Bri tai n s founderi ng, a founderi ng i deal l y descri bed by the excel l ent R J

shdoonynewsl etter of June 19, 1967 (22816 Oxnard St Wodland Hl ls, Cal i f . 91364)

Deval uati on, wi tes Reverend Rushdoony, i s aproduct of controls and soci al i sm The vast i ncrease i nmoney

pl y wth paper money does not change the fact that the basic money i s gol d The pri nti ng press treasury wants

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to say that its money i s sti l l ' as good as gold, ' but peopl e begin to showthei r fears andprefer gold To devaluei s to confess that the paper mney i s fai l i ng, and thi s treasuri es hesi tate to do Devaluati on i s si mpl y one ofthe consequences of mral deval uati on.

WTHTHE POUNDS FALL THEDOLLARWASNEXT INTHE LINE OF FIRE Li ke Wl son (even after the deci si on to slash thepoundhadbeen taken), J ohnsonannounced that Ameri cawould never devaluate A sel f- sati sfi ed De Gaul l e observed, I have never seen a devaluati on anywhere that up to the l ast mnute was not deni ed j ust as categori cal l y.

Europeans on the conti nent rushed to hedge by buyi ng the precious mtal , whichBri tons andAmri cans are forbiddenby l awto own (Foreign offi ci al s control l i ng the gol d mrkets are requested to report to the Amri can andBri ti shgovernmnts i f thei r nati onal s attemt to buy gol d.

Like Wlson, Johnsonpl ayed pol i t i cs anddefi ed economcs

I nstead of hal ti ng our gol d hemrrhage by cutti ng foreignai d, parasiti c agenci es andbri bes to voters whomke poverty a vocation, Johnsonhi ked bank rates andcal l ed forhi gher taxes, whi l e i n Pari s De Gaul l e mrshal l ed hi s forces for an attack on the dol l ar

DE GAULLE S POSITION A fourth of the Wst' s gol d i s stocked i n France O France' s 6000ml l ionreserves, 90%(at 175 francs per ounce) i s i n gold bul l i on, so France has l i t t l e to l ose by ei ther a Wlson or a Johnsondefaul t

ADe Gaul l e demnd for gold reimursemnt of Amri can bank notes i n French vaul ts coul d consti tute a fatal run onthe dol l ar And i n the ul ti mte reckonng there i s no ground for hope that the governmnts that fol l owhimwl l bemre considerate Monsi eur GuyMol let, Secretary General of the French Social i st Party, mde a somer predi cti on,though hi s own party i s co-operati ng wth the commni sts i n what M Mtterand cal l s a Federati on of the Left SaysMol let, There i s no doubt about i t The governmnt that wl l fol l owDe Gaul l e wl l be a supranati onal one, basedon theCommn Market After a bri ef preparati on peri od the French Commni st s wl l l aunch a drive against the CommnMarket Six. I t wl l be part of a European Commn st dri ve to take over Western Europe by sei zing the supranati onalgovernmnt which De Gaul l e' s successors wl l package

The present chain of events my be sai d to have started when Amri ca, at the end of WorldWar II , used her l eadershi p

to hasten the destructi on of theworldonwhi ch our al l i es based thei r pol i ti cal and economc existence

That Wshington feared the resul ts of a drop i n the poundwas evident when Amri ca offeredan el eventh hour l oan of 500ml l i on i f other nati ons of the Bg Tenwoulddo l i kewse The Bg Ten i s composed of Belgi um Bri tai n, Canada,

France, Germny, I tal y, J apan, theNetherl ands, Sweden andtheU S -- wth Swtzerland si tti ng i n as an observer

and l i nking the Tenwth the Basel Bank for I nternati onal Settl emnt, a groupwhi ch i ncludes the Bg Ten p us

Swtzerl and and Austri a (See H du B Reports, J anuary, 1966.

De Gaul l e pretended to oppose Bri tain s deval uati on, going so far as to taci tl y threaten that France would devaluate

al so i f Wl son were to l ower the pound But he refused to hel p hal t the col l apse unl ess Wlson wouldagree to permt

hi s saviors to com i n andexamne the books; i n sum to operate Bri tainmch as a group of recei vers would runa

bankrupt fi rm Wl son darednot accept, for i nternal pol i ti cal reasons MNUTE, the Pari s weekl y of Novemer 23,

1967, reported that De Gaul l e hadmde Bri tain an al ternati ve proposi ti on support for the pound i f Bri tai nwould

share her atomc secrets wth France Thi s Wl son couldnot accept wthout burn ng hi s bri dges i n Wshington

The contrast between France' s att i tude of Septemer 1964 (See H du B Reports, October 1964) andnowi s i nteresti ng

J ohnsonwas fi ghti ng Goldwater for the presidency Nei ther De Gaul l e nor Russi a wanted to seeGoldwater wn So,

i n the ten days between Septemer 7 andSeptemer 17, 1964, the Banque de Pari s et des Pays Bas grabbedup but dd

not demnd gold for 70,000,000 thrown on the European mrket The bank' s weekl y statemnt said, I t was a mve to

aid the dol l ar .

Sovi et gold sal es andpurchases i n France were hand ed through Banque de Pari s et des Pays Bas and conservati ve

European anal ysts sawthi s tying up of 70,000,000 i na transacti on that bore no i nterest, save a pol i ti cal one, as

a Moscow l oan, wth Pari s approval , to i nsure J ohnson against a run on the dol l ar t i l l the el ecti on was ci nched

Today De Gaul l e has chosen the mmnt of the pounds coll apse and the dol l ar' s exposedposi ti on to announce that as

far back as l ast J une France wthdrewfromthe seven-nati on secret pool (Amri ca, Bel gi um France, I tal y, Hol l and,

GermnyandSwtzerl and) which unti l then had co-operated i n protecti ng mmer currencies against fl uctuati ons caused

by speculati on

Secretary of the Treasury Fower' s repl y to al l thi s, i n Wshi ngton, was a kn fe i n the back of world confi dence i n

the dol l ar Sai d he, The possibi l i ty of abandonng gold backi ng for the dol l ar i s under considerati on

THEATTITUDE OF THECOMMUNSTWORLDwas nothing i f not paradoxical Whi l e stil l condeming Ameri ca as the fortress

ofcap tal i st imperi al i sm even whi l e Ameri ca' s l i beral economsts tal k of throwng out gol d backing al together,

Commn st Hungary announced i n md-Novemer that, for the fi rst tim i n twenty years, Hungari angold coi ns wl l mke

thei r appearance i n J anuary 1968 Thi s i s i nterpreted as part of a bidby the commnst bl oc to seize the i ni ti ati ve

i nworld trade and repace the poundand the dol l ar as meda of i nternati onal exchange

Russi an economsts announced that Russi a expects to becom the chief producer of mnetary gol d before 1988 The

state-owned MoscowNarodny Bank, which handes mst of Russi a' s gol d transacti ons abroad, reported i n md-October,

1967 that eventhough there i s no rise i n gol d pri ces to mke the expl oi tati on of Russi a' s present mnes profi tabl e,

thenewfi el ds di scovered i n the Sovi et Unonwl l boost Russi a to the head of the gold-producing nati ons, i nclud ng

South Afri ca, i n the next twenty years.

Russi an economsts reason that Ameri ca's refusal to rai se gol d pri ces above the present 35 per ounce i s due to

rel uctance to seeRussi a and South Afri ca reap a wndfal l That being the case, Russi a has decided to defy Ameri ca

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Despi te convict i e sl ave) l abor, some Russi an gol d i s esti mated to cost 100 per ounce to produce The deci sionto push ahead i s i ndi cati on of a l ong-range f i nanci al pol i cy B untl y, Moscowknows that unbacked currency can nevercompete wth currency backed by gol d as a mediumof i nternati onal payments Si nce gol d-mning i n the non-Social i stcountri es i s done on a commerci al basis and mst permt a prof i t at the Ameri can pri ce, Russi a i s betti ng that totalnon-Social i st gol d producti on wl l f al l to one-sixth of i ts present 1,440,000ml l i on per year i n the next twentyyears and that South A rica' s producti on wl l drop as l owas 150,000,00 per year by 1974 The rubl e wl l then l eadthe fi el d FINANC AL RETREAT I S REFLECTED I N THE WORLDPOLI TICAL PI CTURE Wi le western power recedes i n pace wth westerncurrencies, Russi an naval forces are getti ng ready for a great l eap forward i n the Medi terranean

Mers-el -Kebi r,North Afri ca' s greatest deep water base, known to the Romans as Port Dvi ne, wl l soon, wth i ts ten mles ofFrench-constructed underground bomb-proof gal l eri es and mles of deepwater docks, become the home port of Russia' sMedi terranean fl eet Thi s cannot fai l to have further pol i ti cal and economc repercussions i n Wstern Europe

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