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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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| 48. | U.S. looks at intelligence reports linking USSR to Ho Chi Minh and requests information on relative strength outside contacts of Vietnam communists. Clayton 241 to Saigon. 9 September 1946 | 79 |
| 49. | Caffery reports on visit of Ho Chi Minh just prior to signing, modus vivendi; Ho declares he is not a communist. Caffery 6131 to Byrnes. 11 September 1946 | 79 |
| 50. | U.S. is informed by French of increased communist activities in French Indochina, chiefly Chinese Communist entrenchment in Saigon and Haiphong. Agencies outside of Indochina are supplying propaganda. Reed 374 to Byrnes, 17 September 1946 | 80 |
| 51. | Caffery reports signing of modus vivendi and that Ho Chi Minh obtained satisfaction on many points, but French would have liked to include definition of Vietnam relations to Indochinese Federation and French Union. Caffery 4671 to Byrnes, 17 September 1946 | 80 |
| 52. | Saigon views "amicable" meeting of Ho Chi Minh and High Commissioner in light of belief that "French Communists desire soft-pedal communist trends in Vietnam for political reasons" prior to elections. Reed 411 to Byrnes, 19 October 1946 | 82 |
| 53. | Ho Chi Minh informs the U.S. that effectiveness of modus vivendi depends on France, fighting would not stop unless French applied the agreement, and that Cochin-China "must be united to Vietnam." O'Sullivan 96 to Byrnes, 25 October 1946 | 82 |
| 54. | Contact between Vietnam and Chinese Communists is apparent, but the presence of Chicoms as advisors in the provinces is difficult to verify. Reports of Chinese in Haiphong are regarded with suspicion. O'Sullivan 101 to Byrnes, 1 November 1946 | 83 |
| 55. | Caffery reports French concern over "positive proof" of direct contact between Moscow and Ho Chi Minh. Caffery 5857 to Byrnes, 29 November 1946 | 83 |
| 56. | U.S. Consul views Ho Chi Minh's contacts with France as designed to facilitate application of Marxist principles when, and if, a Communist government is established in France. Further, French concern | |
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