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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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- "To date the Vietnam press and radio have not adopted an anti-American position. It is rather the French colonial press that has been strongly anti-American and has freely accused the U.S. of imperialism in Indochina to the point of approximating the official Moscow position. Although the Vietnam radio has been closely watched for a new position toward the U.S., no change has appeared so far. Nor does there seem to have been any split within the coalition government of Vietnam....
- "Evaluation. If there is a Moscow-directed conspiracy in Southeast Asia, Indochina is an anomoly so far. Possible explanations are:
- No rigid directives have been issued by Moscow.
- The Vietnam government considers that it has no rightest elements that must be purged.
- The Vietnam Communists are not subservient to the foreign policies pursued by Moscow.
- A special dispensation for the Vietnam government has been arranged in Moscow.
- Of these possibilities, the first and fourth seem most likely.71
A-50
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