FACELESS VIETCONG

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• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: March 23, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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Mardi 23,'1966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE
c+intrel city, and If this
werakened, the on9.ire area s
a+a calling on the suburb
and parks to be The editorial in its entirety will be of
he city does re. general Interest, and it is with this in
z notions are too - mind that I have asked permission of
my colleagues to have it inserted in the
xu;lts RECORD.
who is executive The article follows:
eague, is familiar' "FACELESS" %K V1E= 14AM
t problems-race The leading article In the April issue of
oho Negroes. He Fin Affi ifldditi t
oregarss a useu aono our
t in Chicago, and knowledge of the Vietcong and the National
roes in race rela- Liberation Front In South Vietnaml The
n remarkable- article, called "The Faceless Vietcong," was
,rrltten by George A Carve.. 1- who is Lin-
r breakthroughs ids by .h agazin a stude ` of poli i-
most progressive cat theory and Asian affairs and a former of-
This has come hoer of the U.S. aid mission in Saigon.
Mr. Carver's article supports the general
ecognition of our position of Secretary husk and other officials
e hi the city'r of the Johnson administration In that it finds
detormi:aation to that the National Liberation Front and the
,at goes for every Vietcong are, basically, instruments of the
organizattion, cry Communist Party of North Vietnam. They
it school adtnints, were inspired largely in North Vietnam, Ile
buslnes,s leaders, writes, and are controlled and energized from
labor unions are North. Vietnam. It is Incorrect, he feels, to
i think of either the Liberation Front or the
an at all Vietcong as non-Communist to any impor-
be alined
len 1be aimed lead tent extent, even though some non-Commu-
t because we area nists may be represented In them, and even
I
Toe,q today, every- though they are are a social revolu-
e rate a overly tion which goes back a long way.
their records are so Thus he writes that "the current struggle
comparison, we. in South Vietnam is an historically rooted,
way ahead of the political phenomenon of infinite complexity,
mind be: Row near particularly sines it involves an externally
to be? The impor- directed Communist drive for power inter-
've begun to work to- larded with a genuine Indigenous social
revolution. In analyzing such a phenomenon
cage has begun. So 'truth' is often a function of one's angle of
now what this city's vision, and myth is not always easy to d14-
that
eenm Inca then. n spec `the urren st,,ua-
? tion in Vietnam concerning which confident
assertion is a mark of ignorance or disin-
genuous intent, there are certain aspects of
the insurgency, and of, the Vietcong struc-
ture through which it is being waged,. which
t p:
bw
cal
(Mr. FOUN'
Mr.. RONCALIO)
"i. VWL U, ALL UM are not open to Intellectually honest die-
ektrltl coils mat- puts.,,
RECORD slid to 1~ rwsr
ref') .` There are un
questionably many non- f LtCr.. ?Or ' T 1Clliallrs r.1Il tip Communists heroically serving in .various
Oafte`l.ll;JjJCll(i1.7F,1 components of the National Liberation Front
th1s: "We have' out of a desire to redress genuine grievances
Any bir or in the honest belief that they are thereby
elty does. ',FACT r f ' a VI,.,; ,4ON(3 helping to build"a better political structure
lon, The re"ALI Oil, for their native land," he goes on to say. "As
CIV e WAIL i+, (at t, i,. lCqilcat of ,Nis. an organization, however; the National Liber-
~ 'vC,,YGAI,IG)- Kr ' (;i'a17tr, Tuu ils5lon to dish with no indigenous oopolsubject to the
"xtexid hi;l rerh~tt'ks At tins poi it the
,e mayor for one ultim to control of the Lao Dong (Comma-
311re;: "If you atoi ?REOOR> anti ti)
iitGludc + 9 t. ancotl ,alai nisi) party in Iianol
fiffcrc r..ce? Gov tot` b In this analysts the Vietcong is identified
1>u1311c The IVjl Ft1TaL,O7l Mr ~i~eaker T wish t,4 esettll fild
,sn+.ty as ae command of Hanoi, and
or the people eal~ the attent on Of, mt e?lleagu a'to an the National Liberation Front has no serious
. ' .r_ . ,r~ ,~;q ! i ;rl ~ t.i r ?~ ~1 ,~i~ ;.i o- a , ,. , _ ..
with the commu~er tral s? and expressways
but allows the take fret tt
eaten away, And, when
spond to peopla's needs;
little and too ltite.
w33AT NEGRO.
i.dwin C. harry, a Nei;r~
director of Chicago Urban
with the city's nicer diCtc
relations and the plight o
also knows the powerful ni
their opponents, He says
"Ill the last 10 years, pr,
bons in Chicago has b
mainly because we had s,
we are on the verge of inc
that may make Chicago it,
major city in the North
about for variot's reasons,
"The major rca:.on is the
problem by declslo:mial,
power structure, and tinC
do something about It.
diecietonntaking person o;.
Copt for the schou:. board i
tration; Ii:ellgtc~ua leader
the city government. alit
committed to help.
"NOW, a lot of c.:Iticlsir
these groups. hJsny pee
ere, have thought that j `
little less unju.c.t to N
thing's OK. I 'ale .sut w
with other cities -beta
bad. That's au odi
can't be proud of bet
worst. The question
are we to what we out
taut thing is witethor
ward progress,"
Mr. Barry thinks
do many others, wh
problems were a de
proyements that liar
ldiey still are low,tr I.
of the suburbs.
Loa Angeles, or Detroit.
+ t w e tied
1;ldustry "
l .1
w ?d I i CL11tt in t:hi$a
urban
re ca -
ponds on the
--Chicago-is
cal matters, from raping matters, are
;o. Mayor Daley's
See here often is
Mites in Springfield,
for the express-
renewal, educa-
al taxing bodies-
ork. Philadelphia,
residing over the
many of the city's
and professional
al phicago? It my party can give superior
reprt?se4tatton and service, that's better than
it we w Q politically divided and gave In-
ferior sorvibo.
known as the a:.trmblt
Almost overythi.n
the complaints, run
machine Is pa.tro:sago
Further, these oppone
lishment builds visible
scrapers, but overlooks
>i{mans, a :ntineber of liberal
ltt.v Negro . and civil-rights
other powers that is
rent.
iaponent. in general,
Ike this: , The Daley
buys Negro votes
musing, and prom.
El claim: The estab-
flings such as sky-
MA-MP
r4i
editorial in the Baltimore Sun of March
21, 1966, which deals with the "Faceless
Vietcong.,-
The editorial quotes from. an article,
written by George A. Carver, Jr., which
appears in the April issue of Foreign Af-
fairs magazine. As the Baltimore Sun points out:
Mr. Carver's article supports the general
position of Secretary Rusk and other offi-
cials of the Johnson administration in that
it finds that the National Liberation Front
and the Vietcong are, basically, instruments
of the Communist party of North Vietnam,
They were inspired largely in North Viet-
nam, he (Carver) writes, and are controlled
and energized from North Vietnam. It is in-
correct, he feels, to think of either the Lib-
oration Front or the Vietcong as non-Com-
munist to any important extent, even though
some non-Communists may be represented
in them, and even though they are exploit-
ing a social revolution which goes back a
long way.
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claim to U4 considered the able legitimate Union managed the co erence. the 'stars'
ilia leaders of 'na-
voice or the people of South Vietnam. The attending were the gue
ViatcDng has been kept faceless, to the pub- tional liberation mover
lic. t7 mask its dependence on North Viet- from the four 'fightlrl
d Peru
Vouezuela Colombia,
, can governments ar
sa'alarmed that the
raiziatlon of Am .
iancd the cottferet ~,'S p-311cy of at
rod Intervention.
for the 13 let missiles
leclered that ezrep
In. Cuba, 'no even ly
ou:;ly the terrltoii I and political Integrity
of our continent.' t
One pub`:icati~ rarely juatea from the
pages of another. t alone;%trom its publicity
blurbs. 11crewll. , however, Barron's is
pleased to reprod' ce the first paragraph of
the release surtm lx:ing the contents of the'
currant Issue of T e Reporter. Though open
as the magazine quietly
ed; closely in Europe, the
"received little or no
": '
kajor U.S. newspapers
rk/Times considered only
urinating dispatch from
Time somehow sue-
optloning the Conference
As Mr. Carver says. truth Is hard to pin
;down. We would add that Informed opinion,
In a matter like this. becomes all the more
valu[,,blc;
time that this liavnnli, (The same journal .owever, last week man-
ed the, revival of the aged to devoid a c or story to "Eastern Eu-
"
.)
nation le and that at So ~c -Life UnHcr Relaxed Communism
CiIS News ap rare ly chose to Ignore the
ig the olnmtinlsts had Whole afrah?.
series l of aggressions Unlike the I$on tain, which supposedly
c are new experiencing Isn't soundproof. a all of silence has kept
1 subversion and ter- most Amerlear4s fr in learning the truth
n weapon in these bold about Havana. Yo despite the remarkable
muniSt victory. lack of ir.,tcres a ,vn by so many great
of the +tl'agedies of our media of cornmunlc Ion, the tricontinental
coni:erence was114 m nentous news. With
tat thetAmerican press monolithic unit wa thy of Stalin himself;
attention to this his- the leadete of t e ' obal Communist con-
Ught ith danger to splracy-including 1 "relaxed" East Eu-
]d. ropeans-in effect d c ed war on the West-
vely~pleased to point ern Hemisphere. ,
nists: willy-nilly did
wring the ensuing 6 Thereby the Co. n
lore attention is being more. They cerl&i: otlee that the great
anh;evcnents of prt. a, Capital, such as the,
gniflC nee of the Its- oiliiolds of Vesnezte'a nd the copper mines
)y some of America's
of Chile. have be y ra prime targets in a
publio4ttons. I have Class strug:;[eaw'hich *lio ore neither privileged
n the. RECORD an ex- sa.n? tuairiea nor na fen I boundaries, They
itch a]peared on this ct.pised the darrgerus Ily of the Fulbrights
refuse to - eknowl-
igo Sull- Ttines. ? a,?d know-nothings, wh
e wni n appears this ..,__._.n._ _.__..
ationa Business and the ss in gauntlet na, to thi R
gaunntlet ii go
and (.also the very vowed to prevent Cuba
: Dian
]repared by Paul D. for revolution
ared iAi the current. proclaimed a biz npdr ;
1964. "They're still, 9
r this ;~Iavana con. . they're getting loser
important as a pre- They're also+igrow(n
derstariding of why Indeed, the cxbnlmu,n
Southt Vietnam to conceal their aggres4I
ling both of s4 man dailrditton, #
today. Presidium or the
atian botter Ra :hido# u1ekly s
R. IRashtdo}', candi ' 11
re doing in delegatio he as
ling fqr a piece of_ once to emote it t
youth Vietnam, but unity of`intl-im
tall Rm,
pattc'n of Corn- Conti~{ehi.u, so as
a,i1 t, celoni
tie +"onununl.sts h ::acct b; U.`S apltlal
ed out, in Havana Beale bier eomm tall -ration I
h V1eint[ni. t;un ,pror.ted 1 '1,0 Ace
yf :_ r roe report n)Llgbt
r 21, 1906]n..ting. C called Ti
,~,++ a+:i L1gr',a:al ,I
STAveS ,A,i
uv
t a s the le
nrvN.fy'T IN, L??at- Sno',Lor:
for t~le
~[t~gta,grtirsag for >rr'C"",
a`llly""rimer]c ,.1f nd.
i cv .i?nl,tcnts attd ae'4eira?to -enei? la warfare
in thin h .tnlsphero, 5r~he plate, Olt. up at
the vireo- Conti nent Opnpnllpint Ceri et." Tb' ? Cenfereriaa demanded- "total
In 31w-,via last January, cries for 'the use o:c:dicatton of Yankee, military Installations
of c;vrry terra of struggle neenxaey, lnchrding 17i Puerto Rico," and urged maximum effort
armed battle " " ? ` Although the Soviet by those " Nlio are fighting with arms in their;
i _ I a, a1C I _ .~ / r.
?IFESTO
lid request of Mr.
his point in :the
gxtraneous mat-
of this House to the world l3res~
y colleagues observed, and PPoll
aich was held Havana Coufereni
urin?; thfirst 2 weeks coverage hr the
Tbui, the New Y~
s year and which was one short, 1lniilr
than edo leading Coln- Renter's at to pr
3 continents of Asia, ceeded In briefly n
l's I
kly
;le
NLr.
e floe
Ion of:
crence '
in inse
RECOR
lp our ;
New C
world h2
ubvcrt L
Issue of the R?por
Because I Cpnsi
we cannot ahando
the Comiilunir~ts, I
lllul'list conqu st see
for three con,rents
a'.ixUa is the pe
x~,ast,ur plan to
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razll's.OAS mbassadSr' Latin America. Three years ago, according
. the Reporter. t Senate Internal Secu-
trainth,camps in `., uuoa, zoaay over ?+.u,
capable t+t turning oat 10,000 activists yearly,
are functiLLLLLLtiing In onezuela Red terrorists
have captuled and 't eld as hostage U.S,
military pere afel: 1 t December, the wife
Communist ban
and Guatemala,,
To both open pr vacs ton and hidden ag-
gression, the Unite St te~, which officially
clings to the myt of , "good" and "bad"
Communists, has 1 rgel .failed to respond.
True, mounting co gree tonal hostility has
persuaded. ;tae, ad inisration quietly to
shelve some of 'its p ens or expanding trade
and otherwise' ?bui din ; bridges" between
East and West. 11ow 'ver, despite such
emotes travel and
led cultural ex-
countries. Other
tale have learned
d by the Czech
diplomatic rela-
ers' arms, Ilolivia
s. Tracking down
to be "specialists
d Peking who are
our becoming a base
worry," satirically
miles away." But
the time.
the perpetrators of the
authorities found the
trying to penetrate Ve
terrorist operations."
contrary to ;the peace
hemisphere.', It also d
use of fore) against
giving suppcjrt to any
bolder. In Havana,
is didn't trouble to
the tone. "The Soviet
came to this confer-
Communist Intern
to recognize the e
(Fty.P
During, the fir i
March 23,:1966
e forces of domestic oligarchy
the service of the United
nero,Tney nave ra,snu criminal art; In Peru Red
ation of American
ared that sovereign
only for the open
other but also for
the indirect forms
the organization of
nishing of war ma-
against another."
on September 13,
oses by force or the
any nation in this
an offensive military
acity for the Soviet
but also with a new
onale. Until it learns
A coNFERENCE