HUNGARIAN ARTICLE ON CIA IN VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300430003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 26, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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HUNGARIAN ARTICLE ON CIA IN VIETNAM
In his regular weekly column in the 10 August 1966 issue of Lobogo,
The Hungarian author concludes that the "Saigon Peace Corps of
the sending of Lansdale to Saigon. The author. claims that Lansdale
inspirdd the book "The Ugly American"; that he was a CIA "king maker"
in Manila; that he moved to Saigon during the Indo-Chinese war; that
he picked Diem as leader; that his land-reform ideas ran counter to
in South Vietnam forced the Pentagon and the State Department to accept.
Budapest, page 3, Ezredes (Colonel) Pal MAGYARI discusses the "Pacifi-
cation Attempts of the Knights of the Cloak and Dagger."
The Hungarian author claims that the constant loss of territory
illustrated weekly of the Hungarian Home Defense Sport Federation,
Lansdale, the article continues, invented and initiated the pacifi
cation program to win the rural population and that the US is spending
is a meeting place for the broadest circles in Saigon.
"crazy bastard".? The article claims that Lansdale's villa near Saigon
' Diem's dictatorship, and that he, Lansdale, is generally known as the
Groups of 80 are to pacify 900 of the 12,000 South Vietnamese villages
10 week course in a training camp in Vung Tau which is run by the CIA.
nearly 100 million dollars on this program this year. Young men taKe a.
during 1966. (The 'New York Times is quoted concerning the details ot:
this program.)
lost all faith in Saigon-and hates the Americans. ,,,.A photograph of
Lansdale" might have succeeded earlier, but now the population has
Lansdale.,accompanies the article.