BLUEPRINT FOR PEACE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300430034-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: September 13, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Inside.Washington
By ROBERT S. 'ALLEN and PAUL'SCOTT
CI5YRGHT CPYRGHT Blueprint -'for Peace
WASHINGTON - crucia i But the master plan calls f
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tration's master plan to "bring resort, the onetime Massachu-' by a civilian "government of n
the Viet Nam conflict from the setts Institute of Technology,
,-.-battlefield to the negotiating'economics professor said:
table" is replacing the existing "Turning points are 'quite
military rule with a bread-based' mysterious in wars. But : ouri
civilian "government of nation- bombing strikes' have made a
al reconciliation big difference. The U.S.' has
.fs Edward Landsdale, the con-
troversial retired Air Force ma-
this intricate backstage strategy, bombing strikes." elected by popular. ballot las
pion oc the aigaung, I Third, to keep pressure on!' This is justified on' the groan
n
would take the I e a
gime help . the officials start and
seeking a negotiated., termina- main~a.in a mMprn enva,n,ment .
premier and cabinet,. this re. g
tled and get started. Then, to
d i
Consisting of an indirectly three goals ?~n Viet Nam: To
elected" national assembly, a help the new and younger gen-
eration of Vietnamese et set-
jor general now back .in Saigon
for the announced purpose' of
heading a special team of U.S.
I advisers to the Viet Nam Cen-
tral Construction Council.
It is. this still largely paper or-
anization that is to be Lands
dale's principal tool in setting in
;'motion the series of develop-
ments designed to bring about
the peace-aini-ing '.government
SECRET PLAN
While congressional' and other
authorities know that' the Presi-
dent and his inner advisers have
a master Viet Nam "peace"
plan, it is shrouded in closely-
guarded secrecy. Other than
vague, references to it in White
House briefings and the Presi-
'dent's private talks with callers,
nothing has been divulged.
.1 The nearest a high-placed offi-
cial has come -to saying any-
thing publicly. about the hush-
hush plan was by. Walt Rostow,
chairman of the State Depart
( ment's Policy Planning Council.
And his generalized and enigma-
tic comments are meaningless
except to ' those , with, some
gwareness?af h11-. Ue
REVEALING DETAILS
While the administration is en-
forcing a tight blackout on Its
"peace" plan, some significant
information. has been pieced. to-
gether. Public discussion is
hampered by the highly classi-
fied nature?of much of it.
But .it is possible to report the
following:
A major phase of the plan is a
huge refugee program, under
which hundreds of thousands of
peasants and villagers are to be
"relocated and rehabilitated."
Gen. Landsdale will be in
charge.
This refugee .project will be
very costly. Exactly how much
tiona-l reconciliation."
It Is to be' broad-based, Inclu
big Buddhists, Catholics an
other elements.
it is to be brought into exis
ence by the indirect "election
of a national assembly. As
popular election. is precluded b
the widespread ground fightin
sembly . members by having 6
village chiefs. designate them.
,....-. .
What, if anything, is done t
keep village chiefs from namin
Viet?:.:Cong ;to the .national as
sembly, is another'
nother blank spot
screen 'the. assemblymen., Per
haps not.
In any event,, the national as
sembly will selects civilian pre
mier who,. in turn, will set up
cabinet representative, of .ai
major elements... ,
This presumably broad-base
and U.S.~backed civilian "gov
ernment of national reconcilia
Lion" will launch a two-pronge
effort - to negotiate a cease
wide-ranging economic restora
tion and development program
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is-conjectural. But it is certain
to run into' hundreds of m-illions
of dollars.
The military regime of Pre-
mier Nguyen Cao Ky, the.tart-
tongued young air brigadier, is
to be ousted. Just how that is
to be brought about is not
known. It may turn out of take
quite a bit of doing, as Ky, with
characteristic'. ebullience,' ? con-
siders himself a "man 'of des
tiny,
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the bill.
TROOP MOVE
Also envisioned is a start o
This will depend' on'now this
concept. of events'. works out.
Butas the President eagerly
pictures it, the homeward rede-
ployment of troops should be in
progress by January. i:,at;a
what he' has been broadly-
hint-ing to congressional and other
- ,... As reported in thig column
.MILITARY }RUL ;F.,
ast we a al
i '
prove 01
Ci0P
hi KW3L"W"=Uuft;
l r I I df congressmen when the
ques-
on was raised about the possi-
ility of escalation, of the Viet
am conflict,: "There.Is'no seri-
us danger of that. In fact, I
ink 'that when you come back
I ere in January for the next
ssion, there Is a good chance
e will be redeploying our
cops' home from Viet Nam."
Gen. Landsdale spent nine
ears in South Viet Nam.- From
1 954 to 1963 he was a powerful
ackstage force in keeping thei
to President Ngo Dinh Diem
office. Soon after Diem was
ssassinated in a 'military coup,
andsdale? returned 'to the U.S.
`While. officially ' an Air Force
fficer,' much of his career was
pent in the Central Intelligence
gency.
FLASHES
Egypt plans to further widen
nd deepen, the Suez Canal to
nable the passage of vessels
ith 39-ft. draft. The Suez Canal
uthority announced, it proposes
I r get this work underway with-
a few months , .. The State
epartment is "informally"
ging U. S. 'allies , to shut of
eir booming shipping business
North Viet Nam. Japan has
' dicated willingness to'cooper
te, but so far little progress
as been made ? in persuading
thers. Last year. British and
candi-navian ships were the
os numerous
NOTE: The boxed portions
of this article did not
appear in the 13 September
issue of the NORTHERN
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