THE PERISCOPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200120029-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: June 13, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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JUN 13 1966
THE PEIISCOPE
/AHEAD OF THE NEWS
What the Hanoi-Watchers See,,
French diplomats have told
Washington that Hanoi's President Ho Chi Minh
has just visited Peking. With North Vietnam's
pro-Peking party chief Le Dunn in Moscow, and
the pro-Soviet Ho Chi Minh in China, the con-
viction is growing that I-Ianoi is. working to
establish a position independent of both Com-
munist powers. Hanoi-watchers (both American
and Rumanian) also think the reassessment that
began among North Vietnam's leaders early this
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year on how best "to ensure victory. in the anti-
U.S. struggle" is nearing a climax. This long de-
bate, they think, is one of the reasons the Viet
Cong have delayed the annual "monsoon offen-
sive." Though based more on atmospherics than
hard fact, the Washington conclusion is that
some sort of overture from North Vietnam will
come within a month or two. Hanoi might well
have acted before now, the experts believe, had
it not been for the current political turmoil in
South Vietnam.
PERSONAL FILE
Howard Hughes Calls
The moon landing wasn't the only history re-
.corded at th& jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena
last week. Howard Hughes, whose company
built the Surveyor, phoned to see how things
were going, just minutes before the spacecraft
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touched down. It was the first time in anyone
memory that the mysterious millionaire had
ever displayed personal public interest in his
company's space program.
Four-Star Correspondent
Vietnam's ''tress y corps will soon have a new,
extra-special addition-Moshe Dan, the one-
Army.,
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cyan ~ri'ow a member of Israel's Parliament)
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Israeli miform, move aboutfreely and give
dha take advice in actual operations. He con-
siders Vietnam similar to his own successful
fights against the Arabs and wants to learn the
latest tactics and developments in guerrilla?)var.
A Legendary Frenchman Steps Down
French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux has
asked President de Gaulle to accept his resigna-
tion. Malraux, a legend in revolutionary and in-
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nervous condition. Friends say Malraux, 65, has
suffered periods of depression since his two sons
were killed in a road accident four years ago.
Next for Nader
Ralph Nader, whose book "Unsafe at Any Speed"
.set off the current furor over auto safety, has
zeroed in on a fresh target. He is now busy in-
vestigating the safety of natural-gas pipelines.
His plan: a lengthy article (but not a book) on
that multibillion-a-year industry.
INSIDE STORY
The Moving Finger Writes
Overlooking no-bets,.the l 1 has had graphol-
-`leacleis as~one'taieans"of determining their "tier
sonalities. The- latest so`analyzed was Buddhist
leader Thich Tri Quang's. The experts'...conclu
"sion:""Unstable'and"riot to be trusted."
Mayor High's Helpers
Here is one reason why Miami's Mayor Robert
King High kept denying he was a "Kennedy
man" in his successful campaign for Florida's
Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Several
former RFK aides did help High, but he had an-
other ally. Hubert Humphrey, who as Vice Pres-
ident must remain officially aloof from primaries,
did privately encourage some of his major finan-
cial backers to help High's campaign.
_Peking Loses a-friend
Red China now is taking oblique abuse from one
of its staunchest Asian allies, NorS1'JCqye-a. Bid-
ding farewell to a Cuban technical group, the
Pyongyang Reds gave a rousing endorsement to
Fidel Castro-who has recently been blasting
Peking almost as much as he has the U.S.
The Watch on the Mails
Postmaster General Larry.F. O'Brien has agreed
to stop special postal surveillance of magazines
aimed at homosexuals. The Post Office, it seems,
had put "mail covers" on these books and, on re-
quest, was passing subscribers' names to em-
ployers in government and private industry.
Capitol Hill investigators, probing into govern-
ment invasions of privacy, uncovered the prac-
tice, and got O'Brien to stop it,