CAPITAL CLIQUE PRESSING FOR N. VIET RAID

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500330012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 19, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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AN INFLUENTIAL group in' the government at Washington is- pressing hard--for -
This objective of an attack on .
1 - It appears that the "Pentagon
North Vietnam was in a long
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would like to make It appear
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spatch April 13 from Washing-
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Street Journal reporter.
that the vastly built-up air force
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of the -US puppet military dic-
U.S. Beefs Up Bomber
Force of South Vietnam,
Weighs Raids on North
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1the hope of thus halting Hanoi's t w - _.... . 'I,
:support for Red Guerrillas, be- i Shank Jr, 27,- wrote his wife in Winamac, pre newspapers. Congress and
low the border might conceiv- , Ind., h1st December- the newspapers.. In most cases,
ably outweigh the risk of escal- "So far I have 55 kills .50 Cal. gun. the newspapers have suppressed
sting the Vietnam conflict into ed to me and one e .50 cal. gun.
Korean-war tnam dirriensions." I am not Proud of killing, but ii the letters, but evidence of this
am- proud of ni ment in anger against involve-
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore), Y skill. It is ment in South Vietnam was dra- ;
revealed last week in a Senate 'necessary in this job." Matically demonstrated i
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speech that while "the figure 15, b L
ter Shank wrote; March 29 issue of the Rochester,
000 or 15,500, continues to be " We asked if we could fly an Democrat and Rochester, Chronicle,
with
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used" as the number of U.S. American flag over there. The with a . fullsize page" devoted
:.soldiers in South Vietnam, he answer was no, et They pictures the to letters attacking the U.S. war:
had been advisOd "out of the Pet. COng will'".get pictures of against South Vietnam. I'Pentagon," by reporters, that.`. it and make badm propaganda., On March 30 S
en. Morse had
"there are already 18,000 Amer - Let them know America is in , ,
lean boys over .there denounced in anar Senate, 's what ." it.,; he called am." ' mara War in
"We know;' said Morse, soy ,These letters from the dead: South Vietnam." As an appendix,.;-
eral days later, that if the war the- flyer, which appeared in .~ t that speech, he inserted in,,
rin South Vietnam "is escalated,ahe Chicago Tribune, April '5,', the Congressional Record 26 .
into North Vietnam the plan,is , make clear the direct involve- I" ,
`,'to use nuclear weapons. It. is ment'of, U.S, military forces and opposing U.S. ln%olvementtin-
- In
'Pages I fine not possible to put. conventional' underscore the probability that eluding those from U.S. soldiers
,'troops into North Vietnam andl it will be U.S. flyers, disguised hhh, now in Vietnam,
win.., 4 or not, who would be used in w';n, the,;Sena#e April ,3 Sen.','
any invasion Of NorthVfetnam~
Moutiting demands, however,,
L for,gettlrigthe U.S