MISTAKEN MEANING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800080006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 27, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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have the same effect as our
bombs on the North Viet
~namese, or as the Nazi bomb
on the Londoners in 1940
{ They simply "strengthen th
t will to resist violence.
j that your strictures on us W1111
In your editorial of Sept,
you quote correctly my re-
mark that when I saw, and
heard American bombers in
.North Vietnam recently, I felt
like shooting them down my-
self. But when you infer from
this that I wish to "take Amer.
Jean lives," you entirely mis-
take my meaning. To suggest
that I am "against (my) coun-
trymen" ' is absurd. I want to
preserve all our lives.
What I am against is our
policy of violence. The agents
of that policy, our bomber
crews, seen from a North Viet
I namese dugout, are devils ? de-
serving destruction, but I
know very well they are the
victims of that policy,,not the
culprits.
Having seem the destruction
our bombs have wrought in
North Vietnam, and having ac-
tually witnessed, while
[crouched in a foxhole, an
American aircraft releasing
one of those bombs, I could
see only what the Vietnamese
saw-an unprovoked instru-
ment of destruction., At that
moment I did indeed feel I
would like to destroy the de-
stroyer.
i? What I mean, of course, is
that I want to stop this sense-
less destruction and save our
men and all men. That Is "the
thoughtful opinion" you invite
me to express.
I am sorry you have seen fit
to scold - Women Strike for
Peace. I cannot help thinking
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