VIETNAM--A MISERABLE CIVIL WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170012-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 25, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
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When the Vietnamese were fighting, statcnncnt so many times that one f ,,,,-,Is
V TNAMM-A MISERABLE CIVIL WAR for their freedom against French cola like saying put on a new record-"Atrcr-
Mr. YOUNG of Ohio. Mr. President, nialism their official organization was lean soldiers are fighting in Vietnam be-
I ask unanimous consent that I may pro- termed the National Liberation Front cause of commitments made by three
cecd for 8 minutes. and their fighting forces were termed Presidents."
The PRESIDING OFFICER, With- Vietminh. Many of those freedom This Thursday marks thy; birthdat~ of
out objection, it is so ordered. fighters against French colonali,m are Adolf Hitler, born in Austria, April 28,
Mr. YOUNG of Ohio. Mr. President, fighting now as Vietcong to. establish, 1889. Hitler was the author of the "big
historically, there are no such countries they hope, a South Vietnam free from lie." He and his Nazis boasted, if you
as North Vietnam and South Vietnam. the presence of foreign soldiers. Of' state a lie repeatcdly many, many tit ies,
For thousands of years, the Vietnamese, course, this is a civil war. In fact, !ni it will come to be believed . This s