COMMUNIST STATEMENTS REGARDING INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM AND POSSIBLE NEGOTIATIONS

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• Publication Date: April 30, 1966
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OCI No. 0509/66
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COMMUNIST STATEMENTS REGARDING INTERVENTION
IN VIETNAM AND POSSIBLE NEGOTIATIONS
30 April 1966
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Washington 25, D. C.
30 April 1966
MEMORANDUM
Attached is a compilation of Communist
statements on possible direct military interven-
tion in the Vietnam situation, and on possible
negotiations toward a settlement, received
since our biweekly report (OCI No. 0508/66)
issued 15 April 1966.
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SUMMARY
NEGOTIATIONS INTERVENTION
USSR Moscow's position on nego- Moscow continues to re-
tiations has not changed, iterate its well-worn pub-
Soviet leaders remain un- lic expressions of support
willing to make any public for the DRV,
display of differences with
Hanoi on this question.
China The Chinese continue their Peking continues to imply
adamant opposition to any that there will be no Sino-
negotiated settlement of US war unless the US attacks
the Vietnam question ex- China.
cept on the Communist terms.
DRV Several official statements
by senior DRV officials dur-
ing the past two weeks have
made it clear that Hanoi's
position on settling the war
has not changed. Speeches
by Vietnamese leaders at
the recent National Assembly
meeting in Hanoi re-empha-
sized the DR-V's determina-
tion to continue to prose-
cute the war until a set-
tlement on Communist terms
can be brought about. In
addition, Vietnamese pro-
paganda has continued to
stress that the US must ac-
cept all of the DRV's four-
point proposal if a set-
tlement is to be achieved.
Particular emphasis has been
given to US acceptance of
point three of the pro-
gram which calls for deal-
ing with the Liberation
Front as the sole genuine
representative of the South
The North Vietnamese have
made no significant state-
ments on the subject of inter-
vent ion during the past two
weeks.
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NEGOTIATIONS
INTERVENTION
DRV Vietnamese people. It ap-
Cont'd pears that Hanoi is holding
out for US acceptance of
this point as a prerequisite
to a settlement of the war.
NFLSV Although the Liberation Front The Liberation Front has made
has made no significant state- no significant statements on
ments on the negotiations the subject of intervention
issue during the last two during the past two weeks.
weeks, there can be no doubt
that its position on settling
the war has not changed.
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Selected Soviet References to Intervention I-1
Selected Chinese Communist References to 1-2
Intervention
COMMUNIST STATEMENTS ON NEGOTIATIONS IN VIETNAM
Selected Soviet References to Negotiations N-i
Selected Chinese Communist References to N-2
Negotiations
Selected North Vietnamese References to N-3
Negotiations
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Selected Soviet
Pu lic Statements
Selected Soviet
Priva a atements
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21 April66: During a speech
in Hungary Soviet Minister
of Defense Malinovskiy,
after directly referring to
Chinese obstruction of So-
viet aid to Vietnam
stated, "despite all dif-
ficulties we are aiding the
heroic Vietnamese people
in their fight against the
aggressors and we shall con-
tinue to do so as long as
there is need of assistance."
This is Moscow's. standard
position of support for the
North Vietnamese. The So-
viet charge d'affaires in
Cuba stated that the Soviet
Union "would continue to
give all the help necessary
to Vietnam until final vic-
tory over the imperialist
aggressors."
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Selected Chinese Selected Chinese
Public Statements
private Statements Comments
22 April 1966: Mci I, the
head of the Chinese jour-
nalists delegation to the
4th plenary meeting of the
secretariat of the Afro-
Asian Journalists Associa-
tion, declared that "If U.S
imperialism insists on
spreading the war and wants
to have another trial of
strength with the Chinese
people, we will resolutely
take up the challenge and
fight on until final vic-
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Chinese propaganda continues
to imply that there will be
no Sino-US war unless the
US attacks China.
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COLUMNIST STATE NT ' ON EGOTIATION , IN VI TNAI.I
Selected Soviet Statements on Negotiations
Selected Soviet
Private Statements
21 April 1966: Radio Mos-
cow to North America statec;
in a commentary, "the only
way to solve the Vietnam
problem is to recognize the
demands of the North Viet-
namese Loves n::lent and the
National Liberation '7iront
of South Vietnai.""
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this question has not
changed.
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Selected Chinese Communist References to Negotiations
'Selected Chinese
Public Statements
20 April 1966: NCNA de-
nounced Senator Mansfield's
18 April proposal for Viet-
nam negotiations as part of
the US "peace talks hoax"
and "nothing but a cover
for widening the Vietnam
war." It asserted that al-
though Washington talks
"glibly" about a peaceful
solution, it insists that
it will never withdraw "its
aggressor forces" from 'South
Vietnam and "will never
recognize the Liberation
Front as the sole legiti-
mate representative of the
South Vietnamese people."
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26 April 1966: Chou En-lai
told a correspondent of the
Pakistani newspaper Dawn
that there was no need for
a new Geneva Conference as
the Liberation Front 5-part
statement embodied the sub-
stance of the Geneva Ac-
cords. He repeated Peking's
demand that the US with-
draw from Vietnam and recog-
nize the Liberation Front
as "the sole legal repre-
sentative of the South Viet-
namese people."
Selected Chinese
Private Statements Comments
Peking continues its ada-
mant opposition to any
negotiated settlement of
the Vietnam problem except
on the Communist terms.
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Selected North Vietnamese References to Negotiations
Selected DRV
Public Statements
15 April 1966: In a recent
interview granted to a'
Hungarian correspondent,
North Vietnamese Premier Pham
Van Dong expressed his views
on negotiating the Vietnam
war. He asserted that "the
just stand of the DRV Gov-
ernment and that of the
NFLSV expounded in the lat-
ter's 22 March 1965 state-
ment have been shining
even brighter and have en-
joyed profound and broad
international support. The
NFLSV asserts itself more
and more as the only au-
thentic representative of
the South Vietnamese people."
Dong further declared that
"if the US Government really
wants a peaceful settlement,
it must accept the four-
point stand of the DRV Gov-
ernment and prove this by
actual deeds. It must ens
unconditionally and for
good all bombing raids and
other war acts against the
DRV. This is the only cor-
rect way for a peaceful
settlement of the Vietnai:i
problem, it fully conforiu.s
to the genuine interests
Selected DRV
Private Statements Comments
The DRY Premier used the
occasion of this interview
to restate standard position
on settling the war.
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Public Statements
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Private Statements
of the people and the honor
of the US, as well as the
interests of peace in Indo-
china, southeast Asia,, and
the world.
20 April 1966: Hanoi radio
replayed recent statements
at the National Conference
of the New Zealand Communist
Party Conference. The broad-
cast praised the resolution
of the Conference supporting
the NFLSV as the "only body
that has the right to re-
present the South Viet-
namese people" and that
part of the resolution de-
claring "full support for
the four points advanced
by the government of the DRV
and the five points of the
NFLSV in the statement of
March 1965 as the only
basis on which peace in
Vietnam can be achieved."
20 April 1966: Hoang :,uoc
Viet, President of the Viet-
nam Federation of Trade
Unions, stated in a speech
that "there remains only
one way out for the US im-
perialists in their unjust
war which is swallowing up
Hanoi in its propaganda
has eagerly replayed any
pronouncements of support
for its position on set-
tling the war voiced by
left wring and Communist
elements throughout the
world. Tliis is done chiefly
in an effort to demonstrate
that the Communist position
in Vietnam does enjoy broad
international support.
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Public Statements
ever more money and unneces-
sarily killing ever more sons
of the American people--the
US Government must put an
end to the aggressive war
in South Vietnam, withdraw
all the troops of the US
and its satellites, let the
South Vietnamese people set-
tle their own affairs them-
selves according to the pro-
gram of the NFLSV, the only
genuine representative of
the South Vietnamese people,
put an end for good and un-
conditionally to all bombing
raids and other war acts
against the DEW, and let the
Vietnamese people decide by
themselves the peaceful
reunification of their coun-
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23 April 1966: The North
Vietnamese party paper,
Nhan Dan, condemned the re-
cent proposal by Senator
Mansfield for peace in Viet-
nam. It called the new pro-
posal part of the U3 "peace
hoax" and warned the Viet-
namese people that they must
heighten their vigilance and
stand prepared to cope with
new steps the US "imperial-
ists" in escalating the wa?.
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Private ta erients
The Nhan Dan article also
stressed Te third point
of the DRV's four points
which calls upon the US
to recognize that any set-
tling must be based on the
program of the NI T 1_V. The
stress on this point further
suggests that the Vietnamese
Communists do not fins: sat-
4,sfactory the ,IanslielEd formula
for a : eetin to all "ele-
ments" in South Vietnam
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Public Statements
The paper asserted that "the
people of our entire country
are determined to deal them
more painful blows, so pain-
ful that they can no longer
bear them and will be forced
to abandon their aggressive
will and recognize the four-
point stand of our government
and the five-point stand
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25 April 1966: President
o Chi Minh, addressing the
DRV National Assembly,
stated that "the only cor-
rect solution to end this
war has been expounded in
my letter to the heads of
states and governments of
other countries. This "only
correct solution" has also
been pointed out in the
five-point statement of the
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representative of the South
Vietnamese people.
25 April 196: Hanoi radio
broadcast speeches at the
DRV National Assembly meet-
ing held from 16-22 April.
In his speech to the assembly
Premier Phan Van Don;; of-
fered an analysis of North
Selected DRV
Private Statements
involved in the fighting,
an arrangement .wihich would
include anti-Communist
elements.
The DRV ?resident has in
the ?)a.,t months reerre~ to
its January letter as the
most recent and authorita-
tive restatement of Hanoi's
stan_'ard position on set-
tlin6 the aar. In the Con-
te?.t of the assembly meeting
he offered this position as
a direct challenge to the
US and promised to continue
the fighting until the US
aggreea' to the North Viet-
namese terms for a political
settlement.
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Public Statements
Vietnam's four-point pro-
posal for settling the Viet-
nam war. He insisted in
his speech that the US riust
accept all of the points and
not just some of them. Ile
asserted that since the US
objected to the third point--
that dealing with the role
of the Liberation Front in
a settlement*t objected to
all four points.
Private Statements Comments
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