COMMUNIST STATEMENTS REGARDING INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM AND POSSIBLE NEGOTIATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: May 15, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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COMMUNIST STATEMENTS REGARDING INTERVENTION
15 May 1966
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Washington 25, D. C.
15 May 1966
Attached is a compilation of Communist state-
ments on possible direct military intervention in
Vietnam situation, and on possible negotiations
toward a settlement, received since our biweekly re-
port (OCI no, 0509/66) issued 30 April 1966)
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NEGOTIATIONS
USSR Moscow's public and pri-
vate positions on nego-
tiations have not changed.
China Peking's opposition to
negotiations remains un-
changed.
DRV In propaganda and public
statements during the past
two weeks Hanoi reaffirmed
its intention to press on
with the war until a settle-
ment is reached on Commu-
nist terms, In speeches
surrounding May Day festiv-
ities and the visit of a
Rumanian party/government
delegations the North Viet-
namese leadership voiced
its continued adherence to
its four-point formulation
and insisted that it would
not compromise its posi-
tion.
NFLSV The Liberation Front has
made no significant state-
ments on the subject of
negotiations during the
past two weeks,
Moscow continues to reit-
erate its standard public
position of support for
the DRV.
Both public and private
statements by the Chinese
continue to imply that
a Sino-US war will occur
only if the US attacks
China.
Hanoi made no significant
statements on the issue of
foreign intervention in
the Vietnam war during the
past two weeks.
The Liberation Front made
no significant statements
on the possibility of outside
intervention on its behalf
in the Vietnam war..
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Selected Soviet References to Intervention I-i
Selected Chinese Communist References to
Intervention 1-2
COMMUNIST STATEMENTS ON NEGOTIATIONS IN VIETNAM
Selected Soviet References to Negotiations N-1
Selected Chinese Communist References to
Negotiations N-2
Selected North Vietnamese References to
Negotiations N-3
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COMMUNIST STATEMENTS ON INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM
Selected Soviet Statements on Intervention
Selected Soviet Selected Soviet
Public statements Private Statements
9 May 1966: A Pravda editor-
ial notes routinely that the
Soviet Union and other social-
ist countries are fulfilling
their "internationalist duty"
of giving "effective assistance"
to the Vietnamese.
Comments
Moscow's public expressions
of support for the DRV re-
main unchanged.
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Selected Chinese
Public a ements
Mid-April 1966: A Hong Kong
Chicom newspaper on 28 April
carried excerpts of an article
by Anna Louise Strong on the
possibility of a Sino-US war.
She stated that China would
not start a war, but that if
the US attacks China then
China would wage a war "which
the US not able to win." Strong
stated that Chinese troops would
intervene in the Vietnamese war
only at Vietnamese request and
that Peking does not expect
this to happen unless the nature
Selected Chinese
Private Statements
This is in line with past Chi-
nese statements that a Sino-US
war would be caused by a US at-
tack.
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Selected Chinese
Pu is tatements
Mid-April 1966 Cont: of the
war changes significantly.
2 5X1 She argued that "Chinese aid
to Vietnam does not make China
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9 May 1966: Peking broadcast
remarks made by Chou En-lai in
early April--in an interview he
gave to the Pakistan newspaper
Dawn--in which he indicated
tt a a war started by US air or
sea action might result in re-
taliation by Chinese ground
forces and that once such a
war had broken out it would
"have no boundaries."
Selected Chinese
Private Statements
Chou repeated warnings made
many times previously and they
appear intended to deter the
US from air action against tar-
gets in China and reflect Chi-
nese concern about US attack
aircraft approaching the DRV-CPR
border. The Chinese gave Chou's
statement no publicity when it
was first printed on 27 April.
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Selected Soviet
Public Statements
COMMUNIST STATEMENTS ON NEGOTIATIONS IN VIETNAM
Selected Soviet Statements on Negotiations
Selected Soviet
Private Statements
10 May 1966: During a
banquet in the UAR So-
viet Premier Kosygin
said, "The Soviet Union
completely supports the
program for a settlement
of the Vietnam question
put forward by the gov-
ernment of the DRV and
the program of the NFLSV."
There has been no change
in Moscow's public posi-
tion of support for the
DRV on this question.
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Selected Chinese Communist References to Negotiations
Selected Chinese
Pu is tatements
Selected Chinese
Private Statements
5-7 May 1966: Peking issued
new propaganda blasts against
the negotiation proposals
made by Senator Mansfield on
18 April, calling them "ab-
surd, a swindle, a hoax and
a reproduction" of "uncondi-
tional" discussions offer made
by the US a year ago. Peking
repeated its charge that the
proposals reflected desperate
US effort to get out of mili-
tary predicament in Vietnam
and claimed that the idea of
"locating a peace table" some
place in Asia was "pure non-
sense" and a "trap."l
This is Peking's standard hard
line on negotiations.
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Selected DRV
Pub is Statements
April 1966: In an article
in the April issue of the
North Vietnamese Party theo-
retical journal, Hoc Tap,
Col. Ha Van Lau con__emned
the "so-called return to the
Geneva accords of the US im-
perialists." Lau asserted
that "the US call for a re-
turn to the accords was in
fact aimed at sabotaging the
basic content and opposing
the main provisions of the
accords and opposing the four-
point stand of our government--
a stand which reflects in a
concentrated way the main prin-
ciples and provisions of these
accords."
Selected DRV
Private Statements
Col. Ha Van Lau in his role
North Vietnam's Liaison Com-
mission to the ICC repeatedly
alleged US violations of the
Geneva agreements in both North
and South Vietnam. In addition,
Vietnamese propaganda on the
war has been consistent in
claiming that the US by bombing
the North and sending troops
to the South is grossly viola-
ing the Geneva accords. Hanoi
has also claimed that the LRV
position on settling the war is
in keeping with the accords.
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Selected DRY
Public StatFm-e-nts
1 May 1966: In his May Day
speech at a grand rally in
Hanoi Hoang Quoc Viet, presi-
dent of the Vietnam Federation
of Trade Unions, reiterated
Hanoi's support of its four-
points and the five point
stand of the NFLSV for set-
tling the war and asserted
that the Vietnamese people
are "ready to fight and have
the conditions necessary to
fight for 5, 10, 20 years or
more, until final victory.
7 May 1966: In a speech at a
reception in Hanoi welcoming
the visiting Rumanian party-
government delegation North
Vietnamese Foreign Minister
Nguyen Buy Trinh reaffirmed
the DRV's determination to
prosecute the war. Trinh in
part asserted that "the legit-
imate aspiration of the Viet-
namese people has been clearly
expounded in the four-point
stand of the DRV Government
and the five-point statement
of the South Vietnam National
Liberation Front, the sole
genuine representative of the
South Vietnamese people. If
Selected DRV
Private Statements
This reaffirmation of Hanoi's
resolve to prosecute the war
to a conclusion on Communist
terms was a prominent element
in May Day propaganda and was
frequently coupled with claims
of great success in fighting
US aircraft, and of making fur-
ther developments in the eco-
nomic and social spheres of
national life.
The North Vietnamese accorded
The Rumanian delegation a lavish
and warm reception in the DRV.
In speeches and ceremonies dur-
ing the visit the Vietnamese
received the standard protesta-
tions of support for their posi-
tion rendered by bloc delega-
tions and in turn voiced their
resolve to fight on until the
war was ended on their terms.
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Selected DRV
Public Statii-ments
7 May 1966 Cont'd: the US
really wants peace, it must
withdraw all US and satellite
troops from South Vietnam and
stop the aggressive war there,
stop at once and unconditionally
the war of distruction in North
Vietnam, and the problem of re-
unification of Vietnam must be
settled by the Vietnamese people
themselves without foreign in-
terference as stipulated by the
Geneva agreements.
8 May 1966: At a grand meeting
in Hanoi called in honor of the
visiting Rumanian party/govern-
ment delegation,Tran Duy Hung,
chairman of the Hanoi Administra-
tive Committee, in a speech of
welcome said in part that, the
only correct basis for the set-
tlement of the Vietnam issue
resides in the four-point stand
of the National Assembly and
Government of the DRV and the
22 March statement of the NFLSV.
The just stand of the Vietnamese
people has been solemnly ex-
pounded by President Ho Chi
Minh in his letter addressed
to the heads of state or govern-
ments of various countries on
24 January."
Selected DRV
Private Statements
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