LODGE S 7 SEPTEMBER WEEKLY TELEGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500040087-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: September 7, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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7 September 1966
MSSMO FOR. The Director
SUBJECT: Lodge's 7 September Weekly Telegram
1. Nothing here you need take the time to read since he reports
no new material and much of what appears herein is lifted verbatim
from other traffic that has crossed my desk, and probably yours.
2. Pares 1-17 deal with the elections. Lodge says all the
right, and obvious, things. He does try a hedge which I feel doesn't
quite come off (pares I & 2) in arguing that although a respectable
turnout will be an endorsement of the Ky regime, a small turnout
will not be a sign of opposition to Ky but -- instead -- an indication
of the efficacy of VC terror. There is some truth in this (not much,
but some), but it would never sell to the Fu1bright's and Now York
Times editorial writers of this world, and the President should
stay off this wicket.
3. The cable concludes with one pars (18) on desertions (down),
two (19 & 20) on economics (a little cheer), two useful parts (21 & 22)
comparing Americans and Vietnamese killed (they, our allies, are
taking more losses than we are), and a final pars (24) recounting
an Indian ICC Chairman's alleged quotation from Ho (not worried by
bombing but would be worried if VC infrastructure began to cru'.,ble).
George Carver
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