PARANOID MUSINGS/INDOCHINA DIVISION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000700100038-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: September 18, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: Paranoid Musings/Indochina Division
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1. Though amused and operationally pleased by Hanoi's public
posture on Munich and its concomitant ringing endorsement of the
Palestinian cause (e. g., the 12 September Nhan. Dan article and the
13 September article in the Army paper Quan Doi Nhan Dan), I have also
been naggingly troubled by an inability to explain to my own satisfaction
just why the DRV should have dropped this large a brick. There was no
real reason why the North Vietnamese had to say much of anything on this
loaded question. If they felt they had to make some public comment, surely
a rather pro forma statement going no further than the Chinese -- or,
for that matter, the Egyptians -- would have sufficed.
2. In any event, there was no call at all on Hanoi to describe
Munich and its aftermath as a "US-Israeli plot" abetted by the West Germans.*
There was also no obvious need for Hanoi to express an unqualified, ringing
resolve "to support the Palestinian people's fight for their sacred funda-
mental rights until its final victory.:.:'* Surely this goes well beyond all
*E.g. , Nhan Dan: "At the airbase Munich police sharpshooters opened fire
and all of the Israeli Olympic competitors and a number of Palestinian
guerrillas were killed. This bloodshed, which could have been avoided,
occurred because, as the Algerian broadcasting service analyzed it, 'the
Israeli and West German authorities chose the path of hatred and betrayal. n'
**"The aggressors' perfidious maneuvers and acts cannot drown the just
voice of the Palestinian people, who continue to be heard in the din of bomb
explosions and chauvinistic outcries. The Palestinian people have expressed,
through their leaders, the determination to seek every means to struggle
for the right to live. This just voice has enjoyed ever greater sympathy and
support from all progressive mankind. The U.S. and Israeli scheme to make
the most of the bloody Munich incident is very perfidious, but it will not
work, since ours is an era when the oppressed peoples have arisen to take
their desti
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ordinary requirements of expressing fraternal solidarity with fellow
socialists. More to the point, if Hanoi's leaders know anything at all
about the United States, they must have known that such a public position,
expressed in such language, would constitute a propaganda windfall for
President Nixon and be acutely embarrassing (to put it mildly) to many
of the most articulate and active American opponents of the President
and the war, i. e., the segments of the American political spectrum whose
activities Hanoi most wants to encourage and foster.
3. I well recognize and have long argued that the Lao Dong Politburo
is not composed of visionary, broad-gauged world statesmen, that its
present members, instead, often show themselves to be parochial,
doctrinaire fanatics -- tough, tenacious and resilient, but lacking in
breadth and sophistication. Nonetheless, I still find it hard to believe that
the Politburo is quite this stupid. Maybe I have become corrupted to the
point of thinking like a Vietnamese, but to my mind a gaffe of this dimension
calls for an explanation more complex than any "simple blunder" hypothesis.
4. Developing this thought, I began to wonder whether the DRV
might be trying to fry some fish with the Palestinia,as. or some ultra
segment thereof such as the Black September group. Perhaps Hanoi was
trying to encourage some Palestinian group to essay a spectacular act of
terrorism in or against the U. S., e.g. , an assassination attempt against
Dr. Kissinger or President Nixon. The more I brooded, the more this
line of reasoning struck me as providing an explanation -- not necessarily
the explanation, but at least an hypothesis that explained Hanoi's behavior
more adequately than the one of "simple blunder. "
5. I expressed these thoughts to General Walters around 1800 on
Friday, 15 September. More to the point -- and the reason for this note --
I also expressed them in an 1815 phone call (on 15 September) to Colonel
Kennedy. In that call I emphasized strongly that these were personal
speculations -- not an Agency assessment -- and that they were unsupported
by any- evidence of which I was aware, other than the fact of what Hanoi
had actually said on the radio and in public print. I did nonetheless suggest
**Continued from page 1: "The Vietnamese people, who have seen the true
colors of U.S. imperialism, especially through the "Nixon Doctrine, " are
resolved to support the Palestinian people's fight for their sacred funda-
mental rights until its final victory. "
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that extra vigilance might not be amiss and could certainly do no harm.
Kennedy thanked me for my thoughts and said he would pass them along --
accurately described with proper caveats -- to Al Haig. I send this note
so that if they somehow bounce back to you, you will know where they
came from.
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
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FBIS 14 ( SEE 32 Or 12 SEM
DIAN DANS MUNICH OLYMPIC DEATHS A U. 1.? ISRAELI PLOT
S140424 HANOI NUN DAN IN VIETNAMESE 12*? 72.
(ARTICLE BY DIEU SINKS" THE 15. 11... ISRAELI PLOT BEHIND TIN
OODY EVEN? IN MUNICH")
( TEXT) THE CAUSE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SERIOUS EVENT
WHICH OCCURRED AT THE MUNICH OLYMPIC VILLAGE ON SEPTEMBER
LIE NOW OBVIOUS. THAT MORNING THE COMBATANTS OF 11 PALESTINIAN
ISSISTANCE OR GANIZAT ION ENTERED THE BILLETING alarms OF TIE
ICIAEL I OLYMPIAN CONPET /TONS. ADDUCTED TIEll? AND PUT FORTH THIS
COMITIONs IN LRCMS& FOR to FREERam'ar toss cArTINtst_TNE
ISRAEL I Aamisisrmarzol HAD TO FREE MORE TSAI SOS PALESTINA*.
PATRIOT S WHO WERE BEING DETAINED AND TORTURED IN ISRAELI
RI I SON S.
?
S FM THE WEST GERMAN ADMINISTRATION THE PALESTINIAN
GARR ILLAS DEMANDED THAT IT GUARANTEE THAT IT WOULD SAFELY TRANSPORT
THEM AND THE IMAM IS DETAINED BY THEM OUT OF VEST GERMAN
TERRITORY. THE PALE St IBIAN GUERRILLAS WARNED* IF ANY ATTEMPT IS
RABE TO SABOTAGE THIS ACTION, THE ISIAILIS WILL BE KILLED AID
THE WEST GERMAN GOVERNMENT WILL BE IUD RESPONSIBLE. AS
ADM ITTED LATER BY MUNICH MUNICIPAL macs CHIEF sconsER, THE
WILLY BRANDT ADII IN INTRA? ION FROM TIM OUTSET
DEFINITELY SIDED WITH THE Isman.1 FACTION III OPPOSING
THE PALESTINIAN PATRIOTS. ON ORDERS OF TIME WEST ORMAN INTERIOR
MINISTER, THE mimic* PmucS ImPLUENTID 'TO THE LETTER TMS
G9IDANCE OF A SPECIAL ADVISORY *OUP MUCH WAS RUN= IN FROM
IMAEL. THE MUNICH POLICE RESORTED TO AN EXPEDIENT TO *LIRE
A TICER OUT OF A MOUNTAIN* AND METERED TO AGREE TO TIE
GLS.VIILLA S. DEMANDS BUT LAID F0111 AMBUSH VESTS ON THE. ROAD
LEADING TO THE *INBAR. SCHREIBER IIIMSELF IMMEDIATELY FELT
THAT "ANY HOPE OF ESCAPING DEATH FOR THE tamn.roteanc
COIPET IT OR S WAS MILL," BUT NZ LAMS THE WEST GERMAN POLICE
iftE TIGHTLY BOUND BY PIE IT ICA/ DECISIONS, ESPECIALLY THE
ISRAEL I GOVERNMENT'S FIRM DECISION *NOT NEGOTIATE WITH THE
PALESTINIAN S,*
THE OUTCOME WAS IN LINE WITH *CRUISER '11 FEARS. AT THE AIRBASE
MUNICH POLICE SHARPSHOOTERS OPEIED FINE, AND ALL THE
ISRAEL I OLYMPIC COMPETITORS AND Ai Mini. ?PALEST INIAN
OMR ILL AS WOE KILLED. 711111 OLOODSHED, WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN
VOIDED, OCCURRED BECAUSE, AS THE ALast AM BROADCAST IVO SERVICE
NIALYZED IT, "THE /SNAIL I AND UST OMAN AUTHORITIES CHOSE
THE PATH OF HATRED AND BETRAY/Li"
WHAT IS EVEN MORE *1 100 IS THE DENTS RUC/ CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP IN WEST GERMANY, THE MIDEAST AID THE UNITED STATES.
H WEST GERMANY THE ? AUTHORITIES Nadi TRIED TO SET UP A MOVEMENT
TO OPPOSE THE ARAB COUNTRIES AID ?MEOW) TO TERRORIZE MORE .
THAN 55,000 ARABS NOW EARNING A LIVING' IN WEST GERMANY.
CROCODILE TEARS HAVE BEEN SHED FROFOUSELT IN WASHINGTON AND
TEL AVIV. ACCOMPANIED BY COUNTLESS THEMES ABOUT HUMANITY
AiD PEACE, AS WELL AS SNARLING AND TIOULATE, PRESIDENT NIXON DID
THIS FIRS. IN A MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCES TO THE IMAM' PREMIER
MK /UDEN? NIXON SA ID THAT THIS II "A TRAGIC AND MEANINGLESS
ACT ION, A SABOTAGE OF MANKIND'S DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS,' THAT
THIS IS "A TRAGEDY FOR ALL THE PEOPLES AND NAT IONS IN THE WORLD,'
AND SO FORTH. ON NIXON'S ORDERS, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE ROGERS,
AM* CONSULTINGWITH THE ISRAELI AMIASSADOR, ISSUED AN APPEAL FOR
"DRASTIC MEASURES"' TO MAKE 'THE WHOLE WORLD REALIZE THAT
CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE AI UNACCEPTABLE
M2THOD."
TO MAKE THE INT ERNAT TONAL ATPRIOSPIE MORE TENSE,
U. S. FBI AND SECURITY AGENTS WERE ORD ED TO TAKE *SPECIAL
MEASURES" TO PROTECT ISMAEL I, VEST 41711111.1 AND ARAB DIPLOMATIC
DELEGATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. IT SROULD ALSO BE NOTED
IMMEDIATELY THAT NIXON'S CROCODILE TEARS NAVE NOT BLINDED HIS
EYES TO THE FACT OF THE PROSPECT OF VOTES FROM MILLIONS OF
.EW ISIF.BORN VOTERS IN THE COMING PRESIERIAL ELECTION. HE
DIRECTED HIS SUBORDINATES TO STRUCK' PROTECTION EVEN
FOR JEW I SIHICR N AMERICANS, ALT HOUGH HE MAINTAINS TWIT THESE
FZOPLE ARE LESS LIKELY TO BE ATTACKED INAS ISRAELI CITIZENS,
ACCORDING TO UPI ON 6 SEPTEMBER.
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xxx on 6 women.
(TEXT) WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ALL TUBE PUMA' ACTIVITIES?
IN TEL AV IV ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER ENANg *WITH SLOOD SNOT
EYES," TOLD NEW 94E114 " I DO NOT THINK ABOUT PEACE slumming.
THE 'PR OELEM NOW IS HOW TO GET RID OF TNIS CATASTROPHE.'
ISRAELI TROOPS WERE SNIT/ Y DEPL OYED l'AT AN UNPRECEDENTED
RATE" ALONG THE SYR IA.PLEBANON BORDER AREA. ON 5 An 9 SEPTEMBER,
WIDER THE PRETEXT OF AVENGING IKE DEATHS. OF THE ISRAEL I .
ATHLETES, MANY ISRAELI AIRCRAFT CARRIED OUT FIERCE ATTACKS
CM THE TERRITORY OF THESE TWO COUNTRIES. THEY /IMBED,
MAC H INE GUNN ED AND 'ROCKETED MANY PALEST TITAN REFUGEE CENTERS
AID OTHER POPO.AT ED AREAS, KILLING OR WOUND NG HUNDREDS OF
WOMEN, OLD PEOPLE AND CHILDREN. AS ANOTHER PROOF OF TiLE NIXON
O. I RUE S 'CRUEL AND HYPOCRITICAL NATURE, THE U.S. DELEGATE TO
. THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL BRAZE*. Y VETOED A DRAFT RE SOL UT ION BY
THE ARAB COUNTRIES CONDEMNING THE CRIMINAL ISRAELI RAIDS AND
DEMAND IN G THAT THEY BE ENDED AT ONCE.
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AT THE PRESENT INTERNATIONAL JUNCTURE, THE RECENT
LOGY INCIDENT MUNICH IS ELOQUENT PROOF or THE CICELY AND PERFIDY
11F THE U.S. AND ISRAELI AGGRESSORS AND ENE DARK DESIGN OF THE
NIXON ADM IN I MAT 101I AND COMPANY TO WRECK PEACE %mon THE
EiTREMEL Y HYPOCRITICAL LABEL Or NUNANIT Y AND PEACE. THE
CARE SSOR S HAVE AVAIL ED THEASELVES OF IKE DEATHS OF 11 ISRAELIS, WH ICH THEY DELIBERATELY sumo TO HAPPEN, TO MASSACRE
HUNDRED S OF ARABS WHOSE FAT NEWLAND US BUN ANNEXED BY THE
ISRAEL IS. THEY PLANNED TO WHIP UP A cnavinnurric HYSTERIA IN
IMAM AND CREATE A FAL SE PROTEST NOVEMENT WITHIN THE CALLED
"C IV IL TEED WORLD" TO VILIFY THE JUST STRUGILE ?OP THE PALESTINIAN
PEOPLE AND TO THREATEN AND SPL IT TEE ARAB commits.
THEY PLOTTED TO ISOLATE THE PALESTINIAN PATRIOT IC MOVEMENT
FROM THE OTHER ARAB PEOPLES AND TIE WORLD'S PEOPLES, THIS
ISRAEL I SCHEME, IS AVID AT PIIIT LIG A CLOAK OF JUST ICE ON THE
AUBE SSOR S AND THE ST IONA OF INJUST ICE AND DARBARITr 011 A ?
MALL NAT ION WHOSE ONLY CR IME IS TO FIGHT AND NAME SACRIFICES
FOR ITS OWN SURVIVAL.
HOWEVER, THE ? PHAR 'SEES OF THE 20TH MT MY HAVE BEEN
INMASKED. THE GOVERNMENT S AND PEOPLES OF SYRIA AID LEBANON
DETERMINEDflE 10 DEAL TILE ISRAELI ARGRESSIIN 5 APPROPRIATE
PLOWS, THE ARAB PEOPLES ARE NOT DUPED BY ?NIS DIVISIVE PLOT.
TITHER HAVE THEY SKR UNE BEFORE MEATS* THE Evan IAN .
CDVERNMENT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATION Or ARAB
FSPUBL ICS CONSISTING OF EGYPT L ISO AND SYRIL, THE ARAB
tracing, AND OTHERS HAVE UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTED T HE 'PALESTINIAN
FEOPLE, DENOUNCED THE ISRAEL IS AND THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS,
AND CALLED ON THE ARAB COUNTRIES TO TAKE COMMON ACT ION TO
OPPOSE THE AGGRESSORS.
/0-61THE AGGRESSORS'PERFIDIOUS MANEUVERS AND ACTS CANNOT
ER CNN THE JUST. VOICE OF THE PALESTINIAN 'toms, WHO CONTINUE TO
EE HEARD IN THE DIN OF BOMB EXPLOSIONS AND CHAUVINIST IC
OUTCRIES. THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HAVE EXPRESSED, THROUGH
THEIR LEADERS. THE DETERMINATION TO SEEK EVERY MEANS TO
SIR DOME FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE. IRIS JUST VOICE HAS ENJOYED
EVER GREAT ER SYM PAT NY AND SUPPORT FROM AU. PROGRESSIVE MANKIND.
THE L S. AND ISRAELI SCHEME TO MAKE THE MOST OF TILE
MOOD Y MUNICH limper! IS VERY PERFIDIOUS, BUT IT WILL NOT WORK,
SINCE OURS IS AN ERA WHEN THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES HAVE ARISEN
TO TAKE THEIR DESTINY INTO THEIR HANDS.
THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE, WHO HAVE SEEN THE TRUE COLORS OF
IMPERIALISt, ESPECIALLY THOUGH THE "NIXON DOCTRINE,"
ARE RESOLVED TO SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE'S FIGHT FOR
THEIR SACRED FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS UNTIL ITS FINAL VICTORY.
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PARAGRAPH FOUR LINE THREE SHOILD READ XXX U.S....ISRAELI SCHEME,
WHICH HAS THE COLLUSION OF THE WEST GERMAN ADMINISTRATION IS
AIMED AT PUTTING XXX CSUPPLY/NG DROPPED WORDS)
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CORRECT ION 14 (SHAN DAN ON 14UNICH)
LAST PARAGRAPH, FIRST LINE SMOILD READ XXX ATMOSPHERE MORE
TENSE, NIX ON ORDERED. THE U.S. FBI AND SECURITY AGENTS TO TAKE XXX
(SUPPLYING DROPPED WORD AND CHANGING WORD ORDER)
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