EL SALVADOR AND VIETNAM: HOW TO READ HISTORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100090042-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: April 18, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
18 April 1982
By'Robe.,11anning organize' against--the ?'retium of ? Indo
Special to..'i he.Globe ~=China's~Prench?colonizers after. the wars,;';
to a. pair photo raphs `taken in 1945:
g " ~enL' anklin Roosevelt,`-was to.op
.hen,President Rea an"at` "' '7
g Thouah those old nhotooranhs-today:1
ri
p '._ .. .., ~ ?-
in February delivered his .J
Ainer?cans=&-batning for.war--t~fie:very'sal-
vne snow9 tunencan 036 z~enrs wnv naa F ' .se Frances return. to_control over?Indo-:
infiltrated into Vietn :an:.they are teaching
Vietnam, the United Stages had been in-:. I coliaboration between
..Americans 1
.creasingly involved f o r '20"vears' in the" and Ho s Vietnamese was i f far mnrP than
said) ordered 'a brigade of US Marines intp., A rhaaoe in Amez3CSn policy
Chi blink saluting as the flag of Ho's newly vided then.vrith machine 13rwnin
roclaimed Independent Republic of Viet:;; g-
P autornhticrifles; and gmnades. ]l? baps as
-nam is=raised.:.Standin ET with'. the
Viet
many?as.~OQ:future leader s;of-North:Viet
>`namese at full salute are uniformed Amen- nam's armed forces got early. training from
can members of the OSS.tea n. the American OSS men. Soiree of us,?. Par
:.Contrary to Mr .: Reagan s stmpttstic re- ti wrote later,, nay have suspected that in. J
construction of history Ame-Ica s Involve the future the weapons.a id training might
ment'In its longest war began not sudden-k be used - against the French:` -but -no one
y`in--1965^ but at he time pinpointed.;-In-.1 1 dreamed -that.th ey. would::ever.'be.. used
grenades.. The other. - taken' on- Sept.: 2.- - i ridr'tbe:r several-. hundred insur.
"-A r
.'Vietnamese insurgents how to throw hand ?"' . turned geaeral`.Vo Nguyen
`struggle for.:contro) of Vietnam; and had ` eclinical vrlueto Ho: His artful use of the '
already become engaged in fighting there 'dance spreai throughout?.Vietnam the_;
1 '= It beganwith. that OSS mission In the-. =Impiesslon tliat that America' truly fa
waning daysof World War II. The wartime: & ibred Vietnamese Independence and. sup=
agency, later to become the CIA, sent the., ported = Ho Chi- Minh's -deterrriination. to.
team, under:'a-young Army major named ::~ fdrestalT France's return.:`On tlie`day`he
Archimedes Patti. to "establish an intelli- proclaimed ;:independence='"the` event
gence network-in the entire. peninsula of,- 14-,faemorIalized-in the flag-raising. photo -.
Indo-China.`.' It'-was thought then that the:: _,irlo released a _Declaration of Independence
fight against-.Japan. whose forces had oc=. , ydrawing.heavlly,on. the language of Ameri
. ,cupled Vietnam;- might go on for another,:,'. Ica s own Declaration. Major; Patti even
two or three;=years:Path's .team, was_ helpedHo compose it. ("He.had-the words charged wIth'-reconnoitering Japanese'.., Life and liberty? kind of transposed. and. I
forces and harassing them when possihle. _~ro;sed; it:out a little bit for
and with' establishing esca routes for
shot-down American iers: .It needed reli= FyAnd'as the'Republic s'red flag with its
able'native contacts. Patti. 'drawing on an yellow star was `b uIte .raised.: there r
a quite inadvertently, It
BOSS dossier. that told .of the. exploits of a, Imjeo overhead.
049h.-wispy ppears, ;a squadron of American?fighter
a seemtn Vietnamese Com=~i
g ypjanm..'Out.:;of_ curiosity? the.:planes
muntst:`called=Ho:Chi:;Mirth.(:'He ;who`d
enlighteris'`)aet out" to'hook::up with- thew~T over: the Independence I?ay
ccrowd.-and:wordsoon swept.through the.
considerable.-.utsdergroiirid rorganizationi``
^gountryside.of~an:Amertcan aerial. salute.
5 that Ho;-while in exile in France and Chi .-et another: sign that the United States
gnat had builE fo resist'th~ Japanese and to-:i i : _.., . . , .. ..
;.~ .. . ,. pported freedom. from France: r ,: rl'?:,i
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