S. VIET NAM WAR VITAL TEST---DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300020067-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: April 30, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Vital Test- Dulle's
By HOMER CLANCE
Allen, '. Dulle,_yesterday
Sailed the war in South Viet
Nam a "very important test
case" which the U.S. and South
'Viet Nam governments, must
win.
Dulles, former director of the
pentral Intelligence Agency,
told a news conference here that
f the Communists win,
Indonesia and Thailand will then
all to Commupist. subversive
apparatus.
"It would be very disastrous
for us in Asiaand in the world,"
he said,
He said Indonesia "today is
]particularly threatehed" by the
Communists.
LAW WEEK FETE'
Dulles is scheduled to speak at
a San Diego County Bar Associ-
ation luncheon today in the Ter-
rance Room of the Community
Concoursd as a feature of Law
,Week activities.
"We should not aspire to be
policemen for the world," he
said.
"However, there are certain
times and certain.places where
you have to show your strength
or the Communists will take
over nation after nation."
"The logistics problem is very
much more difficult than it was
in Korea," he said. He said that
in Korea, it was known there
were many Chinese troops
across. the Yalu River, but it'
was not believed they would en-1
ter the war there. I
He said that the.Soviet Union
and Red China do not like the',
stepped up activity in the South
Vietnamese war, but "they doi
not like each other, either.
"Neither wants to back the
other, yet neither wants us to
succeed," he said.
Dulles also said he hopes it
will not be necessary to send in
massive U.S. ground forces in
Viet Nam. .
He said government leaders
are opposed to this "if the war
can be won any other way."
BACKS JOHNSON
Dulles said President Johnson
should be given latitude while
we are "sailing in very trouble
waters." He added that t e
President, secretary of state a d
secretary of defense will. "
everything they can to avoi
(full-scale)" war and get an hon-
orable peace."
He said he will discuss the
problem of negotiating with the
communists at today's meet-
ing. a
The best hopes for avoiding al
world war, Dulles said,.. are to'
negotiate with the Communists
and to encourage cultural'ex-
changes and other relations with
them.
"The more they see of us, our
strength, our way of life, our
way of law, the less,danger of
war," he said..
Dulles, who headed the CIA
for eight years, said he doe-
believe the daily air strikes on
North Viet Nam will stiffen
resistance of the Communists.
And he said he does not foresee
another Korea in Viet Nam.
PROBLEM FOI .PEKING
He said he bases the - latter
belief on the fact it would take
Red China "quite a while" to get
troops into action.
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