HARRIMAN GETS AIDE IN VIET PEACE PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300030002-0
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 18, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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.1n; Viet Peace probe
r:.Cester..I,..Cooperf a White
ouse specialist on Vietnam
nd Communist China until
ast April, has returned to the
ohnson Administration to
oncentrate on peace-probing
n the Vietnamese conflict.
The State Department an-
ounced yesterday that Cooper
s at work as special assistant
o roving Ambassador W. Av-
relI Harriman. Harriman has
ern . assigned' by President
ohnson, as the announcement
ut It,. "to explore all pros-
ects for a peaceful settlement
f the war in Vietnam."
11 Cooper served on the Na-
tonal Security Council staff
hen it was headed by Me-
George Mundy. In his post
l s principal assistant on Asian
ifairs, Cooper was engaged
confidential diplomatic ef-
orts to open channels of com-
unication with North Viet-
ain on subjects ranging from
he treatment of prisoners of
ar, to attempts to produce
egotlatl044 about they vva
.mss-- ~. y ~.?..~.u.e.
Cooper worked for the Central'
Intelligence Agency. He was;
also a member of the V.S.'
delegation to the Geneva Con-
ference in 1954 that ended the
French Indochina war In what
is now North and South Viet-
nam, Laos and Cambodia.
When Cooper left the White
House staff in April, he Joined
the Institute for Defense
Analyses here under a Ford
Foundation grant, with plans
to do research and writing
during a year's leave' of ab-
sence. The State Department
said Cooper agreed to."Inter..
rupt his sabbatical" In order
to work with Ambassador Har.
riman.
Harriman Is'presently await.
Ing word from Prince Noro-?
dom Sihanou of Cambodia on,
whether a planned visit by
Harriman to Cambodia is, on.
or off as A result of a new,
fracas with the United Statesi
over the boptbing o f a .village,
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