WHO IS KEEPING THE WAR GOING?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120072-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: February 2, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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that President Johnson resumed bombings north ould if it had nothing to fear along the vast and
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fie VOK C Y_ 3 For we would thus remove a worry is as
eon ikeeping, the Kremlin from stirring up' P
V. al, ut the faintest hint of enthusiasm rouble in other. corners of the, world - as it
crease the pressure on Hanoi for a negotiated vould welcome any opportunity to help us thwart
settlement. China and stabilize the situation in Southeast '.1
military circle of policy-makers that this will in- ; light reasonably expect that the Soviet Union
he had been persuaded by his predominantly non- , Weil if the Rusk group is correct, then we .
of the 17th parallel in Vietnam. It appears that isputed smo-boviet borderlands.
And beyond Hanoi, so their pattern of reason sia -such an opportunity as, for example, a
ing goes, we are thereby pressuring Communist esolution to put- the Vietnam question to the
China - serving notice that we are prepared..to N. Security Council.
clear potential is the major problem facing the hopeless, that we cannot get a settlement in Viet-
the assumption that Red China and its infant nu- This 'is not to suggest that the U.N. effort is
Underlying this policy decision, it seems, is trying to expand its aggressive, war.
nary to get a cessation of hostilities in South tive suggests precisely that, as he did'yesterday,
Vietnam. he Soviet delegate charges that the pentagon is
escalate and extend the attacks as may be neces- But what happens? When the U.S. represent-
United States today. That, 'as was effectively . ham before we get' deeper into a war trap in
pointed out ny columnists nUACrL a. AIL" 11 dilU I
Asia.
Paul Scott on this page on Monday, is the premise
of the Rusk-McNamara-Goldberg-Rostow faction
at the White House. It assumes that the rivalry
between China and Russia is so intense that the
Soviet government will cooperate with U.S. ef-
forts to contain the Chinese attempt to expand
into Southeast Asia, or elsewhere.
It supposes, in brief, that it is to our interest'
to take Russia's side against China.
But there is a faction that takes a contrary
.view.
Its spokesmen are CI~A Director Raborn and
J. Edgar Hoover and-Speaker McCormack and
Senators Rusa.ell.and,Dodd and others. They in-
sist that Russia has done nothing to demonstrate
that it has abandoned its long range plan to bury
us and that therefore it is not in our national
;interest t9 let ourselves be lured into trying to
;bury China by force of arms.
It does suggest, however, that we should
not rely on support from Soviet Russia for any
policy that does not lead us to a showdown with
Red China.
'!'hat, in essence, is what the Raborn group
in Washington has been warning of.
And this view is not out of line with the
warnings from General Matt Ridgeway and Gen-
eral James Gavin against committmi massed U.S.
forces to a major land war in, Asia.',
There is hope, as David Lawrence carefully
suggests in his column today, that out of the
Security Council proposal there will evolve some
kind of Vietnam truce.
But if so, it will apparently come over the
objections of the Soviet leaders whose every }
visible move in recent months has had the effect
of fueling the. fires of war in Southeast Asia.
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