Approved forRelease: 2019/03/29 C00500910 oil LIBRARY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY' iviutdatOrY 446 Intelligence Information Cable c a s nIVAJ 1.114-ftie 'ROUTINE IN -97267 PAGE 1 OF 5 PAGES DIA NMCC/MC SECDEF JCS ARMY NAVY AIR) CIAMMCC NIC NSA OCR SDO AID USIA ONE ORR DCS CGS DDI FXO This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmisson or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. 110-FORETG/1-fti-55E44� IS AN INFORMATION -R-E-T COUNTRY: DOI: SUBJECT: .COMMENTS NORTH VIETNAM 3.3(h)(2) ,ACQ: SOURCE: SUMMARY., REPORT. NOT FINALLY attligetTED INTELLIGENCE. 2112452 3.3(h)(2) CITE GROUP' &doled from relimetic degropmdieg awl thaessificatie. DIST 21 NOVEM3ER 1967 3.3(h)(2) REGARDING DISCONTENT AMONG INTELLECTUALS IN NORTH VIETNAM AND NORTH VIETNAMESE PREMIER'S DETERMINATION TO CONTINUE THE WAR. NORTH VIETNAMESE PREMIER -R-E-T NO FUKtIUN uISSEM Approved for Release: 2019/03/29 C00500910 3.5(c) INSBURQN p ',77.301 f DE c LEC CAtt - 3.3(h)(2) 3.3(h)(2) Approved for Release: 2019/03/29 C00500910 IN �9726-7 Mpg tvOF 5 :PAGES S�E� �E�T (classification) (ilium controls) � TO FULFILL THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. 3. AP RAIDS HAVE DEMORALIZED THE PEOPLE IN CERTAIN. AREAS PARTICULARLY WHEN STEEL PELLET BOMBS WERE USED, SINCE THEY TEND TO "MAIM HORRIBLY" RATHER THAN KILL. HOWEVER, EVEN AN INCREASE IN BOMBING WOULD NQT SUCCEED . IN SHAKING NORTH VIETNAMESE FANATICISM UNLESS THE TOP LEADERS WERE ELIMINATED. SUCH AN EVENT IS NOT LIKELY, SINCE THE LEADERS ARE NOT CONCENTRATED IN ONE SPOT. 4. DESPITE NUMBERS OF POLITICAL COMMISSARS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, THE PEOPLE GENERALLY DO ,NOT APPEAR TO BE AS CONCERNED WITH IDEOLOGY AS WITH THE PROBLEM OF FIGHTING THE WAR. _ THE NORTH VIETNAMESE DO NOT APPEAR TO BE RABID COMMUNISTS IN, TERMS OF THE -,CULTURAL REVOLUTION OR STALINIST CONCEPTS. SEVERAL NORTH VIETNAMESE CONDEMNED THE CHINESE INFLUENCE ON NORTH VIETNAM AND EXPRESSED FEAR THAT COMMUNIST CHINA WOULD ONE DAY OCCUPY THEIR COUNTRY. NORTH VIETNAMESE NATIONALISM IS CHARACTERIZED BY FANATICAL PRIDE, WHICH IS NOT EXCEEDED EVEN IN CUBA OR CHINA. 5. THE NORTH VIETNAMESE DO NO APPEAR TO CONSIDER Approved for Release: 2019/03/29 C00500910 �E�T (clantbatten) Approved for Release: 2019/03/29 000500910 IN �92267 TDCS.:311#1.70504 Moen controls) PAGE 3 OF 5 PAGES CONSIDERED NORTH VIETNAM DEFEATED . PRAM ALSO COMMENTED THAT THE POSITION OF. THE NATIONAL FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION � OF SOUTH VIETNAM HAD IMPROVED. 2. ALT HOUGH MOST NORT H VIETNAMESE, PARTICULARY IN RURAL AREAS DEM ONSTRA TE A FANATIC DETERMINATION TO PURSUE THE WAR TO ITS ULTIMATE CONCLUSION, THERE ARE DISCONTENTED ELEMENTS IN THE C IT IES ESPECIALLY AMONG INTELLECTUALS WHO HAVE STUD IED ABROAD.THEY WANT THE GOVERNING REG IME TO FIND A SOLUTION TO THE WAR THROUGH NEGOTIATION SO THAT THEIR COUNTRY CAN BE RE CONSTRUCTED AND THE PEOPLE CAN HA VE A BETTER L I FE SEVER AL CHEMISTS, DOCTORS, AND ENGINEERS SA ID THAT THE WAR WAS LEADING NOWHERE AND IF CONTINUED WOULD "BLEED NORTH VIET NAM ' WHITE " THEY THOUGHT THAT THE PRESIDIUM OF THE . NORTH VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST PARTY,WHICH IS STAFFED .WITH PARTY ELDERS SHOULD BE REJUVENATED. SEVERAL SENIOR MILITARY OFFICERS SA ID A QUICK AND COMPLETE MODERNIZATION OF THE COUNTRY WAS NECESSARY BUT THAT PR OGRESS WOULD BE SLOW AS LONG AS THE VAR CONTINUED. HOWEVER THEY INDICATED NO -SIGN OF WEAKENING AND CONTINUED Approved for Release: 2019/03/29 000500910 3.3(h)(2) ":`� � � Approved for Release: 2019/03/29 c005009101N _97267 PAGE 2 OF 5 PAGES S-E- --E-T OkEI GIN1 DI 5Stri (classification) (astern controls) 3.5(c) PHAM VAN DONG STATED IN OCTOBER 1967 THAT NORTH VIETNAM WOULD NOT NEGOTIATE UNTIL MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST IT WERE ENDED AND WOULD NEVER NEGOTIATE WITH AN ENEMY WHICH CONSIDERED NORTH VIETNAM DEFEATED THAT THE NORTH VIETNAMESE SEEM DETERMINED TO CONTINUE THE WAR, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT ARDENT COMMUNISTS. cAlL"-SWIAvr: HOWEVER, INTELLECTUALS WHO HAVE STUDIED ABROAD WISH A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT IN ORDER TO RECONSTRUCT THEIR COUNTRY. SOME MILITARY OFFICERS WOULD LIKE _THE 4/AR TO END FOR. THE SAME REASON, BUT THEY CONTINUE TO FAITH- FULLY FULFILL THEIR DUTIES. END SUMMARY. 1. N OR T H VIETNAMESE PREMIER PI-{AM VAN DONG STATED RECENTLY THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR NORTH VIETNAM TO ACCEPT AMERICAN NEGOTIATION PROPOSALS UNLESS MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST NORTH VIETNAM WERE HALTED FIRST. THE PREMIER SAID NORTH VIETNAM WOULD NEVER SIT AT A CONFERENCE TABLE SO LONG AS THEIR TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY WAS NOT RESPECTED AND WOULD NEVER NEGOTIATE WITH AN ADVERSARY WHQ Approved for Release: 2019/03/29 C00500910 3.3(h)(2) 3.3(h)(2) � , Approved for Release: 2019/03/29 C00500910 ' S�E� �E�T NO 1-jRLIGN GIL:EH (classification) (dissent controls) r PAGE 5 OF PAGES WITH GREAT REGRET THE POSSIBLITY THAT HANOI MIGHT BE DESTROYED. IF IT WERE DESTROYED, THEY FEEL THAT THEY COULD BUILD A MODERN CITY, WHICH WOULD BE MORE DIFFICULT TO DO OTHERWISE. 3.3(h)(2) 6. DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACTHAI NSA CINCPAC OACFLT ARPAC pACAF REPORT CLASS CECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM GP-1 S�E� �E�T 4 '4: Approved for Release: 2019/03/29 C00500910 3.3(h)(2)

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