MEMO 3/1/68 QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE SITUATION IN VIETNAM

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01137574
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: March 1, 1968

pproved for Release: 2019/04/17 CO1137574
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
MEMORAWDUM
SUBJECT:- gUESTIONS COIICERICING_THS__SPLUATIOli.111-VIETRAM
TRH VIIIWRIST POSITION
Nov does Hanoi view the present phase_of the var. for
example, half lialif)i-concluded that a prottatted conflict - - --
is impossible and that it must gain-victory this year or -
collapse?
1. Hanoi's atratesy otreVolUtionary weave in South:
Vietna4 had always earaced tvO propositions: to prepare for a
protracted strsggle and to seek: victoryln:the_shortest possible
tine. From the introduction of large US forces in l96, through..:
the summer of 1967 the emphasis vas-on-the probability Ofa
longed var of attrition. Some-backing-frital fral the protracted
ver thaae became evident in captured documents and Hanoi's props-
.
ganda.later in 1967. In our viev-the