CABLE TO DIRECTOR INFO HONOLULU FROM SAIGON

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02650673
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2021
• Case Number: F-2019-00574
• Publication Date: June 1, 1972

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MISSION REPLY TO REFS FOLLOWS HEREWITH:
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"I. MISSION PREPARED TO MOVE AHEAD RAPIDLY WITH SOME
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Or PROJECTS PROPOSED IN REFS AND SUPPORTS OTHERS FOR WHIC
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, UNAVAILABLE HERE, IS NECESARY.
SAME TIME BELIEVE IT ADVISABLE TO KEEP IN MIND PRACTICAL TI S.
DESIRABLE TO gmpLoY ALL POSSIBLE TECHNIQUES TO DRIVE WEDGES
AMONG LEADERS OF NVN AND PLAY UPON KNOWN OR SUSPtOTED DRV
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRESSES AND STRAINS; NEVERTHELESS
WE POSSESS MUCH LESS KNOWLEDGE OF INTERNAL CONDITIONS IN
NVN THAN WE WOULD LIKE OR, FOR EXAMPLE, USG HAD ABOUT EAST
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. THUS:
A. THERE IS GREAT SHORTAGE OF DATA USEABLE FOR
TACTICAL PROPAGANDA OPERATIONS.
B. THERF` IS NO INDICATION or A BRE4KDOWN OF INTERNAL
SECURITY IN DRV.
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Co DIRECT IMPACT OF PUBLIC OPINION ON DRV POLICY..
MAKING IS PROBABLY NEGLIGIBLE, AS IN OTHER TOTALITARIAN
COUNTRIES, ALTHOUGH PUBLIC RESISTANCE OR TROUBLE CAN
FORCE LEADERS TO MAKE CERTAIN POLICY CHANGES.
D. OUR EXPERIENCE FACTOR ON HOW TO MOVE NVN
PUBLIC OR LEADERSHIP OPINION IS ALMOST NONEXISTENT.
WE HAVE NO TRUE MEASUREMENT OF IMPACT OF MANY HEARS
OF U.S. PSYWAR OPERATIONS AGAINST NVN.
2 AGAINST THIS BRIEF BACKGROUND, MISSION HAS SET IN
MOTION WHAT WE BELIEVE IS MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN OF RADIO
OPERATIONS, WHITE AND GRAY, AND WE PLACE FOLLOWING
PRIORITIES ON REF MESSAGES PROJECTS:
A. INSERTION OF RADIOS EXCELLENT IDEA AND MESHES
WITH CURRENT USG RADIO BROADCASTING TO NVN. T HEORET
CALLY, MORE RADIOS SHOULD INCREASE OUR AUDIENCES. WE
FAVOR SMALL TRANSISTOR SETS, MEDIUM WAVE BAND, MANU�
FACTURED .( OR MARKED AS IF MANUFACTURED) IN EAST GERMANY,
USSR, PEOPLES. REPUBLIC OF CHINA. SO FAR AS WE CAN LEARN,
IT IS COMMUNIST COUNTRY (NOT JAPANESE) SETS THAT ARE
LEGITIMATELY ON SALE IN DRV.
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PRESENTLY UNUSED PR I NT 40 PRESSES WHICH COULD 134
ACTIVATED ON SHORT NOTICE WITH VIETNAMESE PERSONNEL.
I TOYING WITH HO CHI MINH IS OPPOSED BY MISSION
SAIGON TASK FORCE. 'HO IS A RESPECTED ALL�VIETNAMESE
SYMBOL, PARTICULARLY NOW THAT HE IS DEAD. NOT ONLY
ANTI�US STUDENT fp BUT ALSO ANTI�COMMUNIST BUDDHIST
IN SOUTH VIETNAM CONTINUES TO LOOK ON HO AS GREAT
NATIONALIST WHO BROKE THE COLONIAL YOKE (REGARDLESS
OF WHAT HE DP) AFTERWARD). ATTEMPT TO CAPITALIZE ON
HIS WILL AND TESTAMENT AND VARIOUS STATEMENTS RUNS
SERIOUS RISK OF BEING PROVEN WRONG -- OR AT BEST WHOLLY
DISBELIEVED AND THUS COULD BE COUNTER PR ODUCT IVE ."
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B, PROPAGANDA TO ENCOURAGE NORTH VIETNAMESE TO
WRITE TO VARIOUS ORGANS milout MISSING RELATIVES IS FINE
IDEA. FITS WITH ANNOUNCEMENT OF POW NAMES NOW BEING
MADE BY VOICE OF,FREEDOM, VOICE OF AMERICA, AND GRAY
RADIO, NVN PUBLIC CAN WRITE TO THIRD COUNTRIES (FRANCE
IS BEST KNOWN), WHILE ALL MAIL TO SOUTH VIETNAM IS
BLOCKED,
Ce RUMOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST NORTH VIETNAMESE FORCES
IS CLEARLY DESIRABLE AND WILL BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGH
VARIOUS CHANNELS,
De GENERATION. WAR ESCALATION HINTS CAN BE
IMPLEMENTED RAPIDLY AND EASILY, SPECIFICS WILL HAVE
TO BE AGREED UPON AND CLEARED TO ENSURE THAT WE DO
NOT ACCIDENTALLY COMPROMISE ACTUAL MILITARY PLANS.
E. WE FAVOR OPERATION TO COMPROMISE NVA PILOTS,
IS INTELLIGENCE ON PILOT NAMES AND ADDRESSES OR OTHER
IDENTIFICATION AVAILABLE; CAS HERE DOES NOT HAVE ANY.
F, ALTHOUGH PARIS HAS LARGE GVN PRESENCE, IT
SHOULD BE POSSIBLE TO TRAIN AND SEND SPECIAL SOUTH
VIETNAMESE TEAM TO TRY ENGENDER DRV DEFECTIONS, HARD
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TO DO, BUT WORTH TRYING. ACTION WOULD BE IMMENSELY
POPULAR WITH THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE SELECTED FOR THE
ROLE.
G. INSERTION OF BOGUS DOCUMENTS DEPENDS ON
AVAILABILITY OF SUFFICIENT INTELLIGENCE RE VALIDITY
AND APPLICABILITY OF SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS. CAS SAYS SUCH
NFORMATION NOT AVAILABLE IN SAIGON. DOCUMENTS SHOULD
REFER TO SPECIFIC PERSONS AND QUESTIONS, IF WE HAVE
DATA BANK FOR MEANINGFUL EFFORT. WE ARE SKEPTICAL
ABOUT PRACTICABILITY OF THIS IDEA.
H. INSERTION OF BOGUS CURRENCY g WE DO NOT FAVOR
THIS. TO PREPARE THE BOGUS NOTES AND ATTACHED MESSAGES
REQUIRES USE OF UNCLEARED VIETNAMESE PERSONNEL, AND
THIS AND OTHER FACTORS (SUCH AS THE EXCESSIVE NUMBER
OF PROBINGU(,S. CORRESPONDENTS IN SAIGON) ALMOST
GUARANTEES LEAKS;. A DOCUMENTED NEWS REPORT ON U.S.
COUNTERFEITING OF VIETNAMESE MONEY WOULD HAVE
SERIOUS EFFECTS IN WASHINGTON AND ELSEWHERE. IT IS
UNFORTUNATE., PUT THE USG HAS NO 'vIN-,HOUg" CLASSIFIED
PRINTING FACILITIES IN SAIGON. CAS DOES, HOWEVER, HAVE
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