MR PRESIDENT:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S02149R000200040015-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 1, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

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Mr. MAUNOIR Reg. 952 .1 one 1966
Ha-.noi, 'dMay 18, 1966 (202)".(69)
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NUOC VIE` -NAM DAN CHU CONG HOA
Dien tin: VIETNAMCROS$-'HANOI
Mr. Samuel A. Gonard
President
international Committee.
of the Red Cross
Geneva `
X i) Prosident:
L {.; ,.,,, AM.fc (,r MAv.. luminous and flourishing, have
of Nam--dinh and Vinh, the coon yor seriaus
numerous other populous localities in Nor- h Vietnam.
still, they have raided and raked the suburbs of Hanoi, the
h the power-station of Uong bi,
territory of the Democratic Republic o e ?
While using B.52 bombers for the purpose of raiding several
times a locality in the province of Qum binh, they dispatched
their "Jets" in barbarous airraiding missions against the towns
t towns of Phu ly; Ninh binh and
American imperialists have feverishly reinforced t a r
in North Vietnam and have intensified their airraids over the,;
f Vi tnam
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satellite countries to over 270,000 men h .'escalade"
Parallel, in fact, with the massive introduction of fresh
supplies of troops to the South Vietnam, thus*+raising the total
strength of the expeditionary force of the United States and the
ril 25 19661, the
(on A
this year.
the Vietnamese people in the course o
help circl`eling your (~1/VC?VJ?d,. I--d
ly barbarous crimes committed by the American imperia:.~Lsts against
P the first five months ' of
celebrating in the midst of Joy t ese
cannot
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a the Ist and 8th of May, which are_ full ofAsignificance, a
returned. While the peoples of many countries ira w,u ..-;-
international holidays, such
outst of the port of Hai .susone,
the dam of Thacba, and the industrial plants at Cam pha. Churches,
hospitals, schools and populous districts are their main objectives,
which enables them to massacre catholic priests and believers,
the sick and children.
On May 5, 1966,? the small Seminary of Xa doai in the commune
of Nghi lien, district of Nghi be, province of Nghe-an, was raided
by American jet planes. The church and the school-were seriously
damaged; the portraits-and statues ;of the Saints were smashed to
atoms, the head-priest of the Seminary was seriously injured, On d
April 24, 1966 the American air pirates raided a group of 86
inhabitants (42 dead-and 44 wounded), all,oatholics going to Vespers
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