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| 164 | U.S. Department of State, Despatch 278, op. cit, Encl 1, p. 11. |
| 165. | Pike, op. cit., 82, quoting a Radio Hanoi broadcast of June 5, 1964. A CIA agent in 1956 reported that Southern Party organizations had been directed to merge with the Fatherland Front, CIA, Singapore, CS-82270, 16 January 1956. |
| 166. | Cf., Kahin and Lewis, op. cit., 113–116. Also: "New National Front Formed in S. Vietnam," Foreign Broadcast Information Service Bulletin, 31 January 1961, pp. EEE 13–17. On 2 February 1961 (ibid., 2 Feb, EE 5), Radio Hanoi, elaborated: "The French language paper LA DEPECHE DU CAMBODGE [Of Phnom Penh, Cambodia] … on 24 December announced that it had received the manifesto of the front which said that it had come into existence to meet the aspiration of the South Vietnamese people, and that it undertook to liberate them from My-Diem slavery." [The same paper quoted REUTERS, report dated 24 December] "the front may have intensified its political activities in the countryside and among the South Vietnamese armed forces …" The U.S. Department of State, however, has taken the view that the NLF was formed in Hanoi; cf., the "White Papers" of 1961 and 1965, op. cit., and Letter, Under Secretary Katzenbach to Congressman Evans, 5 March 1968. |
| 167. | Carver, op. cit., 361. |
| 168. | For the "official" (February 11, 1961) text of the NLF Manifesto, see Pike, op. cit., 82, 344–347; and CIA, Intelligence Memorandum, "The Organization, Activities, and Objectives of the Communist Front in South Vietnam" (1603/66) 26 September 1966), Annex II. |
| 169. | Pike, op. cit., 347–348. |
| 170. | Ibid., 351. |
| 171. | Ibid., 350–351. |
| 172. | Ibid., 356; "zone" refers to the two "regrouping zones" established by the Armistice Agreement of 1954. |
| 173. | Ibid., 358–369. |
| 174. | CIA, Intelligence Memorandum 1603/66, op. cit., 5–6. |
| 175. | Biographical lnformation on 73 of the leaders and key cadre of the NLF and affiliated organizations indicates that 66% (48) of this group were born in South Vietnam, and that an additional 8 are probably Southerners. Only 2 of the 73 were certainly born in the North, while an additional 2 may have been born there. (The birthplace of 13 of the 73 is unknown.) It can also be ascertained from the biographical data that at least 60 of the 73 are highly educated, particularly so by Asian standards. Ibid. |
| 176. | Ibid., I-44 to I-46. |
| 177. | Ibid., 426–427. |
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