Covert Support to Military Government in South Vietnam - CIA FOIA
Covert Support to Military Government in South Vietnam - CIA FOIA
Covert Support to Military Government in South Vietnam - CIA FOIA
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urgent imperative, for President Johnson's partial bomb<strong>in</strong>g suspension<br />
and proposal <strong>to</strong> negotiate with Hanoi had served notice that US support <strong>to</strong><br />
the GVN no longer aimed at defeat<strong>in</strong>g the Communists. 24D<br />
As it worked out, neither the NSF nor Thieu's FDF prospered.<br />
Kaplowitz later thought it naive <strong>to</strong> have expected otherwise, but at the<br />
time he and the other Mission proponents of political mobilization still<br />
hoped <strong>to</strong> f<strong>in</strong>d a formula that would ameliorate <strong>Vietnam</strong>ese factionalism.<br />
While these efforts cont<strong>in</strong>ued, the approach of peace negotiations and<br />
the gradual eclipse of the Station's best political sources, mostly Ky associates,<br />
emphasized the need for improved <strong>in</strong>telligence coverage of the<br />
Thieu regime. 2lD<br />
"Williams, "Election Process," pp,68-70.0<br />
"Koulowitz <strong>in</strong>terview, 20 July 1993.n<br />
Se"4'<br />
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