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COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM DATE OF INFO HOW BREPORT NOT DCSDB-3/651,039 SUBJECT VIEWS OF BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH DATE DISTR. 14 AUGUST 196AH-BUNI VIETNAM, H.A.F. HOHLER, ON A NEUTRALIST DUNGAN DEB SOLUTION FOR SOUTH VIETNAM DA TEL/DEAL PRECEDENCE ROUTINE KAYSEN KILDUFF EARLY AUGUST 1962 REFERENCES HOGE ELGON 43629 ERSEN PLACE & DATE ACQ. VIETNAM, SAIGON (7) AUGUST-1962) TAYLOR DYLINO INVI 11 12 2002 100

APPRAISAL SEE BELOW FVS-7782 FODDESTA THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE SOURCE CAN INDEPENDENT VIETNAMESE JOURNALIST (C) WITH EXTENSIVE CONTACTS; FROM ANOTHER EN VIETNAMESE JOURNALIST. APPRALTHOUGH IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT THE STATEMENTS SET FORTH IN THE REPORT WERE MADE AS INDICATED, IT IS CONSIDERED DOUBTFUL THAT AMBASSADOR HOHLER ACTUALLY HOLDS THE VIEWS 2001 ATTRIBUTED TO HIM

THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH VIETNAM, HTA.F. HOHLER, TOLD A VIETNAMESE JOURNALIST 2 AUGUST 1962 THAT HE HAD BEEN READING SOME OF THE JOURNALIST'S ARTICLES AND WAS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN A LATE JUNE ARTICLE ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS AND THE SOVIETS OVER NORTH VIETNAM, MAFTER DISCUSSING THESE 1 DIFFERENCES AT LENGTH THE AMBASSADOR-STATED HIS BELIEF THAT, A THIRD FORCE IN VIETNAM VIS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE, BUT ACTUALLY EXISTS, AND THAT SUCH A THIRD FORCES IN NORTH VIETNAM, COMBINED WITH NEUTRALIST ELEMENTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM, IS THE ONLY HOPE FOR VIETNAM. HOHLER EMPHASIZED THAT THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR SOUTH VIETNAM ISTA NEUTRALIST COALT ALON FROM OLICES VI THE

THE COMLE OF GELE

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CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET 43629 TDCS DB-3/651,039 NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL/BACKGROUND USE ONLY THAT WORKED OUT FOR LAOS THE AMBASSADOR SAID THAT THE AMERICANS

TARE NOT TRAINED IN GUERILLA WARFARE AND CAN NOT WIN THE WAR AGAINST THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS (VG) IN SOUTH-VIETNAM.

1. THE CONVERSATION TOOK PLACE AT THE HOME OF PETER ROBERTS, INFORMATION OFFICER AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN SAIGON, WHERE JOURNALIST ROBERTS ARRANGED MEETING BETWEEN THE AND AMBASSADOR HOHLER JOURNALIST THE HAS KNOWN ROBERTS FOR SOMETIME THROUGH PRESS CONFERENCES AI AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS AMONG JOURNALISTS. THE WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT ROBERTS THAD ARRANGED THEY MEETING AT THE REQUEST TO IN A JOURNALIST. AMBASSADOR WHO HADO EXPRESSED A DESIRE TOLTALK WITH HIM. JOURNALIST. THE REVIEWS DURING THE CONVERSATION THE ASSURED THE AMBASSADOR THAT IFARE FROM BEING NEUTRALIST MINDED, HE FEARS NEUTRALISMOFORESTE SOUTH VIETNAM MORE THAN ANY OTHER SOLUTION. SINCE HE BELIEVES

INDICUTED IN THAT THE COINNEIDER 30839 LEND NEVEETEOS FOR CITA NEUTRALISM TO BE NO MORE THAN A MAJORISTERIATOWARD ULTIMATE TAKEOVERY AND CONTROL BY THE COMMUNIST ROBERTSPOINTEDLY DISAGREED ON

VISTHYAMBASSADOR HOHLER'S STATEMENT THAT THERE IS NO CHANCE OF EWING THE WAR IN SOUTH VIETNAM, INDICATING THAT IT IS MUCH TOO

LEARLY TO MAKE SUCH A BLUNT STATEMENT, ALLUDING TO THE HUGE EFFORT

UNDER WAY AND THE GAINS DALREADY APPARENT ROBERTS DID SAY, HOWEVER THAT THE SURFACING OF THE OPERATIONS IN NORTH VIETNAMESE

NGHE AN AND HOA BINH SHOULD DEMONSTRATE TO THE OF AMERICANS AND TO THE GOVERNMENT/VIETNAM THE FUTILITY OF SUCH OPERATIONS CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL/BACKGROUND USE ONLY

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ROBERTS ALSO COMMENTED THAT HE WAS SURPRISED AT THE FAILURE

OF THE VC TO REACT EARLIER IN THE PROPAGANDA FIELD TO OBVIOUSLY

EXPLOITABLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT NGO DINH DIEM AND THE AMERICANS. JOURNALIST SOURCE COMMENT THE SAID THAT HE THINKS THE ARTICLE THAT CAUGHT RACCOMA ANT31090300 THE INTEREST OF AMBASSADOR HOHLER/ONE DATELINED SAIGON 29 JUNE 1962,

APPEARING IN AN EARLY SULYWISSUE OF THE PHILIPPINE HERALD, ENTITLED INTRA PARTY RIFT IN RED NORTH VIETNAM MOSCOW HAS AN EDGE ON PEIPING?" JOURNALIST, THE SAID THAT HE BELIEVED THE

AMBASSADOR HAD READ OUT OF THE CONTEXT AND MISINTERPRETED VARTOUS STATEMENTS IN THE ARTICLE TO WHICH HE REFERRED,

JOURNALIST THE STATEMENTS BELIEVED /LED HIM TO CONSIDER THEM A NEUTRALIST! INVOLVED WHICH APPEAR IN LAST PARAGRAPH OF THE ARTICLE, ARE JOURNALIST

AS FOLLOWSED STUDENTS OF COMMUNIST NORTH VIETNAM AERE WERE... OF AGREEMENT THAT THE REPORTED GAINS - AT LEAST FOR THE TIME

BEING, WILL EXERTA TEMPERATE INFLUENCE ONE THE COURSE OF LEVENTSEM UNLESS THE SERIES ARE FURNED BY PEPPING IN FAVOR OFF SPUPPETSING MYRN THEIR PUPPETS AND IF THE FREE WORLD KNOWS HOW TO CASH INION THE RED DISPUTE THE CHANCES WERE NOTISMISSED OF OR LONGER TRUCE IN WEEL A TION TO EMBATTLED VIETNAM SOLUTION LAOS, AND EVEN OF A POLITICAL

FIELD COMMENT SIN WELATE JULY CONVERSATION WITH AN AMERICAN OBSERVER THE COUNSELLOR OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN SAIGON BURROWS ATTACKED THE DIEM GOVERNMENT, STATING THAT CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET NOLNOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL/BACKGROUND USE ONLY

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THERE COULD BE NO HOPE OF PROGRESS AGAINST THE VC.

UNLESS DIEM WERE REMOVED IN CRITICIZING THE

ILLIBERALITY OF THE DIEM REGIME, BURROWS APPLIED STANDARDS OF CRITICISM THAT EVEN THE MOST ADVANCED WESTERN DEMOCRACY WOULD FAILE TO MEET. DURING THE SAME CONVERSATION, COLONEL HENRY LEE, MILITARY ATTACHE TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY, EXPRESSED HIS OPINION THAT THE WAR AGAINST THE VC WAS NOT PROCEEDING FAVORABLY FROM THE WESTERN POINT OF VIEW HE APPEARED CRITICAL OF DIEM AND SEEMED INCLINED TOWARD A MILITARYMJUNTANE POSSIBLY HEAD OF Walchokol

MAJOR GENERAL DUONG VĂN MINH.)

(FIELD COMMENT FREDERICK E NOLTING, COMMENTED ON 8 AUGUST THAT AMBASSADOR HOHLER HAS NEVER GIVER THE STIGHTEST INDICATION THAT THAT HE HOLDS THE VIEWS ATTRIBUTED TO HIM IN THIS REPORT. ON 8 AUGUST, AMBASSADOR HOHLER TOOK A COMPLETELY CONTRARY LINE IN A DISCUSSION WITH AMBASSADOR NOLT ING, EXPRESSING OPTIMISM REGARDING THE PROSPECTS FULITER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAMAMBASSADOR NOLTING SATE THAT HE

BELTEVEDETART THE INFORMATION SHOULD BE TREATED WITH GREAT.. RESERVE, AND WITH THE POSSIBLILITY IN MIND THAT IT MAY REPRESENT A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO CREATE MISTRUST BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES GREAT BRITAIN AND (FIELD COMMENT NGO DINH NHƯ BROTHER AND POLITICAL ADVISOR OF PRESIDENT NGO DINH DIEM, TOLD AN AMERICAN OBSERVER CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL/BACKGROUND

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ON 8 AUGUST THAT, WHILE HE CONSIDERS FRENCH POLICY BOTH IN PARIS AND IN SAIGON TO HAVE AS ITS. OBJECTIVE THE NEUTRALIZATION OF SOUTH VIETNAM AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, HE FEELS THAT THE BRITISH HAVE A CONTRARY POLICY MORE SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE US NHU SAID THAT HE HAS HAD NO INDICATIONS THAT CAUSE HIM CONCERN WITH RESPECT TO THE BRITISH ROLE IN SOUTH VIETNAM, AND INITIATED THE COMMENT THAT AMBASSADOR HOHLER HAD SAID TO HIM RECENTLY THAT AN INTER- NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOUTH VIETNAM OR THE NEUTRALIZATION OF SOUTH VIETNAM WAS "UNTHINKABLE."). 8. FIELD DISSEM: STATE (AMBASSADOR ONLY), CINCPAC PACFLT PACAF ARPAC.

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