CIA STILL IN VIETNAM 2M TEN

under its control.

A large army of 'civilian Stories of violations of the to the foreign press.

In order to understand the the forces of American The CIA has been active in According to the 'Pentagon Soldiers were trained, dresIn September 1954, after the CIA men did succeed in conmarched into the city.

The first steps were taken paramilitary operations.

The CIA undertook the US troops leaving Vietnam la agents sent to the Philipp had finished their training were flown back to Vietnan the US air force. They 1 slipped ashore in Haipl before the Vietminh took 1 in May 1955.

The report printed in 'Pentagon Papers' says:

'It had taken a tremenc amount of hard work to the Geneva deadline, to loc select, exfiltrate, train, i trate, equip the men have them in place ready actions required against enemy. It would be a hard to do openly, but this har be kept secret from the V minh, the International ( trol Commission with its picious French, Poles Indians and even friendly V namese.' The methods employed the CIA to win a foothold the US in Vietnam after defeat of the French thro flood of light on American tics since the ceasefire. ast year-but the 'advisers' remain behind to train men for Thieu. ines In December 1972, columnthey ist Jack Anderson exposed n by Pentagon plans for maintaining a paramilitary force in Vietnam after the withdrawal of 10ng American troops. According to over the ceasefire agreement bases were to be completely dismantled and both sides were to lous begin talks. beat Instead, a host of so-called civilian advisers arrived or remained in Vietnam nominally infiland employed by US corporations for such as International Telephone and Telegraph -- whose task relations with the CIA in Chile and Argentine are notorious/ietSperry-Rand, Leard Siegler and Con- others. sus- They have been recruited and through the US army and, al/ietthough out of uniform, are still on the Pentagon's payroll. by Most of them have already been at least a year in Vietfor nam. They receive 25 per cent more than they were getting before, plus a right to a job tacwith the firms they allegedly serve at a later date.

The regime of Nguyen Van Thieu continues to throw South Vietnam wide open to American penetration through the corporations with. which the 'advisers' are linked.

In the meantime they mostly work on military projects having nothing to do with the reconstruction of the country after the ravages of war. If need arises they are available for combat duties.

The 'advisers' work in areas close to those controlled by the Government. If captured they would claim to be civilians.

American imperialism does not intend to relinquish its positions in Indo-china although it has been forced for the present to abandon its pretensions of outright military conquest. The CIA implantation, which dates back to 1954, is an indication of its longterm intentions.