Deception and downright lies about bombing dykes

Workers Press no. 839, 11 August 1972 · scan page 3

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THE PENTAGON is engage propaganda campaign to bombing of North Vietnam's and dykes.

After months of denials, the US government was military targets had been bombed accidentally! In an attempt to back up this implausible story the Defence Department last week released photographs which it claimed showed anti-aircraft guns mounted on a dyke.

In their view, this made the dyke a 'legitimate' target-though as the North Vietnamese sharply pointed out the US has no right to be bombing North Vietnam at all, since the two countries are not formally at war.

The North Vietnamese said that in any case there was no dyke in the picture. They said that what was called a 'dyke' was actually an earth •embankment The Tered 'river' was really a small nearby lake.

The Pentagon's crude efforts to cover its crimes are not convincing, particularly in view of the latest admissions from that department.

Swedish journalist Sven Nose ye an and secured. foreign editor NorthR honors ande ned action bombs means of inflicting terror on the population behind the dykes' He said the magnetic bombs prevented workers from using machines to fill in craters caused by earlier explosions.

Some of the bombs were Pd in a frantic justify' the flood defences charges as part of a 'monstrous lie campaign'.

He and his fellow journalists were 'conscious tools of Hanoi, the Department said.

Then they produced the 'evidence'-the photograph of anti-aircraft guns on top of a 'dyke'.

The State Department last week categorically denied the use of delayedHERTELL SAL8