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Still within the Executive Branch, there are important questions to be asked about the effectiveness of our intelligence operations and our ability to draw policy conclusions from intelligence information. It is extraordinary how often our side was wrong about what the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong could and would do. We have consistently underestimated their military capability-especially their ability to adjust to our moves-and we have overestimated their interest in negotiating. We possess tons of captured enemy documents. We have interrogated thousands of prisoners and flown thousands of reconnaissance sorties. Our South Vietnamese allies presumably have agents...
...elections near, there have been a number of examples of such tactics. Ky was recently locked out of a hall where he was scheduled to speak, and 23 of the last 25 issues of his newspaper, the Lap Truong, have been seized. A prominent anti-Thieu Deputy, Ngo Cong Due, was arrested for striking a provincial councilor who spat beer in his face...
...South Viet Nam's independence more harm than good." The problem, says Worsthorne, is that American troops-once necessary to inspirit the laggard South Vietnamese-have become dangerously demoralized. "Drug-saturated, mutinous, defeatist, incompetent, they constitute more of a threat to the South Vietnamese than do the Viet Cong," he contends...
Benoit provides a provocative but mysterious answer: ". . . Vietnam hostilities will effectively end, probably without a peace treaty by 1973, through a Hanoi decision to withdraw, and by the re-civilianization of the Viet Cong and transition to a low level insurgency-thus providing the Republic of Vietnam with a respite of uncertain duration...
...strengthening of local governments and the decentralization of the central government in order to facilitate accommodation between "Viet Cong and non-communist forces...