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...Dagger Thrust. By last week it was evident that Hanoi had lost far more than the momentum of its own tidy timetable for the war. The latest series of reports to Saigon from U.S. officials stationed in each of the nation's 43 provinces showed a marked improvement in peasant morale, and confidence in Premier Ky's government. There is also a sharp increase in willingness to inform on the Viet Cong-and to cooperate with the anti-Communist forces. A small but significant example of this occurred in Ben Cat last week when a V.C. terrorist stepped...
...prison terms of the Alexandria plotters began to expire, and many organized themselves into "quintet groups"-men who had spent five years in prison-and began searching for new blood. Carefully screened recruits were brought in, sent to secret camps for training in judo, dagger fighting and the use of weapons and explosives, then assigned to cells. One cell consisted of three engineers whose job was to plan the sabotage of power stations. A cell of chemists prepared bombs. An airline pilots' cell took charge of arms smuggling, and coordinated activities between the underground and Geneva...
...exclusively to news from south of the border-the Latin American Times. Now in its third week of publication, the eight-page English-language Times is reporting such stories as a survey of the new, incendiary rebel newspapers in Santo Domingo and an exposé of a cloak-and-dagger U.S. Army outfit in Chile that has ruffled feathers in the U.S. embassy. "In any given day," boasts Publisher Leonard Saffir, "the Times prints more news about Latin America than all the rest of the newspapers in the U.S. combined...
Before they fled under a hail of Marine mortar and small-arms fire within minutes after they had come, the raiders destroyed one Delta Dagger jet and two four-engine C-130 Hercules transports and damaged two Delta Daggers and one Hercules. Estimated total cost: $5,000,000. The Viet Cong left behind them trails of blood indicating that several had been wounded. One was captured, turned out to be a North Vietnamese soldier named Do Xuan Hien, 29, who under questioning said that he had infiltrated into South Viet Nam three months ago with his entire battalion...
...Raborn, a retired Navy vice admiral, had gone to Texas to see President Johnson - and to hear himself named director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, replacing John A. McCone. At the same time, the President announced the appointment of Richard McGarrah Helms, 52, an experienced CIA cloak-and-dagger man, as Raborn's top deputy...