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...fight back against Agee's efforts to damage its reputation and hamper its operations. Civil charges against Agee for breaking his CIA secrecy contract?which were used successfully by the agency against ex-CIA Officer Frank Snepp, whose Decent Interval accused the U.S. of bungling the evacuation of Saigon???are ineffective because Agee is living abroad. Since 1977 he has been deported by Britain and France, and he is now in hiding, reportedly in Rome...
Before noon five Communist tanks, a dozen armored personnel carriers and truckloads of green-uniformed troops who wore helmets inscribed TIEN VI SAIGON???Onward to Saigon???swept down Unity Boulevard to the presidential palace. The gates had been left ajar, but one tank, followed by several others, smashed through the fence nonetheless, then fired triumphal salvos. One detachment of troops drove off in a Jeep with Minh to an undisclosed location; later he was brought back to repeat his surrender announcement before being whisked away again...
Washington's struggle to bring the fighting to a close inevitably shifted the U.S. role in the conflict from ally and combatant to mediator between Hanoi and Saigon???and there were signs in the explosive events of last week that the new role was proving to be as slippery as the old one. Although TIME had learned and published the outline of the secret agreements, there was no public confirmation of them until Saigon's fulminations against what was afoot and moves by Washington to seek more negotiations panicked a suspicious Hanoi into breaking its secrecy agreements with...
...briefing in which he claimed that Hanoi has demanded all along that the U.S. "turn over" the South Vietnamese government to its control. It wanted this done both directly, "generously leaving the method to us," and indirectly, by defining U.S. withdrawal as including all military and economic aid to Saigon???as well as all U.S. arms now in South Vietnamese military hands. Said Kissinger: "They are asking us to align ourselves with them, to overthrow the people that have been counting on us." The terms of withdrawal and the future makeup of the Saigon government thus remained two huge barriers...
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