Word: vc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things we said. But we also then asked whether the material coming in was significant. I think the general impression was that there was a significant flow of munitions. Isn't that correct? As I recall it, the amount of munitions coming along the trail could sustain the VC (Vietcong) although a good deal of munitions were coming in other ways too. So then the question was whether there were any technical means that we could see that might do a better job and be much less destructive. We wanted a more benign way of achieving the same...
...reports by newsmen in Saigon that the war was going badly, McNaughton in a memo on Nov. 6, 1964, offered a firm evaluation and prediction: "The situation in South Viet Nam is deteriorating. Unless new actions are taken, the new government will probably be unstable and ineffectual and the VC will probably continue to extend their hold over the population and territory. It can be expected that, soon (6 months? two years?), (a) government officials at all levels will adjust their behavior to an eventual VC takeover, (b) defections of significant military forces will take place, (c) whole integrated regions...
...local and provincial elections which "would give the VC-NLF the legitimate opportunity to enter the political process and to demonstrate their ability to win power at the grassroots level...
...election of a new constituent assembly to devise new basic laws and chosen a new Central Government" which the U.S. would accept as legitimate whether or not it was controlled by the VC...
...enitique of the expansion of the U.S. civilian bureaucracy in Vietnam and it did urge that this process be reversed and that the effort to extend the Saigon government's authority into the countryside be drastically reduced or totally abandoned. The report argued that the U.S. government should accept VC-NLF control of the areas they then dominated. This proposal directly challenged the official orthodoxy of the time. As the principal White House specialist on Vietnam told me: "If what you say is right, everything we are doing in Vietnam is wrong." Some other bureaucrats reacted in a similarly negative...