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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 TOP SECRET – Sensitive :"To date the Vietnam press and radio have not adopted an anti-American position. It is rather the French colonial press that has been strongly anti-American and has freely accused the U.S. of imperialism in Indochina to the point of approximating the official Moscow position. Although the Vietnam radio has been closely watched for a new position toward the U.S., no change has appeared so far. Nor does there seem to have been any split within the coalition government of Vietnam....


 * ". If there is a Moscow-directed conspiracy in Southeast Asia, Indochina is an anomoly so far. Possible explanations are:


 * No rigid directives have been issued by Moscow.The Vietnam government considers that it has no rightest elements that must be purged.The Vietnam Communists are not subservient to the foreign policies pursued by Moscow.A special dispensation for the Vietnam government has been arranged in Moscow.


 * Of these possibilities, the first and fourth seem most likely.

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