NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT PLAN TO RELEASE U.S. PRISONERS OF WAR

Created: 9/1/1972

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SUBJECT NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT PLAN TO. PrU3>NERSOF UAH FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES

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I. ffiUYEN HUU THO, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF SOUTH VIETNAM (NFLSV) AND THAN BUU i, NFLSV

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AID IN EARLY2 THAT THE NFLSV PLANS TO RELEASE. PRISONERS OF WAR IN MUCH THE SAME WAY THE rORTH VIETNAMESE HAVE DONE. THE NFLSV LEADERS SAIDEW PRISONERS WOULD BE TURNED OVER TO AN AMERICAN ANTIWAR ORGANIZATION IH ORDER TO GET THE MOST PROPAGANDA IMPACT. THE LEADERSPECIFY THE NUMBER OF PRISONERS TO BE RELEASED ?DR DID THEY OUTLINE WHAT CHANNELS WOULD BE USED TO CONTACT THE AMERICAN ANTIWAR GROUP.HE LEADERS DID SAY THAT THE PRISONERS TO BE RELEASED ARE NOW IN PRISON CAMPS INRA TED AREAS" OF SOUTH VIETNAM.

HO WENT ON IO SAY THAT THE NFLSV LEADERSHIP ISTHE FRONT WILL SUCCEED. THOTHAT THE NFLSV LEADERS AREREALIZING THAT THEY WILL NOTARGE SUCCESS, BUT SETTLEMALL SUCCESS. WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE, THO SAID IHaT IT HAS ACHIEVED SOME

ECI WESUT DID NOT CLARIFY WHAT THESE OBJECTIVES WERE.

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