SOVIET BLOC OBSERVATIONS IN NORTH VIETNAM

Created: 6/30/1967

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subject SOVIET BLOC OBSERVATIONS IN NORTH VIETNAM

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TO OIA: FOR GENERAL

TO STATE: NO DISTRIBUTION EXCEPT TO THOMAS L. HUGHES O NSA : FOR GENERAL CARTER.

APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE;8

1, THE EFFECTIVENESS CF AMERICAN AIR ACTION AND THE SEEMINGLY INFINITE CAPACITY OF THE AMERICANS TO ESCALATE TO THE DEGREE NECESSARY TO OVERCOME ANY INCREASED SUPPORT RENDERED THE NORTH VIETNAMESE ARE THE PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DISILLUSIONMENT AMONG SOVIET AND BLOC OFFICIALS IN HANOI AND THEIR CONVICTION THAT

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PROTECT AND CONSERVE FUEL SUPPLIES, THETHE USE OF CENTRALIZED DUMPS BUT HAVE SMALL SUPPLIESALONG ROADS,ND FREQUENTLY CONSISTING" OF ONLY

A FEW JERRYCANS.

DURING AN AMERICAN AIROMB FELL INEW YARDS FROM THE CHINESE COMMUNIST EMBASSY. SOVIET AND BLOC OFFICIALS IN HANOI BELIEVE THAT THISEAR MISSHINESE RADIO STATION HOUSED IN THEHAD .BEEN TARGETTED BY THE BOMBER.

A POLISH DELEGATIONUMBER OF SENIOR FIELD GRADE OFFICERS HEADED BY LIEUTENANT GENERAL TADEUSZ TUCUAPSKIj DEPUTY CHIEF, INSPECTORATE OF TRAINING, POLISH ARMED FORCES, IS CURRENTLY

IN NORTH VIETNAM TO STUDY THE TACTICAL ASPECTS OF THE WAR.

THERE ARE, HOWEVER, NO POLISH MILITARY ADVISORS PERMANENTLY" IN NORTH

VIETNAM. EW POLISH PILOTS HAD BEEN THERE PREVIOUSLY.

CINCPAC (ADMIRAL SHARPTATE

SMACV (GENERAL WESTMORELAND ONLY).

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