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Title:
Post-Khrushchev Soviet policy and the Vietnam crisis
Date of Creation:
April 3, 1965
Date of Declassification:
May 9, 1978
Type of Document:
Office of Current Intelligence memorandum
Level of Classification:
SECRET
Status of Copy:
ORIGINAL
Pagination, Illustration:
10 p.
Abstract:
Post-Khrushchev Soviet policy and the Vietnam crisis[the new Soviet leadership, convinced that Khrushchev's policy had drifted too far
towards rapprochement with the US at the
expense of the USSR's standing in the
Communist world, began a new effort to
reassert itself in Communist nations,
specifically North Vietnam, while maintaining
detente with the West. However, Soviet plans
were upset by the VC attack at Pleiku, for
which the USSR was unprepared, and US
reprisals, which placed the Soviets in the
position of having to choose between giving
military support to North Vietnam or opening
themselves to Chinese charges of capitulation
to the imperialists. The USSR was thus forced
to maintain a hard public line against US air
strikes and to proceed with assistance to
North Vietnam. The Soviets now find
themselves faced with a deterioration in
relations with the US, a potentially
dangerous involvement in the Vietnam
conflict, and an aggressive Chinese reaction
which has again thrown the USSR on the
defensive]. Office of Current Intelligence
Memorandum, OCI No. 1188/65. Apr. 3, 1965. 10
p. SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEM. Declassified May
9, 1978. Johnson Library, NSF, Countries,
Vietnam, Vol. 32.
Indexing Terms:
Declassified Documents Reference System Location:
1979-237A
Link to Full Text: