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1 I l l I I I U I IIIII ,111 uli11, J,, I 1 I I l l / I I, A11 I -IlU',' 1 1 ' 1 I ?'hi3 Hovcmbcr 3967 n$lclc ~11s occrrsioncd by tire fact that IIl\bdcn vag then on one of hlo trkp t o North Vlctnm vherc on 11 tlovcnkr ig6r thc tlmtional Libcrntion Wont (NLF) in Plmm Ped1 cermonlounlr relenscd three bericnn prioooers to his cugtody, ns*"rl rcpresentetlvc of nn h r l c a n comnittce of wur protestore". The nllcgcd ~ca3on for thc rcleosc, which occordiq t o na;ydcn he bcLicved to bc the true masm, wn3 "to show smpnthy for thc people, blnck and vhlte, who don't nkree vith Johnson and t o ahav that the IKF is not difficult-to dcal vlth- it tnn be flcxlble, as lob8 an you recognlzc i t 8 paucr''. On hlc mtwa to.thc Unlted States, Ifnecn announced that morale i n Ilorth Victnam wns high; that "if anwne,is taklw the offensive, it is the Viet Conq"; that neither the tlLF norJlnnot vauld clrange .its attitude tamrd negotia- tlcns; snd that "The problem l e thnt they nrc beelnnlng t o think about Johnson the uny the American people thlnk nbout hfm. lieve'him. They don't trust hlm or Rusk pereonelly. ..". .'. "Its don't be- - While Hoyden W ~ G on t l r l n t r i p to North Vletntb, a voice nttributed to him by R Hanoi announcer spoke at great length t o the Amerlcnn set= vicemen i n Vietnnm stnting that t h e Unlted Stntca i n i t a battles there 1s receiving no acsietance from i t a fricads Rnd allies because they nrc not in agrecmcnt wlth vhat t h e United Stnten 1s doing. The volce n l ~ o stotcd thqt b e r l c n n cltizeos have no intcroet la flghting I n Vletpm; t h a t l t ' a i o t o& buslncss t o bo therc, cbc. It told of tho tmrrors rcsult,ing from United States bombinen in llortlr V i c t m , and of the tremendous support its pcople are glvin6 thclr governmnt. It accusal President Johnson and the Unltcd Stntcs Cavcrnmcnt or fur- nishing folsc! reports t o t h e bcricna pcoplc - a ty-plcnl Gtatcscnt b i n e "I fun not gonne givc V i h x u n aod f don't see apy point In your doinE i t gltlier", hmranguc nttributed to Hoyden v118 apparently recorded and voo d e l i u e M on 4 N?oembcr 1967. life to Lyndon Johnson or hi6 var In h 1 6 long . . 'D 1 , . - . llayden hnd previously mndc an unmthorlzcd "fnct-flndiog" trlp t o North Vietnam via Prague, Moscow, nnd Feklng, i n late kccinber 1965/ enply JRnuery 1966, with CFUSA C d t t e e Mcmbcr IIcrbcrt ApthCkFr ape Yale AGsletnnt Profenoor Stmwhton 1,ynd; and follwlnE the t r i p i i v 3 addressed aeveral'lars mlllc$ and teach-ins, condenuitng U.S. wticn i n Vletnm. IIcv York City hcadquartcrs of Apthcker, leading thcoreticlori of the CI'USA, who wnn a cnndidntc for Conarens on nn indcpcndent tlckct; and lrr September 1967.hnd been one of thc forty-cmc Amrirnnrr who took pnrt in thq vack-long confcrencc wlth North Vlctnnmmc nnrl VLct Cnns rcprcamttblvco I n Brntlalnva, Ctcchoolovclkln, ao 8130 dld D w c Irll L n - In t h e Trill of 1966, he had bccn II vorker 3n- the Brooklyn/