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ren - RE: COUNTEROT |. \PTON WEF 4 is more isolated than it ever has been in the past, that it's S disintegrating within itself. This is one aspect of the strategy Ee - of the negotiation. One purpose of the MLF is engaging in 2 negotiations. Als>% to further the contradictions that existed 8 within the narrow basis that did exist in the Saigon Regime, and ;2 to cause further contradictions t9 develop between that and so that different pe ple in lower and middle levels of the Saigon administration wo2vld come over to the NLF and the Pr owisional Revolutionary Government, so thet c7rtvin sec’ ons of the puppet army would come over to the NIF, aie During the tetotfensi'e whole units would desert to the other side. Some units don't desert but they werk out an agreement with the MLF where they jest won't do anything, and they just sort of sit on their hands. nd come of these agreements are public, Other nareemerte they have with people within the Saigon administra- tion are clandestine. And this has tean one of the r‘sults in their terms o: the negotiations in Paris. It *-s caused the further a@isintegration and turther contradictions to develop within the two-key regime. With the presentation this spring of the NLF Ten~Point Paace Prograin which came out about the same time as Nixon's Eight Points, they decided that they had achieved a diplomatic victory in Paris, that their feeling that the NLF Ten-Point Program is the only just be-is for solution to the war-and their feeling is that they have won the acceptance of that position among almost all diplomatic circles in the world and have isolated the U. S&S. in that sense. - € The third front, interraticnal public opinion, is what they feel is crucial at this point. It‘s particularly within the U. S. They way they sort of summed it up is that the position ef the U. S. politically and militarily in Vietnam at this point is much worse than the French position after Dien Bien Thu (phonetic). There is nothing that the U. S. can do at this point to change the situation that Nixon's talk about Vietnamization of the war or de-Americanization of the war, of going back to special warfare, they look on as an absurdity. 117 ~ Peak ~ .. penton 3 Bene paths weet Ee et as Te a ee, eee Gen eS ae rae