November 2, 1972
ORLEANS
FRAN C E —DNSI--The alleged
"Communist Bloodbath" in
North Vietnam after the 1954
Geneva Accords was "100%
fabricated" by intelligence
services in Saigon financed by
the U. S. Government, according
to a Vietnamese Catholic who
was head of psychological
warfare for the Saigon army
during the Presidency of the late
Ngo Dinh Diem.
Colonel Nguyen Van Chau,
director of the Central
Psychological War Service of the
South Vietnamese Armed Forces
from 1956 to 1962, declared in
an interview that the Saigon
government waged "total
psychological warfare" in 1956
to persuade Vietnamese and
world opinion that there was a
terrorist bloodbath in North
Vietnam. The purpose of the
campaign was to justify
President Diem's refusal to
negotiate with Hanoi on ways to
carry out the elections and
reunification promised in the
1954 Geneva Accords.
"By a total campaign, I mean
that it was ideological, literary
and even artistic," said Chau.
"Forged documents were
distributed to various political
groups and to groups of writers
and artists, who used the false
documents to carry out the
propaganda campaign. '
British and American
intelligence services helped
collect authentic documents on
which the forged documents
were based. The forgeries were
so well done that President Diem
himself was fooled by them,
Chau said. Diem's brother Nhu
was in on the fabrications, but
Diem was "too innocent" to
realize what was going on, Chau
added.
When Diem was assassinated
in 1963, Colonel Chau left
Washington, where he had been
military attache at the Saigon
embassy. He now lives in
Orleans, France, with his large
family in a suburban apartment
decorated with traditional
Vietnamese art objects and
pictures of the Pope. Chau is a
school teacher.
Colonel Chau said that
accusations against the North
Vietnamese regime in books by
Hoang Van Chi were "wholly
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foundation."
The prediction by the bishop
of Danang, Pham Ngoc Chi, that
a communist takeover in the
South would lead to bloody
reprisals against 2 million people
is "ridiculous.
The reason for Bishop Chi's
"purely imaginary" accusations,
said Chau, is that as bishop of
Bui Chu in North Vietnam in the
early 1950 s he organized his
diocese militarily to fight against
the Viet Minh, with French
backing. "Bishop Chi is a good
bishop and I like him personally,
but because of his past he feels
there is no hope for him to
cooperate with the communists.
He has no good source of
information about North
Vietnam; he is not at all well
informed," Chau said.
Between 1945 and 1956 up
to 500 Catholics were killed or
imprisoned for political reasons
in North Vietnam, said Chau,
adding that the figure was
probably too high. Since 1956,
the regime has been liberal
toward Catholics.
"If in 1945 the
anti-communist nationalist
parties and not the Viet Minh
had taken power, just as many
Catholics would have been
killed, because the population
regarded the Catholics as
instruments of colonialism—not
without reason," said Chau, who
noted that his own family was
one of the first to be converted
to Catholicism in the 17th
century. French missionaries and
bishops manipulated Vietnamese
Catholics to serve French
interests, he said.
Chau recounted that as a
military Catholic in North
Vietnam, he himself was
frightened by the first wave of
American-financed
anti-communist propaganda that
in 1954 persuaded hundreds of
thousands of Catholics to flee to
the South.
"ln early 1954, in
preparation for the worst--that
is, a Viet Minh takeover--the
Americans trained and sent
Vietnamese special agents under
various covers to penetrate the
population in the North. After
the Geneva Accords, those
agents prepared the 'black
propaganda' that frightened the
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("Black propaganda" is the
technical term which describes
written or radio messages
disseminated in such a way that
readers or listeners feel the
content is coming from an
official or friendly source, when,
in fact, it is not.)
The "Black propaganda"
consisted primarily of fake
"communist" tracts
announcing bloody reprisals
against Catholics and others who
had collaborated with the
French. One effective form of
"black propaganda" was staged
photographs supposedly showing
"revolutionaries " committing
atrocities and sacrileges. Chau
said he later learned that such
photographs were faked.
Later, "black propaganda"
was used extensively to discredit
communists in South Vietnam.
In 1961, British, American and
Vietnamese intelligence services
cooperated in putting together a
collection of "captured
communist documents" that
were put on exhibit in the
Saigon City Hall, drawing huge
crowds. The project was
financed by the CIA and the
documents were all forgeries.
said Chau.
Chau said that the Saigon
regime used to, and pibbably
still does, run a clandestine radio
which pretended to be
"liberation Radio" in order to
diffuse "black propaganda." The
broadcasts were patterned on
authentic Liberation Radio
broadcasts, with just a few slight
changes in detail, designed for
example to give the impression
that the communists were
massacring innocent civilians.
Even cabinet ministers in the
Diem regime thought the
broadcasts were authentic and
would call up Diem "who was
frightened too," and ask him to
order the intelligence services to
track down the transmitter,
which was located in the
outskirts of Saigon. Information
services carefully monitored the
fake radio and gave translations
of broadcasts to journalists, who
accepted them as authentic.
Colonel Chau said he has
come to realize that the
Catholics' intransigent
anti-communism has been a
main obstacle to peace and
national unity in Vietnam. "In
this isolated corner of France,"
he said, "as a Catholic I pray
that our bishops in South
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