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22
Month
November
Year
1974
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Thieu's Days Are Numbered

The French newspaper "Le Monde" reports that the Central Intelligence Agency has been sending "specialists" to Saigon in recent months allegedly to direct the overthrow of President Thieu.

According to "Le Monde," American intelligence specialists are being rushed to Saigon because the U.S. officials believe the collapse of the Thieu government is imminent. "Le Monde" states that the CIA wants to play a major role in selecting Thieu's replacement - and quotes one "high official in the Saigon regime" as saying, "the case of Thieu" will be settled before the end of the year.

In the mean time, the "Washington Post" confirms part of the "Le Monde" account by reporting "a significant number of CIA agents have come to Saigon during the past two months of protests." The "Post" adds: "sources say many of them are old Vietnam hands and some of them are high-ranking."

Among the American agents reported to be in Saigon is General Edward Lansdale, who played a leading role in the 1954 coup which brought Neo Dinh Diem to power.

– ZODIAC

 

[...] 

in Washington, has a history of serving in countries where the CIA is believed to have been highly active. Carlucci's previous overseas duties included assignments in South Africa, the Congo, Zanzibar and Brazil.

The State Department reports it has "no knowledge" of whether Carlucci, himself, has ever directly worked for the CIA. However, John Marks, a former State Department official who recently co-authored a book on the CIA, states that a significant percentage of all State Department Foreign Officers are actually CIA operatives in disguise.

The "Washington Post" states that Carlucci was selected to head off what Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sees as a "communist take-over" in Lisbon.

Dr. Henry Strangelove

Do you remember that 1964 movie "Doctor Strangelove," the story about a crazed German military advisor to the President of the U.S.?

Stanley Kubrick, the movie's director, reports that none other than Dr. Henry Kissinger was the personality that inspired the character of the mad scientist.

According to the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner" Kubrick claims to have met Kissinger at a party when the film was be [...]

[...] incorporate elements of the future Secretary of State's personality into the character "Doctor Strangelove."

-- ZODIAC

Worst Oil Spill Ever

An oil spill, at least 14 times the size of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, took place recently when an oil tanker owned and operated by the Shell Oil Company ran aground near the Straits of Magellan at the southern-most tip of South America.

The 200,000-ton "supertanker," which was bound for a Chilean port, was said to have lost nearly 60,000 tons of oil, or over 30 per cent of its entire load, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The incident, which got little coverage in either the Chilean or U.S. press, is by far the most disastrous spill in the history of oil transport. A Shell Oil spokesperson [...]

[...]recovered oil will have on the ocean, it is expected to have a profound impact on the Chilean and Peruvian fishing industry. Although Shell Oil stresses the incident took place 75 miles from the nearest town, oil does not get absorbed by the ocean, but rather floats on top of the water indefinitely, allowing itself to drift with the ocean currents. [...]