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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp80-01601r000300360006-7: COMMUNISTS WOULDN'T BE MERCIFUL IN THE SOUTH

STATIr pproved For Release 2001/03 44, 0-01601 R00 CROSBY S. NOYES It is very reassuring indeed to be informed by a variety of Washington armchair experts on Vietnam that predictions of a "bloodbath" if the Commu- nists take over in that country are a myth that need not be taken seriously by anyone. This convenient finding -- which is -made in support of George McGovern's proposals to surrender South Vietnam to Communist rule -- holds that President Nixon had it all wrong when he estimated in 1971 that perhaps a half- million people were extermi- nated by the North Vietnam- ese after they took…