European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday october 1, 1964 the stars and stripes Page. 3 broken pledges to Viet rebels May Hurt . Effort by John an my till of. Us ugh Viet Nam a american promises made and broken during efforts la Hull u relic Liun by armed Mountain trills Man May Hutc jeopardized a key program inti fight against the Viet Cong Many . Officers Here feel. We certainly have opened ourselves to communist exploitation in the montagnard area because of this a Fuir one american officer promises pro Ahly never should have been made. Now Ido not i to pick Lill Lerly. Lit pc vending open Fiji hint and land that the vietnamese Armylis Cutic n no five paving the Way for the occupy units drawn up in attack Posi-. Officer said Hill the revolt lit tribes Camps near Here nil trained and by american special according to special forces forces ended without shooting sources the rebellious Oliai Jewhen vietnamese forces tril Ismen were offered two. _ were $ up including the a marched into the key Camp at things to end the revolt that american negotiator col John Lions would not lie allowed into the Camp. Thirteen americans us by Ohlef Umu min in Vul ilium no i Jiuu m Iarj Izui i to i Iii flu a a in it. Meri a negotiator col Ionno know How we fire going i gluon sir a. American Media the americans would not lie i p p Rimu w1.0 withdrawn fro Pic up the pieces another i ton efforts played a vital role i taken out of Huon Sarpa Camp. A. Camp and a few hours later . Colonel invited lied suspect to kill him by mai.c01.m w. Browne Saki on a a 46-year-Oldamerican army officer with three children offered his sub machine Kiili to a suspected communist Viet one agent Sun Day and invited the Man to kill american lived and a bloody civil War Between Szulhan vietnamese army forces armed rebel tril come avoided. The american cot John Freund every now and then this Man not a regular Mem Ber of the Camp was identified by other americans As the one seen handing out Viet Cong pamphlets earlier in the revolt. He disappeared after Freund left the amp. In Short he was needling i was saying one thing i m sure he was saying some w.1s thing site to the it that crucial moment be. Wus Kcal uni ready to take you take the weapon. You be i the men came Rushing up and Hethe one to fire he turned around and Wen away. Then i took the acting Relief battalion commander and put the key to the padlock an opened it himself. The government District chief was the first one to come 1 tried to Force the weapon on nut and everyone else followed him and he would t take it. He him. From there we went Down kept a eking away from it. 1 put to tin fro Hele second compound look Hethe wrap i tin my shoulder prisoners out from there. Again and went Over to the prisoner compound. I had a pair of clippers in Myhand and was starting to clip the. Barbed wire entangled around off and release the prisoners per two posts one Post part of the door and a padlock was there so you see. It really was t the vietnamese army occupied the Post. South Vienna mesh Premier in f in Nguyen Khanh prom ised the 300 rebels in the Cam that Here would to no punish ment of the offenders this special forces men doubted that reprisals could be pre vented. In any Case they Felt to Mon laggards a Man s word is tarred and is the whole basis of Trusta relations with his fellow Man."?la in relations w in i. As difficult a thing As May per to ,v of american prom a us for a i Jis As been gravely dam from that moment on. The Back of the was following Day Freund and 12 . Special forces men who had tying the whole business Togeth-1 spent several Days with him at or. I d gotten through a few-1 Buon Sarpa were evacuate strands on this and then one of i Knout slaughtered when the revolt broke out. Freund finally left the Cam monday hours before Vienna Misc forces in arched in. The soft a Kiken colonel was awarded a Harnne Star tuesday by com manding in William c. West Days Freund had reasoned and cajoled and pleaded with his captors to release 60 vietnamese prisoners they were holding at Buon Sarpa. He knew that if the prisoners were kept beyond certain time limit the vietnamese army would storm in wit guns blazing. Freund repeatedly visited the Barracks of the rebels joking with them and getting them Cosine tribal soldiers songs. But nothing worked in getting per Mission for the prisoners to freshly dug mass grave in the Camp marked the place where Many vietnamese victims of the revolt had been dumped just a few Days before and the whole Camp knew there might Bemore bodies. Try anything finally the vietnamese gave the americans a deadline for get Ting the prisoners out a Freund was told to try anything in his own words this was How Freund got the prisoners out under the guns of 300 heavily armed rebels trained by the americans i looked around for rebel leaders. One of the leaders the Leader had actually departed. , and flt funds Fol John fre Undis shown with Rhode tribesmen in South Viet Nam. Freund identified the natives in the photos the top leaders of he Rhode tribe. A is mis family not surprised by colonel s Viet Rolett explain this was a Vole of j i Confidence in me. If he had Washington a the i Lowed different . He would have been j family of col John f. Freund forced i think to say something was t surprised that he was Inlo countermand what i was about tin. Middle of things in South to do and he i think was per Vietnam trying to work out a John went to the . Nava Academy graduating in 1940, while Darral attended Park col lege in Missouri finishing in need in tribal eyes these officers in of the special forces men at Huon Sarpa reportedly was asked by a rebel Leader a few hours in fire the americans left what he should do. The american reportedly advised him to remove his mortars and heavy Wear was from the amp and take up defensive positions in the Hills. The Ameri can urged the rom not to fire first but said if the vietnamese forces attacked the Camp they should fight As they have Bee taught by the americans As was apparent that the Amer ican role in the rebellion of the past week would leave deep scars on vietnamese american official relations at practically Lall Levels. I an official . So Kesman de Nied in Saigon that american lad any part in instigating or encouraging the vietnamese officials including Khanh himself Are known to feel otherwise. At the rebel Camp his voice hoarse with anger Khanh said would the foreigners who plotted and incited this disturb Ance stick with us to fight the communists or would they leave the Lowland and Upland people to live or die together on this land to save it from the re menace Khanh also denounced All out siders As exploiters of the Viet namese people. He did not say whom he meant by foreigners and outsiders but it was apparent that he was referring to the americans reportedly used All the influence they could to keep vietnamese authorities from applying violent measures to the rebellion which Many . Officials believed was dying out from Lack of support anyway. Complicating the problem. . Special forces men haps the Only person who was settlement in a dispute Between 1941. John switched to the Arm Yahie to recognize at an Early. Rebellious Mountain tribesmen Aller graduation from Annapolis Point what i was bout to do. And the Lowland tried to keep it a secret Yna 1 Al Lair Forand i never gave away exactly with after College flew transport planes in the China Burma India Heater and in Europe Yajiu Ulii War ii and now is en-1 Ettl most of whose demands very few exceptions Are strongly sympathetic to the Highland aged in research and engineering. He said John s faculty for Ian they regard As justified. The americans believe racial discrimination against the tribes and Lull Hunt on. No Kalu jiii1ii � la Vulej a i e ills eyes wore weak says Dar gauges. Including French and men is shown constantly by the ral. Bul the army accepted him Herman stood him in Good Stead vietnamese officials who and granting him a second Lieuten Burin world War ii when he minister and cd 1 in.,"l u pm. Heart s commission. Lie s been incr a with the artillery in special Tama men Ucli Cyc Snethe army Ever since. North Africa. Corsica. Southern trouble now May just be begin Darral joined the air Force France and Germany. Nung. Johnson puts Viet Cong at 30,000vr. Of o by Timber in the House i also lie prepared for a general that was Cut in half and when i nuclear War
