24-01-2011, 06:46 AM
Its true.
I know a guy who did a research paper on this subject. And I think Prouty discusses it at length in his book , JFK. It was a massive psy op war conducted by Lansdale spreading the word that the communists were going to mass execute the Catholics in North Vietnam.
So they fled the north and helped boost Diem in the south who was also Catholic.
This was also used by propagandists for the war like Bill Buckley, who used to say that see, the refugees all move south.
I know a guy who did a research paper on this subject. And I think Prouty discusses it at length in his book , JFK. It was a massive psy op war conducted by Lansdale spreading the word that the communists were going to mass execute the Catholics in North Vietnam.
So they fled the north and helped boost Diem in the south who was also Catholic.
This was also used by propagandists for the war like Bill Buckley, who used to say that see, the refugees all move south.