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363-08342 to 363-08349
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Title
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Article about journalists entering and leaving Vietnam
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Description
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Original title: N/A, Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about journalists entering and leaving Vietnam, for the Overseas Press Club of America
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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орс
Dev. 16/66
Saigon, Vietnam
Recent arrivals to Vietnam: John Steinbeck of Newsday Syndicate;
Ted Sell and Marvin Miles of the Los Angeles Times; Lloyd Wendt, editor of
Chicago's American; J. A. C. Dunn of the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer and the
Knight Newspapers; Clayton Fritohey of Harpers and Newsday Syndicate; Max
Frankel of the New York Times. In addition, a seven-man press delegation
from the Philippines; a five-man New Zealand press delegation and a
12-man Europeanxjenzahimim group of European journalists (including one from
Yugol Yugoslavia) have recently arrived.
Bernie Kalb
has returned to the Far East after a one-year absence
in the Pr Paris bureau of CBS. Now CBS correspondent-in-charge in Hong Kong,
he is currently visiting Saigon.
Rent Recent departures from Saigon: William R. Heart Jr. and Bob
Considine;
William Leonard, vice-president for CBS.
Expected arrivals
in the near future: Ed Taylor of the Reporter and W. L. White of Readerbs
Digest.
Pre-Christmas totals of news media accredited by the U. S. Military
Command here have reached 507, which includes 179 Americans, 79 Vietnamese
and 249 other nationalities.
Correspondents and military accreditation officials are now busy
preparing for the re-acceditation of correspondents for 1967, which is
due at the end of the year.
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TO:
SIBBY CHRISTENSEN
FROM: BEV DEEPE, SAIGON
DATE: MAY 10, 1966
Saigon, Vietnam.
The American military headquarters here has issued a
complex set of requirements for American, Vietnamese and other
foreign correspondents desiring as of May 15th initial
accreditation or renewal of existing accreditation.
Some Western correspondents here fear that the Vietnamese
and American officials here may impose aye subtle, "creeping
censorship"--as one correspondent termed it, by threatening
to withdraw or cancel the accreditation card if the correspondent
publishes a long-list of certain types of information, chiefly
involving military security and delicate political information.
These are the accreditation criteria for correspondents
effective May 15:
2. All correspondents must hold and maintain current
accreditation from the Government of Vietnam to receive and
maintain accreditation (U.S. Military Assistance Command).
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b. Except for a. above, U.S. correspondents accredited
by U.S. Department of Defense will need no additional
documentation, providing DOD accreditation is maintained
throughout the period of MACV accreditation.
Actual DOD renewal
or an agency letter (as described in c, below) must
immediately replace expired DOD accreditation.
DOD ac-
creditation may be in the form of a card, a letter or a
message to this command.
C.
U.S. citizens not DOD accredited and Vietnamese
citizens employed by U.S. or other foreign agencies (except
Vietnamese agencies) will be accredited based on a letter,
prepared on agency letterhead, and forwarded by the agency
direct to the Office of Information, MACV. This letter must
state that the individual is in fact employed,
that the
agency assumes full responsibility for his professional actions,
including financial responsibility and personal conduct as
these affect his professional actions and that immediate
written notification will be provided the Office of Information,
MACV, upon termination of his employment. Letters not
meeting these requirements will not be accepted.
d. Citizens of other nations (not U.S. or Vietnamese)
employed by a U.S. or a foreign agency must provide an agency
letter as in c, above, plus insuring that their diplomatic
representative dispatches a letter to the Office of Information
MACV, vouching for the identity of the individual.
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e.
Individuals employed by Vietnamese agencies will
be accredited to MACV by agreement between the U.S. Mission
Pross Center and the Vietnamese Ministry of Information.
Exidence of approval under this joint agreement and an agency
letter as in c, above, must be submitted to the Office of
Information, MACV. Citizens of other nations (not United
States or Republic of Vietnam) employed by a Vietnamese
agency, in addition to the above, must insure that their
diplomatic representative dispatches a letter to the Office
of Information, MACV, vouching for the identity of the
individual.
2. Applications for accreditation by free lance writers,
photographers and other related media will be examined by the
Office of Information, MACV, on a case-by-case basis. In
any event, applicants must insure that a letter on agency
letterhead is initiated by an agency indicating a desire on
the part of the agency to purchase the free lance agent's
copy, photography, or product. This letter must be forwarded
by the agency concerned directly to the Office of Information,
MACV
Correspondents who are not U.S. citizens must also
insure that their diplomatic representative dispatches a letter
to the Office of Information, MACV, vouching for the identity
of the individual.
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2. In order to expedite local accreditation services,
employment letters required by 1c above,
bureau chiefs,
signed by local
will be accepted provided a letter from the
bureau's home office, certifying appointment of the bureau
chief is on file in the Office of Information, MACV.
3. All correspondence submitted to the Office of
Information, MACV, in accordance with this memorandum
should use one of the following addresses:
a.
Processed through..
U.S. Postal System
b.
Processed through.
International
Postal System
4.
.Office of Information (SPD)
MACV
APO San Francisco 96243
Office of Information (SPD)
MACV
196 Cong Ly
Saigon, South Vietnam
Requests for renewal of existing accreditation,
complete with required documents,
should be submitted to the
Office of Information, MACV, 15 days prior to the
expiration of present accreditation.
5.
Appropriate sample letters which may be used as
a guide in requesting MACV accreditation,
follow.
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(SAMPLE)
LETTERHEAD OF AGENCY CONCERNED
Office of Information (SPD)
MACV
APO San Francisco 96243
Dear Sir:
Mr. John J. Jones is employed by this agency as
a photographer/correspondent and his trip to Vietnam is
authorized by this company.
actions,
while
This agency assumes responsibility for Mr. Jones'
including financial responsibility and personal
conduct as these affect his professional actions,
he is in Vietnam, and agrees to notify your office if
his employment,
is terminated.
Sincerely yours,
MAX D. BRAND
General Manager
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Correspondents :
BEVERLY ANN DEEPE
PHAM XUAN-AN
NEW YORK
Herald Tribune
64-A, HONG THAP TU, SAIGON
TELEPHONE: 25.01O CABLES DEEPN SAIGON
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May 10, 1966
Mr. Victor Riesel, President
Overseas Press Club
54 West 40th Street
New York, New York 10018
Dear Mr. Riesel:
I am the correspondent for the OPC Bulletin from
Saigon as well as the correspondent of the New York Herald
Tribune here. I have read with satisfaction not only of
your election as OPC President, but also your dispatch of
an emissary to American government officials in Washington
to assist the Western press in Vietnam.
I am,
therefore, enclosing a DRAFT memorandum
for correspondents, written by U.S. information officials,
here, which is now being revised and will later be issued
as a joint communique between the U.S. government here and
the Vietnamese government. The American information officials
(Barry Zorthian, minister counselor for information at the
U.S. Embassy, and Col. Roger Bankson, information officier
for the U.S. military command here) admit that this draft
was drawn up without the consent or knowledge of the
Vietnamese government officials. It is now being re-edited
by the American officials here and in Washington.
A hand-ful of Western press correspondents have had
bitter debates with the U.S. officials about this draft.
The principle points of contention were conditions 1 and 2
on page 2. In the past, the press has operated under
"voluntary self-censorship"--mostly involving military
security of little news interest. Now, however, "the price
of accreditation" will be for the correspondent to accept
certain restrictions on his movements, as well as to restrict
what may be written. If he does publish this restricted
information, his accreditation will be withdrawn or
cancelled--which means that although one can still stay in
Vietnam, he can not cover any Vietnamese or American
military units, or interview the officials of both countries,
or be present at background sessions. This amounts to a
de facto ostracization.
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Correspondents:
BEVERLY ANN DEEPE
PHAM XUAN-AN
NEW YORK
Herald Tribune
64-A, HONG THAP-TU, SAIGON
TELEPHONE: 25.010 CABLES DEEPN SAIGON
The Western press corps here, numbering about 150
Americans, but a grand total of more than 350 of all
nationalities, is too large to be organized and too
self-interested to be unified in this fight against the
growing restrictions on the press. At the request of
former OPC President M. Mueller, I canvassed the press
corps about establishing a Saigon chapter of the OPC, but
this seems virtually impossible at this time. (I'll write
a full report to you about this after I return from
vacation in several weeks).
Therefore, it seems the only hope for us is that
an investigation will be made at the Washington level to
determine how this draft is being revised--and hopefully
to oppose it if the current proposed restrictions are
still being contemplated.
I'm also enclosing several other memoranda to the
press here--some of it off the record for unknown reasons--
which will serve as background and examples of other
restrictions on the press.
It's clear to me, after four years as a correspondent
in Vietnam, that this is a subtle type of censorship,
on what is written before it is written--with official
punitive measures of dis-accreditation for those who dare
to break the rules. Most of the items impinging on
military security, contained in the draft, are considered
harmless by the press, and of little news value.
However,
the essential point is the political impact of these
restrictions on military information--example, the rules
of engagement involving U.S. troops crossing into Cambodia,
or firing in self-defense across the Cambodian border.
There will probably be a show-down between the U.S.
officials here and the Western press--but we have little
power and no veto power. Therefore, I hope at your level
something may be done to dissuade the Washington officials
from this creeping censorship.
With best regards,
(Miss) Beverly Deepe
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Date
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Unknown
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B191, F7
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
