HITLER
General Nguyen Cao Ky, Washington's newest puppet ruler of south Vietnam, appears to have passed the anti-Communist tests of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with top honors. At least that is the logical conclusion to be drawn from a copyrighted interview which the general granted to Brian Moynahan and which was published in the July 4 London Sunday Mirror.
"People ask me who my heroes are. I have only one -- Hitler." This is what the "flamboyant little dictator" told Moynahan.
"T admire Hitler," explained Ky, "because he pulled his country together when it was in a terrible state in the early Thirties.
"But the situation here is so desperate now that one man would not be enough, We need four or five Hitlers in Vietnam."
Just as the Nazi dictator had a penchant for paintings, so the south Vietnam “strong man" has an eye for color. "On flying missions, he sports twin, pearl-handled revolvers and purple chokers.
He even pilots a private plane done in purple. "It's my favourite color,". And his."big office" reflects his "character," according to Moynahan. "It was splashed with bright blue flags and curtains. Orange and silver flying helmets hung from the walls,
Moynahan was not at all surprised that one of Ky's first acts on getting the nod from Johnson and taking power in Saigon was to order the public execution of a freedom fighter. Last October when a Similar execution was carried out in Saigon, Ky told Moynahan: "T want an air force firing squad to do it and I want to be the officer in charge."
The CIA and the FBI are to be congratulated on the efficiency of their investigative techniques. In General Ky they seem to have turned up an almost perfect anti-Communist.
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