When these names finally were released. these purported leaders were unknown to the people of South Vietnam. in fact Vietcong prisoners to this day reveal a singular unawareness of the names of these socalled leaders. An attempt has been intensified to create the impression that the Vietcong front is composed of independent South Vietnamese groups as well as Communists. and that it represents the people of South Vietnam. However. the flow of.refugees away from Communist areas. the Vietcongs ever increasing reliance on terror. the morale of the South Vietnamese fighting forces. and the lack of support by legitimate South Vietnamese organizations give the lie to these claims. The Vietcong have never been able to gain any kind of a foothold in South Vietnamese political parties. labor unions. refugee groups. regional organizations or churches. and South Vietnamese politicians who have opposed particular governments in Saigon have never defected to the Vietcong. The Vietcongs attempts to call general strikes have failed. and their best efforts to prevent the people from voting in last years provincial and municipal council elections also failed. People outside Vietnam are in many cases regrettably ready to believe the fiction that the Vietcong represent an indigenous political movement. perhaps because this would make our own withdrawal easier to bring about. but the people of South Vietnam are not duped by these pretensions.
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