Thus the explosive recent testimony before the House Foreign Relations Committee of a man who had served the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam for 20 months was generally unreported. The witness was Edward Block. he went before the committee to plead for a halt in the flow of American funds to "the massive hoax" of AID "humanitarian" programs. "It Is my judgment." he said. "that the AIDfunded relief and rehabilitation program in South Vietnam is a disaster for the refugees involved. a financial bonanza for the officials of the Saigon government. and an insult to both the American people who are being deceived and to the many conscientious American field officers whose reports on these deceptions are routinely suppressed by their superiors and higherlevel officials . . ." Prior to his resignation from AID last December. Block had worked at various locales in the provinces. and his final assignment was In Saigon in the Office of Land Development and Hamlet Building.
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