State Department sources said today that the United States Government had no information to justify Israel’s Prime Minister Levi Eshkol’s expressed concern that the possibility of Viet Cong “or other Far Eastern” participation in training and support of Arab terrorists must be taken with all seriousness which it warrants.
Authoritative U.S. officials said the State Department had no evidence of actual Arab extremists links with the Viet Cong and felt this problem should be “the least of Mr. Eshkol’s worries.” Authorities said information obtained by the United States made them “very skeptical” of Arab terrorist leader Ahmed Shukairy’s boasts about arrangements with the Viet Cong. The most recent United States evaluation of possible Viet Cong-Arab ties produced “no hard evidence,” said the officials.
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