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Johnson Plans Electronic Wall for Vietnam

World Outlook Vol. 5, No. 23, 9 June 1967 · p 595 · 101 words

Vietnam and Indochina

JOHNSON PLANS ELECTRONIC WALL FOR VIETNAM

Johnson's camarilla of braintrusters have come up with a new one: an "electronic barrier" to seal the border of south Vietnam.

Rowland Evans and Robert Novak writing in the June 1 New York Post describe the projected barrier as made up of “electronic mines that transmit the slightest movement in the surrounding : terrain to a central detection receiver." This would touch off a “heavy air attack on the trespassers."

Planned for the Demilitarized Zone, they suggest it could also be used on south Vietnam's border with Laos and Canbodia. The cost? A mere $3,500,000,000.

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