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This is a December 1979 Central Intelligence Agency study published by the Directorate of Operations Counterintelligence Staff. It describes the Enemy Proselytizing Department (Cuc Dich Van) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of National Defense. The study traces the department's origins from 1941 through the French and Vietnam wars. It covers psychological warfare, fifth column penetration of ARVN and allied forces, the handling of US and allied prisoners of war, and the postwar reeducation of former ARVN personnel. It contains no material on UFOs.
“Headquarters”33 pages
“SEER-G-L In many respects, the above declaration outdid the work carried out by PRC and DPRK propagandists during the Korean War. It made the repatriation of African prisoners an extremely complicated problem. ' Captured French pilots were subjected to a thorough “convincing explanation" and were used to broadcast appeals to their fellow pilots in the French Far Eastern Air Force: - . . For 17 months I had fought against these people which I did not even know. If people asked me the reason why I came to Indochina, and why France has been waging war in this country, I would feel . . . ashamed of my ignorance. . . . As for us, what are we fighting for? We are fighting for a handful of French capitalists and for American imperialists who, forced to sign an armistice in Korea, are compelling the French ‘rulers to drag on this war . . . with the blood of French soldiers. . . . Comrade pilots, we should no longer fight against the Vietnamese people . . . we must fight for the cessation of this dirty war through repatriation of the French Expeditionary Corps and immediate negotiations withthe Vietnamese People’s Govern- ment headed by President Ho Chi Minh.” The indoctrination of prisoners did not cease with their release and repatriation to France. The French Communist Party (PCF) irregularly published a newspaper, Voix du Rapatrie, written allegedly by former prisoners, which kept other repatriates informed on developments inthe DRV even though they had returned to civilian life. The families of prisoners who died in captivity received letters of condolence from the DRV posted in Czechoslovakia by the PCF’s Franco-Vietnam Friendship Association front. Such a thorough follow up of each individual case constit-uted' a rather unique example of the potential of unlimited psychological warfare conducted by the DRV and its PDV. ‘ The PDV had considerable success in inducing the defection and desertion of African Foreign Legionnaires with the active assistance of the French, Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Communist Parties. An estimated 500 African personnel defected or deserted to the DRV. In 1950, the Communist Parties of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia on behalf of the Soviets and the PCF sent at Moroccan Communist Party Central Committee member, alias Major Marufo Khoan, to Vietnam where he played a key role in inducing the defection and desertion of several hundred African Foreign Legionnaires. Major Marufo Khoan prepared leaflets printed in Arabic for North African Foreign‘ Legionnaires. One such leaflet read in part: “Moroccan soldiers, you fight for an unjust cause at the service of your oppressors. . .. The Americans and the French carve up your country. Moroccan soldiers, the Vietnamese are your brothers . . . the soldiers of the Vietnamese Army fight against your oppressors for the liberty and independence of your country... ." u ' In 1951, Major Marufo Khoan established and commanded a training camp for North African deserters in Tung Thien District, Son Tay Province, which was known as the Ba Vi Afro-Asian Agricultural W0fl<$il6- If W85 M&iOr Khoan's intention to train North African deserters for later return to North 6* ‘SEGR-EL ~ ... _—_1r: r"rv1 » H - -,1 ...- —.. . . .—-_.~... . rm .',-.~, ._-_.;n:z;a=.=;=~i-_; _ . l ' _- _-wn _._..-.._._ _.-“.4 fl"l""
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 120 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.