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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
S-E€R’ET South Vietnamese who had regrouped to North Vietnam after the July 1954 Geneva Accords. The training course was given at a CDV training facility in Thuong Than Village outside Hanoi. Trainees received instruction on the “administration, reeducation and release of POWs. They were briefed that provincial-level detention camps detained ARVN enlisted and noncommis- sioned (NCO) personnel, while officers and US/ Allied forces personnel were detained at regional-level enemy proselytizing detention camp subsections before transfer to CDV SVNLA Enemy Proselytizing Office detention facilities in southern_South Vietnam or to Hanoi from Central Vietnam. Provincial-level detention camp chiefs were responsible for properly receiving, searching, and storing POW personal effects in a bag marked with the POW's -name and rank; indoctrinating POWs on NLFSVN clemency policies and camp regulations; maintaining status records ondetained POWs and those being interrogated. Interrogations were conducted to obtain basic biographical data, exploitable tactical. military intelligence, and political information on enemy unit morale and combat effectiveness. Interrogation results were sent to the provincial unit and / or military region headquarters for followup exploitation by military intelligence components. _ By mid-1970, the CDV had centralized all enemy military proselytizing training under Military Proselytizing School 105 in Ha Dong City, Ha Tay Province, North Vietnam. CDV School 105 trained 140 cadres annually between 1970 and 1974 for assignments to various field commands in South Vietnam. CDV personnel wear regular armed forces uniforms, receive salaries in accordance with PAVN pay scales, and hold PAVN ranks. ' ' " Organization Headed by Major General Le Ouang Dao, the CDV headquarters is located inside the Hanoi Citadel compound of the MN D on the right hand side of the east gate on Ly Nam De Street. Within this area, the CDV maintained a maximum security detention facility—“Alcatraz"—where a small select group of uncooperative US POW officers underwent intensive brutal indoctrination and interrogation. Although the personnel strength of the CDV is a closely guarded secret, its total estimated strength in the armed forces is about 15,000. It has an estimated 250-man headquarters staff inside the Hanoi Citadel" compound, plus an unknown number of interrogation, indoctrination, and military POW detention camp specialists assigned to about 30 detention camps for an estimated 120,000 former ARVN personnel in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War years in South Vietnam, the CDV had about 10,000 personnel assigned to four forward “commands. About 1,500 were assigned to the.SVNLA Enemy Proselytizing Office forward command and its field components; 4,600 to the COSVN Military Proselytizing Section forward command and its field components; 3,500 to the Region 5 Enemy Military Proselytizing Section forward command and its field components in Central Vietnam; and about 400 to the Tri-Thien-Hue Military Region Enemy l2 —S'E€R'E‘|" ;,,;“ r >;->~-~- - ‘~ -V - .- -7 , I l 6 l J + :1
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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.