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and on the combat effectiveness of unit commanders and their
personnel.
Files Office: It maintains all CDV files, reports, and professional
documents. "
Foreign Affairs Office: It supervises the enemy military proselytizing
operations of the Lao and Kampuchean People's Republic enemy
military proselytizing branches, whose officers it has trained. It
monitors the activities of at least 60 CDV advisers assigned to the
Enemy Military Proselytizing Department of the Lao People's
Democratic Republic MND General Political Department, and an
unknown number of advisers presumably_assigned to the enemy
military proselytizing branch of the Kampuchean People's Republic
MND Political Staff. During the Vietnam War, it presumably
maintained liaison with North Korean Embassy psychological warfare
military advisers, who assisted the CDV in its targeting of Republic of
Korea forces in South Vietnam. The office also maintains contacts
with Soviet KGB advisers in Hanoi.
General Research Office: It is responsible for establishing enemy
military proselytizing doctrine and prepares enemy military prosely-
tizing training programs and directives for the armed forces.
Indoctrination Office: It is responsible for the political “reeducation”
of military POWs, and was deeply involved during the Vietnam War
years in directing the political indoctrination of US POWs.
“Phai Khien” Agent Operation Office: It monitors the activities of
field elements which are responsible for penetrating enemy military
units. During the Vietnam War years, forward field elements directed
agent and fifth column operations against ARVN and US/Allied
forces. '
Policy (POW) Office: It is responsible for conducting the initial
interrogations of military POWs; drafts interrogation plans; and
establishes criteria for the handling,_billeting, feeding, and care of
military POWs. It has a central registry of all US POWs who were
processed in or evacuated to North Vietnam, of POWs who died in
captivity, as well as all records of interrogation and indoctrination
results, and handwritten statements made by US POWs in North
Vietnam. The Policy Office maintains close contacts with the
BCA/BNV Interrogation and Prisons Departments, particularly with
BCA/BNV authorities at the Central Hoa Lo Prison—-the “Hanoi
Hilton." It brokered interrogations for military intelligence informa-
tion conducted by the MND General Staff Department's Research
(Military Intelligence) Department-(Cuc Nghien Cuu‘/CNC).
Propaganda Office: It is responsible for the preparation of
psychological warfare materials for distribution against enemy
military personnel. Psychological warfare products were based on
information obtained from POW interrogation and indoctrination
sessions, and information obtained in the field by the various CDV
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