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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
'SE€R'ET— 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 14 iSECR‘E'T* I E ‘:1. -=- :=.‘= ?7“¥i-W .R9'!~NfM<_;¢: swm 1 |' 1 I 4 = v __- ..__a.... '.-i?';;~ ’ __w,._..__ -.,,,_._. __ _____ _ __ :.3_Z~__£ .3. ” S v . -1 5 ‘ ' - \m'r\ neon“ ____ '7 / 2
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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.