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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.
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"5E€'R*E-}’— distributing English-language leaflets, and making loudspeaker appeals againstUS military personnel in the province. Five of seven members of the QuangNgai Province EMPS Enemy Proselytizing Subsection were professional ethnicNorth Vietnamese CDV staff officers. They supervised targeting against USInfantry Brigade battalions in the province. According to a captureddocument covering the period January-April 1971, it distributed 4,000English-language leaflets and made about 50 loudspeaker appeals monthly.The Enemy Proselytizing Subsections of the Binh Dinh, Dac Lac, Cia Lai,Khanh Hoa, Kontum, Phu Yen, and Quang Nam (RVN Quang Tin) ProvinceEMPS were similarly staffed and engaged in operations against the Americantarget. _ 4 The Tri-Thien-Hue Military Region Enemy Military Proselytizing Section According to an April 1967 dated captured document, the TTHMR EMPSdirected the Quang Tri,_Thua Thien; and Hue City EMPS to establish seven-- man American proselytizing subsections with English-speaking cadres by 30June 1967. The TTHMR EMPS provided one CDV officer to head the American Proselytizing Subsections and one CDV English-speaking interpre- ter/translater to serve with their interrogation and detention camp subsections. PAVN combat units were informed to provide captured English-language documents to the American Proselytizing Subsections for translation into Vietnamese. The TTHMR EMPS also provided the American Proselytizing Subsections with loudspeakers, tape recorders, radios, and printing equipmentto utilize in their operations against US units. Anothercaptured document dated September 1967 written by TTHMREMPS Deputy Chief Nguyen Cao Thieng outlined a plan for proselytizing American troops. According to this document, the American proselytizing objective was to undermine the morale of US military personnel and Allied forces, to stir up American antiwar sentiment, and to reduce the combat effectiveness of US military units. English-speaking cadres of the American Proselytizing Subsections were instructed to prepare leaflets, slogans, andposters for distribution near US military bases, as well as themes for Liberation Radio and Hanoi Radio broadcasts in English against US military personnel inSouth. Vietnam. "American soldiers, especially Negro soldiers, are our principal targets, then come the noncommissioned officers and officers up to captain who have proved to be relatively progressive." Subordinate EMPScomponents were instructed to use interpreters, fifth column (penetration) agents, and “progressive” assets in contact with American military personnel."All districts and units should assign comrades to take charge of the task of proselytizing American soldiers . . . will send translators to all locations whenthey ‘are available." All known English-speaking personnel of the American Proselytizing Subsections were CDV graduates of the Hanoi Foreign Language Institute. They interrogated _ US POWs for political intelligence. Interrogations for military intelligence were conducted by the TTHMR Military Staff's Military Intelligence Section and by the Quang Tri and Thua Thien Province MilitaryStaff's Military Intelligence Subsections. The TTHMR Political Staff 's Military 26 , s-sea-er- _ ,_ _ .. . . _,,_,_ _-_ _ -......_.,.;_. ». _, ..._ . ....a 1 \'F\W\ v‘\Ofif\1 1 Q _i .. "“*‘!’F'l'!‘l'¢\" W?!$‘7il1.!‘4;!Z!\W'\t'vW s f_ ‘._- -,._.,£_=_~. - 01,-.. V-I-_, 1'-'11 73; ».:=.~_
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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.