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compartmented capability in the ROK proselytizing field. The CDV initially
provided the EMPS with three Korean linguists without the knowledge of the
North Korean team attached to it. Two were assigned to the PAVN 8rd
Infantry Division Political Staff’sfEMPS in Binh Dinh Province,,where the
ROK Tiger Division operated. The third linguist, CDV Senior Lieutenant
Nguyen Quoc Hoat, was assigned to the Region 5 EMPS headquarters, where
he began reviewing the North Korean leaflet product. Those leaflets
considered not to be useful to the EMPS were either destroyed, censored, or
revised to present the EMPS point of view. Hoat drafted other EMPS Korean-
language leaflets, and worked closely with the QDSR EMPS to which he was
attached as its sole Korean translator. Hoat's product was handwritten and
mimeographed while the North Korean product was machine printed. Thus,
the originator of Korean-language leaflets in Region 5 was easily identifiable. -
CDV Senior Lieutenant Hoat also began conducting Korean-language
courses for Region 5 EMPS cadres without the knowledge of the North Korean
team. The training was designed to provide the EMPS self-sufficiently in
Korean. The first Korean-language course was conducted between April‘ 1969
and February 1970. Two Korean linguists were then assigned to each
subordinate provincial EMPS which had an ROK target in its area. Two were
assigned, according to a captured document, to the B-3 Front Cia Lai (Pleiku)
Province EMPS in the Central Highlands. About 15 Korean linguists were
assigned throughout Region 5.
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By early 1970, the QDSR EMPS had one Korean translator, Nguyen Quoc
Hoat, and printed for distribution over 2,000 Korean-language leaflets
monthly. The Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, and Phu Yen Province EMPS received
monthly supplies of Region 5 EMPS-produced Korean-language leaflets for
distribution by subordinate district and village-level enemy military
proselytizing components near. ROK bases. Each distributed about 4,000
Korean-language leaflets monthly. The Binh Dinh Province EMPS targeted
two regiments of the ROK Tiger Division; the Phu Yen Province EMPS, one
regiment of the ROK Tiger Division; and the Khanh Hoa Province EMPS, the
ROK White Horse Division. »
The North Korean team at the Region 5 EMPS headquarters was reduced
to four officers. The team was composed of a colonel, two lieutenant colonels,
and a Vietnamese-speaking captain. It was denied permission to organize its
second Korean-language course on the grounds that the combat situation was
insecure. Nevertheless, the North Korean team continued to prepare and print
leaflets for distribution. It was unaware of the fact that the Region 5 EMPS
headquarters now had three Korean-language specialists, who reviewed their
product, prepared other Korean-language leaflets, and conducted Korean-
language courses for the Region 5 EMPS.
An undated captured document stated that the Region 5 EMPS targeted
ARVN, Australian, Filipino, ROK, Thai, and US military personnel with the
objective of creating and exploiting friction between them in order to reduce
their combat effectiveness and to induce increased desertions and mutiny
against participation in combat actions. Allied forces were branded in EMPS
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