Intelligence and Security Operations of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of National Defense

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The JCP Beheiren front was an anti-Vietnam War front which, at first,resorted to “nonviolent direct action.” It established ties with antiwarorganizations in the US and in other countries, helped US deserters flee Japanto other countries and attempted to form “rebel military groups" within theUS Armed Forces. Thus, the CDV was indirectly assisted in its mission ofinducing US military desertions and in fomenting “mutiny” in US militaryunits. In return, the VCP supported JCP demands for the abrogation of theUS/Japanese Security Treaty, the return of Okinawa to Japanese control, andA
the withdrawal of US forces in Japan and Southeast Asia.
VCP anti-American campaigns in Japan were supported by the travels ofVietnam-Japan Friendship Association (VJF A) officials to Japan in coordinat-ed action with the JCP’s International Department and its JVFA. VJFAdelegates coordinated propaganda efforts against US military presence inJapan and psychological warfare collection programs with JCP InternationalDepartment front organizations. With JVFA assistance, VJFA delegationstoured the perimeters of US military bases in Japan and Okinawa, andfamiliarized themselves with the status of US military bases and forces inJapan. VCP delegates regularly attended annual JCP Censuikyo Conferences,meeting with Censuikyo JVSC officials. l
For example, one Hoang Xuan Nhi, a long-time CDV psychologicalwarfare specialist since the days of the French Resistance War, headed a two-man VJFA delegation to the JCP's 20th Censuikyo Conference in August 1974.Before leaving Japan, Nhi met with JVFA and Censuikyo J VSC officials, andlevied requirements for the collection of political intelligence on US PresidentsNixon and Ford, and on the “Watergate affair.” Nghi was accompanied byBNV staff interpreter and ‘security escort officer Nguyen Trung Hieu.
The JCP International Department had good access to sympathetic pro-Hanoi support groups in both the US and Australia, and increased its liaisonwith the American and Australian Communist Parties. Contacts weremaintained with the Australian Communist Party as well as with Australianand New Zealand support groups. Australia and New Zealand both hadcombat units deployed in South Vietnam under the US-sponsored ThirdWorld Military Assistance Command in Saigon, which was a CDV target. TheJCP assisted the VCP in coordinating the distribution of demoralizing antiwarpsychological warfare materials in Australia and New Zealand. The mainthrust of this effort focused on demands for the withdrawal of Australian andNew Zealand forces, which, according to CDV-produced propaganda, had nonational interrest in fighting a war in South Vietnam as hired US mercenaryforces. VCP officials also established contacts with the Australian and NewZealand Anti-Vietnam War Movements, and with the New ZealandWellington Committee on Vietnam for the purpose of conducting coordinatedpsychological warfare campaigns against US, Australian, and New Zealandinvolvement in Vietnam. An Australian Communist Party member assistedHanoi's Vietnam I
News Agency in Hanoi in preparing English-language
psychological warfare materials for distribution in Australia and in South~
Vietnam against Australian military -personnel. The Australian Communist
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