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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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~seeR-H- 5. B6 Propaganda Subsection: 83 personnel who studied and drafted proselytizing programs against ARVN personnel and their depend- ents. It also monitored RVN radio broadcasts in order to prepare anti- RVN themes for wri_tten leaflets and broadcasts over the Liberation Radio. Among its personnel were five ARVN defectors. 6. B7 Convalescent Subsection: 7 personnel. 7. B8 Illegal Courier Subsection: 40 personnel organized into a five- man headquarters staff and four courier stations. 8. B9 Printing Subsection: 9 personnel. 9. B13 Food Production Subsection: 34 personnel. 10. B15 Medical Subsection: 9 personnel who operated the COSVN MPS dispensary. " . 11. B16 Organization Subsection: 15 personnel organized into personnel and internal security (bao ve) cells, and three 3-man inspection teams. The subsection maintained all personnel files on COSVN MPS officers and enlisted personnel; processed all CDV infiltrators from North Vietnam for headquarters staff and field units; and conducted counterintelligence investigations on cadres suspected of being politically unreliable, of having violated party rules and regulations, and of being doubled enemy agents. The subsection also provided administrative support to cadres attending COSVN MPS meetings and conferences. Security cadres received professional guidance from the COSVN Security Office with which they coordinated counterin- telligence investigations. 12. B20 (former B18) Military Proselytizing Training School: 12 personnel who prepared and conducted basic military proselytizing and refresher training courses for agent handlers and legal agent assets. It also provided professional training guidance for the training components of subordinate regional-level military proselytizing sections. 13. B22 Officer’s Management Subsection: 15 personnel responsible for monitoring the activities of recruited ARVN officers, as well as defectors who worked with the COSVN MPS B.6 Propaganda Subsection. Among its personnel were five ARVN officer defectors. The Forward Line Operations Wing (FLOW) was headed by Deputy COSVN MPS Chief Nguyen Van Thuong, who concurrently headed the COSVN MPS Fifth Column Movement Operations (Penetrations) Subsection and its Mau Than Penetration Group. Thuong had a 40 million piaster (US$200,000) budget for the year 1973/1974 and a 60 million piaster (US$150,000) budget for the year 1974/1975. All funds were furnished to the COSVN MPS by the CDV headquarters in Hanoi. Under Nguyen Van Thuong, the FLOW had 450 personnel. Of this number, 300 were assigned to 18 movement operations (penetration) units (doi cong tac phong trao), which had a total of about 60 agent handlers. These units were subordinate to the Mau Than Penetration Group. Established in January 1974, the Mau Than $0 ZS-EGR-E4'— i _<..- - <..- _ _ rvo-4 _-~.,__*,=,. , 471.10\V\W'\ v\Ofl H1 5 ‘C ..r~ ~ Pm i-i=-“,5 ;. !t~?=‘7:?;'~?'l1‘-.'|7'.'<‘-$12.1:/wgaa-'::1~¢. r ¢ r ..i
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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.