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4. F-4 Montagnard Proselytizing Subsection: one staff member, a Hre
ethnic minority tribesman who had been trained by the CDV in North
Vietnam and who was assigned to the Quang Ngai EMPS in 1968 to
conduct operations against ethnic minority tribes in the province. He
had the mission of inducing Montagnard tribesmen to resist RVN
control efforts in the five highland districts in the province.
5. F-5 Enemy Proselytizing Subsection: 7 personnel under the command
of the Deputy EMPS Chief. All subsection members were fluent in
English with the mission of preparing and distributing English-
language psychological warfare leaflets against US military personnel.
Five of the seven subsection members were professional ethnic North
Vietnamese CDV staff officers. According to a captured document
covering the period January-April 1971, the subsection distributed
4,000 English-language leaflets monthly and made about 50 loud-
speaker appeals monthly.
6. F-6 Training Subsection: one staff member responsible for giving
basic and refresher military proselytizing training to district and
village-level EMPS cadres. As of April 1971, the subsection was
dissolved and merged into the Region 5 EMPS Training Subsection.
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maintaining a temporary detention facility for Vietnamese military
prisoners. Through effective indoctrination, most Vietnamese prisoners
were recruited and released as fifth column assets.
The Quang Ngai EMPS directed the operations of 14' five-man district
party committee military proselytizing subsections, which submitted to it
quarterly and spot reports. Information concerning the withdrawal of US units
was immediately sent in spot reports to the Region 5 EMPS. Quarterly reports
contained information on the strengths and locations of US, ARVN, RF/PF
and PSDF units; operations carried out by US and Vietnamese units; morale
and reaction of Vietnamese military and paramilitary personnel to RVN
policies; and the effects of propaganda and military proselytizing activities
against US and Vietnamese forces. The district subsections targeted two
regiments of the ARVN 2nd Infantry Division; 60 RF companies; over 100
PF/PSDF platoons; and five battalions of the US 11th and 198th Infantry
Brigades. ~
As established by the Region 5 EMPS, the Quang Ngai EMPS had the
following objectives for the year 1971: induce 6,000 desertions; destroy the
combat effectiveness of the PSDF; establish penetration agents in all ARVN,
RF/PF and PSDF units. Each district was tasked with establishing three to
five penetration agents in each platoon-size or larger unit; three to five agents
in each major area where ARVN units operated; and three to five agents in
each major population center. Each of the five highland districts was tasked
with inducing 200 to 300 desertions; two to three PSDF units to disband or
desert; and two to three attacks and assassinations of ARVN personnel. The
Quang Ngai EMPS had great success in achieving these objectives according to
its January-April 1971 quarterly report.
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