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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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—5'E€R'E|'- The Tri-Thien-Hue Military Region (TTHMR) EMPS had a 100-man headquarters staff with command over 400 personnel down to the village level. Commanded by CDV Lieutenant Colonel Le Quoc Chinh and CDV Major Nguyen Cao Thieng, the EMPS headquarters was organized into administrative, enemy research, propaganda and training, fifth column (penetration), interrogation and detention camp, and American proselytizing subsections. These staff components monitored and provided professional guidance to the 40-man headquarters staffs of the Quang Tri Province, Thua Thien Province, and Hue City EMPS. The TTHMR EMPS had over 400 agent assets under its control. The ARVN Ist Infantry Division was a primary target. Following the capture in June 1968 of Deputy Quang Tri Province EMPS Chief Senior Captain Phan Huu Them, over 50 penetrations of ARVN surfaced. Among these penetrations were: five in the ARVN Ist Infantry Division; ARVN Naval Commander Huynh Tan Ho; ARVN Major Tran Dinh Khue; and ARVN Colonel Nguyen Ho. ARVN Major Tran Dinh Khue was recruited by the CDV ' in 1947 as a long-range penetration of ARVN. Khue had participated in an unsuccessful 19 February I965 coup d'etat in Saigon, and was considered by the COSVN MPS to be a valuable penetration of ARVN. Colonel Nguyen Ho was initially recruited through his wife by the Quang Tri Province Public Security Service in I954 as a long-range penetration of ARVN. In 1960 and 1961, he attended the US Army Command General Staff College at‘ Fort Leavenworth. He served as deputy commander (1963) of the ARVN Special Forces; deputy chief of staff (1964) of ARVN IV Corps, operating under COSVN MPS direction; chief of staff (1965), ARVN 1st Infantry Division of ARVN I Corps; chief (1966) of the RF/PF in ARVN II Corps; and later as head of the ARVN II Corps Inspector Ceneral's Office. Between 1965 and 1967, he operated under the direction of the COSVN MPS and its Region 5 EMPS. . The Postwar “Reeducation” and Exploitation of the ARVN Following the Communist takeover of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975,» the CDV and its various forward commands in South Vietnam became responsible for the detention, administration, indoctrination, interrogation, and “reeducation" of over 1,000,000 ARVN, RF/PF, PSDF, and other paramilitary personnel of the former Republic of Vietnam (RVN). Of this number, about 120,000 are still held in CDV-administered camps in South and North Vietnam with little hope of release and reintegration into the new socialist society. Registration and Reporting Immediately after the takeover, all persons, regardless of sex, age or profession, were required to register with new authorities by reporting for the "census" which was organized throughout the country. In Ho Chi Minh City, census offices were set up to serve as security screening mechanisms for the planned "reeducation" of the South Vietnamese populace. Each census office was designed to register a certain category of civil servants, a certain grade of military personnel, and certain segments of the rest of the populace. RVN civil sa “seeaek 2 . __a__ . __,__,_,,____fi -.»~v.m»mw-~...-v»-,.,,”,_ r c\1\'rn noon“ T7 ( 7
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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.