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~ “Personnel holding (military) aspirant rank and (civilian) team leader
and group leader ranks of the puppet rural pacification branch . . . must
gather at the Le Quang- Dinh School at the corner of Chi Lang and Le
Van Duyet Streets (Cia Dinh) on 19 and 20 August.
~ “Aspirants and master sergeants of the 'Loi Hoi 81' ranger, military
sector reconnassiance, and special forces units must gather at the
Trung Vuong Girls High School and the Vo Truong Toari School, 3
Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, Saigon 1, on 19 and 20 August.
, ~ “Personnel holding the ranks from second lieutenant to captain in the
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puppet armed forces in Cu Chi District must gather at the Cu Chi
District armed forces agency -on 19 and 20 August. ’
- "Personnel in these categories must attend supplementary study sessions
if they have already reported, registered, and had reform study in their
localities. Those who did not must do so now . . . must bring paper, pens,
clothes, mosquito nets, blankets, mattresses, personal effects, food and
foodstuffs (in kind or money) enough for 10 days . . . reception hours
0800 to 1500 daily at gathering places."
At first, the locations of the reeducation camps were kept strictly secret by
the authorities. Military personnel were segregated by rank. For the most part,
enlisted personnel and NCOs were processed through camps run by district
military unit enemy proselytizing subsections. Provincial military unit enemy
proselytizing section camps handled for the most part junior company grade
officers up to thefrank of first lieutenant. Military region enemy proselytizing
section camps held officer personnel, and certain categories of ARVN
personnel, usually those associated with military intelligence, military police,
military security, Phoenix program, and political warfare elements. The
segregation of ranks pertained not only to regular ARVN personnel, but also to
RF/ PF and PSDF personnel and officers.
Indoctrination, Interrogation, and Screening Procedures
For the purposes of management, control, interrogation and indoctrina-
tion, personnel of the same rank were organized into reeducation battalions
which were further broken down into reeducation companies, platoons of two
10-man cells, and 10-man cells. One camp staff political 'indoctrination/ inter-
rogation specialist was assigned to each reeducation platoon to guide study
sessions, and to monitor compulsory discussion groups and self-criticism
sessions. Biweekly group sessions were a key part of the program. At these
sessions, internee statements were read aloud by camp indoctrinators who
asked that anyone who had knowledge of anything left out or of lies in the
statement step forward. Each internee was required to step forward and to
denounce fellow inmates he knew or suspected of having worked for or with
US intelligence (particularly CIA), British or French intelligence, as well as to
identify others who failed to report for reeducation. Inmates were told that
those with such knowledge and who came forward would be the first to be
released, and that those who had lied or had forgotten to include all their
crimes would be the last to be released. The majority of inmates were afraid to
lie or to conceal information. Most told the truth in their personal history
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