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Intelligence and Security Operations of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of National Defense
Central Intelligence Agency · 1979-12-01 · 120 pages · text from the file's own layer
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.
“Headquarters”33 pages
- p. 13 …South Vietnam
maintained contact with the CBV headquarters in Hanoi through radio
communications, couriers flown on…
- p. 14 …All power rested in the Lao Dong Party's
forward COSVN headquarters with PAVN in full…
- p. 18 …Interrogation
results were sent to the provincial unit and / or military region headquarters for
followup exploitation…
- p. 25 …similarly studied and sent to the CDV headquarters in
Hanoi for incorporation into POW indoctrination, and…
- p. 26 …South Vietnam in spring 1965, the CDV headquarters in Hanoi
instructed its forward commands in South…
- p. 27 …operational control of
PAVN Military Region 4 headquartered in Vinh, Nghe An Province.
Consequently, the CDV…
- p. 28 …The PDV headquarters was composed of 75 personnel assigned to six
major sections. About 200 personnel…
- p. 29 …The handwritten statements were also sent to the CDV
headquarters in Hanoi where they ‘were used…
- p. 30 …Established in May 1969 with la 25-man
headquarters staff, it had three 25-man detention…
- p. 34 …In spring 1968, the Region 5 EMPS requested the CDV headquarters inHanoi to provide it with…
- p. 35 …It was unaware of the fact that the Region 5 EMPS
headquarters now had three Korean…
- p. 36 …beenasked to leave by the Region 5 headquarters which had discovered them.
performing other than agreed…
- p. 40 …These advisory groups were assigned to the Supreme LPLA
Headquarters, and to the three LPLA military…
- p. 41 …Most were prepared by the SLMR
Enemy Military Proselytizing Section headquarters, although subordinate
provincial political staff…
- p. 43 …personnel, who were organized into a small headquarters staff, at least one
30-man detention camp…
- p. 48 …Other penetrations included
a translator with a liaison group attached to the headquarters of the US…
- p. 53 …RVN National Police
Command Regional Headquarters in Can Tho; the Lo Te Prison; US advisory
and…
- p. 54 …4 MPS had over 200 personnel under its control organized
into a 50-man headquarters staff…
- p. 55 …40 personnel organized into a five-
man headquarters staff and four courier stations.
8. B9 Printing…
- p. 56 …Directly subordinate to
its headquarters staff were two 40-man courier stations which were each
organized…
- p. 57 …The Region 2
MPS headquarters staff was organized into a:
1.
2.
I 3.
Administrative Subsection…
- p. 60 …Among those arrested were penetrations of the ARVN I
Corps MSS Headquarters; the personal chauffeur of…
- p. 61 …provincial EMPS,
organized into a 42-man headquarters staff with seven subordinate subsections
as follows: ,
F…
- p. 63 …These staff components monitored and provided professional
guidance to the 40-man headquarters staffs of the…
- p. 71 …Tan Son Nhut) Air Divisions, the
VNAF Headquarters, Aircraft Control and Warning Group, Air Logistics
Command…
- p. 80 …Born about
1925 in North Vietnam, Ban held the rank of major in the CDV
headquarters…
- p. 85 …Between 1961 and
February 1967, he was assigned to the COSVN MPS Penetration
Subsection headquarters where…
- p. 88 …the rank of
captain to the SVNLA headquarters, where he was assigned to the
Enemy Proselytizing…
- p. 89 …85
‘SE-GR-EL
the CDV headquarters in Hanoi, he was sent to South Vietnam in…
- p. 90 …Between
April and June 1968, he was assigned to a SVNLA Forward
Headquarters in Subregion 1…
- p. 94 _seea-er-
to an unspecified position in the CDV headquarters. Holding the rank
of major, he…
- p. 96 …In April 1951, he was reassigned
to the MND headquarters before becoming the head of the…
- p. 102 …It is North Vietnam's main pen-
itentiary and the administrative headquarters for its
entire prison…
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10. General sentiment/attitudes which the POWs felt were peculiar to
the VC
11. Promises made by US Government to the military prior to sending
them to Vietnam »
12. Number of members of the POW's unit belonging to the laboring
class. The Military Proselytizing Section explained to the Americans
the senselessness of going to a foreign country to fight when there
were so many things, such as unemployment, in their down country
which needed to be taken care of. In addition, desired statistics and
other information on conditions in the US were sought
13. Awareness of unemployment and misery experiencedsby Ameri~
cans in the US C
4. Desire of POWs to write letters to their families in the US. The
VC/NVA would see that the friends and families of the POW got
these letters in the hopes that the letters would cause them to
agitate for peace and the resultant return of their loved ones
15. Characteristics and morale of minority groups in the US
During the interrogation, the following questions and arguments were
posed to determine the sophistication of the POW:
Why did the US fail at the Bay of Pigs?
Why was President Kennedvassassinated?
Why was Martin Luther King assassinated?
Why was Cuba allowed to become a Communist country? Cuba is a
small country with a small population located near the mighty US.
Vietnam is a small country with few people, so why should the US
bother with Vietnam?
Why did the Americans fight the British in the American Revolution?
Is not the Vietnamese war analogous to the American Revolution?
the end of the interrogation, each POW was asked if he had any
questions or needed anything. The POW could thereby express his personal
feelings. The effect of the interrogation would thus be indicated, and the way
the POW was treated en route from capture could be determined.
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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.