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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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1-5‘E€‘R'E"|"' . - Trinh Xuan Chi, member, Quang Da Special Region Party Committee Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section Propaganda Subsection Proselytizing Unit, 1965 to 19705. Born about 1944 in Ky Anh Village, Tam Ky District, Ouang Tin Province, Chi was assigned to the Quang Da Special Region Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section as an English-language proselytizing cadre. Pham Chinh, deputy chief, Quang Da Special Region Party Committee Enemy Military Proselytizing Section Propaganda Subsec~ tion, 1966 to 1974. Born about 1926 in Danang City, Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam, Chinh joined the Indochinese Communist Party in the 19405 and operated during the 1945 to 1954 French Resistance War in Region 5. Prior to his assignment in 1966 to the Quang Da Special Region Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section, he had been an English teacher at the Danang Sao Mai School. Chinh headed the propaganda subsection's research and printing cell, where he specialized in writing English-langauge leaflets against US military personnel. - Nguyen Thuc Dai, member, CDV Policy (POW) Office, 1947 to 1970s. Born about 1920 in Nam Dan District, Nghe An Province, North Vietnam, Dai held the rank of major. He was a 1945 graduate of the Khai Dinh High School in Hue, Central Vietnam, and joined the August 1945 Revolution. Between 1945 and 1947, he was assigned to PAVN Hanoi Capital Regiment before his 1947 transfer to the PAVN Political Staff’s Enemy Proselytizing Office Policy (POW) Section. Dai speaks English, French and an unknown Chinese dialect. Le Quang Dao, Deputy Director, MND General Political Depart~ ment, in charge of cadre organization (personnel), enemy proselytiz— ing, and military security, May 1956 to date. Date of birth unknown in Tu Son, Bac Giang, Ha Bac Province, North Vietnam. Nothing is known of his activities before June 1954. On 28 June 1954, he was cited for the first time with the rank of senior colonel as a DRV delegate who met with a delegation of the French Expeditionary Corps High Command after the May 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Between October 1954 and at least February 1955, he was a PAVN delegate to the Central Armistice Commission in Hanoi. He had been the political officer of PAVN Interregion 3 (Right Bank). On 7 May 1956, he was identified for the first time as a deputy director of the MND General Political Department, heading its Propaganda and Training Department. Dao subsequently became one of the primary exponents of proper party ideology in PAVN. As of February 1960, he held the rank of major general. In September 1960, he was appointed an alternate member of the Lao Dong, the Vietnamese Communist Party's (VCP) Central Committee at the Third National Party Congress. In 1962, he was cited as the director of the PAVN Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) Training Schoool. As of 1964, he was cited as heading the MND General Political Departments Cadre Organization Department, which handled the personnel affairs of personnel up to the rank of major. Following the capture of the first 77 ‘ -S-E-€-RE‘T"' L »,,7 “Mn 099.011 --"-*
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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.