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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.
“Headquarters”33 pages
with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In late 1969, he became the concurrent head of its newly-established Penetration Cum 2 Unit E-I6, which was targeted against ARVN officers in Danang City. Dao came from a middle-class background, and had a wife who was a DRV Third Form (equivalent US -?>rd Grade) teacher in Hanoi. V0 Dau alias Bay Dau, Staff Assistant, SVNLA Political Staff Department Enemy Proselytizing Offices ‘Policy (POW) Section, I968 to I970. Born about 1930 in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, Dau was a regroupee who held the rank of CDV senior captain. I-Ie concurrently headed the Policy (POW) Sections Inter-Unit C Camp system for US/foreign civilian and military POWs. (LNU) Dien, Deputy Director, CDV, I954 to 19705. Born about 1917 in Central Vietnam, Dien held the rank of senior colonel. Tran Dinh Diep, Staff Assistant for Security, SVI\'*LA Political Staff Department Enemy Proselytizing Office Policy Sections Inter-Unit A camp system for US/foreign civilian and militar.y POWs, 1965 to I973. Born about I930 in Ha Bac Province, North Vietnam, Diep was a CDV senior lieutenant. Tran Do, Director, SVNLA Political Staff Department in charge of cadre organization (personnel), enemy proselytizing, propaganda training, and military security affairs,- April I964 to I975. Born in 1922 in Nam Dinh City, Ha Nam Ninh Province, North Vietnam, Do joined the Indochinese Communist Party's (ICP) University Students and Youth Movement in Hanoi in 19138. In 1940, he became a probationary ICP member and political officer of his native village self-defense unit. In I941, he was arrested by the French in Thai Binh Province and was imprisoned in the Son La Prison until released in August I945 by PAVN forces. In August I945, he became a political officer in the Tam Bien area of Hanoi. In I946, he became the deputy political officer of PAVN Military Region 2, also known as the PAVN Northwest Military Region IO, along the northern Laos border. Between I948 and I950, Do was the deputy political officer of PAVN Interregion IO Regiment 148. Between January I951 and November I953, he was the deputy commander and political officer of Interregion 10 Regiment 209, also known as the Song Lo Regiment, which operated in northern Laos. In November 1953, he became the political officer of the PAVN 312th Division, which took part in the May I954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu. In 1955, he was reassigned to the MND General Political Department. Between 1956 and 1963, he was the political officer of PAVN Military Region 3 (Right Bank). Do was promoted to the rank of major general in 1959. In September 1960, he became an alternate member of the Lao Dong Party's Central Committee and a member of the MND Central Military Party Affairs Committee. In April 1964, he was sent to South Vietnam, where he became a Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN) Current Affairs Committee (CAC) member, a member of the COSVN Military Affairs Committee, deputy political officer of PA\"N's South .. 79 SECRET- _.— r1--,lr-~_-..1,_-k-.; -- —,' I-' -
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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.