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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
mm 099011 ---__ ’> '7 Q _S'E‘CR‘ET Vietnamese Liberation Army (SVNLA), and head of the SVNLA Political Staff Department in charge of cadre organization (person- nel), enemy proselytizing, and propaganda-training affairs. Do imposed strict ethnic North Vietnamese control throughout the SVNLA Political Staff Department structure. Three ‘senior PAVN officers who infiltrated with him were appointed Deputy SVNLA Political Staff Department Directors: Colonel Nguyen Lan alias Ba Luu, the cadre organization (personnel) office chief; Colonel Tran Van Phac alias Tam Tran; and Colonel Pham Thai alias Nam Thai, the military security office chief. In 1968, he headed an SVNLA Command Group during the general offensives on Saigon, where he was reportedly killed. This report was later deemed false. In 1969/1970, he became a full Lao Dong Party Central Committee member. Wounded in a B-52 air strike, he returned to Hanoi in 1970 for medical treatment and reassumed his positions with COSVN/SVNLA in 1971. In September 1972, he attended a meeting of PAVN Military Region 5 as an SVNLA representative to coordinate campaign planning. Following the January 1973 Paris Ceasefire Agreement, he became the political officer of SVNLA Command Group 801. Following the Communist takeover of South Vietnam on 80 April 1975, Do attended the Ninth Congress of the East German United Socialist Party which was held in April 1976. From at least January 1977 to present, he has held the concurrent positions of Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) Central Committee member, deputy director of the VCP Propaganda and Training Department, Vice Minister of Culture and Information, and Secretary of the Current Affairs Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Information Party Committee. Do has used the aliases Cuu Long, Truong Son, Chin Vinh, and Tran Quoc Vinh. Tran Van Du alias Bay Du, Deputy Chief and later Chief, COSVN Military Proselytizing Section, 1960 to 1975. Born about 1927 in Long An or Dinh Tuong Province, delta area of South Vietnam, Du was a battalion commander during the 1945-1954 French Resistance War who refused to regroup to North Vietnam ~ in 1954. Between 1954 and 1959, he was the personal secretary of Nam Bo/COSVN Party Committee Secretary Le Duan. In 1959, he was reas- signed to the Military Proselytizing Section of the Nam Bo Public Security Office as a command-level cadre. When COSVN was reestablished in 1960, Du became the deputy chief of the COSVN - 80 1-S-E€R‘E'l"'
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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.