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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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'SE‘C'R'FF_ South Vietnam, Long was a regroupee who held the rank of CDV senior captain. He \vas responsible for contacts between the Policy Section and its subordinate POW Inter-Unit A for US/foreign civilian and military POWs. Tran Van Luc alias Nam Luc, Chief, SVNLA Enemy Proselytizing Office Policy Section, 1966 to 1974. Born in 1927 in Bien Hoa City, South Vietnam, Luc came from a rich South Vietnamese family which held French citizenship. Luc graduated from the Petrus Ky High School in Saigon with French Baccalaureate Parts I and II. In September 1945, he joined the Binh Xuyen Sect Army against the French. He was later arrested by the Binh Xuyen for pro-Viet Minh activities and was sentenced to death. Before _his scheduled execution, he was freed by the PAVN Dong Nai Regiment. He and other former Binh Xuyen members formed a PAVN company in which Luc served as political officer. In 1950, he was transferred to PAVN Battalion 302 which was targeted against French rubber plantation workers north of Bien Hoa. Luc directed penetration operations against a pro-French Vietnamese officer training school, and led an attack against it which resulted in the death of all French officers and many Vietnamese officer candidates. Following the July I954 Geneva Accords on Indochina, Luc remained in South Vietnam where he was assigned to the Eastern Nam Bo Region Political Staff's Military Proselytizing Section. In 1957, he was recalled to North Vietnam where he attended a three- year course (1957-1960) at the MND Intermediate-Advanced Political School in Hanoi. Upon graduation, he was promoted to the rank of senior captain, and became the political officer of the PAVN 380th Division Engineering Battalion. In 1962, elements of PAVN Division 830 were sent to Laos for operations, and Luc remained in North Vietnam as a battalion-level political officer with Division 330. In July I965, he was transferred to the CDV. Between August and November 1965, he attended a 12-man training course for CDV POW specialists who left North Vietnam for South Vietnam in December 1965. In April 1966, he became the head of the SVNLA Enemy Proselytizing Office's Policy also known as POW Section, which was responsible for US, Allied and ARVN POWs. Between April and June 1968, he was assigned to a SVNLA Forward Headquarters in Subregion 1, where he was in charge of a 40-man enemy proselytizing section. In Iuly 1968, he was recalled to the SVNLA, where he became the chief delegate for POW exchange matters with the SVNLA Enemy Proselytizing Office's Policy Section. In October 1968, he directed the first release of US POWs in Tay Ninh Province. Luc continued to be responsible for US and ARVN POW release ‘exchanges through 1973. As of I974, he held the rank of lieutenant colonel. Tran Luong, alias Tran Nam Trung, Hai Hau, COSVN Current Affairs Committee member in charge of civil health, civilian proselytizing, finance-economic, and military proselytizing affairs, 86 O- iS'E'CR'E"l‘* 7 7 7 mm oq'm11 _-___ ’\ GU
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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.