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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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semi Vietnam, Mai headed the Sa Dec Province Military Intelligence Section between 1948 and 1954. Following the July 1954 Geneva Accords on Indochina, he was reassigned to the Nam Bo/COSVN Public Security Offices Military Proselytizing Section. In 1958, he was arrested and imprisoned until 1961. In 1961, he was reinstated into the COSVN MPS. Between 1961 and March 1968, he headed the COSVN MPS Penetration Subsection. In March 1968, he became the deputy chief of the Saigon City Party Committees MPS before becoming its head in August 1968. Between 1968 and 1974, he operated with legal papers in the Saigon Capital area as the head of the Saigon City/Region 4 Party Committees MPS. He speaks French and English, and holds the rank of lieutenant colonel. Truong Huynh Mao alias Tu Truong, Political Officer, SVNLA Political Staff Department Enemy Proselytizing Office Policy Sections Inter-Unit A camp system for US/foreign civilian and military POWs, 1967 to 1978. Born about 1928 in either Vinh Long or Kien Hoa Province, delta area of South Vietnam, Mao was a regroupee with the rank of CDV senior captain, who infiltrated South Vietnam in 1968. Between 1968 and 1967, he headed the administrative staff of the COSVN Military Proselytizing Section. In 1968, he was transferred laterally to the SVNLA Enemy Proselytizing Office. His wife was also an active member of the COSVN Military Proselytizing Section. Nguyen Thi Na, female agent handler, COSVN MPS, 1954 to 8 July 1969 (captured). Born in 1989 in North Vietnam, Miss Na was dispatched to South Vietnam in the 1954/1955 refugee exodus as a young female CDV agent handler. Assigned to the COSVN MPS Penetration Subsection, as of 1969 she was actively engaged in handling penetration operations against the ARVN 7th, 18th, and 25th Divisions in ARVN IV Corps in the southern delta area. Recruiting under the banner of the Alliance of Democratic Peace Forces front of COSVN, she was in charge of several high-level but unidentified penetrations of ARVN. In December 1968, she was detailed to the Region 8 MPS where she screened leads in the southern delta area for COSVN MPS penetration operations in the Saigon Capital area. After her July 1969 arrest, 15 penetrations of ARVN surfaced. Nothing is known of her disposition since her arrest. She is cited here as one example of a CDV female agent handler who had considerable success in recruiting ARVN personnel. Nguyen Nhon Nghia aliases Pham Huu Loc, Bay Nghia, Chief, COSVN MPS Officer Proselytizing Subsection, 1965 to February 1968 (captured). Born in 1916 in Kien Hoa Province, delta area of South Vietnam,‘ Nghia had operated with the Nam Bo/COSVN MPS between 1948 and 1954 and from 1965 to the date of his arrestin February 1968 as the chief of the COSVN MPS Officer Proselytizing Subsection. He was imprisoned between 1955 and 1968. In February 1968, he and fellow COSVN MPS agent handler Vu Quang Lan were arrested after attempting to recruit ARVN Colonel Vu Quang Tai, as ‘ ‘stern-e1\ '“+\'?_,;, 1..-» I i 1 ~ . .. Y4 ,. ‘$1.. mm 982011 ---__ it
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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.