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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
" ~ —5'E€'R'Fl" Commander of the Saigon Capital Military District Ordnance Depot. ARVN Colonel Vu Quang Tai had been approached by his brother Vu Quang Lan, a COSVN MPS agent handler, and reported it to the ARVN Military Security Service (MSS), who put Lan under surveillance which led to his arrest with COSVN MPS Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Nhon Nghia. Lan, a PAVN officer, was transferred to the CDV in Hanoi because he had noted his brother Vu Quang Tai as an ARVN officer. After completing CDV training in December 1966, Lan was sent to South Vietnam where he was assigned in October 1967 to the COSVN MPS Officer Proselytizing Subsection headed by Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Nhon Nghia. Through blood ties, the COSVN MPS hoped to recruit his brother ARVN Colonel Vu Quang Tai as a long-range in-place fifth column agent asset. Nothing is known about Nghia's disposition since his capture in 1968. He is a prime example of a CDV agent handler who was assigned to recruit ARVN field grade officers through family ties. Trinh Dinh Nghia alias Nguyen Viet Thanh, Korean-language specialist, Quang Da Special Region Party Committee Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section Propaganda Subsections Armed Propa- ganda Unit, February to November 1970 (captured). Born onmat Xuyen Phuoc Village, Duy Xuyen District, Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam, Nghia joined the Quang Da Special Region Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section in May 1968; attended a 10-man Korean-language training course at the Region 5 Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section between April 1969 and February 1970; and was a Korean-language specialist of the Quang Da Special Region Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section’s Armed Propaganda Unit until the date of his capture on 24 November 1970. He is the only known CDV Korean linguist captured by Allied forces during the Vietnam War. Nothing is known of his disposition since his capture. Hong Ba Ngoc, member, Quang Da Special Region Party Committee Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section Command Group, concur- rently chief", Penetration Cum 3 Unit E-15b, 1967 to 1974. Born about 1931 in Hoa Chau Village, Hoa Vang District, Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam, Ngoc participated in the 1945-1954 French Resistance War in Region 5; regrouped to North Vietnam in 1954/1955; and infiltrated South Vietnam in 1965, when he became the deputy secretary of the Hoa Vang District Party Committee. Between late 1967 and 1974, he was assigned to the Quang Da Special Region Enemy and_ Military Proselytizing Section as a member of its command group and as the head of Penetration Cum 3 Unit E-15b. Bui Thanh Ngon alias Ba Ngon, Deputy Chief, SVNLA Political Staff Department's Enemy Proselytizing Office, 1965 to 1975. Born about 1928 in Phong Dinh Province, delta area of South Vietnam, Ngon was assigned to the Nam Bo/COSVN Enemy Proselytizing Office during the French Resistance War. Following the July 1954 Geneva Accords on Indochina, he regrouped to North Vietnam, where he was assigned 89 ‘SEER-H_ ,,..., ..,._- ... .........._.., ,.. _ .,-. __.-_-- '1 1 -I » - mm qszmi ----- LQ7
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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.