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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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to an unspecified position in the CDV headquarters. Holding the rank
of major, he infiltrated South Vietnam in early 1965 with CDV Major
Pham Tran Ban, and became a deputy chief of the SVNLA Enemy
Proselytizing Office. Ngon '
speaks fluent French.
Nguyen Nhan, Korean-language specialist, Quang Dal Special Region
Party Committee Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section Propa-
ganda Subsection, 1968 to 1972. DPOB unknown, Nhan attended the
first Korean language training course given by North Koreans at the
Region 5 Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section between early
1967 and early 1968.
Duong Van Nhut alias Muoi Ty, cadre, COSVN Military Proselytiz-
ing Section, 1963 to 1975. Born about 1914 in Phu My Village, Long
Dinh District, Dinh Tuong Province, delta area of South Vietnam,
Nhut is the younger brother of former ARVN Lieutenant General and
Prime Minister Duong Van ("Big") Minh. Nhut joined the revolution
with the My Tho Province Unit in 1945 and regrouped to North
Vietnam where he was assigned to PAVN Division 330. In 1961, he
was promoted to the rank of major. After the overthrow of RVN
President Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963, Nhut was dispatched
by the CDV to induce his brother Duong Van Minh, who had been
appointed Prime Minister, to cooperate with the revolution in
establishing a coalition government with Hanoi's NLFSVN. In early
1964, Nhut arrived at the COSVN Military Proselytizing Section only
to find out that his brother Duong Van Minh had been removed from
power by ARVN General Nguyen Khanh. From then on, he was
targeted by COSVN Military Proselytizing Section Acting Chief Tran
Van Du alias Bay Du against his brother Duong Van Minh. When
Duong Van Minh left Saigon for self-imposed exile in Bangkok in late
1969, Nhut was dispatched by Tran Van Du to Bangkok to recruit
Duong Van Minh. Nhut maintained courier contact with Tran Van
Du, communicating via international mail to a live drop in Saigon
through which he sent reports on his activities in secret writing under
the guise of innocent letters. Nhut returned to the COSVN Military
Proselytizing Section in late 1971, and conti-nued to be targeted
against his brother Duong Van Minh. There is no information
available to indicate whether “Big” Minh was ever recruited by his
CDV brother.
(LNU) Oanh alias Tam Thoi, Acting Director, CDV, June 1955 to
1970s. Born about 1917 in Ben Tre,Province, delta area of South
Vietnam, Thoi held the rank of senior colonel. He joined the Viet
Minh August 1945 Revolution and during the French Resistance War
was political officer of PAVN Regiment 99 in the delta areas of Vinh
Long and Tra Vinh Provinces before becoming the deputy chief of
the Eastern Nam Bo Region Military Intelligence Section. Between
1948 and 1954, he headed the Nam Bo/COSVN Political Staff's
Enemy Proselytizing Office. A French linguist, Thoi regrouped to
North Vietnam in 1955 and became the Acting CDV Director.
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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.