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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
—SE€'R‘ET" Thai Thanh Phong alias Ouyen, Staff Assistant, SVNLA Political Staff Department Enemy Proselytizing Office’s Policy (POW) Section, 1967 to 1975. Born about 1934 in Cia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, Phong served in a PAVN combat unit in the Eastern NamBo area of South Vietnam during the French Resistance War; regrouped to North Vietnam in 1954/1955; was demobilized; attended the Hanoi Teachers College; and was an elementary teacher at the Nguyen Khuyen School in Haiphong. Recalled to PAVN in 1963, he was assigned to the CDV and infiltrated South Vietnam in late 1967 when he was assigned to the SVNLA Enemy Proselytizing Office’s Policy (POW) Section. A fluent English, French and fair Russian speaker, Phong often interrogated US POWs at camps administered by the Policy Section’s POW Inter-Unit A. Phong held the rank of senior lieutenant as of 1970. Nguyen Phu, deputy chief, Quang Da Special Region Party Committee Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section Administrative Office, 1970 to 1974. Born about 1980 in Loc Phuoc Village, Dai Loc District, Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam, Phu had been a cadre of the Dai Loc District Party Committees Farmer's Association before his 1967 transfer to the Quang Da Special Region Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section as the head of the administrative office's food production unit. Le Quan alias Ha Quan, Chief, Quang Da Special Region Party Committee Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section, concurrent head, Penetration Cum 1, March 1970 to 1974. Born about 1927 in Xuyen Quan Village, Duy Xuyen District, Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam, Quan had operated for the Viet Minh in Region 5 during the 1945-1954 French Resistance War; regrouped to North Vietnam in 1954/1955;" and served as a security guard at the DRV Presidential Palace in Hanoi between 1955 and 1964. In 1964, he infiltrated South Vietnam and was assigned as a deputy secretary of the Duy Xuyen District Party Committee in Quang Nam Province. In 1969, he became a deputy chief of the Quang Da Special Region Party Committee's Enemy and Military Proselytizing Subsection, replacing Tran Vinh Quoc (deceased) as its chief in March 1970. Quan was by then a member of the Quang Da Special Region Party Committee's Current Affairs Committee. Tran Van Quang alias Bay Tien, Deputy Director, MND General Political Department for Enemy Proselytizing Affairs, 1954 to February 1956. Born about 1918 in Nghi Loc District,'Nghe An Province, North Vietnam, he joined the revolutionary movement in the 19305 and had become an Indochinese Communist Party member by 1939. "Between 1939 and August 1945, he was imprisoned by the French for revolutionary activities. Released by PAVN forces in August 1945, he received unspecified training from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Yunnan. According to French records, he was the political officer of PAVN Interregion 4 between February 1947 and April 1950, heading its administrative and resistance 91 . -5-Eerre-r— mm ononn ....___’) Q4 --_
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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.