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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
feces-r- committee. In April 1950, he was reassigned to the Viet Bac Military Region, where he became the deputy commander and political officer of the PAVN 804th Division. In April 1951, he was reassigned to the MND headquarters before becoming the head of the Lao Dong Party Central Committee's Enemy Proselytizing Board in 1952. In 1954, he was noted as the deputy director of the MND General Political Department in charge of Enemy Proselytizing Department affairs. In February 1956, he replaced Ngo Gia Loan as the director of the MND General Political Departments Military Security Department (CBV) and held this post until June 1958, when he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff in the MND General Staff Department, a post which he currently holds._Ouang held the rank of senior colonel. On 25 February 1960, he was promoted to the rank of major general. At the September 1960 Third National Party Congress, he was appointed a secret alternate member of the Central Committee and a member of the MND Central Military Party Affairs Committee. In late 1960, he was sent to South Vietnam, where he became in March 1961 the deputy secretary of the Lao Dong Party's Nam Bo/COSVN Military Affairs Committee and commander of its South Vietnamese Liberation Army (SVNLA). In June 1964, he was recalled to Hanoi, where he reassumed his position of Deputy PAVN Chief of Staff. By 1966, he had become the commander of PAVN Military Region 4, which directed the operations of Military Region 5 in Central Vietnam from its forward headquarters in the Vinh Linh Special Region (VLSR). Following the establishment in early 1967 of the Tri-Thien-Hue Military Region, he became concurrently its political officer. In about 1973, he was secretly appointed a full member of the Lao Dong Party's Central Committee before being promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in 1974. In January 1974, Hanoi Moi cited him as a full Central Committee member, a member of the Central Military Party Affairs Committee, a PAVN Deputy Chief of Staff, and as a Vice MND Minister. In November 1976, he led a PAVN delegation to Cuba. Since March 1978, he has been cited by the Hanoi press as a Vice MND Minister and Deputy PAVN Chief of Staff with the rank of lieutenant general. Do Quyen alias Luu Quyen, Director, CDV, 1950 to June 1955. DPOB unknown. Quyen, a lieutenant colonel, replaced Lieutenant Colonel Luu Van Loi as the head of the MND Political Staff's Enemy Proselytizing Office (Phong Dich Van/PDV), which became known as the CDV in 1954. In June 1955, Quyen was a member of a three- man MND General Political Staff Department delegation headed by Deputy Department Director Senior Colonel Tran Luong, which was assigned command over the Pathet Lao Armed Forces. Quyen was replaced as the CDV Director by Colonel Oanh alias Tam Thoi. Nguyen Xuan Su alias Hai Su, Political Officer, SVNLA Political Staff Department Enemy Proselytizing Office Policy Section Inter- Unit A POVV Escort Unit 23A, April 1968 to 1973. Born about 1928 in Ha Dong Province, North Vietnam, Su had been an instructor for the 92 _ -8-E€'R'E"|'i mm 099.011 _--__7fih , -_
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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.