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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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46 47 48. 49 50 .- é-E-C-R-EL PAVN Son Tay Artillery School after 1954. At later date, he was reassigned to the CDV and infiltrated South Vietnam in January 1968. In April 1968, he was assigned to POW Escort Unit 23A with the rank of senior lieutenant. Le Tam, Deputy Director, CDV, concurrently head of the CDV Policy (POW) Office, 1954 to 1970s. Born about 1919 in My Tho or Sadec Province, delta area of South Vietnam, Tam held the rank of lieutenant colonel and was the principal CDV coordinator of POW administrative and interrogation affairs with the Research (Military Intelligence) Department (Cuc Nghien Cuu/CNC) of the MND General Staff Department. Nguyen Van Tam, Chief, CDV Policy (POW) Office POW Reception Unit, 1954 to 19705. Born about 1980 in Hung Yen Province, North Vietnam, Tam had been the commander of a CDV detention camp which held French General De Castries, who was captured during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. In the CDV, Tam functioned as a training instructor and as a US POW indoctrination specialist. He was described as a virtual dictionary of names of US POWs held in North Vietnam. He held the rank of senior captain. Tam speaks fluent English, French, and an unknown Chinese dialect. Nguyen Quang Thai, member, Quang Da Special Region Party Committee Enemy and Military'Proselytizing Section Command Group, concurrently chief, Propaganda Subsection and Penetration Cum 3 Unit E-15a, 1967 to 1974. Born about 1926 in I-Ioa Thai Village, Hoa Vang District, Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam, Thai participated in the 1945-1954 French Resistance War in Region 5; regrouped to North Vietnam in 1954/1955; and infiltrated South Vietnam in 1964, when he was assigned to the Quang Da Special Region's Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section. When Penetra- tion Cum 3 Unit E-15a was established in late 1967, he became its head and concurrently a member of the Enemy and .\/iilitary Proselytizing Section's Command Group. V0 Van Thang alias Nam Thang, Chief, SVNLA Political Staff Department Enemy Proselytizing Office Policy Section Inter-Unit A POW Escort Unit 23A, 1968 to 1973. Born about 1932 in Kien I-Ioa Province, delta area of South Vietnam, Thang was a regroupee with the rank of CDV senior lieutenant. Thang had been the political officer of Policy Section Inter~Unit A POW Camp 21 for US/foreign civilian and military POWs before April 1968. Phan Thinh alias Ba Thinh, agent handler, Saigon City/Region 4 Party Committee MPS, 1965 to 1975. Born in 1928 in North Vietnam, Thinh was dispatched by the CDV to South Vietnam as a refugee- after the July 1954 Geneva Accords on Indochina. Between I955 and 1965, he was a staff cadre of the Nam Bo/COSVN MPS Penetration Subsection. In 1965, he was reassigned to the Saigon-Cholon—Gia Dinh Special Region Party Committees MPS. By 1968, he had become the chief of the Sub-Region 1 Party Committee's MPS, which 93 _ ‘saw; _ I . .. L' . u E1 _. It .> .1‘ mm 092011 --___ 7,4? I P 1;:-iii
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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.