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Intelligence and Security Operations of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of National Defense
Central Intelligence Agency · 1979-12-01 · 120 pages · text from the file's own layer
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.
“Cooper”12 pages
- p. 7 …supervising the activities of military POWs who
cooperated with Hanoi in the preparation of psychological warfare…
- p. 16 …POWs, ARVN as well as US, who cooperated with their
captors. The’ CDV exploitation of POWs…
- p. 22 …Those considered to have the same potential but whorefused to cooperate.
~ Category C: Those whose continued…
- p. 23 …other techniques used to coerce
them to cooperate.
After a POW was initially categorized, CDV and…
- p. 24 …Interrogations were aimed at gaining the complete cooperation of a POW
for use in antiwar propaganda…
- p. 25 …preparation of handwritten POW statements from selected
cooperative and "progressive" POWs; and supervised “progressive” POWs
who…
- p. 41 …to join the revolution and not to cooperate with the Royal Lao
Government. The section also…
- p. 52 …and investigation of released ARVNi
POWs who cooperated with the MSS. The ARVN MSS estimate did…
- p. 54 …The national police were special targets for recruitment because
of the cooperation they offered in processing…
- p. 67 …in size) on
short rations until they cooperated with their indoctrinators/interrogators.
It soon became apparent…
- p. 68 …over arms depots intact, and who had cooperated with the liberation
armed forces. Several hundred Category…
- p. 94 …who had been
appointed Prime Minister, to cooperate with the revolution in
establishing a coalition government…
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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.