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TITLE Vietnam Communist Activities
DATE 8/23/1962
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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 196: Vietnam, 8/62. Box 2
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This material contains information affecting the National Dofonse of the United States within the meaning of tho Espionage Law
.793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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SOUTH VIETNAM
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REPORT NO. TDCS-3/520,365
SMITH-BUNI
SUBJECT
VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE
SAIGON AREA
DATE DISTR.
PRECEDENCE
ROUT INE
DATE OF
INFO.
JUNE-JULY
19RETAIN OR DESTROY
REFERENCES
23 AUGUST 1962 UNGAN
KILDUFF
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PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
APPRAISAL
VIETNAM, SAIGON (2 AUGUST 1962)
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FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-7843 _JOHNSON
SOURCE
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVEN
AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM MILITARY SERVICE WHICH RECEIVED. THE
SEPARATELY FROM OTHER OFFICIAL SERVICES.
KOMER
ITEMS
RASKIN
SAUNDERS
1. DURING THE LATTER HALF OF JUNE 1962 MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED
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UNARMED VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS (VC) ENTERED THE SAIGON AREA AND WERE
LIVING IN THE HOMES OF FELLOW VC IN THE FOURTH AND EIGHT DISTRICTS
(FIELD COMMENT. THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION
IRCE OF THIS
OF SAIGON. "FIELD
MAY BE THE SAME AS THAT OF FVS-7681 (TDCS-3/517,156) WHICH REPORTED THAT
BETWEEN THREE AND FIVE HUNDRED VC TERRORISTS AND SABOTAGE AGENTS HAD BEEN
INFILTRATED INTO THE CAPITAL AREA.)
20 THE VC DISTRICT COMMITTEE FOR GO VAP (N 10-49, E 106-40) SENT
AN ARMED PLATOON TO THE CITY TO OPERATE AS SPECIAL OPERATIONS CELLS.
3°
A VC CADRE, AFTER TAKING A TRAINING COURSE IN LOC THUAN, TAY
NINH PROVINCE, WAS SENT TO SAIGON TO SET UP A BASE AMONG LABORERS
BASE AMONG 
LABO
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TO BE USED FOR FUTURE OPERATIONS.
4. FORTY VC GUERRILLAS BETWEEN 14 AND 16 YEARS OF AGE HAD COME
TO SAIGON TO CONDUCT SABOTAGE AND KIDNAPPINGS OF GOVERNMENT OF
VIETNAM AND U.S. PERSONNEL.
5. AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT SAID THAT BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN·
TRONG DINH HAD BEEN APPOINTED COMMANDER OF THE SOUTH VIETNAM
LIBERATION ARMY IN ORDER TO LAUNCH A LARGE-SCALE ATTACK DURING THE
VC FALL AND WINTER CAMPAIGN. (FIELD COMMENT. POSSIBLY MAJOR
GENERAL NGUYEN TRONG VINH, DEPUTY OF NGHE AN PROVINCE TO THE SECOND
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES GOVERNMENT OF NORTH VIETNAM,
IS MEANT.)
6. FIELD DISSEM. STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACV MAAG USOM
CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAF.
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