176-10036-10085 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM ih AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10085 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: TITLE : Vietnamese Communist Analysis of Efforts DATE : 6/13/1962 PAGES : 2 _ SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : . COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 196: Vietnam, 6/62. Box 2
. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY bee This meterlal contains information. aHacting the National Dotensa ef the United’ States within -the moaning of the Esplenaga Laws, ey 18f U.S.C. .Sacs. ma and 794. the trenumission er revelation of which in eny manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. : rn .- _0-0-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L COUNTRY’S EINAM - - HAYSEN | OUTH VI . REPORT NO, TDCS ~3/513, 766" Peo cone susJecT VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST ANALYSIS OF EFFECTS DATE DISTR. 13 JUNE 1962 ~~ SCHLESINGE "QP INCREASED US MILITARY. AID TO | Earn GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM PRECEDENCE ROUTINE ' ; = BELK oat oF 5 MAY 1962 oe _ REFERENCES -FORBESTsz— INFO. ne 7 N = kousn pLace g VIETNAM, SAIGON (20 MAY 1962) . ’ DATE ACO. . DATE ACO-IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT THIS 1S AN ACCURATE - 2. ocsoat No, rvs-75047 OA THIS 1S OATES INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT iS TENTATIVE, A. ts 2 A AN AT, SOURCE 1. SEP FORTH BELOW IS AcTRANSLATION OF AN ANALYSIS OF ‘THE: PRESENT ‘SETUATION | IN SOUTH VIETNAM (SVN). AS VIEWED BY THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS (VC), THE AUTHOR | OF THE ANALYSIS, WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN EARLY MAY 1962, IS A VC COMPANY COMMANDER IN BA XUYEN PROVINCE. _ 2, ‘THE REVOLUTION IN SVN IS PASSING NOW INTO THE PREPARATORY PHASE FOR - _ A GENERAL OFFENSIVE TO ‘LIBERATE IT (SVN) AND SET UP A PEOPLE'S UNION DEMOCRATIC : “COVERAMENT, BUT AMERICAN ‘INTERVENTION HAS POSTPONED THAT PHASE, THE US' HALF. _. SUCCESS IS DUE 10.USE OF COUNTERGUERRILLA TACTICS, BUT MOPPING UP OPERATIONS WILL ‘LEAD TO DEFEAT BECAUSE (INDISCRIMINATE). KILLINGS WILL PUSH THE PEOPLE TOWARD “THE | REVOLUTIONARY PARTY. IN THE’FUTURE THE FRONT FOR SHEVLIBERATION OF SVN, WITH ‘ CUSSIROATON —BSEMINATION CONTROLS C-O-N-P-L-D-EN-D-T-A-L | a, NOFORN /CONTINUED CONTROL | dovcgrating and i : dclassification
CLASSIFICATION = DISSEMINATION CONTROLS eoussaaasrnd - oto ocremen CONTROL | “FRO THE PEOPLE.:° ON THE. MILT'TARY ‘SIDE THR Us HAS USED ULTRA=MODERN MECHANIZED : WEAPONS TO DESTROY. ARMED UNITS. BY TACTICS OF AREA PACIPICATION. :- THUS” HARRASSED, THE. VC ARE NEVER SECURE, THEIR POLICIES MUST NOW AIM AT THE INTERNAL SITUATION. AND 1 * AT UPHOLDING THE HARDSHIP ~-BEARING- SPIRIT. MEANWHILE, VC. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATIONS s : “p0 NOT YET EXIST, BUT THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY.SPIRIT OF. - “EE PARTY. ECONOMICALLY, VC AGRARIAN REFORMS HAVE SOLVED THE LAND PROBLEM FOR THE . PEASANTS «AND: NOW CONSTITUTE THE FOOD SOURCE FORTHE TROOPS AND CADRES.(SOURCE - COMMENT, VC AGRARIAN REFORMS" REFER TO THE DE FACTO. LAND EXPROPRIATIONS ‘CONDUCTED “BY. THE VIET MINH DURING THE 1945-54 WAR,),.FOREST. AND SEA RESOURCES ARESTILL : SECONDARY AND BRING IN ONLY. SOME SUPPORT IN THE FORM OF ‘TAXES. THE VC ARE MEETING ~ GREAT DIFFICULTIES AT THE PRESENT TIME,. BUT THE SVN PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED BY | 7 INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND INTERNAL MILITARY MEASURES, I.E. STRONG ATTACKS. (source : commen ‘HE SOLUTION THROUGH’ "INTERNATIONAL POLITICS" REFERS. THE BELIEF THAT, eo Te ‘ve CAN MAINTAIN, Te PRESENT RELATIVE STALEMATE LONG RIOUEH, THE US ‘WILL TIRE oF ‘THE STRUCELE AND ‘SEEK SoM KIND OF NEUTRALIST SOLUTION.) ” | Ls ; 30 FIELD DISSEM, ‘STATE “ARMY. NAVE AIR USNACV MAAG” AID CINGPAC PACAP - Par ARPAC ae "CLASSIFICATION = DISSEMINATION CONTROLS - go Np -T-RNDI-Ach SOE RIVE ** NOFORN/ CONTINUED CONTROL