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TITLE : Vietnam Communist Activities

DATE : 8/23/1962

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 196: Vietnam, 8/62. Box 2

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COUNTRY

SOUTH VIETNAM.

REPORT NO. TDCS -3/520,365

SUBJECT

VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE

SAIGON AREA

DATE DISTR.

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10296r

VIETNAM, SAIGON (2 AUGUST 1962)

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_ FORRESTAL

FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-7843

_JOHNSON

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVEN

AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM MILITARY SERVICE WHICH RECEIVED THERAMAR

•SEPARATELY FROM.OTHER OFFICIAL SERVICES.

_SAUNDERS

1. DURING THE LATTER HALF OF JUNE 1962 MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED.

UNARMED VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS (VC) ENTERED THE SAIGON AREA AND WERE

LIVING IN THE HOMES OF FELLOW VC IN THE FOURTH AND EIGHT DISTRICTS

OF SAIGON. (FIELD COMMENT. THE ULTIMATE SÖURCE OF THIS INFORMATION

MAY BE THE SAME AS THAT OF FVS-7681 (TOCS-3/517,156) WHICH REPORTED THAT

BETWEEN THREE AND FIVE HUNDRED VC TERRORISTS AND SABOTAGE AGENTS HAD BEEN

INFILTRATED INTO THE CAPITAL AREA.)

2. THE VC DISTRICT COMMITTEÉ FOR GO VAP (N 10-49, E 106-40) SENT

AN ARMED PLATOON TO THE CITY TO OPERATE ÀS SPECIAL OPERATIONS CELLS.

STATE

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

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TO BE USED FOR FUTURE OPERATIONS.

40.

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.

50 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.)

60 FIELD DISSEM. STATE ARMY NAVE AIR USMACY MAAG USOM

CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC: PACAF.

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