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TITLE : STATUS REPORT ON COVERT ACTIONS IN VIETNAM

DATE: 01/04/1961

PAGES : 2

SUBJECTS : VIETNAM

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

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CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/10/2000

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 203: Vietnam Status Report

1/4/1962-4/4/1962

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STATUS REPORI

ON

COVERI ACTIONS IN VIRINAM

(Keyed to 28 November Report)

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a. Montaguard (Highlander) Program:

No significant change.

C.12a Ex0. 4131

b. Rural Reconstruction Operations:

No significant change.

c.

Para-Military Intelligence Operations Against Viet Cong In South

Laos, South Vietnem, and North Vietnam; Commercial Air Cover Company:

The junk which departed for North Vietnam on a mission to

resupply an agent in the area of Quang Yen (northeast of Haiphong)

turned back because of bad weather and heavy seas. An attempt will

be made to resupply the agent as soon as weather conditions permit.

The agent team near Dien Bien Phu advised Saigon, using &

danger signal in a radio message, that it was under DRV control.

This is the second team of four originally infiltrated into North

Vietnam to be captured by the DRV. False instructions are being

radioed to the team Instructing them to prepare for a notional

airdrop.

The fiction is being attempted by Saigon in an effort to

keep the team

alive in the remote hope that the DRV might consider

the team has been doubled against the GVN and permit them to exfiltrate.

There has been no radio contact with the agent team in the Dong

Hoi area of North Vietnam since 2 December 1961.

Four agents who are residents of Pak Sane, Laos (near the Lao-

Thai border in Vientiene Province), have been recruited to infil-

trate overland into the Vinh area

of North Vietnam to observe and

report on military traffic along Route 7.

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A unit of the Clandestine Action Service (CLAS) Infiltrated

overland from Ino Bao on Route 9, South Vietnam, Into South Laos

to reconnoiter the Sa Moi ares and verify reports that the Vietnamese

Communists have established two installations in the area.

If the

Viet Communist Installations are located, the CIAS unit will attack

and attempt to destroy them. Three 14-man paramilitary teams will

accompany the chAs unit during the initial stages of this operation.

The paramilitary teams will then move westward into the vicinity of

Muong Nong, Laos (approximately 25 miles southeast of Ichepone).

Iwenty district Intelligence officers completed training on

26 December 1961 and departed for Kontum, Pleiku, Quang Ngal, Quang

Nam, and Binh Dinh Provinces to establish highlander intelligence

Ten radio operators with radios accompanied the intelligence

officers assigned to the districts of Pleiku and Kontum.

d through 1: No significant change.

2 through 5: No significant change.

6. Use of Chinese Nationalist Personnel:

The GVN approved the use of 20 Chinese Nationalist aircrews in

operations against the Vietnamese Communists in South Laos and South

the GN also approved use of 30 Nationalist Chinese Special

Forces personnel to assist in training civilian Vietnamese In South

Vietnam in unconventional warfare techniques.

The GN agreed to comply

with the GRe request to have all covert assistance matters be handled

through CAS channels.

T. Other Activitles:

Three paramilitary teams used in the search for a missing MAAG

sergeant traced him to & Vietnamese Communist camp 30 miles northwest of

Saigon. The teams captured 10 Vietnamese Communist prisoners during the

search, one of whom claims to have delivered the sergeant to the Vlet-

namese Communist camp. The information was passed to a Vietnamese air-

borne brigade for follow up action.

The "Hindustan Tines of India" carried a positive article on South

Vietnam written by an Indian correspondent who had been briefed and

guided by CAS during his visit to Saigon.

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