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[39]National Security Files
[41]Vietnam Communist Activities
[42]8/23/1962
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[48]National Security Files, Box 196: Vietnam, 8/62. Box 2
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[51]INFORMATION | REFORT]
[53]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY we YA
[55]. Th “materlai Information affacting- ttle ‘National Oofonse. of tho... Unit id Stat thi i of ¢ ;
[56].793' and: 794, the transmission -or revelation'-of Which ‘in- any’ manner -to en ‘Unauihorited ‘périon Ist Drohibited’ by law ° So Enionege F yw "8, USC. Secs.’
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[61]CONFIDENTIAL == NO FOIEIGN TSE
[63]COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM 7 REPORT NO.- TDCS~ ~3/520, 36
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[65]SUBJECT “© VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE “DATE DISTR, 23 AUGUST IS6BENGAN
[66]' SAIGON AREA see
[67]PRECEDENCE -ROUT I'NE EULDUFF /
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[69]DATE OF JUNE=JULY PETAL QR. DESTROY REFERENCES ; ; in-SCHLESINGE
[70]INFO. — eS
[71]| PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (2 AUGUST 1962) —BELK -
[72]- DATE ACO. __FORRESTAL -
[74]"APPRAISAL
[76]FIELD REPORT NO. FvS=/843 JOHNSON
[77]“THIS Is UNEVALUATED inForMation. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENFATIVEN
[79]SOURCE .AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM MILITARY SERVICE WHICH RECEIVED. TREN
[81]“Whee as ee
[83]‘SEPARATELY FROM-OTHER OFFICIAL SERVICES. .
[84]“SAUNDERS.
[86]ae d > “DURING THE ‘LATTER HALF OF JUNE 1962 MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED *
[88]UNARMED’ VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS (VC) ENTERED THE SAIGON ‘AREA AND. WERE -
[89]LIVING! IN THE HOMES OF FELLOW VC IN THE FOURTH AND EIGHT DISTRICTS
[91]OF SAIGON. “(FELD COMMENT. THE ULTIMATE SOURCE. OF THIS: INFORMATION _
[92]MAY BE THE’ ‘same as THAT oF FvVS- 7681 (r5¢s-3/517, 156) ‘WHICH REPORTED. THAT |
[93]"BETWEEN 1 THREE AND FIVE HUNORED ve TERRORISTS AND SABOTAGE “AGENTS HAD BEEN
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[97]“INFILTRATES” into" THE CAPITAL AREA. )
[98]. “3. THE ve bistRICT COMMITTEE FOR ‘Go VAP” w iétlig, E. ‘0-40 SENT
[99], AN ARMED PLATOON To THE city TO OPERATE AS SPECIAL ‘OPERATIONS: “CELLS,
[101]3. A ve CADRE , “AFTER TAKING A TRAINING COURSE IN Loc THUAN, TAY
[103]NINH PROVINCE, WAS SENT TO. SAIGON TO SET UP” A BASE ‘AMONG: LABORERS
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[126]° TO ‘BE USED, FOR FUTURE OPERATIONS.
[128]4, FORTY ve GUERRILLAS: BETWEEN. ys AND'16 YEARS OF AGE HAD COME
[129]“To SAIGON TO CONDUCT SABOTAGE AND KIDNAPPINGS OF GOVERNMENT OF
[130]VIETNAM’AND U.S. PERSONNEL. |
[131]53 AN UNCONF IRMED REPORT SAID THAT BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN:
[132]-TRONG- 01NH HAD BEEN APPOINTED COMMANDER OF THE SOUTH VIETNAM.
[133]LIBERATION ARMY IN ORDER To LAUNCH A LARGE*SCALE ATTACK DURING THE
[134]vc FALL AND WINTER CAMPAIGN. (FIELD COMMENT, POSSIBLY MAJOR
[135]GENERAL NGUYEN TRONG VINH, ‘DEPUTY OF NGHE AN PROVINCE TO THE SECOND
[136]NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF “THE PEOPLES GOVERNMENT ‘OF NORTH VIETNAM,
[138]IS MEANT, )
[139]6, FIELD DISSEM, STATE ARMY NAVY. AIR USMACY MaaG USOM
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