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ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM : TO : TITLE: Vietnam Communist Activities DATE: 8/23/1962 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, 8/62. Box 2

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COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM FILE REPORT NO. TDCS-3/520,365 SMITH-BUNI SUBJECT : VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE DATE DISTR. 23 AUGUST 1962 LUNGAN SAIGON AREA KILDUFF PETERSEN.. DATE OF JUNE-JULY 19 RETAIN OR DESTROY PRECEDENCE ROUT INE IN-SCHLESINGE INFO. 102.97 PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (2 AUGUST 1962) REFERENCES BELK DATE ACQ. FORRESTAL APPRAISAL 3 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 ITEMS KOMER SEPARATELY FROM OTHER OFFICIAL SERVICES. RASKIN 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 SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION 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.) ":

  2. 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, ΤΑΥ NINH PROVINCE, WAS SENT TO SAIGON TO SET UP A BASE AMONG LABORERS CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS CONFIDENTIAL : NO FOREIGN DISSEM GROUP I Excluded from evtencils downgrading and STATE ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC USIA OCI ONE OCR ORR OO DIA EX A ID TELEGRAM INFORMATION. REPORT TELEGRAM

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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.

  1. 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.)

  2. FIELD DISSEM. STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACV MAAG USOM CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAF.

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