Hanoi Unit 40 Miles From Saigon

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363-04758
Title
Hanoi Unit 40 Miles From Saigon
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune Paris about the proximity of Communist forces to Saigon, page 2
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2-New York Herald Tribune, Paris, Thursday, March 24, 1966 **
Hanoi Unit 40 Miles From Saigon
By Beverly Deepe
Special to the Herald Tribune
SAIGON, March 23.-Intelligence
sources
The confirmation is viewed as namese government troops who
significant since this was the first might be monitoring enemy radio-
official evidence that North Viet- casts.
of
Viet
namese troops had moved so far 2-The attacking Communist
sources confirm that North Viet-south-and so close to the capital units of at least two-and possibly
namese troops are roving only 40
of Saigon.
three-battalions were mixed be-
miles north of this capital city
local
The official evidence was gather- tween southern-born
Two separate pieces of evidence
-either prisoner interrogation and ed following a dramatic victory in Cong ("hardcore" troops) and "im-
a document or two documents-which the U.S. Army 173d Air- ported" North Vietnamese
soldiers
,
are required before American and borne Brigade killed 303 of the who were in the majority.
Vietnamese intelligence
Communist troops only 40 miles While the majority of the cap-
are able to confirm their informa- north-northeast
Saigon last tured weapons were Communist-
ticn
Thursday. American airborne bloc, including Chinese Commu-
In this case captured documents casualties were light.
nist, Czech and Russian items,
and a wounded prisoner, wno re- Other evidence gathered from several of the lethal machine guns
ported 90 percent of his 400-man the battle was:
battalion to be North Vietnamese, 1-The Communist commanders II vintage.
confirmed the evidence. It indi-issued some of their instructions This has created the suspicion
cates a likelihood of stiff fighting to their troops in "excellent" Eng- among some of the American
in the future on the outskirts of lish. This was presumably done to troops that American-made weapons
Saigon.
confuse American troops or Viet- and military equipment issued to
Western allies or former allies is
being black-marketed and sold to
the Communist side to be used
against them.
were American-made, of World War
In the past, American troops
have picked up a number of M-16
rifies and submachine guns-with-
out serial numbers-which would
not have been issued to either
Vietnamese or American troops in
this theater.
3-A number of the dead Com-
munist troops carried Communist-
issued passes for the soldiers to
take leave in Saigon or in Bien
Hoa, a small town 18 miles from
Saigon where a major American-
protected air base is situated.
4 Captured documents also in-
cluded Communist plans to attack
"at all cost" and overrun an Ameri-
can brigade headquarters, plus sev-
eral other American-protected in-
stallations.
5-Intelligence sources also re-
ported that an increasing flow of
.75-mm. pack artillery is being
brought into South Vietnam by
the Communists. This lethal
weapon has a range of three to
four miles, which indicates that
the Communists from a long dis-
tance could pound important air-
fields, installations and the city of
Saigon if they choose.
Date
1966, Mar. 23
Subject
Vietnam (Democratic Repubic); Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns--Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Saigon (Vietnam); Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Container
B4, F6
Format
newspaper clippings
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English