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363-07678 to 363-07684
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Title
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Article about arrests of Việt Cộng spies
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Description
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Original title: "spies", Keever's title: "Viet Cong spies working for U.S. Military Headquarters are arrested", article about arrests of Việt Cộng spies that were working for the American military, for the New York Herald Tribune
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Spies page 1
feb. 16, 1966
SAIGON--Nearly a dozen Viet Cong spies working for the
America n military hea dquarters here have been arrested.
Vietnamese counter-espiona ge agents report they abrested.
the spies--operating in three-man cells--who were employed for the
American military services to obtain housing.
These sources said the arrests were made in late January
follo ing the capture of a prized three hundred page document
listing addresses; telephone numbers, date of housing contract
and owner of America n-occupied houses of ranking American personnel
in Sa igon--including America n milita ry commander General William
CCC. Westmoreland and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
An American military spokesman would not comment on the
ma tter. He said, 2We will not discuss intelligence that has been
gathered from the Viet Cong because of the sensitivity of the
materia 1."
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first add-morgan gandy--saigon
x x x cabot lodge x x I.
The counter-espionage agents are also known to be investigating
whether aye chunk of the exorbitant rental rates paid by Ami
Americans--including generals-to Vietnamese villa-owners and
In turn given
billet-e owners
is/being part as, protection money to the Viet Cong.
VALUABLE
The immense detail of the prized three hundred page document--
including date the contract was signed, the Vietnamese owners'
name and the amount of rent paid by the Americans--created suspicion
on the Vietnamese employees working for American mo military housing
These employees were interrogated, confessed their guilt
sections.
and we were arrested.
(More Malloy--BD)
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second add-morgan gandy-saigon
I I I were arrested x x x.
the
Exposure of the mis olandestine cells has lead to despo
other Vietnamese working
widespread
motionib interrogation of
for American official agencies, A thorough-going shake-up is
predicted.
In addition to the dozen or so Viet Cong spies working for the
more than eightyfive other Viet Cong were arrested
Americans,
for attempting to subvert Saigon schools, government agencies
and private enterprises.
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x x x private agencies.
More than thirty Vietnamese high school and unviers university
students were arrested following their self-confessions of being
members of the "Viet Cong Combat Youth" operating in the Saigom
educational system. An undisclosed number of low-ranking
Vietnamese government civil servants and small businessmen were
also seized by the counter-espionage agents.
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x x x counter-espionage agents x
The arrested students,
as members of the Viet Cong Combat Youth,
had received military training in pix shooting pistols, rifles
and conducting sabotage raids with grenades. These students, also
operating in three-man cells, were hard-core members of the Viet Cong-led
Pupil Student League for Saigon Cholon
Gia Dinh Cholon is the
Chinese-populated twin city of Saigon; Gia Dinh is the pivotan
doughnut-shaped province entirely surrounding Saigon.
The students were arrested from only two of Saigon's:
public high schools and technical vocational schools, but reliable
Additional
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that three-mans Viet Cong cells are also operating
within the other eighteen schools of the Saigon lower educational system,
plus some of the ■ Saigon university colleges.
RELIABLE Sourdes,
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x x x university colleges I
Students in the other schools are in the process of being interrogated
by the under-staffed Vietnamese security agencies.
Ameriban er security
agencies have norptno authorization to interrogate or arrest Vietnamese
citizens.
far
Viet Cong documents leading to the one hundred arrew arrests thus
were mitaineix captured last month on "Operation Crimp," the
5000-man xxignx American-Australiam campaign which combed labyrinths
of Viet Cong tunnels in the famed Ho Bo Woods twenty five miles northwest
of Saigon.
Over-running the headquarters of the Viet Cong committee
for Saigon Cholon Gia Dinh, the allied troops captured more than two
truck-fuls of documents in one of the greatest hauls of its kind im
the history of the war.
Among the other documents captured was a hand-written article of
self-criticism authored by a Vietnamese journalists who once worked
on a leading Vietnamese-language newspaper (now closed). The Vietnamese
journalist, who was once a member of the Communist People's
Revolutionary Party in South Vietnam, escaped the police and fled to
the Viet Cong zone.
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x x x viet cong zone x x
Other seizures included thousands of biographical sketches
of Viet Cong cadre and pro-Viet Cong sympathizers working in the Saigon
area,
H
but the names were coate codi in code to prevent hay hasty
police raids.
American GI's reported that once Saigonese learned of the
enormous haul of captured documents some of their favorite bar hostesses
they were possibly part of the Viet Cong
fled town, indicating
Binim intelligence organization designed to obtain information from
the allied troops.
Endit-deepe
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Date
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1966, Feb. 16
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Spies; Infiltration (Military science); United States. Armed Forces; United States--Armed Forces--Military police
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B188, F3
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
