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363-02060 to 363-02069
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Title
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Article on Viet Cong village administrative councils
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Description
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Original title: "administration." Article by Keever on Viet Cong "subversive administrative councils" in villages around Saigon
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administration--page 1
Jan. 20, 1966
Sqn.
Security
SAIOCilitary intelligence sources reported today that
Viet Cong (Communist) political cadre are establishing subversive
administrative councils in the villages on the outskirts of
Sa igon.
These sources said that the administrative councils evid
had already been setup to covern these villages once the Communists
seize power within South Vietnam. Within recent months, five of
the anti-Communist village and hamlet chiefs have been assassinated
only ten miles from the city limits of this capital city.
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Ja n. 20, 1966
North Vietnamese rogu refugees, who watched the Communists
dofoat the French during the French Indo-China War
twelve years ago, recalled that the Communists had established
similar administration councils within the capital city of Hanoi
in 1951-three years a before they dufax became the government.
These administrative councils had mapped out and organised the
dim Communist Party policy on the most detailed
problems of governing the city-including the disposal of garbage
and sewage.
In 1951,
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administration--age 2
Other intelligence sources reported that the Viet Cong
are recruiting guerrilles from within the city of Saigon, and it's
Chinese twin city of Cholon, as well as from the villages on
the outskirts of Saigon--which the governmont Vietnam American-backed
Vietnamese government officially describe as "pecified."
Included in the a recruitment of guerrillas are fitx
Vietnamese-bom bom Chinese, who are now participating on the
side of the Viot Cong. Some Chinese Communist influence is
considered to penetrate the bentom political atmosphoro
of Cholon, the Chinese populated twin-city of Saigon containing
roughly half-million people. During recent wooks, two
staunchily anti-Communist Chineso businessman and one toaohor
have been assassinated. Recently, a motorcycle equipped with
loudspeaker raced through the streets of Cholon broadcasting
Reliable sources indicated that the
Communist propaganda.
motorcycle driver was Chinese origin.
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administration--page 4
Military sources india axiom reported that I tho
Viet Cong maintain seven "light" battalions-totalling more than
4000 men in the outskirts of Saigon, and have also organized
the equivalent of at least one battalion of assassination squads,
commando units and suicide teams within the city limits of
Saigon.
An eighth hattalion outside of Saigon is to be graduated in
late Fobruary, according to intelligonco sources.
One dofe
A Viet Cong defector from one of these seven "light"
battalions described his recruitment, training with the
organised guerrilla fighters.
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The defector told the New York Horald Tribuno that the
and the deputy battalion commander
battalion commander of his unit the 6th battalion operating
in the outskirts of Saigon-was a native born South Vietnamese,
but had roturnod to North Vietnam when the country was dividod
by the Geneva Convention in 1954. The commander had since
infiltrated back to the South.
However, the political commisar commissar of the unit
"was "is a now man that has just come in from North Vietnam--and is
North Vietnamese by birth," according to the defector. He said
that 9 ninety per cont of the troops in his unit had been recruited
from their local villages outside of Saigon-but that the recruitment
had accelerated since the February airstrikes against North Vietnam.
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administration--page 6
The defector said that the Viet Cong roaruti rooruiting acont
oalled propaganda and proselytizing cadretold him that if tlungs
ho joined "the puppet govornmont forces" he would have to kill
nd frionds and relatives in other villages and that since
ho had little education "ho wo "1 "I would have little futuro with
the governmont and American forces,"
"If you join the Viet Cong you don't have to kill
innocent people and your future will be very bright," the
defcator said he had been a told by the recruiting agents. "Woh
"Then we win the war, you will become master of the country."
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The defector said that he had been given
wooks of
training with the Viet Cong before he became a full-time guerrilla.
"The first three months we x studiod in the villages around
Saigon," he explained. "About 80 per cont of the study was
on politionl training including some cultural training like teaching
the illiterate people to road. Only twenty percent of the g training
dealt with guerrilla warfare, which included how to lay boobytraps
and spikes and how to shoot pistols and rifles."
four months of
He said that the trainces then were given "district level"
training further from Saigon, where sixty per cont of the instruction
dealt with political-cultural subjects, including how to it make
Viet Cong propaganda and how to become friends with the local
people.
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administration-ago 8
At the d "district level" the trainees were marts
spent about forty percent of their instruction time on military
training, involving more sophisticated weapons such as .30 cal.
machineguns, automatic rifles.ittin They also were taught
how to camouflage themselves well.
The trainees were then sont to four more months of "zone-
level instruction, which was the highest and most sophisticated
quality of instruction. However, about sixty percent of their
time was devoted to military instruction, while only forty
porcent dealt with political subjects.
On the political front, they were taught the political
policies of the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (the
political backbone of the Viot Cong guerrillas-which is dominated
and dirooted by the Communist People's Revolutionary Party.)
During their military instruction, the defector said that
he was taught immex five main tootioss
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How
1. To concentrate human power and firepower to attack
fixed positions or moving convoys with a high intonsity afx and
complete superiority.
How
2. To defend adge adequately their home bases, inl
plus how to retreat from government-initiated offensive attacks.
3. How to attack armored vehicles, and how to use use
recoiless rifles, grenades and "elephant traps" to defeat the
armored convoys.
4. How to chop up a column an infantry column or
convoy and smash one segment of the main selected unit
of the column and annhiliate it.
5. How to conduct close hand-to-hand combat,
riflebutts and bayonets.
using fi
The defector said that the training skoon was hold
in Tayninh province bordering Cambodia
in the Viet Cong jungled strongholds under triple-layers of canopy.
He said that the training courses started at 5:30 in the moming and
lasted until 4 p.m. When the training was finished, the trainees
walked through the Viet Cong stronghold of D-Zone where they were
issued weapons and ammunition, and then they broke up in small
units and walked to h Binh Chanh district, which lay south of
Saigon-Cholon on the outskirts of the city.
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During their march to Binh Chond the defector said, that
the unit moved during the daytime in the thick jungle, but
moved at night through areas containing government outposts.
said.
"Everytime we stopped we had to dig foxholes," the defector
"Most of these stops were made 2-3 kilometers from the villages
where the people lived. Even if we were near our home villago, we
could not go to see our relatives. We more forbidden even to talk
with our wives."
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Date
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1966, Jan. 20
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Strategy; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Villages--Vietnam; South Vietnam (Provisional Revolutionary Government, 1969-1976)
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6297
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B6, 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
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Language
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English
