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363-02051 to 363-02059
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Title
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Article on Viet Cong psychological warfare in villages around Saigon
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Description
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Original title: "welcome." Article by Keever on Viet Cong use of psychological warfare on civilians in villages around Saigon, especially encouraging defection to the family of South Vietnam Army soldiers
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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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welcome page 1
January 27, 1966
Sangue
Securit
PHU HOA DONG, SOUTH VIETNAM-On the outskirts of this sun-baked
district capital only twenty miles north of Saigon, the Viet Cong
Communist political cadre established teams of armed men and women
to welcome Vietnamese government troopers into their zones.
In than Phu Trung (New Central Richness), only 17 miles
northwest of Saigon, the Viet Cong guerrillas showed military
movies, held outrun cultural singing and dancing entertainment,
and then held a four-abreast military review of their troops
under the battery-operated flood-lights, beneath the jungle
canopy.
In Thu Due, a suburban-like town seven miles northeast of
Saigon, Viet Cong political cadre visited house-by-house the
families of Vietnamese government troops, urging them to defect
from the Saigon government ranks.
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welcome-page 2
January 27, 1966
These examples of armed propaganda and "proselytization"-
as the Communists call it flourished openly on the outskirts
of Saigon during the Lunarly New Year ceasefire la st week-and
then withered into invisible, underground, covert subversive
operations during the remainder of the year.
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Deepe
welcome-page 3
January 27, 1966
In Phu Hoa Dong,
a Viet Cong team of seven men and three
women, dressed in polygot uniforms welcomed the Saigon government
troops as they departed
their positions on authorized leave and
entered the Viet Cong zones on their way to visit their families,
as had been arranged by the two independent Lunar New Year ceasefires
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ussycd by the Saigon government and the Viet Cong political organization.
The three Viet Cong women, with short bobbed hair, carried
modern submachine guns of Soviet design, and wore the traditionial
peasant garb of black pajamas. The seven men carried a mixture
of long, antiq ue Russian rifles and captured American tommy guns,
The wore either or black pajamas or brownish khaki uniforms.
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welcome page 4
January 27, 1966
Vietnamese government army regulars, reinforced by a
PROTE
M-21 tank squadron, are assigned to secure Phu Hoa Dong, which
was the pilot osse project for the Jop Hop Tac plan to secure
secure vitw bits of the seven provinces surrounding Saigon.
But,
the Viet Cong welcoming teems--operating under the noses
of the government troop troops-illustrate the serious defects
in the Hop Tap plan and the general insecurity of the region
surrounding Saigon.
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welcome page 5
January 27, 1966
At a Vietna mese government checkpoint near Phu Hoa Dongwhich
means Rich Eastern Peace-a Vietnamese government regular sidier
wept because the military police jerked him off the tri-wheeled,
mort motorized lambretta, seized his identity papers and assured
him he would be reprimanded by his superiors.
"I've saved two months' pay to give to my mother," he
sobbed, "but I can't get home to give it to hore She lives
in the Viet Cong zone.
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welcome-page 6
January 27, 1966
In Tan Phu Trung, only 17 miles northwest of Saigon, relia ble
sources reported that during the Lunar New Year ceasefire, Viet Cong
guerrillas and propa gandists visited the village and held a two-hour
performance. The performance began with a short war nofie showing
Viet Cong guerrillas fighting in neighboring areas and this was followed
by a theatre performance with the theme of personifying the heroic
deeds of Viet Cong fighters. The theatre performance included.
Vietnamese songs, accompanied by mandolin and guitar, and Viot Cong
"renovated" dances.
They were dressed in mixed li
The highlight of the evening for the villagers, however,
was a half-hour military review, in which Viet Cong troops marched
four abreast, carrying individual and unit weapons such as light
mortars and anti-tank weapons.
uniforms of black pa jamas, brownish khakis, and green locally-made
hats. A handful of women were included in the review, which was
held under four battery-operated floodlights beneath a thin jungle
Reliable sources said several families drove their cars up
canopy.
to village to see the performance, which was held only 200 yeads
from the main highway.
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welcome--page 7
January 27, 1966
Reliable sources said that even Vietnamese government
troops were invited to witness the performance--and several from
a nearby post dressed in civilian clothes to attend the evening's
entertainment.
Other reliable sources indicated that the Viet Cong
also showed war movies,
illustrating Communist heroism, only
g three kilometers from Ben Cat, a government district capital
forty miles north of Saigon where elements of the U.S. Army 1st
Infantry Division are based.
"Alot of Americans were killed and wounded in that movie,"
one spectator reported.
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welcome-page 8
In Thu Duc, seven miles from Saigon, Viot ong propagandists
visited the families of government troops, w wished them a Happy
chitchatted about the local situation and adod
Lunar New Year,
inquired about the sons serving the Vietnamese Army.
"Alot of young people are fighting to liberate the country,"
the Vit Viet Cong cadre told one family. "But your son is serving
the enemy and the Americans. Maybe your son can not escape from
the onomy any, or he can not escape the draft. But he should
not shoot at the Viet Cong during a battle, a nd he should wait
on the sidelines ready to k turn his weapon against the Americans
and the Vietnamese puppet forces."
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welcome-page 9
January 27, 1966
South of Saigon, on the main Highway No. 4 loading to the
Mekong Delta, the Viet Cong established two mined roadblocks
obstructing all traffic from a six-kilometer chunk of no-man's
Blue
land. They then planted Viet Cong fla ge green and red with a
golden star and "Happy Year of the Horse-the Year of Victory"
slogans along the roadside. One Vietnamese government police jeep
was blown up, and even with 30 government armored personnel
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carriers and tanks, but roadblocks were not removed for several hours.
During the Lunar New Year ceasefire, the Viet Cong surfaced
to implement the program they have reportedly given top priority
for the remainder of the year; to agitate politically in the
enemy rear among government troops, along the government-controlled
roads, cities and towns, while intensifying their frontline
military offensives.
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Date
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1966, Jan. 27
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Strategy; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Psychological warfare; Villages--Vietnam; Defection; Propaganda
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Location
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Phú Hòa Đông, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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11.0203; 106.5643
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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
