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363-08521 to 363-08524.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-08521 to 363-08524
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Title
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Article about the Viet Cong's Leap Forward campaign
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Description
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Original title: "Leap", Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about the Viet Cong's Leap Forward campaign, for The North American News Alliance
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Transcript
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Beverly Deepe..
64A Hong Thap Tu
Saigon Vietnam
October 21, 1966
Loap--page 1
SAIGON The Communist Viet Cong have ordered their lower echelons
to launch a three-month ""leap forward"" campaign in their military-political
war until the beginning of 1967.
Politically, the campaign calls for ""stirring up the hatred of the
people against the Americans and their puppets"" not only only in the
countryside, but also, significantly, in the urban contors.
Militarily, the ""leap forward"" campaign calls for g
""prolonged and more fierce fighting"" even if ""the cost is expensive""
in order to deal a thundorous blow on the enemy's head in the future.""
The campaign also calls for accelerated ""military proselytization""
for all South Vietnam,"" but presumably especially in the crumbling
South Vietnamese armed forces.
Saigon government intelligence sources view the campaign as a
significant rejection of any move towards political negotiation of the
war at this time. They believe it may be a vaguo
sketch of the
Viet Cong strategy in the coming months.
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Leap-page 2
The significant three-month campaign was outlined in a three-page
classified document captured by Vietnamese government forces on a recent
operation. The document was sent from the permanent committee of the
provincial level (roughly 45 Viet Cong provinces) to the 240-some
Viet Cong district committees.
Dated September 10, 1966, the document calls for a coromony to
commemorate ""national hero"" Nguyen Van Troi, the youngster who was
executed by the Saigon government two years ago this month for
at allegedly attempting to blow up a bridge on the mainstreet of Saigon
at the time of Secretary of Defence Robert Mellamara's visit here.
The provincial committees order special memorial ceremonies and
one-minute of silence for Troi, as well as study and self-criticism
sessions during one month beginning October 1. Other heroes would be
honorod during November and December of this year as a means
""mobilizing the patriotic spirit of all the people.""
of
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LBAP--page 3
Since issuing the instructions to lower echelons, the Communist
Viet Cong have intensified their terrorist and lightning mortar barrages
around saigon city; simultaneously the central level of the Saigon
government was tossed into precarious embarrassment before the Manila
Conference by the resignation of seven Cabinet ministers. Western
intelligence sources believe ""the invisible hands"" of the Communists
subversives and the Fronch inflamod the emotions of the Southor-born
portion of the population, which lead the Southern ministers to resign
from the govermont of Primo Minister Nguyon Cao Ky, who was born
in North Viet Nam.
the new
Referring to the ""decision of the Party for 1966,""
instructions on the political side ordered the launching of tho
campaign for ""the people's struggle, attacking the puppet government
and the Americans, charging them as the aggressors and the sellers of the
country.""
Detette of the pol
Detailed instructions for the political struggle called for ""exploiting
all and any enemy weaknesses, driving a deep wedge into the enemy's
internal contradictions, launching the political struggle movement
of all the people in all cities to reach these objectives: workers'
strikes, market strikes, student strikes, meetings and demonstrations
attacking the he American-puppet policy of aggressively creating the war.""
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leap-age 4
The ""enemy's internal contradications""
are generally considered here
to be the cleavages between the Americans and the Vietnamese, between
Buddhist and Catholic Vietnamese, between Northern and Southern
And
Vietnamese,
between labor and management.
The military ""leap forward"" campaign in the government-controlled
Called for
red the Viet Cong ""to push strongly
sections of the country
forward all forms of guerrilla warfare, to launch surprise attacks on the
strategic hamlots, towns and cities, to break-up the pincers of the enemy
and to attack the secret police, the national police,
and stubborn reve reactionaries.""
government patrols
Outside the government-controlled areas in the sonos contested
by both sides, the Viet Cong were ordered to "" attack by surprise the
American forces in order to erode their strength, to coordinate all
guerrilla and regular forces on all battlefields between the city and
countryside, the lowlands and the mountainous jungles, to break up the
of
enemy schome and strategy to expanding the war and pacifying the territory.""
The military strategy also a ordered mortaring of American and government
military bases, using gronades, mines and plastiques to attack important
points in the cities and towns, and creating more difficulty on the roads
canals, and other lines of communication.
""Don't be afraid if the cost of the objective is expensive,"" the
instructions warned.
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Date
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1966, Oct. 21
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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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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B118, F6
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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
