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Title
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Article about Communist subversion rings
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Description
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Original title: "SUBVERSION", Keever's title: "Communist Subversion was Among acts [ILLEGIBLE] Nabbed", Article draft about Communist subversion rings penetrating into the depths of Saigon, for the Christian Science Monitor
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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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SAIRAD
PROREUTER TOKYO
SUBVERSION 1 (Normass/deepe)
SAIGON, AUGUST 14-Vietnamese security officials have
smashed three major Communist rings of subversion operating among
middle and upper-class city-dwellers.
Security sources reported the Communist agents, of whom
roughly one hundred have been arrested, indicated significant
Communist penetration among Vietnamese intellectuals,
GOVERNMENT ED
and big businessmen,
Saigon. Xome some who were on the government payrolls.
binmimam
re influential in/urban centers, including
Among those arrested are one Vietnamese Army major who headed
government
the biggest ordina ordinance depot in the country, one of the
richest industrialists in Saigon, six ft medical technicians at
the government-operated Pasteur Institute, the wife of a
Son Saigon judge, the head of a well-known theatrical group,
SEVERAL REY JOURNAL.S75
one influential writer, and the Viet Cong political commissar who coordinated
the three networks.
HAS
The interrogation of those arrested as lead to more information
consen concerning others who . allegedly sympathized with or aided
the Viet Cong, security sources said.
mum held for questioning after the September 3 Presidential
the Saigon
These persons I are to be
several other Saigon
election, the ehe
judges, one of whom has a son operating with the Viet Cong,
head of and will ihamber of Commerce,/
as well
who supervised a multi-
as Au Truong Thanh, a former Minister of Economy in the government
of Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky. Thanh,
million dollar American economic aid budget,
from funn running as a Presidential candidate.
was recently prevented
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SAIRAD
PROREUTER TOKYO
SUBVERSION 2 (aigon (Normass/Deepe)
The smashing of the three rings of subversion have revealed
these significant developments:
1. Several pro-Communist agents are running as candidates
for the election to the Vietnamese Senate, to be held on September 3
with the Presidential election, police sources said. These candidates
will be arrested after the election, even if they succeed in winning
a seat to the legislative body, these sources said. In the election
SENATE,
for the Senative,
which will serve as the upper legislative body,
four hundred eighty candidates are running for sixty seats."
These sources said other pro-Communist & candidates are
expected to run for the election to the lower legislative body
on October 22.
These
candidates are already securing necessary
government papers to file for the election, the sources said.
are having some success
2. The Viet Cong subversive agents
recruiting other agents among well-educated, well-to-do Vietnamese,
who would normally be considered pro-American and anti-Communist.
Communists seem to be applying their political rule that no repeat
no revolution can succeed without positive cooperation of the middle
and upper-class elements in the society.
MORE REUTER.
The
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SAIRAD
PROREUTER TOKYO
SUBVERSION 3 (Normass/deepe)
3.
The Viet Cong agents have had some success in
recruiting other agents and sympathizers within them (ital)
the government controlled areas, including the urban centers.
This is considered distinct from--and more dangerous--than
infiltrating agents into the cities.
4.
While Vietnamese government security officials have
scored a major pre-election victory against the Communists,
they have also unmasked the greatest question concerning the
elections: What is the degree of Communist penetration and control
among the population in the government zones where the balloting
will be held?
More Reuter
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SAIRAD
PROREUTER TOKYO
Subversion 4 (Normass/deepe)
YOURNALISTS
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The arrested agents-t
--the businessmen, writer, actors and
jurimman judge's wife--were spreading Communist propaganda to the
friends and associates that the upcoming election for President
and Senate was an American invention and would be rigged, thus
undermining the government's hope for a successful, honest
political victory against the Communists, police s police sources
said.
The purpose of the subversive rings was to recruit and
to their side
convert Vietnamese in the government zones tamam who
in the dit
N
were once "sitting on the fence." The present economic discontentment
S
has adi aided the Communists in their recruitment, these sources said.
The local Vietnamese industries--such as textiles--are nearly bankrupt
because of the vast imports of foreign goods brought in by the
American economic aid mission to undercut inflation,
these sources
said.
The three subversive rings were called tri van (ital) repeat
tri van-meaning proselytization of intellectuals--cong van (ital)
repeat cong van-meaning proselytization of workers
binh van (ital) repeat binh van-proselytization of military
and
government soldiers.
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SAIRAD
PROREUTER TOKYO
SUBVERSION 5 (Normass/deepe)
Events leading to the arrests included a captured It
Viet Cong document which outlined their plan to gain
support and recruits within "strategic factories", which they would
control when they would take over the country. These "strategic
factories"
included
a American-financed textile factories--
spare
where unemployment is running high-motorcycle factories,
parts factories and transport workers at the Saigon port, through
which millions of dollars worth of American material flow each month.
The Viet Cong agents themselves, however, tipped off the
The
Preovernment security officials by their repeated pro-Communist
view that the upcoming Presidential and Senatorial election would
serve only the interests of Amer the United States government
and its "clique of Vietnamese henchmen and puppets."
government security officials were assisted in tracking down the
agents by the agents of the American Central Intelligence Agency
and the U. Army 704th Counter-intelligence Company, based in
Saigon.
Communis
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SAIRAD
PROREUTER TOKYO
SUBVERSION 6 (NORMASS/Deepe)
Ноа,
Other arrests were made in ang Nhatrang, Hue and My
all important cities north of Saigon, the sources said.
Among the arrested wes ly. Đinh Xuân Kangd repeat Dinh Xang,
one of the richest industrialists in Saigon. He was once ne
until recently head of the government-sponsored, semi-official
Industrial Development Directorate. Another was Truong
Nhu Tang repeat Truong Nhu Teng an engineer at the biggest,
American-financed Vietnamese sugar mill, once owned byx in part
er of the family of ex-President Ngo Dinh Diem.
by members
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SAIRAD
PROREUTER TOKYO
SUBVERSION 7 (Normass/deepe)
The Vietnamese Army major was not repeat not part of the
subversive ring, these sources said, but instead was a "single line"
cadre, who operated by himself to gain interfegree intelligence
information rather than recruits for the Viet Cong. xromom man The
major,
identified only by the name of Yet repeat Yet, had
Viet Cons
served the @cenazexo xrmy for 15 years and headed the 80th
Ordinance Depot, on the outskirts of saigon, which was the
biggest government one for Vietnamese and American materials,
indlucing including weapons, munitions, armored vehicles.
These sources said he confessed to having two lines of
communication to the Communists--one
to North Vietnam via
Viet Cong
Lucks And
Paris and one to the Nimmanammmmmmheadquarters
via a network in the Mekong Delta, south of Saigon.
Capture of his documents in Paris by agents of the U. S.
HELPED LEAD
Central Intelligence Agency Fed to his arrest,
security sources
said.
End Reuter
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Date
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1967, Aug. 14
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Infiltration (Military science); Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Special operations (Military science)
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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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B7, F5
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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
