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363-08445 to 363-08449
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Title
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Article about Cambodia harboring North Vietnamese troops
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Description
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Original title: "Cambodia", Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about Cambodia harboring North Vietnamese troops, for The North American News Alliance
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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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Beverly Ann Despe
64A Hong Thap Tu
Saigon, Vietnm
August 3, 1967
Cambodia-page 1
PLEIKU, SOUTH VIETNAM--For the first time in the Vietnam war,
American military officers openly and publically say Cambodia has
become a eu sanctuaray for North Vietnamese regulars-currently
at least five known regiments.
South Vietnamese and American field commanders are weighing
at least verbally--the military autat advantages of invading Cambodia
to strike at the North Vietnamese units. But this is considered unlikely
because of adverse, world-vide political repercussions, reliable
sources report.
BORDER
Press correspondents are freely given briefings on the sensitive
diplomatic subject once reserved only for such senior Americans as
former Vice President Richard M. ac Nixon. Maps displayed casually
in military offices here show two big blobs of grease paint in
Cambodia marked "NVA"--North Vietnamese Army.
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Deepe
Cambodia-page2
The official freedom given to Americans to discuss the issue
of Cambodia came in the wake of U. Secretary of State Dean Rusk's
statement there is at least one North Vietnamese division in Cambodia.
Cambodia's government and ruling Prine Sihanouk have vociferously
denied the allegation.
In
Since 1963, American military advisors have called the Cambodian
border a "little Yalyo" for Southern-based Viet Cong guerrillas.
November, 1965, however, American field commanders first housed
accused North Vietnamese regulars of seeking sanctuary in Cambodia
after the teddy bloody battle of Ia Drang Valley. But,
statements were largely hushed up or ignored the higher A up the official
American Establishment ladder one asked questions.
these
American field commanders, responsible for watching the Cambodian
border along a 150-mile frontline west of here say, there are five
known regiments of North Vietnamese regulars situated across the jun led
boundary line from where U.
have operated for the past year.
y Army 4th
Infantry Division troops
American commanders list the five known regiments as: 95B,
66, 88, 32 and 33. Three of these regiments form the 1st North Vietnamese
Division, these sources said. Hence, military sources calculate
pops one thick is worth Vietnamese divisions is surely
of Sanctuary,
lying across the border,
CAPABLE
ED
are sus
of whisking into South
Vietnam and attacking the outnumber/ American brigades or smaller South
Tietnamese units.
without
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Deepe
Cambodia-page 3
NORTHERN
Maj Gen. Vinh Loc, South Vietnamese commander
gination of
the Second Military Corps along the most sensitive/part of the
an border, said he estimated the combined North Vietnamese and
Viet Cong strength at the divisions item across the line in
Cambodia.
"I have begged the anth (South Vietnamese) High Command
in Saigon to give me permission to go into Cambodia," Gen. Loc said.
"I always say the best defense is to attack. Or we should at least
send Commandos and Rangor patrols in (into Cambodia) to destroy
the North Vietnamese installations and to give their troops a fear
of their security.
"But, the High Command never says yes--and never says no,"
he shrugged. "We respect too much international law and convention--
that's our weakness," he concluded, indicating ho probably would not
the green light from Saigon to move across the border.
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Deepe
Cambodia--page 4
American commanders, however,
thought the chances of
a military attack against Nrth Vietnamese units based in Cambodia
would have little chance of success.
"If we could launch a lightning ground and air attack against
those units--all in 24 hours we could knock them, out easily," one
American military sources explained.
we would have to have
"But,
total surprise, or else the unit NVA units would simply
break
up and scatter and we'd never get them. The chances are that
even a blitz invasion of Cambodia would not appreciably alter
the military situation to favor us over here very much.
American field commanders in th
believe the border
currently
war against North Vietnamese main force units has reached a
military deadlock in this area.
"we have five North Vietnamese regiments across the Cambodian
treepak
border facing our teepak troops,"
one American military source
explained. "And we had the same five regiments facing us when we
moved th
here a year ago. In one year, we have killed 2500
North Vietnamese regulars confirmed by bodycount--and they've brought
down more replacements for their casualties. The difference is the
new replacements are younger and
have less training, but the
enomy is making up for that with much more lethal weaponry."
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Doope
Cambodia-page 5
American intelligence experts are known to baise their
assessment of North Vietnamese strength in Cambodia on a wide
array of evidence, including aerial reconnaissance flights and ground
patrols across the border by Vietnamese Special Forces teams and
their American advisors.
Howevor,
high-ranking American military officials in Saigon
have cd the view that even this intelligence information is
PRECISF
not acurate enough.
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Date
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1967, Aug. 3
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Location
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Pleiku, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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13.5833; 107.7166
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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
