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363-04160 to 363-04165
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Title
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Article about Việt Cộng control of Saigon insurgency
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Description
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Original title: "command", Keever's title: "Viet Cong's Top Command Controls Saigon-Area Thrusts." Article draft about the Central Office of the Việt Cộng taking direct control of various communist political movements and insurgencies in the area around Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Written 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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SAIGON, APRIL 2The supreme Viet
Cong
command has directly
taken charge of the political activities and military operations in the
capital of Saigon and surrounding provinces.
to the supreme headquarters,
The move to give direct control
called Central Office, South Vietnam ((COSVN)
was made in November of
and is still
A recent
last year as a prelude to the Communist Tet offensive,
considered to
cently
be/operative,
intelligence report, based on prisoner and defector interrogations and
documents captured during the Tet offensive,
has for the first time
detailed the change of the political-military command in the c
capital and peripheral provinces.
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command 2 (normass/deepe)
In a command sense, the contin reported continuation of
direction by COSVN
indicate to reliable observers that
OR NEAR
the Communists are prepared for bigger battles in the urban ang sections
of Saigon.
C.)
Westmoreland sending
"This is just like General (William
General (Creighton) Abrahms up north to set up a forward command
and to control all American military operations along the demilitarized
"The Viet Cong have set up a COSVN-forward
zone," one source explained.
near Saigon to give them better control and coordination."
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COSVN, however, does not control all of the multi-faceted war
in South Vietnam. In June,
1966,
reportedly assumed direct charge of
the North Vietnamese High Command
the military-political war in the
Tri-Thien-Hue Region and Region 5. The former consists of the two
northernmost provinces of Quang Tri and Thuan Thien,
Marines and soldiers are meeting continuing resistence,
where U. S.
and the city of
Hue. Wang This region, with a regional Communist Party
committee established to give over-all political guidance, is also
believed to control the central part of the Laotian panhandle. Military
Region 5 controls the coastal portions of the provinces of Quang Ngai,
Quang Ting Binh Dinh, Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa. It also provides political
supervision and direction of guerrilla activities-but not main force operations-
in the highland provinces directly west of to the Laos-Cambodian borders.
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The details of the recent intelligence report indicates that in
Nobem November last year, "all military and political forces around
Saigon were ordered to be integrated into one big zone under the direct
command of COSVN."
Codenamed T-700, the new region integrates the former zone
including greater-urban Saigon with the Communist base areas to the north
and northwest of the capital. Before t' November, Saigon,
i its twHE
Chinese twin-city of Cholon and suburban sections of Gia Dinh province were
considered a special zone, later called Military Region 4. A special zone >
the control of both military and political affairs is directly by directed
by the military organizations, wy while in a standard military region,
separate structures are established for political and military activities.
The provinces, forme forming Military Region 1, fanning in a wide arc north
of Saigon from Cambodia to the South China Sea,
GREATER
gon urban Saigon to form T-700.
has now been integrated with
tex.
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The main purposes of the change are considered to be:
1. The direct COSVN command gives the Viet Cong more flexibility
and speed in shifting units from their base areas in the provinces into
since intermediate command echelons have been
the Saigon perimeter,
amalgamated or
preragod.
2. Better coordination beween troop units, both Viet Cong
and North Vietnamese, and political activities.
3.
Gives COSVN direct center confol of t control of the
political-military underground operating in the Saigon area and or
nearby areas now considered to be under contr jurisdiction of the Victro Mic Se
anti-Communist Vietnamese government.
More authority for COSVN representatives to solve Robe
local problems directly on the spot, thus cutting bureaucratic red tape
and saving time.
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In a documentary analysis released by the American mission in March,
the writer notes: "The total reorganization (around Saigon) in late 1967
is revealing of the Viet Cong's capability to change to meet the current
situation, for here we have not a simple series of mergers, but a
completely new design that abrogates all ro historical precedent."
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Each
COMMANDS DIRECTED BY
with the command
The T-700 region is divided into six sub-regions
of euch Bubregion delegated to at least one representative from COSVN.
Sub-command one, stretching twenty five miles north of Saigon,
includes two districts once in en considered under the War Zone C
in the provinces of Binh Duong, a
Command
portion of c Cu Chi
district where the U. S. Army 25th Division is based, and the districts
of Go Vap and Hoc Mon, in Gia Dinh provinces surround which surrounds
Saigon. These latter two districts were the scene of heavy fighting
during the Communist Tet offensive) used by the Communists in attacking
Tan Son Nhat airbase. x Government intelligence sources have confirmed
the presence of four autonomous, mobile battalions of the Viet Cong
Regiment 165A, which are thought to be reinforced by a number of
unidentified heavy weapons units and North Vietnamese army elements.
A number of Viet Cong regional and guerrilla forces as well as sapper
platoons and political agents are so operating in this area,
sources said.
HERE
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Sub-Command Two,xxx situated south and west of saigon,
encompasses
Biny S Chanh and Tan Binh Districts of Gia Dinh provinces and two
districts of Hau Nghia province--Duc Hoa and Duo Hue districts.
Some
of these districts are considered important routes of infiltration of weapons
and supplies directly from Cambodia into the multi-fingered canal system
on the outskirts of Saigon. This Sub-Command contains six main-force
battalions--one battalion of heavy weapons,
another battalion of 165A
Regiment, three battalions of the Viet Cong 9th Division and one battalion
of up-graded from regional force ranks,
which is mainly responsible
for guiding and spearheading units unfamiliar with the the area.
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Sub-Command 3,
stretching south-southeast of Saigon,
includes
Nhe Be district of Gia Dinh province and three districts of Long An
province. Four main-force battalions have been confirmed operating
in this area; of these were former Long An battalions, the 506th and 508th,
and two are primarily North Vietnamese Army battalions which have assumed
names of two famous Viet Cong units--the Phu Loi battalion and the Dong
Autonm Automous Autonomous companies and sapper units
purposes also serve in the area.
Ngai battalion.
for sabotage
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Phuoc
Sub-Command 4 comprises Thu Duc district of Gia Dinh province,
Tuy province and the southern half of Long Khanh province. The largest
geographical sup subdivision the area stretches fifty some miles
east-southeast of Saigon. Four main-force battalions have been confirmed
in this area, incl including one battalion of the 165A Regiment,
Two
one
sources
but
battalion of the 274th Regiment of the Viet Cong 5th Division.
companies of the North Vietnamese Army have also been confirmed,
said. Two heavy weapons companies are considered likely in the area,
not yet confirmed. In addition, several district regional force companies
are known to be reinforced by six companies of engineers, specialists
in river and road sabotage.
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command (normass/deepe)
the
Sub-Command 5 includes the northern part of Bion Hoa province,
northern part of Binh Duong province, and the city of Bion Hoa, which
serves as headquarters for the Third Vietnamese Military Corps and an HR
jot-length airbase. The city, and airbase of Bion Hon, paplus the
huge American Long Binh complex, BOEVO are included in a special
DESIGNED
sub-division of --called U-1-of the sub-command beemason
of the high density of Allied troops there. The Viet Cong Dong Ngai
Regiment and the Viet Cong Phu Loi 1 Battalion operate in this area,
said.
to co
sources
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(normass/deepe)
called the Saigon Cap Capital Command,)
Sub-Command six includes urban saigon, which is divided into three
special sections: the Chinese section of Saigon, called Cholon; Saigon
proper and the urbanised sections of Gia Dinh province. Each of these
three sub-divisions has one company of armed propaganda experts, the sources
said. In all three sub-dici divisions, the F-100 battalion, now called
battalion number 10-which attacked the American Embassay and Vietnamere
Presidential Palace during Tet-per operates on special sb sabotago
and has harrassing missions. Abonman The battalion is divided into
in the
squads and platoons, each operating independently,
nine precincts of Saigon-Cholon and the nearby urbanized area of Gia
Dinh province. SOURCES
SAD.
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Date
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1968, Apr. 24
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Subject
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Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Saigon (Vietnam); Insurgency; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Command of troops
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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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B10, F17
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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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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
