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363-06670 to 363-06674
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Title
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Article about Communist bases in Cambodia
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Description
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Original title: "cambodia", Keever's title: "Cambodia Transits Communist Supplies?" Article draft about potential Cambodian supply bases operated by the Communists, 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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cambodia 1 (normass/deepe)
Now in
its HEAVY BAIGON, February 21-The sustained Communist drive,
utilizing large stocks of weapons, heavy ammunitions and rockets,t
has touched off another £ round of the Cambodian-base controversy.
Reliable American and South Vietnamese sources here
believe that Cambodia territory is directly involved in the gun-rum
gun-running business into the southern proportions of this republic
and is used to provide sanctuary for North Vietnamese troops who
dart in and out of South Vietnam.
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cambodia 2 (normass/deepe)
However, other reliable sources, including pro-American
diplomatic allies who have visitedCambodia, say there is no port-si
port-side proof Communist arsenals are moving from ocean-going ships
through Cambodian ports, especially the port of Sin Sihanoukville.
Informed sources here believe that large shipments of
Chinese-made weapons and ammunition have been trucked from the Cambodian
port of Sihanoukville to the southern portions of the Vietnam frontier,
especially in the Mekong Delta area and areas surrounding saigon, instead
of moving down the Ho Chi Minh Trafo Trail from North Vietnam.
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cambodia 3 (normass/deepe)
Here
About manpower,
reliable sources/note some of the dead
North Vietnamese troops left in the Saigon area after the first stage
of the Communist offensive on January 31 carried Cambodia money on them.
A North Vietnamese-born defector this correspondent interviewed sit
he and his unit spent several months in Cambodia before attacking the
Saigon periphery in late January. He said his anti-tank weapons
were issued to him and his 19 150-man company in South Vietnam, rather
than being carried all the way beters from North Vietnam.
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"The whole national attention in America is still centered
on the port of Hai Phong (in North Vietnam)," one American source
explained. "But wait until the public is pressed to take out the
port of Sihanoukville."
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cambodia 5 (normass/deepe)
Another source explained: "North Vietnamese replacements for
South Vi Southern Viet Cong losses in the Saigon area are brought down
the Ho Chi Minh Trail. sometimes partly by truck and supplies are being
tu of weapons and ammunition and rice are being trucked from sihanoukville.
The Allies are trying to put in more Special Forces camps along these
routes of infiltration from Cambodia.
"The Communists used to get their rice, recruits and taxes from
Mekong Delta area, but the Allies now have a belt of might separating
the Mekong Delta from the Saigon area. This belt of might is seven
divisions--four American and three South Vietnamese--around saigon,
and they have separated the Communists from their rice and reed recruits,
Noy
though maybe the Communists Viet Cong still collect taxes there.
the Communists are buying their rice from Cambodia and shipping it into
South Vietnam from there."
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cambodia 6 (nromass/deepe)
The Ho Chi Minh trail, actually a multi-fingered series
of foot trails and roads, runs from North Vietnam, through the southe
southern portions of Laos, and then from a number of exit points ens
divers out vienam. The southern-most exit point is considered
to lie in the Communist MR-10 area, near their central headquarters
called COSVN, which includes portions of Phuoc Long and Bing Binh Long,
where the battles of Loc Ninh and Bu Dop were fought late last year.
The Sihanouki Trail, annamed after Cambodia's pi
prince and chief of state, is considered to include a truck route
into the War Zone C area of Tayninh Province, as well as thro
OPEN
thousands of sampan routes eri laterally from Cambodia into
South Vietnam across the swampy, unmarked border areas.
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"We know the Communists are trucking in r their
supplies from Cambodia," one reliable source explained, "because
we've found arms sees oaches of AK-47's in bunches too big to be
carried in by human beings. They can't be postering all these supplies
an using the old Burma Pass portering concept./
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One young American el enlisted man recalled how "we used to sit
in our forward operating post outside of Saigon and we could see the
Cab Cambodia only 18 miles away. There were thousands of
but as soon as we closed up
We just
The American units x His American
waterways with sampans coming across,
on su one supply route the Communists found another one.
could never have stopped all of it."
unit is now operating within the Saigon city limits--and still trying
to track down the Communists weapons that were sampaned into the Chelon
area Chinese precincits of saigon, called Cholon, reliable sources report.
Another American source was quite to point out
however, "That
those Russian tanks near Khe Sanh did not come in through hi
Sihanoukville--they came in through Hai Phong as does most of the
heavy weaponry such as sure sufrace surface-to-Air Missiles (SAN's).
Those tan tanks are especially worrisome bet because every American
Korean War veteran remembers the escalation of 1950 where we vou found
out ourselves one morning fighting Chinese Communist tanks and units."
(Hank: Eyell leave for Danang today and will file by Monday,
for sure, or sooner if possible.
Regards Bev).
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Date
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1968, Feb. 21
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns--Cambodia; Military supplies; Military bases; Vietnam (Democratic Republic). Quân đội
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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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B9, F22
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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
