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363-04625 to 363-04632
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Title
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Third article about Communist strategy
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Description
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Original title: "uprise", Keever's title: "Communist Units to hold[?] 3-month Indoctrination to Promote 'People's Uprising.'" Article draft about Communist ideology being spread and reinforced among the Việt Cộng. 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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(This is the last of a three-part series on Communist strategy
for the remainder of 1968).
SAIGON, JULY 10--Communist units around Saigon have been ordered
to hold a massive, three-month indoctrination session teaching their
cadre-soldiers how to promote "the people's uprising" and to so siphon
off the Vietnamese government's political-military strength.
the
The Viet Cong High Command, with headquarters near the Cambodia
border, ordered its subordinate echelons around Saigon to hold long-term
The order
education course during the months of April, May and June.
was contained in a top-secret Communist document recently captured
The course supplements various short-term indoctrination
by Allied forces.
sessions and panel discussions for the Communist troops and political cadre.
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The high-level directive explains in rather elaborate detail the
Communist policy called "military-civilian proselytizing"--that is, gaining
support for the Communists, even among its own enemies--the Vietnamese
government employees, soldiers, sympathizers and uncommitted persons living
in government-controlled areas.
In effect, the indoctrination sessions seemed geared to make each
Communist soldier effective as a propaganda agent and political missionary,
to spread the Communist message into the govern areas of Vietnamese government
political
"1 "Military-civilian proselytising" is
control and military presence.
defined as "one of the three most immortant mearheads of attacking the
during this decisive period,"
enemy the other two being overt military action and covert political action.
"The soul of this mission of attacking the enemy is the policy of the Party
for proselytizing," the captured document reads.
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Regarding the civilian popula tion, the directive orders in militant
toness "You should intensify the campaign to push the people to uprise,
APPARATUSES
to overthrow the enemy government, to destroy all the enemy appexutii,
especially the violent appazarat-appers
which
These apperatii are used by
the enemy to control the people, to take over the government into the
hands of the people. This is the duty of the whole (Communist) Party,
the whole armed forces and the whole people. It can not be done by one
group out of the three. But, if all three groups are coordinated, they'
will succood. The military od 10roes plays an im
smm
"The military amed forces plays an important role in promoting the
people's uprising because they are the spearhead into the enemy & areas,
HENCE
and so the troops should be well educated on civilian proselyting,
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on
making propaganda and in carrying out the campaign among people living
in the onomy-controllod areas."
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For actions leading up to the "people's uprising," the Viet Cong
soldiers and political cadre have been directed to take these seven steps:
Make the peep people (living in Vietnamese government-controlled
areas) "clearly and deeply under stend the policy of the (Communist) Party
during this period of at assaulting the cition and explain why we assault
the cities."
2. "Help the people-not only lead the people- but toy them to i uprise-
but help them to uprise to destroy the evil-door," referring to Vietnamese
government polico, military and government officials.
So
3. Help the people put pressure on government posto mo the dofonders
will withdraw without fighting.
4. Push the people to uprise, oncircle the post and appeal to the
defenders to lay down their arms.
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5. "Then the people seesy seep any enemy unit moving into position
to attack you,
you must holp the people uprise and encircle tin t unit.
But you have to protect the people in case the puppets (Vietnamese government)
shoot at the people. The people should ask the puppets to lay down their
weapons or withdraw from their attacking position, so the revolutionary
troops can move forward without fighting."
6. "Anywhere the revolutionary troops move in without fighting,
they must help the people to produce foodstuffs, to build combat hamlets,
to help the guerrillas improve their fighting and you must try at all times To
create solidar solidatir solidarity with the people and the local guerrillas."
7. The Communist troops are to observe all the details of local
WORDER
mmobil
customs and habits go they can mobilize the people through persuasion
and propaganda so they will voluntarily contribute manpower and property
for the resistance in order to bring the war to an end faster and
victoriously."
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The Communist indoctrination sessions for their troops to convert or
neutralise Vietnamese government soldiers and officials is also carefully
mapped out. First, the cadre Communist cadro-soldiore should know the
Communist Party policy before approaching the "enemy." Second, when they
understand clearly that proselytizing is the "soul of the policy," the
troops are onder to begin the ci campaign by preci practicing on other
mim begin to call on their
members of their unit. Third, they alon
the Viet Cong
own relatives to move from the Vietnamose government area to
Fourth, they try to persuade friends their personal friends or
If the soldier-cadre can
sones.
former classmates or associates to join them.
not contact his friends or relatives directly, then he must write a full
report for his superiors so that other Viet Cong can contact them.
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During battles with their enemy soldiers, the Viot Cong have been
directed to "know how to combine the shooting with ourrondor appeals. You
should not shoot to kill all the tino, because you kill other Vietnames
NOT REP
Vietnamese. But, you should let the enemy to surrender all the time without
shooting, because he vd 11 shoot you. So you have to combine sem
equally the shooting with the surrender appeals. The shooting and killing
is on the sane level as surrender appeals causing the enemy to disintegrate."
The directive also states it is "categorically forbidden" to execute
any defector or prisoner, which marks a change from known battlefield
atrocities of last year.
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Whether the Communist indoctrination sessions have been effective
enough in launching a future "people's uprising" may will determine the
outcome of what they term this historic and decisive phase of the
Vietnam war.
(Hanks I'm leaving for the Seventh Flle Fleet today, returning
this evening. I assume you'll cover the Honolulu Conference with
REMAINS
QUIET
Washington people.
early next week, first to check Hue refugee situation and also the
What do you think about a very short trip to I Corps
I'd plan to return Saigon
Khe Sanh situation, which looks serious.
by the twentieth, which Geneva Conference anniversary and some fireworks
are expected. Regarda Ben).
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Agreemen
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Date
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1968, Jul. 10
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Subject
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Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Strategy; Tactics; Soldiers--Education, Non-military--Vietnam; Communism
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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, F38
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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
