-
derivative filename/jpeg
-
363-04779.pdf
-
Digital Object Identifier
-
363-04779
-
Title
-
North Viet Nam Recruits Its Own for the Red War
-
Description
-
Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about North Vietnam's decision to send its own forces to South Vietnam, page unknown
-
Date
-
1965, Jan. 31
-
Subject
-
Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Democratic Republic). Quân đội; Strategy
-
Location
-
Saigon, South Vietnam
-
Coordinates
-
10.8231; 106.6311
-
Container
-
B4, F6
-
Format
-
newspaper clippings
-
Collection Number
-
MS 363
-
Collection Title
-
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
-
Creator
-
Keever, Beverly Deepe
-
Copyright Information
-
These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
-
Publisher
-
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
-
Language
-
English
-
extracted text
-
North Viet Nam Recruits Its Own for the Red War
C..S ....
By Beverly Deepe
A Special Correspondent
SAIGON.
Young North Vietnamese
recruits are given a farewell
feast and a pep talk by famed
Communist Gen. Vo Nguyen
Giap before trudging off to
infiltrate into South Viet
Nam, it was learned yesterday.
.
"The young North Vietnamese recruits get a party the
night before they take off for
South Viet Nam," one informed source disclosed here.
"They are wished well,
have a feast and are told to
win the war in South Viet
Nam. Giap (the famous general who spearheaded the
fight against the French in
the Indochina War a decade
ago) has visited these infiltration units before they
leave their training centers,"
the ·10urce added.
· Informed officials indicated yesterday that 90 per cent
of the latest known infiltration from North Viet Nam is
made by persons born and
raised in North Viet Nam. Of
the 4,000 estimated infiltrators from January to August
of last year-the latest available intelligence estimates3,600 were born and raised in
North Viet Nam.
REVERSAL
This is in marked reversal
to the trend of previous years,
when most of the infiltrators
from North Viet Nam were
born in South Viet Nam,
but went to the North following the 1954 Geneva
agreements ending the lndochina War. They began to
ret1,1rn froin North Viet Nam
to their native village in 1959
through 1963.
In 1954, 90,000 South Viet-
namese Communists
nt to
I
North Viet Nam, but between
1959 and 1963, 15,000 of them
returned to their native provinces in the southern republic. Now, however, informed
sources indicated that the
Hanoi regime ran out of
Southern-born personnel to
infiltrate into the South. So
in early 1964 it began sending
Northern-born recruits, specialized personnel and leadership cadres.
The remainder of the
90,000 are presumed by reliable sources to be too old or
sick to infiltrate southward.
Informed observers here
believe that the introduction
of North Vietnamese-born
personnel into the war in
South Viet Nam may produce
an adverse effect for the
Hanoi regime.
CLEAVAGE
"This meana Hanoi baa
abandoned the :fiction ...that
C v(>.•
f',
fighting in South Viet Nam Is self - generating
without next. Informed sources said
purely a South Vietnamese further inf!ltration.
only a few infiltrators travel
affair," one informed source
One large training center deeply into Lao territory,
explained. "This is now dif- for many o! the North Viet- through such areas near the·
ferent from bringing a local namese-born recruits is Xuan . Pathet Lao stronghold of
boy back home ."
Mai, near Hanoi, where up to Tchepone, which is probably
conscriptees
were used more for logistic supRegional cleavages between 3,000
North Vietnamese and South · trained at one time by the plies rather than personnel.
"Much of the time they
Vietnamese have existed for Peoples' Army Viet Nam
<PAVN) regulars. Training travel at night in groups of
centuries.
Intelligence reports have courses in political indoctri- five tci 50'0," a source said.
estimated since 1959 that a nation weapons training "But always they travel
minimum of 19,000 infiltrated usually lasts three months under three canopies of cover
from North Viet Nam. And as but "one 'kid had only time so that they cannot be
many a:s 34,000 may have to pick up his rifle before he spotted from the air . They
been sent. It is estimated that started to South Viet Nam,'' use so many trails it is actually a line of drift rather
there are 34,000 hard-core a reliable source said.
than a route. Whenever govViet Cong guerrillas. However.
THE HOOK
ernment troops find one of
most o! the Viet Cong's
Most infiltration routes are their tra!ls they shift to anstrength is still recruited in
"around
the hook" from other one."
South Viet Nam. These local
The source said of 165 perNorth
Viet
Nam, skimming
guerrilla& number up to 80,sons who Infiltrated from
through
Laos
at
the
17th
000. Some observers believe parallel se;,arating North and North Viet Nam and are now
that Hanoi has already in- South Viet Nam and then In government hands, 100
filtrated enough specialists hugging · the Laotian-South were captured and the reand leadership cadre to make Vietnamese border, pa.ssing mainder rall1ed to the govthe war in South Viet:wNam from one way station ·,to·;ihe ernment side.
