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363-04779
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Title
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North Viet Nam Recruits Its Own for the Red War
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about North Vietnam's decision to send its own forces to South Vietnam, page unknown
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North Viet Nam Recruits Its Own for the Red War
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
South Viet
infiltrate into
Nam, it was learned yester-
day.
are
"The young North Vietna-
mese recruits get a party the
night before they take off for
South Viet Nam," one in-
formed source disclosed here.
"They
wished well,
have a feast and are told to
win the war in South Viet
Nam. Giap (the famous gen-
eral who spearheaded the
fight against the French in
the Indochina War a decade
ago) has visited these infil-
tration units before they
leave their training centers,"
the source added.
Informed officials indicat-
ed yesterday that 90 per cent
of the latest known infiltra-
tion from North Viet Nam is
made by persons born and
raised in North Viet Nam. Of
the 4,000 estimated infiltra-
tors from January to August
of last year-the latest avail-
able intelligence estimates-
3,600 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 fol-
lowing the 1954 Geneva
agreements ending the Indo-
china War. They began to
return from North Viet Nam
to their native village in 1959
through 1963.
In 1954, 90,000 South Viet-
namese Communists went to
North Viet Nam, but between
1959 and 1963, 15,000 of them
returned to their native prov-
inces in the southern repub-
lic. 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, spe-
cialized personnel and leader-
ship cadres.
The remainder of the
90,000 are presumed by re-
liable 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 means Hanol has
abandoned the fiction that
fighting in South Viet Nam is
purely a South Vietnamese
affair," one informed source
explained. "This is now dif-
ferent from bringing a local
boy back home."
Regional cleavages between
North Vietnamese and South
Vietnamese have existed for
centuries.
Intelligence reports have
estimated since 1959 that a
minimum of 19,000 infiltrated
from North Viet Nam. And as
many as 34,000 may have
been sent. It is estimated that
there are 34,000 hard-core
Viet Cong guerrillas. However.
most
of the Viet Cong's
strength is still recruited in
South Viet Nam. These local
guerrillas number up to 80,-
000. Some observers believe
that Hanoi has already in-
filtrated enough specialists
and leadership cadre to make
the war in South Viet Nam
self -
generating
further infiltration.
Jan 31,1965
without next. Informed sources said
only a few infiltrators travel
deeply into Lao territory,
through such areas near the
Pathet Lao stronghold of
Tchepone, which is probably
used more for logistic sup-
plies rather than personnel.
One large training center
for many of the North Viet-
namese-born recruits is Xuan
Mai, near Hanoi, where up to
3,000 conscriptees were
trained at one time by the
Nam
Peoples' Army Viet
(PAVN) regulars. Training
courses in political indoctri-
nation weapons training
usually lasts three months
but "one kid had only time
to pick up his rifle before he
started to South Viet Nam,"
a reliable source said.
THE HOOK
Most infiltration routes are
"around the hook" from
North Viet Nam, skimming
through Laos at the 17th
parallel separating North and
South Viet Nam and then
hugging the Laotian-South
Vietnamese border, passing
from one way station to the
"Much of the time they
travel at night in groups of
five to 500," a source said.
"But always they travel
under three canopies of cover
So that
cannot
they
be
They
spotted from the air.
use so many trails it is actu-
ally a line of drift rather
than a route. Whenever gov-
ernment troops find one of
their trails they shift to an-
other one."
The source said of 165 per-
sons who infiltrated from
North Viet Nam and are now
in government hands, 100
were captured and the re-
mainder rallied to the gov-
ernment side.
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Date
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1965, Jan. 31
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Subject
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Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Democratic Republic). Quân đội; Strategy
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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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Container
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B4, F6
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Format
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newspaper clippings
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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
