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363-04807
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Title
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Viet Cong's 'Kill' List: U.S. Advisers at Top
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the hit list of the Việt Cộng, page 12
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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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Viet Cong's 'Kill' List:
U. S. Advisers at Top
By Beverly Deepe
A Special Correspondent
SAIGON.
American advisers here are
concerned that their names
are on the top of Communist
"kill" lists. They are taking
precautions to disappoint the
Viet Cong guerrillas.
"We don't know how much
money we've got on our heads,"
one field officer said, "but we
know the Viet Cong guerrilla
who kills us could retire with
the money."
MACHINE GUN SPRAY
To prevent the Communists
from collecting, one American
Captain said he always sprays
the roadside with machine gun
fire when he travels by jeep
in the countryside. "It gives
us a feeling of confidence to
know that our machine guns
are working while we drive,"
he said. "Of course," he added,
"we don't shoot as we go
through villages. But we hold
several grenades in our hands,
knowing that if we're fired at
in a village we could throw out
a grenade. We don't know if
we've ever killed anyone on the
roadsides--we never stop. That
would be a trap and we'd be
knocked off for sure."
Also, in an action earlier
Another U. S. adviser said Americans before setting off
he never started the engine the mine.
of his jeep without first check-
ing for grenades. timebombs this year northwest of Saigon.
and gunpowder in his gas tank Viet Cong attackers
used a
megaphone to
talk a company
and engine.
into
soldiers
of Vietnames
deserting four American ad-
visers. All but five South
Vietnamese mountain tribes-
men fled the scene, and the
guerrillas then attacked and
One American explained
that he always checked his
pillow and blankets for poison-
ous snakes before going to bed.
"That would be a very clever
way to kill me," he said, "and killed the four Americans and
Viet Cong are very clever
."
Still another adviser de-
scribed his personal precau-
tions: "I go to sleep about 2
a m. each night with my ra
dio earplus in one ear. That
ear is my pillow. The other
ear is listening for any noises
outside. Of course, I sleep
with my pistol by my side
and I always sleep with my
glasses on. I'm stone blind
without them."
AMERICANS FIRST
A number of incidents have
supported the theory that the
guerrillas have specific orders
to kill Americans first. For
cap-
example, an American
tain was killed and a sergeant
wounded recently
seriously
when an
the five loyal Vietnamese.
BLENDING IN
His
"The Viet Cong have been
trying to pick off Americans,"
one U. S. adviser said.
rule of the road to combat
this: Blend in with the crowd.
"At first they spotted us be-
cause of our uniforms, so we
started wearing exactly what
the Vietnamese government
troops wore." he said. "Then
the Viet Cong picked us out
because we carried newer
weapons than the Vietnamese,
so we started using old weap-
ons."
Blending in with a crowd,
though, is more easily said
than done. "My two sergeants
are short and fit in with the
size of the Vietnamese sol-
electronically-deto- diers," another American serv-
nated land mine exploded be- iceman said. "But I'm tall
tween them. The two were on and they can spot me miles
Vietnamese, away." "Besides," he added.
patrol with 300
but the Communist guerrillas "I wear glasses-and none of
aparently waited to catch the the Vietnamese do."
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Date
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1965, May 30
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Subject
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Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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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
