MONTAGNARD DISENCHANTMENT WITH THE VIET CONG IN DARLAC PROVINCE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00758584
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• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: March 13, 1968

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THIS REPCP1 IS TR 1:tE5ULT OF .TM IlfratRinAT:011 ACTIVITY CONYOOTED
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OF THE O'INTRAL INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION (CTO) AND THE U.S. ...;ENTKAL
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SOUTH VIETNAM (SVN) NIC REPORT NO : 307/68
Montagnard Disenchantment with NIC CASE NO : FET
the VIET CONG in DARLAC Province
DATE OF REPORT : 13/03/68
December 1967 - January 1968
1 March 1968 ( R U )
BAN ME THUOT City, DARLAC Province
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This report was collected by a NIC Field Exploitation Team on 1 March 1968
in BAN ME THUOT City, DARLAC Province, SVN. Source is not available at the
NIC for further exploitation.
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1. In early. December 1967 VIET CONG cadres went to BUON CO Hamlet, HUK SRAR
' Village, BUON HO District, DARLAC Province, gathered the people together
and told them to prepare to help the VIET CONG in the coming months as
the war would be decided in favor of the VIET CONG by March 1968. They
were told that the coming battles would be country-wide. The people in
the village were told to save their rice for the liberation forces and
to eat vegetables as a substitute for the rice they were forbidden to
eat. They would have to carry food andammunition for the Army'of
Liberation when the time came and also to act as guides.
2. The villagers were afraid pf the VIET CONG and did not trust them any:
longer., They had been promissed victory. in_1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 and
now total victory would be achieved by March 1968. How could they believe
them now/ They told the villagers not to fear enemy aircraft because the
war would soon be won. But every day there were more and more aircraft
flying overhead, destroying their crops, and houses because they lived in
VIET CONG-oontrolled area. Month by month their life became more difficult.
It is harder to grow food because the village young were either fighting
for the VIET CONG or the GVN or they were forced to carry food for the
VIET CONG. They raised food but could not eat it.
.3. People were leaving the village, trying to leave the controlled area, but
they were watched and most of the people were brought back to the village
after an unsuccessful attempt to escape. The villagers were not allowed
to leave the village with their families for fear they would not return.
The only way a man could leave the village was alone his family had to
stay behind in bond so to speak . (NIC Comments: Source's wife is
still atEITvUlage).
The people in BUON CO Hamlet could not go, to the.GVN authorities
and draw their attention to VIET CONG activities in the area for fear
that if the VIET CONG found out about it their families in the hamlet
woad suffer reprisals.
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