COMPANY 3, VC INDEPENDENT BATTALION 6

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00758634
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: March 5, 1968

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IN TERRO6 MN REPORT
THIS REPORT IS THE RESULT OF THE INTERROGATION ACTIVITY CONDUCTED
.BY THE NATIONAL INTERROGATION CENTER (NIC)- UNDER THE JOINT AUSPICES
OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION (CIO) AND THE U.S. CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF DETACHMENT 6,
6499TH SPECIAL ACTIVITIES GROUP (USAF).
COUNTRY '
SUBJECT
: South Vietnam (SVN)
CAMBODIA
VC .dependent Battalion 6
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NIC REPORT NO : 246/68
Company 3, NIC CASE NO FET. 3.3(h)(2)
DATE OF BERM.: 513/68
DATE OF INFO : Approximately January 1967-1 February 1968
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5 February 1968
Saigon, Vietnam (F - P)
This report was collected by a NIC.Field-Exploitation Team onj February 1968 in
SAIGON City, SVN. Source is not available at the NIC for further exploitation.
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REFERENCE: AMS L7014, Sheet 6230 IV, Scale 1:50,000 Edition 1
1. While Company 3, VC Independent Battalion 6, received military training in
BA THU area, (XT 248025) CAMBODIA, from 2-3 January 1968 until 28 January,
many other VC and Vietnamese civilians were also located in BA THU. (Field
Comment: Source did not remember the number of Vietnamese military and civilian
personnel in the area, nor cbuld he furnish the names of their units or
organizations.) The other military personnel were also undergoing military
training while the civilians were harvesting rice. No Cambodian civilians were
observed in the area, but one of their forts could be seen in the distance.
Company 3 was the only unit which left the BA THU area for SAIGON-CHOLON at the
end of January. (Field Comment: Source does not know the present disposition
of the other VC units which were trained in BA THU.)
2. ComPany. 3, cohsisting of about 40 soldiers, infiltrated Saigon in advance of
Battalion 6, consisting of about 100 men. The infiltrators carried their weapons
with them; some wore uniforms, others did not. At approximately 2000 hours on
the 30th the unit reached Hamlet 4 or 5 of TAN NHAT DISTRICT where the soldiers
picked up additional weapons. (Field Comment: Source arrived in SAIGON with
Battalion 6 at approximately 0300 hours 31 January. and loined Company 1
immediately.
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Company,3 was not given its objective in SAIGON until it reached Hamlet 4 or 5
td-TAN'NHAT District. At that time the soldiers were told that they' were going
to liberate SAIGON; the unit was not advised of any other actions taking place
in the country.
He claims to.
r-nave;received-no briefings on local support, on other VC objectives. or plans
anyiihere in the country, or on future plans. Source claimed to be an ordinary
soldier, who followed orders. Source's interrogator found him to be cooperative,
but poorly educated and having little access to information.)
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