INFILTRATION STATIONS; PERSONNEL AND SUBORDINATION - 1968/01/26

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COUNTRY
NORTH VIETNAM (NVN).
SOUTH VIETNAM (SVN)
SUBJECT
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DATE AND PLACE
IMPANU/SITION:
Infiltration Station $I; Personnel
and Subordination
26 December 1967
15 January 1967
DANANG, WANG NAM, Vietnam
NIC REPORT NO : 098/68
NIC CASE NO
: FET
DATE OF REPORT : 26/1/68
NO. OF PAGES : 3
REF : NIC Report 097/68
(PIR)
This report was collected by a NIC Field Exploitation Team on 15 January 1968 in
DANANG Municipality, SVN. Source is not available at the NIC for further explot...
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Infiltration stations were ciassifiddeither main or subordinate stations. The
main stations issued food, the subordinate stations were simply used as resting
places for the troops being infiltrated. The route from NVN to Station 49 in
THUA THIEN Province, SVN, was the responsibility of Group 559, commanded by an
NVA colons.].. In mid 1965, a regiment of Division 320 was dettloyed along the infil-
tration route from Laos to Station 49 with the responsibility of protecting the
route,, infiltrators, and for transporting supplies to storage areas. About a
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four kilometer section of the roadway near A SHAU was laid with steel plates,
similar to those used to make airstrips.
1. Infiltration Stations were classified into main and subordinate stations.
The former were where the infiltrators would be issued rice and other food,
whereas the latter were simply usedats aresting place for the troops. From
NVN to SVN, the stations were set up at a walking distance of between seven
and eight hours apart, which was commonly known as one days's march.
2. In NAM HA Province there were two stations; Station I was located either in
THANH TAM or THANH HA Village, THANH LIEM District; the exact location of
Station 2 was unknoWn. In NINH BINH Province there were three stations;
one was located in the forest of TAM QUY Village (District unknown), one in
GIL CHUNG Village, GIA VIEN District; and the last station was in HA LONG
Village, NHO QUAN District. In THANH HOA Province there were eight stations,
all located in the residential areas; one was in DINH HOA Village, TEN DINH
District; the majority of the stations were located in TRIEU SON and NONG
GONG Districts. In NGHE AN Province there were five or six stationni'half
were located in residential areas and the other half in the jungle. In ,
Hi TINH ProvinCe there were about five stations; the first station was located
in a residential area; the second station waS located in a forest (location
unknown); and the last three stations were lobated in residential areas.
This last station was Statien 16* (* inditates main stations). In QUANG BINH
Province there were altogether eight stations numbered as 17* And 18 in the
jungle,19 and 20* (in residential hou*ea) and 22, 23 and 24* (located in the
jungle):
In Laos, the stations were numbered 1*, 2 to 5, 10*, 11 to 16, 17*, 31 to 35
and 36*. Station 10 in Laos was the Vast place that issued canned meat produced
in NVN. From Station 2 to 17, the terrain was comparatively level and the
� distance between the stations was rather short, therefore the infiltration
group could reach their days's destination in five or six hours instead of
seven or eight hours as in other areas. All the stations here were located
in the jungle.
In ,SVN, beginning from QUANG TRI Province, the stations were numbered 37 to
39. In THUA THIEN Province, from 40 to 44, 45*, 46, 47*, 48 and 49. In
QUANG NAM Province, stations were numbered 1 to 6 and many more, but these
were not known because beginning from Station 6, the infiltration group
stopped following the commo-liaison line.
Commorliaison agents said that the infiltration route was divided into two
parts From NVN to Station 49 in THUA THIEN Province, the route was under the
responsibility of Group 559 commanded by an NVA Colonel (name unknown).
Beginning from Station 1 in QUANG NAM Province, the route was known as the
"commo-liaison liberation route"(EnNing gilt) lien Giai-Ph6ng) According to
the commo-liaison agents, in mid-1965 a regiment of Division 320 -As sent to
SVN, but as the regiment reached half way, the NVN High Command ordered it to
deploy all the way from Laos to Station 49 in THUA THIEN Province. The regi-
ment was to build up a strategic route which was called "the front line road"
(the road was completed, running down to THUA THIEN Province to lead infiltra-
tion groups; to protect the infiltration stations which meant protection for
infiltrators; to protect the strategic road and to transport supplies to
storage areas in the jungle for use in SVM.
During' the infiltration, no trucks were seen. The infiltration group seldom
walked, on the road, but walked mostly on paths sometimes locatedguallel or
inning across the road. In an area near A SH/LU, a portion of the road about
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four kilometers was laid with steel plates; usually used to make airstrips.
Also in this area, a lot of wheeled vehicle tracks were seen. Group 559
was composed mainly of natives of HAI DUONG Province; the group had a dispen-
sary and an entertainment team which entertained the infiltration group
twice at Stations 14 and 15 in Laos.
The infiltratien group began to walk in day time from Station 17 in QUANG
BINH Province. Also, they were allowed to cook during daytime, but from
Station 1 in QUANG NAM Province, they could only cook from 1800 hours on.
From this point on, the VC seemed to pay more attention to the smoke; but from
this point back to NVN they seemed to pay more attention to the fire.�
,NVA Battalion 339 (Infiltration Group 140) was led by two different commo-
liaisen agents daily. One cammo-liaison agent would always walk together with
the battalion commander in the forward element and the other would either walk
among the rear or middle elements. All the way from NVN to Station 6 in QUANG
NAM Province, most of the commo-liaison agents were natives of NVN. There
were probably SVN comma-liaison agents, but they were never seen.
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