EVACUATION OF NVA/VC SICK AND WOUNDED FROM SVN TO NVN

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00758692
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: February 11, 1968

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THIS REPORT IS THr RES1J:7f. CT' THE INTNROGATICN ACTIVITY CONDUCTED
'BY TES NATIONALINTERROGATION CEYTSR (NICPJNYiR THE JCINT AMPICES
OF,TTE INTFILYMCS (CTO) AND 114..7 U.?, CENTRAL
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COUNTRY : NORTH VIETNAM (NVN)
SOUTH VIETNAM (SVN).
LAOS.
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DATE OF INFO
DATE AND PLACE
OF ACQUISITION :
Evacuation of NVA/VC Sick
and Wounded from SVN to NVN
December 1967
15 January 1967 (I -
DANANG, QUASZ NAM
NIC REPORT NO : 101/68
NIC CASE NO : FET�
DATE OF REPORT : 11/2/68
NO. OF PAGES : 2
REF : NIC Report 097/68
(PIR)
This report was collected by a NIC Field Exploitation Team on 15 January 1968
in DANANG Municipality, SVM. Source is not available at the NIC for further
exploitation.
SOURCE:
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During infiltration many wounded were seen being evacuated back to NVN. The
wounded were either walking or being carried. Commo-liaison agents said that the
wounded would be transported ln vehicles from QUANG BINH Province to HANOI.
Conv,ersations with some of the wounded indicated that some were amputees, others
were blind in one eye, some were paralyzed; other had unrecognizable conditions.
Dispensaries and hospitals were scattered, along the infiltration route for- the
care of the wounded being evacuated.
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� During infiltration, many wounded were met on their way back to NVN,
Sopecially enroute from Laos to QUANG NAM Province� Everyday a group of
about 20 men, was seen)the majority of them were able to walk, only a
minority was evacuated on stretchers. The highest figure of wounded being
carried on stretchers at one time in Laos was four men.
2. On� the infiltration route, sometimes the infiltration group and the wounded
groups halted at the same place. On such occasions, the wounded were asked
about their health and the situation in SVN. Conversations between the
infiltrators and the wounded were not prohibited. Canno-liaison agents(who
were responsible for carrying the disabled or taking those who became seriously
sick to a dispensary set along the infiltration route)said that all the
wounded would be transported by vehicles from QUANG BINH Province (exact �
location unknown) to HANOI.
ThrOughdifferent'conversations with.the.evacuees, it was learned that theyH
had been hospitalized in SVN, were released from the hospitals or dispensaries
and were allowed to go back to NVN. Their conditions varied, some had
.tated legs; some had amputated arms. tome were blind in one eyes, SOMP were
paralyzed and others had conditiorig4i6e unfamiliar. One of the evacuees
said that he had just infiltrated SVN for one week (October 1967) and now
was being sent back to NW because he was wounded 4 the left eye during a
clash with a.GIrr OoMmando element in Station 49 area, THUL THIEN Province.
It appeared that an NVAPC soldier or cadre who was comparatively seriously
wounded would likely be sent to NVN after a period of treatment in SVN.
� TiiQ infiltration route was also used for the evacuation of wounded. Along
this route were ,scattered dispensaries and hospitals for infiltrators,
wounded and sick. In QUANG BINH Provincep.a dispensary was located in the
Tauo4p SON Mountains about a one and one half hour walking from Station 24.
(coordinates unknown). One day during the infiltration, a platoon was sent
to pi.ck up rice, and happened to pass by the dispensary: About 30 wounded were
seen walking to and from in the. dispensary area, but the platoon was not
allowed to enter the. facilities, and the exact number of wounded and sick at
.the dispensary was unknown. The installation was composed of four or five
4 x..Einieter.thatched buildings. In Laos near Station 36, there was also one
dispensary. The wounded there said that those who were 'sent to this dispen-
sauNOuldeventually be sent to NVN. In THUA THIEN Province about a two hour
walk from Station 43, there was one hospital with doctors and medical tech-
nicians, where surgery for the NV/VC troops had been conducted.
Cadre in NVN had not yet been indoctrinated on the policy of evacuation of
sick' and wounded to NVN. They, howitver,. tacitly understood that if they
Wore wounded they would have hopes of being sent to NVN.
Although not-much.was.known about the procedures of exchanging Cemmo-liaison.
,_agents.-Jnthe evac1;4tion task, the volume of disabled evacuated on' stretchers
.depended,.greatly on the number of personnel at each station.. Sometimes the
wounded had, to stay in the station and wait for their turn to be evacuated.
Until they reached station 1 in QULNG NAM Province, the wounded had to prepare
theirOwnmeals; but beginning fromation49 all the way to NVN, their meals
would be prepared by Commo-liaison personnel.
In NVN who had infiltrated. SVN during
1963, Sala tnat ne was medically evacuated to HANOI in about February or March
1966...11he latter also said that according to NVN policy, he would be sent to
an advanced cultural course and later could select a career suitable to his
capability. The other wounded, would be treated the same, except
that if they do not have good educational background, they will be able to
learn 4. trade right away instead of receiving refresher formal education.
did not say what organization he had stayed with in HANOI, but he said.
that those who were in serious condition or not in normal physical condition
would not be.allowed to visit their families, and their families too would
not becinformed of their 'return in NVN. 3
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