CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1968/01/30

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00809273
• Document Creation Date: July 27, 2018

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JSouth Vietnam: Communist forc s launched a series' ,
of well-coordinated attacks on eight principal citiesjin'SoUth
Vietnam's I:and TI Corps areas early on 30 January-the
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The unprecedented wive of attacks included a heavy !j
rocket bombardment of ,the key US base at Da Nang, j and 1,
; mortar and rocket sheilings and ground assaults on seven
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' provincial capitals in the western highlands and the ,coastal
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. provinces as far, south as Nha Trang., ,jSharp fighting was '
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!Enemy raids also occurredat Ban Me
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Ranh Bay, Tug Hoa, Hoi An and Qui Ohon. j The village
J of ,Tan,Canh;! some 20 miles northwest of KOntiiim, was
: overrun and: burned.,
,There are no new reports of fighting immediately ,
south of the Demilitarized Zone, but ihe! current posture
of North Vietnamese trOOPS there' 'a.nici in other : strategic
areas of the Country: point to the possibility of Imminent
battles on several other fronts. Because of the situation�
j the South Vietnamese Government announced the cancellw-
tion of the, allied Tet, Cease;fire per jiiod. 1 l 1 j
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populated areas !I
Preparations for the widespread
noted in recent days.;'; The timingt
munist campaign--on Vietnam's most
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psychologicall impact,' Furthermore,
strated his ability to penetrate major
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sibility for . these blaritantlViolations jo
to the allied 'gide. Hanoi Radio, in 'a
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morning, charged that the US and Sotith Vietnam had..
canceled the cease-fire in northern Soiiih Vietnam and
launched heavy attacks on. the civilian.p6pulation through-
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Laos. Large numbers Of, North Vietnarnee trucks
are moving through the Mu Gia Pass Inio LaoS, and there
are:indications of 'substantial activitiiiii the road net far-
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'A daily average of 29 trucks was moved South l�
through the Mu: Gia, Pass during,the firSt' 19 days of Jan-
Uary.t This is an increaSe!oVerthe 2O4ruck average
for � the corresponding period last year, althOugfl the 1:
over-all rate;for this!drY season so far is approximately
the, same as that for the .1966-67 dry ieason',1
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r,,There have also been reliable reports of extensiv;e
truck: traffic on Routes 96 and 110.
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, kHtaithei south, i Route 165 east oC 'ava: ne,showS
sign's of1 heyli! !use to a point approximae1y! three miles
from Ithe. 'South; Vietnamese border. Airl'!strikes itave:
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ploded large caches of fnel!and;ainxiiiiiii0on hearIRoute
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