DRV AND VIETCONG AUTHORITIES AT HANOI HAIL 'VICTORIES' THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH WHILE HANOI PREPARES FOR POSSIBLE AIR ATTACK RETALIATIONS.

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• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: February 14, 1968

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DRV AND VIETCONG AUTHORITIES AT HANOI HAIL "VICTORIES"
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH WHILE HANOI PREPARES FOR POSSIBLE
AIR ATTACK RETALIATIONS.
(SUMMARY: NGUYEN PHU SOAI, SOUTH VIETNAM LIBERATION FRONT
(SVNLF) MISSION DEPUTY CHIEF IN HANOI, AND NORTH VIETNAMESE
OFFICIAL MEDIA OUTLETS PUBLICIZED ENTHUSIASTICALLY THE POST-
TET URBAN ATTACKS OF THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM.
BY THEIR PREPARATIONS FOR EVACUATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AND
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OTHER MEASURES, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (DRV)
AUTHORTTlES IN EARLY FEBRUARY SHOVED THEIR� EXPECTATIONS OF
RETALTATORY' AIR ATTACKS ON HANOI,' 'VETCH HAD NOT MATERIALIZED
BY 5 FEBRUARY. END SUMMARY.)
1. IN A TELEGRA1 ON 5 FEBRUARY' 1968 SENT TO THE DEPART�
MENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
IN HANOI REPORTED' ON THE STARTLING EVENTS
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IN SOUTH VIETNAM". AS FOLLOWS
A. NGUYEN PHU SOAI , DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE SVNLF IN HANOI
IN A PRESS CONFERENCE ON 1 FEBRUARY 1968,, CALLED THE SIMULTANEOUS
ATTACKS, OCCUPATIONS� AND RECAPTURES INVOLVING 'IORE THAN 4.0 CITIES,
INCLUDING SAIGON, DANANG, AND HUE, AS "THE MOST ALL�SIDE AND
WIDESPREAD ATTACKS EVER KNOWN".
B. THE SVNLF ATTACKS WERE SUPPORTED BY THE LOCAL
PEOPLE AND .EVEN BY ARMY OF SOUTH VIETNAM TRCO 'S CALLING THEM�
SELVES "SEPARATISTS"... (FROM THE FIRST DIVISION ALONE THERE WERE
MORE THAN 100 MEN.).
C. LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS ASSISTING THE SVNLF INCLUDED
THE FOLLOWING:
(1) 19 SAIGON, THE ALLIANCE OF NATIONAL AND PEACE FORCES.
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THIS ORGANIZATION HAS ISSUED A MANIFESTO CONCERNING "URGENT
NATIONAL. SALVATION" 'WHICH ASKS THAT THE UNITED...STATES AND ITS
SATELLITES WITHDRAW THEIR TROOPS FROM SOUTH VIETNAM AND UNDER�
TAKE (GARBLED, CORRECTION WILL FOLLOW) WITH THE SVNLF. ON
MEASURES TO RESTORE PEACE AND. REGAIN NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
AND SOVEREIGNTY".
(2) IN HUE, THE' FRONT � OF NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC AND
PEACE ALLIANCE HEADED BY LE VAN � HO, AN ETHNOLOGIST. THEIR
APPEAL CONSISTS IN PART, OF THE FOLLOWING: INDEPENDENCE,
SOVEREIGNTY, FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY,. PEACE, NEUTRALITY, FOOD,
CLOTHERS, AND LAND.
D. THE SVNLF VICTORIES WERE ENTHUSIASTICALLY HAILED
BY THE PRESS AND RADIO, AS WELL AS BY ALL THE PEOPLE IN HANOI.
SOME OF THE POSTERS PICTURING DRV ECONOMIC ADVANCES WHICH WERE
PUT 'UP' FOR TEl "CELEBRATIONS WERE REPLACED- BY PHOTOS SHOWING THE
VICTORIES IN SOUTH VIETNAM. PEOPLE HAD TO WAIT PATIENTLY IN
LONG-LINES TO BUY NEWSPAPERS.
E. THE DAILY "NHAN. DAN" PROCLAIMED THAT THE VICTORIES
WERE THE RESULT OF 'ATTACKS BEING CONDUCTED � ON THE BASIS OF THE
POLITICAL PROGRAM SVNLF", WHILE THEDAILY "GUAM DOI. NHAN
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DAN" PRAISED THE PROGRESS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND PEOPLE OF
SOUTH VIET AM WHO WERE ABLE TO STRIKE AT THE ENEMY "NOT ONLY,
IN THE MOUNTAIN AREAS BUT AL SO IN TOWNS WHERE THE ENEr Y 'S
NERVE CENT S ARE.
F..: WHILE HAILING THE V ICT OR IFS, TLE VRV IS STILL
CONCERNED ABOUT. THECONTINUING UNITED STATES -ATP ATTACKS
AGA NST HANOI IN �EDER TO LESSEN THE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES,
THE EVACUATION OF VACAT ION INS SCHOOL CHILDREN IS BEING
ACCELERATED. SI CE 1 FEBRUARY THE CINEMAS IN THE CITY HAVE
CLOSED DOWN SEVERAL N IG HT S .
G. FROM 1 TO 4 FEBRUARY 196, HANOI HAS HAD ONLY
THREE AIR PA ID ALERTS.
2.
COMMENT: THE PORTIONS ABOVE INSIDE QUOTATION
MARKS WERE RENDERED IN ENGLISH QUOTED FROM THE SOURCES.
INDICATED. )
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D I SSEM : STATE ONLY. EXCLUSIVE FOR C I NCPAC
AND ROL AD . (ALSO SENT: SAIGON FOR AMBASSADOR AND GENERAL
WE ST M OREL A ND )
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