SUMMARY OF VIET CONG ACTIVITIES IN BINH DINH PROVINCE DURING NOVEMBER 1967 - 1967/12/26

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DIST 26 DECLIGER 1967
SUMMARY OF VIE'T CONG ACIV4IE IIBINH DINH PROVINCE
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THIS IS A VIETNAM SITUATION REPORT PREPARED
BY A CAS OFFICER IN B INH D INH PROVINCE
BASED ON ALL INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO HIM, INCLUDING
VIETNAMESE INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY SERVICE FIELD
OFFICE REPORTS, AND ON PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS.
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SUMMARY. THE VIET CONG /VC/ IN BINH DINH PROVINCE MADE EVERY
EFFORT IN NOVEMBER TO STRENGTHEN THEIR WEAKENING POSITION. THIS AIM
'.IAS REFLECTED IN A PROVINCE COMMITTEE RESOLUTION TO HARASS ALLIED
, BASES AND TO REDUCE ALLIED MOBILITY THE VC WERE URGED TO CONSOLIDATE
PRESENT POSITIONS, TO INCREASE BOND SALES AND RICE COLLECTION AND TO
CULTIVATE POPULAR SUPPORT THROUGH PROPAGANDA APPEALS. AFTER AN ATTACK 5
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ON THE HOAI AN DISTRICT HEADqUARTERS AND SUB-SECTOR, THE VC. PUBLICIZED3
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THEIR VICTORY, STATING THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO INFLICT CASUALTIES,
CONFISCATE MONEY AND PROPERTY AND CAPTURE 2.3 GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM
POPULAR FORCE SOLDIERS. TERRORIST ACTS DURING THE MONTH WERE
l'ARGETED AGAINST AMERICAN MILITARY BASES, AS WELL AS AGAINST
VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS. A CAPTURED -VC DOCUMENT INDICATED A DECREASE
OF 30 PERCENT IN GUERRILLA STRENGTH IN HOAI NHON DISTRICT, BOTH IN
PERSONNEL AND DEFENSE STRUCTURES, WITH AN ACCOMPANYING MORALE
PROBLEM AMONG THE VC CADRES. END SUMMARY.
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1. A CAPTURED ENEMY DOCUMENT CONTAINING A HOAI NHON DISTRICT
COMMITTEE RESOLUTION INDICATED THE DIRECTION OF THE VIET CONG /VC/
EFFORT THROUGH MARCH 1968. THE VC WERE EXHORTED TO MAKE EVERY EFFORT
TO FULFILL THE INSTRUCTIONS SET FORTH BY THE BINK DINH PROVINCE
COMMITTEE-- /A/ DEEP ENCROACHMENT ON ALLIED REAR BASES BY
GUERRILLA AND SAPPER UNITS, /9/ INTENSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES
AGAINST AIRCRAFT, ARMOR AND SHIPS IN ORDER TO_DESTROY THE ALLIED
FORCES SUPERIOR MOBILITY, /C/ ENVELOPMENT TACTICS TO FORCE ALLIED
UNITS INTO DEFENSIVE POSITIONS.
9. ACCORDING TO A VIETNAMESE SECURITY SERVICE FIELD OFFICE
5 REPORT, VC EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN_ THEIR POSITION IN THE PROVINCE 5
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INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING-- /A/ CONSOLIDATE OLD INSTALLATIONS,
RECRUIT NEW CADRES AND FORM NEW INSTALLATIONS, /B/ INCREASE.
RESISTANCE BOND SALES, RICE COLLECTIONS AND MATERIEL PROCUREMENT
FOR SUPPORT OF FIGHTING UNITS, /C/ INCREASE AIRED PROPAGANDA
OPERATIONS TO GAIN POPULAR SUPPORT FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE
GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM /GVN/ RURAL RECONSTRUCTION POLICY, AND /D/
RECRUIT ASSETS IN REFUGEE CAMPS, GVN AND ALLIED MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
TO PROVIDE INFORMATION FOR FUTURE ATTACKS.
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3. VIETNAMESE SECURITY SERVICE FIELD OFFICE REPORT STATES THAT
IN PHU MY DISTRICT THE VC HAVE BEEN RECRUITING FEMALES AND ELDERLY
rc.-.N FOR POLITICAL OPERATION SQUADS. IN qUI NHON CITY, AN INTENSIVE
EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO PROVIDE UNDERGROUND HIDING PLACES FOR CADRES
-ro ARE TO INFILTRATE AND CONTROL OPERATIONS IN THE CITY. A VC MAIL
BAG CAPTURED BY ARMY OF VIETNAM MARINES CONTAINED PROPAGANDA LETTERS
DIRECTED TOWARD AMERICAN NEGRO SOLDIERS IN VIETNAM; 0-N I NOVEMBER
A VC FORCE OF ONE TO TWO COMPANIES ATTACKED HOAX AN DISTRICT
HEADOUARTERS AND SUB�SECTOR. IN A MORTAR ATTACK FOLLOWED BY A
Gr.?0UND ATTACK, THE VC KILLED 7,1, WOUNDED NINE, CAPTURED WEAPONS AND
E.q.UIPMENT, STOLE VNit2701,010 /U5$29288.13/, TOOK AN OFFICIAL AS
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PRISONER AND CONFISCATED PROPERTY WORTH M201,09191 /US$1,694.92/.
/DOLLAR EQUIVALENTS GIVEN IN THIS REPORT ARE BASED ON THE OFFICIAL
EXCHANGE RATE OF VINt! IS TO USSI.00./ OF THE 27 riVN POPULAR FORCE
SOLDIMS WHO WERE TAKEN PRISONER, FOUR ESCAPED. THE REST REMAINED VC
FR ISONE.P.S AND A VC RADIO VICTORY BROADCAST ON 11 NOVEMBER INDICATED
THAT THE PRISONERS WOULD BE BROUGHT TO. TRIAL.
4. ON 8 NOVEMBER THREE SATCHEL CHARGES PLANTED BY THE. VC
EXPLODED AT THE U.S. NAVAL COASTAL DIVISION BASE IN(:).UI NHON
HARBOR, DESTROYING A. LARGE WATER TANK AND A LARGE EMPTY FUEL TANK.
THE VC DAMAGED A SCHOOL AND CHURCH IN TUY PHUOC DISTRICT YITH
EX PL OS IVES , CA USED DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES IN ROAD-MINING AND BRI3)GE-
3.-OWINC INCIDENTS AND CARRIED OUT A NUMBER OF ASSASSINATIONS.
5. THROUGHOUT NOVEMBER, THE VC CONTINUED THEIR EFFORTS
TO OBTAIN RICE FROM THE OCTOBER HARVEST. QUOTAS VARIED THROUGHOUT
THE PROVINCE FROM 51 TO 30r9i KILOGRAMS OF RICE PER FAMILY. IN ONE
AREA OF PHU MY DISTRICT, THE PEOPLE WERE ASSESSED VN$5,000 TO
VN$10,100 /US$42.37 TO US$94.74/ PER FAMILY IN LIEU OF RICE.
G. DURING AN INCIDENT IN WHICH U.S. NAVAL FORCES KILLED THREE
VC, FIVE COUNTERFEIT ONE-PIASTRE BILLS WERE FOUND. MILITARY OFFICIALS
SUSPECT THAT THE VC USE THESE COUNTERFEIT NOTES AS PASSES OR
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7. A CAPTURED ENEMY DOCUMENT. STATED THAT GUERR ILLA STRENGTH �
IN HOA I NHON DISTRICT DECREASED BY 391 PERCENT .FROM MARCH TO
SEPTEMBER 1967 AND THAT THERE WERE VIRTUALLY NO SECRET GUERRILLAS
IN GVN LIBERATED AREAS AT PRESENT. MOST FEMALE GUERRILLA FORCES
HAVE ALL BUT DISINTEGRATED. MANY DEFENSIVE WORKS, SUCH AS SPIKE
PITS AND COMBAT TRENCHES, HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. THE VC FOUND THAT
THEIR OWN PEOPLE CONTINUED TO HAVE SUCH SHORTCOMINGS AS RIGHTISM,
ESCAPISM ILLUSION OF PEACE, AND FEAR OF HARDSHIPS AND SACRIFICES.
DESERT IONS CONTINUED IN MANY VC UNITS. A DOCUMENT WHICH WAS FOUND
ON A VC KILLED IN A SOUTH KOREAN AMBUSH STATED THAT THE E-2-B AND
Dig SAPPER COMPANIES HAVE BEEN DECIMATED. THE DOCUMENT APPEALED
TO .THE VC PROVINCE COMMITTEE FOR PERSONNEL WEAPONS, SUPPLIES AND.
\, MONEY.
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