NLF SUBVERSION AND PROPAGANDA FOLLOWING TET OFFENSIVE

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06786671
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: March 4, 1968

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This material contains information affecting the National De.Inse of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws. Title 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, thii tranamisson or revelation of which Ii. any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited by law.
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NLF SUBVERSION AND PROPAGANDA
FOLLOWING TET OFFENSIVE
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(4 MARCH 1968)
1. REPORTS REACHING THE VIETNAMESE SECURITY AUTHORITIES IN
THE SECOND WEEK OF FEBRUARY 1968 STATE THAT IMMEDIATELY AFTER
THE COMMUNIST TEl OFFENSIVE, NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (NLF)
ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT SOUTH WESTERN VIETNAM, PARTICULARLY
KIEN *HOA VINH LONG, -VINH BINH-, AND DINH TUONG PROVINCES,
LAUNCHED A MAJOR CAMPAIGN OF CELEBRATION COUPLED WITH THE -
PROPAGANDA OF 'THE NEW SLOGAN "ATTACK THE TOWN TO LIBERATE
THE COUNTRY SIDE:" '
2. IN- THE 1711kE OF INITIAL COMMUNiST' SUCCESSESS AND
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ADMINISTRATIONS IN MANY RURAL AREAS OF THESE PROVINCES
PARTICULARLY, SUCCUMBED TO COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA AND
SURRENDERED TO THE VIET CONG (VC). THE COMMUNISTS IMMEDIATELY
SET ABOUT ESTABLISHING "LIBERATION COMMITTEES" AND "COMMITTEES
OF PEACE AND UNION" WITH THE FORCED PARTICIPATION OF VILLAGE
NOTABLES AND MEMBERS OF THE OLD VILLAGE COUNCILS.
3. THE VIETNAMESE SECURITY SERVICES ESTIMATE THAT THE
COMMUNIST PLAN OF ACTION IS NOW AS FOLLOWS:
A. THE TET OFFENSIVE WAS IN THE MAIN A DEMONSTRATION OF
FORCE, DESIGNED AS A SHOCK TO FACILITATE FUTURE POLITICAL AND
MILITARY ACTIVITY.
B. CURRENT NLF TACTICS ARE BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF
THE CHINESE COMMUNIST ARMY AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN 1939/1940.
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SLOGAN "ATTACK THE TOWN (S) TO LIBERATE THE COUNTRYSIDE."
D. DISPOSITIONS ARE ALREADY BEING MADE TO FORM STREET
GUERRILLA GROUPS IN THE TOWNS, ON SECRET ARMY LINES.
E. THE VC RECRUITING BASE. IN EACH TOWN HAS BEEN
SIGNIFICANTLY WIDENED.
F. IN THE CAPITAL, THE VC WILL ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH
STREET LIBERATION COMMITTEES: TO WORK UNDER THE SAIGON
GIA DINH LIBERATION COMMITTEE FOR BOTH MILITARY AND
POLITICAL PURPOSES.
G. COMMUNIST EFFORTS TO LEVY TAXES IN URBAN AREAS WILL
BE INTENSIFIED.
� H. THE BLACKLISTING OF GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN)
OFFICIALS TO BE DEALT WITH AFTER THE COMMUNIST VICTORY WILL
BE FURTHER EXTENDED,
I0 WHEREVER POSSIBLE, 'COMMITTEES OF PEACE AND UNION"
WILL BE ESTABLISHED.
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EACH STUDENT HAS BEEN TOLD 70 EXPECT ONE WEEK'S TRAINING WHICH
WILL BE GIVEN OUTSIDE SAIGON.
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