CABLE TO AIG 7840 FROM NPIC WASHDC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04549A000500050053-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2007
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: February 7, 1968
• Content Type: CABLE

Approved For Rose 2007/01/24 CIA RDP78B04549AO00500050053-4
A
P 07215OZ FEB 68 UUT64283
FM NPIC WASMHC
TO AIG 7,840
BT 9 FEB 7 22 21 Z
C 0 N F I D E N T I A CITE NPIC 2939
REF At NPIC MESSAGE 73
INITIAL SCAN BY NPIC OF GIANT DRAGON MISSIONS T942/T703, 17
JAN 1968; T945/T311, 21 JAN 68; T946/T9069,-23 JAN 68 AND 1948,1310,
25 JAN 68 REVEALS FOUR NEWLY OBSERVED TELECOMMUNICATION OPEN-WIRE
LINES IN THE LAOS PANHANDLE AND IN SOUTH VIETNAM NORTH OF THE A SHAU
VALLEY.
to A TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPEN-WIRE TRACE, APPROXIMATELY 70 NM
LONG, EXTENDS SOUTHEAST FROM 16 41 18N-106 07 OOE (UTM XD 190452) ,
7 NM WEST OF SEPONE (16 41N-106 14E), TO 15 54 25N-106 41 35E
(XC812592), 6 NM NW OF BAN BAC (19 5ON-106 46E). THE TRACE,
GENERALLY PARALLELING ROUTES 914 AND 92, MAINTAINS A ONE-TO-THREE
NM DISTANCE FROM THE ROAD. THE TRACE INTERSECTS THE FOLLOWING
COORDINATES: 16 35 22N-106 09 56E (XD244344), 16 25 22N-106 25 22E
(0519161), 16 23 16N-106 32 35E (XD647123) , 16 04 04N-106 37 39E
(XC740770) AND FINALLY TO ITS VISIBLE TERMINUS AT 15 54 25N-106
41 35E (XC812592). A TELEPHONE LINE, CONSISTING OF A SINGLE LINE
WITH TWO RUBBER COATED WIRES STRUNG ON BRANCHES AND SOMETIMES
ALONG THE GROUND, WAS REPORTED IN TDCS-314/01046-67, 19 JAN 67.
THIS LINE REPORTEDLY PARALLELED ROUTES 9, 92 AND 96 BETWEEN BAN
KENG KHAN MAI, 16 45 38N-106 08 12E (XD212532) AND BAN THAKKHANAT,
15 08 40N-107 05 40E (YB25 6755) . (BB)
2. A TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPEN-WIRE TRACE IS OBSERVED FROM ITS
NORTHERN TERMINUS AT 16 49 3ON-106 19 58E (XD419605) SOUTH TO
16 34 1 SN-106 23 02E (XD 4 76325) . FROM THIS POINT A PROBABLE TRACE
IS INTERMITTANTLY OBSERVED UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN THE VICINITY OF
16 31 48N-106 25 50E (XD526279) AND AGAIN AT 16 31 02N-106 23 48E
(XD489265), 2.1 NM NORTH OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPEN-WIRE
TRACE DESCRIBED IN ITEM NO. to THIS NORTH-SOUTH TRACE WILL
PROBABLY CONNECT WITH THE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED (REF A) TELECOMM-
UNICATIONS OPEN-WIRE LINE WHICH EXTENDS INTO LAOS FROM THE NORTH
VIETNAM SIDE OF THE DMZ (BB).
3. A PROBABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPEN-WIRE TRACE IS INTERMITT
ANTLY OBSERVED EXTENDING NORTH THEN WEST FROM THE T$ACE DESCR
IN ITEM NO. 1 AT 16 23 22N-106 32 20E (XD 642125 ). .PR OBABL
TRACE CONTINUES WEST THROUGH THE VILLAGE OF PE RIA i (3) AT
a c AC wt0Ll A~ -- s_w -__ _
OF 16 26 27N-106 37 32E (XD735182) AND TERMINATES IN THE VICI N ITY~
OF 16 27 50N-106 40 20E (XD785209), 0.3 NM FROM THE SOUTH VIETNAM BORDER (BB)
OBSERVED GENERALLY PARALLELING ROUTE 922 FROM ITS VISIBLE TERMS S
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THE
ROUTE 922 AT 16 15 32N-106 56 50E (YCO81985). THE TRACE CONTINUES--! ;:
GENERALLY ESE TO 16 14 38N-107 00 50E (XC151968) THEN ENE CROS
THE LAOS/SOUTH VIETNAM BORDER AT 16 17 45N-107 06 52E (YD25802
AND THEN TO ITS VISIBLE TERMINUS IN THE VICINITY OF 16 19 42N-
107 11 28E (YD340064). THIS TRACE IS POSSIBLY AN EXTENTION OF
THE TRACE DESCRIBED TN TTFM Nn_ L (RRl
MAr : AMS SERIES 7015, SHEETS 6241 I , 6242 I , II & III t
6340 IV, 6341 I, II, III, IV, 6441 III AND IV 1ST ED.
GP-1
CONFIDENT I A L
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