CABLE TO AIG NINE SEVEN SIX FROM NPIC WASH DC

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A001300030011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2008
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 30, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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CITE NPIC 7934.
REF: NPIC 7904, DTG 250202Z, JUL 66
CONTINUING SCAN BY NPIC OF MISSION BLUE SPRINGS 5161 OF 21
JULY 1966 REVEALS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN NORTH VIETNAM:
1. THE COMPLETE ALIGNMENT OF THE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED ROAD
UNDER CONSTRUCTION (REF) NW OF YEN BAI IS INTERMITTANTLY
OBSERVED THROUGH SCATTERED CLOUDS. THE ALIGNMENT AND CONDITION
OF THE ROAD IS AS FOLLOWS: THE ROAD EXTENDS SE FROM ROUTE 4
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AT 2222N 10414E, A POINT 17 NM SE OF LAO CAI, TO ITS JUNCTION 91:
WITH ROUTE 157 AT 22 14N 10429E. THE ROAD CONTINUES SE FOLLOWING i Acti.w
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THE ALIGNMENT OF ROUTE 157 TO 2211N 10434E. FROM ROUTE 157 d,-T/
THE ROAD CONTINUES SF TO 2205N 104401E _ THEN SOUTH TO 2203N c E>R
10440E AND THEN SE TO ITS JUNCTION WITH ROUTE 13A AT 2144N
10456E, A POINT 4.5 NM NE OF YEN BAI. AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
IN REFERENCE, PORTIONS OF THE ROAD APPEAR GRAVELLED AND
SERVICEABLE BUT THE MAJOR PORTION OF THE ROAD IS IN LATE STAGES
OF GRADING. SEVERAL BRIDGES ARE OBSERVED IN EARLY STAGES OF
CONSTRUCTION. THIS NEW ROAD WHEN COMPLETED WILL CONNECT THE
NORTH VIETNAMESE CITIES OF LAO CAI (2230N 10359E) AND YEN BAI
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(2141N 10453E) WHICH DOES NOT HAVE A DIRECT ROAD CONNECTION AT
PRESENT.
2. THE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PROBABLE TELECOMMUNICATION/
POWER TRACE (R'IIEF) IS INTERMITTANTLY OBSERVED FROM 2231N 10401E,
A POINT 2 NM ENE OF LAO CAI, GENERALLY SE FOLLOWING THE
ALIGNMENT OF ROUTE 4 TO 2222N 10414E. THE TRACE THEN CONTINUES
SE FOLLOWING THE GENERAL ALIGNMENT OF THE NEW ROAD UNDER
CONSTRUCTION (PARAGRAPH ONE) TO 2214N 10429E; THEN EAST TO
2213N 10430E; THEN SE TO 2211N 10435E WHERE IT JUNCTIONS WITH
THE ALIGNMENT OF ROUTE 157. THE TRACE CONTINUES SE GENERALLY
FOLLOWING THE ALIGNMENT OF ROUTE 157 TO 2146N 10458E; THEN
SW FOLLOWING THE ALIGNMENT OF ROUTE 13A TO ITS VISIBLE TERMINUS
AT 2144N 10457E, A POINT 5 NM NE OF YEN BAI.
3. INTERMITTANT SEGMENTS OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION ARE OBSERVED
APPROXIMATELY 25 NM NW OF YEN BAI ON THE WEST BANK OF THE SONG
HONG HA (RED RIVER) FROM 2158N 10435E (UTM VK580290) EAST-
WARD TO 2158N 10434E (UTM VK553293) THEN NW TO ITS PRESENT
TERMINUS AT 2201N 10430E (UTM VK494349). THIS ROAD CONSTRUCTION
CONSISTS OF SEVERAL SEGMENTS OF INITIAL ROAD CLEARING OPERATIONS
AND EARTH MOVING ACTIVITY. THIS COULD BE A NORTHERN EXTENSION
OF THE ROAD WHICH PARALLELS THE HA NOI/LAO CAI RAIL LINE NW
FROM YEN BA (2141N 10453E) TO TRA HUT AT 2158N 10435E.
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4. A ROAD IN LATE STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION IS OBSERVED
EXTENDING FROM ROUTE 604, 1.7 NM SW OF PHONG THU AT 2213N 10320E,
TO THE END OF PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETABILITY AT 2227N 10323E.
THE ROAD IS NEXT OBSERVED AT 2225N 10326E EXTENDING GENERALLY
ESE FOLLOWING THE ALIGNMENT OF ROUTE 132 TO 2219N 10338E; THEN
ENE TO 2222N 10348E; THEN SE TO CHA PA AT 2220N 10350E WHERE
IT JUNCTIONS WITH THE PREVIOUSLY EXISTING ROUTE 4. NUMEROUS
BRIDGES ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE ROAD,
BUT FEW HAVE BEEN COMPLETED. THE MAJOR PORTION OF THE ROAD IS
IN LATE STAGES OF GRADING, HOWEVER, SOME SEGMENTS APPEAR
COMPLETE AND SERVICEABLE. THIS NEW ROAD WHEN COMPLETE WILL
CONNECT THE NORTH VIETNAMESE CITIES OF LAO CAI (2230N 10358E)
AND PHONG THO (2231N 10321E) AND WILL PROVIDE A LINK BETWEEN
ROUTE 6 IN NORTH VIETNAM AND THE HA NOI - KUNMING RAIL LINE.
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MAP REF: UTM COORDINATES FROM AMS SERIES L701 SHEET 5976 IV,
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GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES FROM JOG(G) NF 48-5, NF 48-6 & NF 48-10
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