THE SITUATION IN SOUTH VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00826A000800010012-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2005
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 27, 1966
• Content Type: IM

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OCI No. 1494/66
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
27 May 1966
The Situation in South Vietnam
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Hue
1. All personnel in the US Consulate building
in Hue have been evacuated. The remaining American
officials and communications equipment were trans-
ferred to the USMAG compound early this evening
(Vietnam time).
2. The US Consul reported that the government
troops assigned to protect the Consulate "seemed to
be clearly aligned with the struggle forces." Press
reports had indicated earlier that the unit commander,
Colonel Khoa, had abandoned his post and left the
city.
3. The monks who had been conducting a hunger
strike in front of the Consulate left their positions
when the US personnel departed. There is no report
that the Consulate building has been entered and the
USMAG has stated that the situation in Hue is quiet.
4. The NMCC reports that the MAG complement at
Hue includes approximately 250 US military personnel.
A press report has stated that heavy machine guns
were seen being brought into the compound. The total
US military force in the Hue/Phu Bi complex includes
7,000 men.
ARMY and DOS review(s) completed.
JCS review(s) completed.
CONFIDENTIAL
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassification
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