CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A000100570001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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14 April 1951.
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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Office of Current Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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DIA review(s) completed.
State Department review completed
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SUMMARY
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Sino-Viet Minh action predicted (page 4).
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2. Sing-Viet ett Minh action predicted;
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the
Viet Minh plans to launch a limited offensive
before 20 April against the northern line of
the French defense perimeter in Tonkin.
The attacking force will include 2, 000
Chinese Communist troops and will attempt
to cut French supply lines. Other action,
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probably in the nature of feints, will be undertaken west of Hanoi and along
the Tonkin coast.
Meanwhile, French officers in northwest
Tonkin have told the US Military Attache that the column which crossed
the northwest border two weeks ago consists of one battalion of trained
Chinese troops, which are either provincial or regular Chinese Communist
forces or Chinese Nationalists retreating before Chinese Communist forces.
Elements of a Viet Minh regiment have been identified nearby, and the
US Military Attache is therefore inclined to interpret the incursion as
part of a joint Chinese Communist-Viet Minh effort to divert French
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Comment
limited action so near the center of French control in Tonkin. A Chinese
Communist broadcast of 11 April charging the French and puppet troops
with repeated intrusions into Chinese territory might be used to justify
the presence of Chinese Communist troops in Indochina. A. joint plan,
which included the threat of Chinese Communist operations in northwest
Tonkin and was designed to disperse French forces and to affect French
morale, is quite plausible; a French force of more than battalion strength
has already bean transferred by air from the Delta to confront the incursion
across the border.
he Viet Binh is planning a series of minor attacks on the
northern perimeter of the Delta, but no evidence is available to indicate
definitely that the Chinese Communists would commit a small force in a
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