CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 7, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONTENTS
1. South Vietnam: Junta reorganizes top mili-
tary command. (Page 1)
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7 January 1964
DAILY BRIEF
South Vietnam: A major reorganization of the
top military command offers promise of improving the
government's military effectiveness against the Viet
Cong.
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In a set of decrees issued, on 6 January by junta
leader General Minh, General Tran Van Don was
named commander in chief of the armed. forces. Don
remains defense minister. The third member of the
junta's inner leadership, General Le Van Kim, becomes
chief of the Joint General Staff under General Don.
Minh remains supreme armed forces commander.
Most of the top echelon are French-trained.
Additional shifts appear designed to neutralize
generals suspected by the junta of harboring political
ambitions. One of these, General Dinh, the security
minister, has been relieved of his command of the
strategic Third Corps which encircles Saigon.
The reorganization will make the Joint General
Staff, frequently bypassed under the Diem regime,
the operational high command of the armed forces.
This should result in a clear chain of command, the
lack of which has proved costly in the past. For in-
stance, the US Embassy reports that the refusal of a
Third. Corps division commander to send immediate
reinforcements to a Ranger battalion pinned down by
two Viet Cong battalions turned a potential victory into
defeat on 31 December. The embassy states this
amounted almost to "criminal negligence" in failing
to take advantage of superior government firepower.
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*Peru: Recent arrests of pro-Cuban Movement
of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) members probably
have thwarted the organization's plans to begin guer-
rilla operations. The MIR, 25X1
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long-postponed operations alter its first national
congress on 10 January, Peruvian police raids on
4 and 5 January netted some 20 MIR members, dyna-
mite, and a large amount of pro-Castro propaganda.
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