GROUND FORCES DEPLOYMENT CHINA-VIETNAM BORDER

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 9, 1984
• Content Type: MISC

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GROUND FORCES DEPLOYMENT
CHINA-VIETNAM BORDER
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-4r- VIETNAMESE ARTILLERY DEPLOYMENT
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GROUND FORCES DEPLOYMENT
CHINA-VIETNAM BORDER
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1. SIGNIFICANCE: CHINESE AND VIETNAMESE FORCES ARE DEPLOYED ALONG
THE WESTERN SECTOR OF THE CHINA-VIETNAM BORDER. (SWN)
2. REMARKS: PARTIALLY CLOUD-COVERED STRIP IMAGERY WAS ACQUIRED OF
AREAS NEAR ROUTES 2 AND 4 ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CHINA'-VIETNAM
BORDER. (SWN)
A MAJOR CHINESE INFANTRY AND ARTILLERY (ARTY) FORCE IS DEPLOYED
ALONG THE BORDER APPROXIMATELY 11 NM NORTHWEST OF HA GIANG,
VIETNAM AND 50 NM NORTHEAST OF HEKOU, CHINA/LAO CAI, VIETNAM.
THE CHINESE FORCES EXTEND NORTHWARD FROM THE BORDER ALONG BOTH
SIDES OF THE CHOU-YANGF-TA HO RIVER FOR APPROXIMATELY 12 NM.
THE FORCE CONSISTS OF AT LEAST 410 TRUCKS (ALL NOT ON GRAPHIC)
(MOSTLY IN CONVOYS OF SIX TO 12 VEHICLES), 100 TENTS (IN GROUPS
OF TWO TO EIGHT), AT LEAST SIX FOUR-GUN ARTY BATTERIES (BTRY)
(ALL NOT ON GRAPHIC), ONE CONFIRMED AND ONE PROBABLE
ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY BTRY. IN PROBABLE RELATED ACTIVITY,
ELEMENTS OF THE 445TH ARTILLERY REGIMENT, 165TH INFANTRY
DIVISION, 55TH ARMY HAVE DEPARTED GARRISON. EIGHT HOWITZERS,
NORMALLY SEEN IN OPEN STORAGE AT KAOi CHANG-HSIA ARMY BARRACKS
AL 2 ARE NOT PRESENT. THIS EQUIPMENT WAS LAST
OBSERVED IN GARRISON THE ABSENCE OF THIS
EQUIPMENT MAY BE RELATED TO RECENT REPORTS THAT ELEMENTS OF THE
55TH ARMY WERE DEPLOYING TO THE CHINA-VIETNAM BORDER. (SWN)
ELEMENTS OF TWO PEOPLE'S ARMY OF VIETNAM FIELD ARTY BATTALIONS
ARE DEPLOYED 3 NM EAST OF THE BORDER AND 6 NM EAST OF HEKOU/LAO
CAI. NUMEROUS SMALL PERSONNEL TENTS ARE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT
THE AREA. THE VIETNAMESE ARTY BATTALION, DEPLOYED ALONG A ROAD
IN A RIVER VALLEY 4 NM SOUTHEAST OF THE CHINA-VIETNAM BORDER
AND 8.5 NM NORTHWEST OF HA GIANG ON 8 MAY IS STILL PRESENT.
(SWN)
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