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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-293-7-23-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: April 27, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: THE PRESIDENT
FROM: HENRY A. KISSING7F '.
SUBJECT: Statistical Information
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INFORMATION
The following is the statistical information which you requested:
.> NVA Strength. Estimated number of North Vietnamese Army
forces in:
Leos 85 - 105,000
Cambodia 38 - 42, 000
South Vietnam 82 - 98, 000
North Vietnam 290 - 310, 000
South Vietnamese Civilians Killed. During the last seven years
an estimated 47, 000 South Vietnamese civilians have been killed
by the enemy. Some 26, 000 of these deaths were due to deli-
berate assassination.
p. Refu ees. The P rizme Minister of Laos has estimated that
100. 000 people have been refugees in Laos at one time or another.
There are currently an estimated 300, 000 refugees in Lays.
Refugees from North Vietnam. The number of Vietnamese who
. fled to the South from North Vietnam after the Communist
takeover is estimated to be over 800, 000. Many others were
prevented from leaving.
-- Vietnamese Killed in North Vietnam. The number of Vietnamese
who were killed in North Vietnam during the 1954.1956 period
after the Communist takeover has been estimated to be between
50, 000 and I00, 000. Estimates of those who died during this
period vary from 20, 000 to half a million.
Referring to this period in your November 3, 1969 speech on
Vietnam, you said, "They then murdered more than 50, 000 people
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and hundreds of thousands more died in slave labor camps. "
Bishop Pham I4goc Chi, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Da Nang,
who coordinated the movement of Catholic refugees south during
this period, said that the number killed immediately was
100, 000, and 200, 000 to 300, 000 died under the circumstances
that your described in this speech.
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