CIA/DIA REPORT ON COMMUNIST CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-538-1-8-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 8, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM
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MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. KISSINGER
FROM: WILLIAM L. STEA.RMAN
SUBJECT: CIA/DIA Report on Communist
Cease-fire Violations
ARMY, NSA reviews completed.
Attached at Tab A is the CIA/DIA's 11th weekly report (April 2.7 -
May 3) on Communist violations of the Vietnam and Laos cease-fire
agreements. The report notes that no new infiltration groups were
detected leaving North Vietnam during the past week but seven new
special purpose groups (total 150 persons) were initially observed
in southern Laos and Cambodia. Also, no new redeployments of
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Vietnamese logistic activity, however, continued all along the Ho Chi
Minh trail in Laos, in-northern South Vietnam and in the North Viet-
namese Panhandle. .
-- An intercept of communications of April 30 from NVA logistics
elements in southern Laos has revealed a new "general transportation '
offensive" has beeu launched in this area and a total of 5,500 tons of
cargo reportedly is scheduled for delivery to the South Vietnamese cen-
tral highlands by May 20.
-- The North Vietnamese are repairing and improving four air-
fields in northern Laos and in south Laos, the airstrip at Tchepone is
now considered usable. In South Vietnam the North Vietnamese activity
has been tenuously reported at a number of airfields, but major con-
struction is apparently limited to the Khe Sanh and Dong Ha airstrips
in Quang Tri Province and at Dak To in Konturn. According to the
DIA reviewed pages 1-3 only
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report, there is no evidence of plans to attempt flights to airfields other
than at the two Quang Tri locations. Air operations for the time being
at these sites probably will be limited only to light transport activity.
.7- Combat activity during the week remained at a low level in
both South Vietnam and Laos.
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Eleventh Report
COMMUNIST VIOLATIONS OF
THE VIETNAM AND LAOS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS
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This memorandum has been prepared jointly by the
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INFORMATION
May10, 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. KISSINGER
FROM: WILLIAM L. STEARMAN
SUBJECT; CIA Weekly Reports on Communist
Logistics and Manpower Developments
in Indochina
Attached at Tabs A and B are the CIA weekly reports for May 1 and May 8
respectively on recent Communist logistical and manpower developments
in Indochina:
-- During the past two weeks, No'rth Vietnamese logistical activity
throughout the pipeline remained high. The Communists appear to have
recently kicked off a new transportation offensive in southern Laos to
move 5, 600 tons of supplies to the B-3 front before May 20. Large deliveries
from Laosto South Vietnam continue; one major logistical unit recently
reported moving 6, 000 tons into the A Shau Valley while truck level activity
in northern Quang Tri was at an extremely high level. Also, the North
Vietnamese are placing increased reliance on waterborne resupply, partic-
ularly between Song Hoi and Quang Tri Province. Very large quantities
of surplus are still moving in the Group 470 area of southern Laos and
eastern Cambodia and supply movements have increased into MR-3 from
Cambodia. Feverish road building and storage area construction continues.
-- Personnel infiltration continues to be limited to small special purpose
groups; 17 such groups (325 men) were initially detected in southern Laos
while two new groups (275 men) were observed moving southward in North
Vietnam. These groups raise the total for post cease-fire infiltration
starts to 1, 600 men.
In major unit deployments over the past two weeks, we have detected
the presence of two additional NVA regiments in Quang Tri which probably
arrived after January 28 -- the 201st Armored Regiment and the 245 AAA
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Regiment at Khe Sanh. Confirmation of the new armored unit raises to
580 the estimated number of tanks which have moved south since late
October. Also Comint indicates that major elements of the 304th NVA
Division remain in both northern South Vietnam and southern North Vietnam
despite earlier signs of their withdrawal. Meanwhile, another NVA AAA
regiment -- possibly equipped with SA-3 missiles -- is currently deploying
southward in North Vietnam while at least one regiment of the 9th Division
in MR-3 may be relocating to MR-4.
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