CIA/DIA REPORT ON ENEMY LOGISTICS AND INFILTRATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-558-15-2-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 24, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. KISSINGER
FROM: JOHN H. HOLDRIDGE\
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
INFORMATION
SECRET /SENSITIVE April 24, 1973
SUBJECT: CIA/DIA Report on Enemy Logistics and Infiltration
The CIA/DIA weekly report (covering April 13 through April 19, 1973) on
Communist logistics operations, infiltration and other violations (Tab A)
confirms that military infiltration has virtually ended, but that heavy
North Vietnamese logistic activity continues.
No combat personnel have been detected in the infiltration pipeline
since March 11; however, twelve small special purpose groups have been
detected in the system. 'The headquarters of the 312th NVA Division
(formerly in Quang Tri Province) is now near Vinh (North Vietnam) but it
is not yet clear whether all of its subordinate units are now in the North.
TI e J7U? AL1_l.ll Division T.7U L1 7dVa moved rv Tux{.A.7..ll, but L we ii L.
J. may .1av14 no irrn
information on the present location of this division's component units.
-- The flow of traffic entering the Laotian Panhandle from. North Vietnam
remained.high and at about the same level as the previous week. For example,
an average of nearly 50 vehicles a day moved south through the Ban Karai
Pass in this period. Vehicle traffic has remained heavy throughout the
Laotain Panhandle and in MR-1 of South Vietnam. We have hard evidence
of large North Vietnamese stockpiles of war materiel presently in place
in Quang Tri Province. Farther south, the Communists have rebuilt a
road from Cambodia into Tay Ninh Province which 'bypasses the legal
resupply check point at Xa Mat.
-- As of April 17, 3 SAM sites were occupied in the Khe Sanh area.
There may be as many as five battalions now subordinate to the SAM
regiment in the area.
SECRET /SENSITIVE XGDS by Auth CIA/DIA
c.O A o?./s ?b&W h
5b (1), (2), and (3)
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