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PRESIDENT THIEU'S CONERN OVER A POSSIBLE COUP, CONDITIONS IN THE DELTA, AND SUPPOSED AMERICAN USE OF THE NATIONAL SALVATION FRONT TO EFFECT A COALITION GOVERNMENT WITH THE VIET CONG

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ATTITUDES (DELETED) TOWARD CURRENT CRISIS

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Approved for Release: 2019/04/17 CO0193282
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Subject: Attitudes
Source: Vietnam, Saigon
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5 Feb; 1968 3.4(b)(1)_ _
Toward Current Crisis %
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southern Buddhist, commented that in
the wake of the government's (GVN) defeat of the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese
attacks, the spirit of the people in the greater Saigon area is strongly
anti-Viet Cong. He compared the people's mood of excitement with that

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GENERAL GIAP'S STRATEGY FOR THE COMMUNIST GENERAL OFFENSIVE

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TEXT OF CIA REPORT E
Tuesday, Fe truary 20,.1968
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SUBJECT: General Gia.pts Strategy for the Communist General Offensive
The following information was received from interrogation of a Viet Co-rig
prisoner
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Summary -- Plans for the VC Tet attack on Danang City were outlined to a group
of select cadres on 22 January[
3 Although the VC realized they would be outnumbered
ana would be wiped out if they attempted to stay in the city, they felt they had to

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SITUATION APPRAISAL: ASSESSMENT OF GENERAL THANG'S PERFORMANCE AS IV CORPS COMMANDER AND OF THE SITUATION IN THE DELTA AS OF 15 MARCH 1968

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BULGARIAN REACTION TO THE WAR IN VIETNAM

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VIET CONG GENERAL OFFENSIVE PLANS FOR DANANG, HUE, QUANG TRI AND OTHER C ENTERS IN VIET CONG MILITARY REGION 5

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TEXT OF CIA REPORT C
Tuesday, February 2 , 1968
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SUBJECT: Viet-Cong General Offensive Plans for Dan.ang, .Hue, Quang Tri and
Other Centers in Viet Cong Military Region 5
The following information was received from interrogation of a Viet Cong prisoner
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From briefings he received during November-Decernb-e-r- 1967,E \`
learned that the Viet Cong planned to take the following

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LARGE NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY TROOPS CONCENTRATIONS AND AN ANTIAIRCRAFT GUN POSITION SOUTH OF THE MU GIA PASS IN KHAMMOUANE PROIVINCE; BRIDGES CROSSING ROUTE 23 IN THE SAME AREA

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THE SITUATION IN SOUTH VIETNAM

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30 January 1968
.NENORANDUM FOR: Honorable Walt W. Rostow
SUlaJECT : The Situation in South Vietnam
As agreed between you and the Director of Central
Intelligence last evening, CIA has prepared the following
report on the unprecedented Communist attacks in South Viet-
nam which began yesterday. InformatiCn is current as of
0700 EST,

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17 NOVEMBER WHITE HOUSE DATA MEETING

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR Case # NLJ 61.8-16
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27 November 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: 17 November White House Data Meeting
1. At 1700 on Friday, 17 November, a meeting was convened in the
White House Situation Room by Mr. Walt W. Rostow to review the Vietnam
data problem and related actions currently in train, both in Saigon and

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COMMUNIST REACTIONS TO CERTAIN US MILITARY OPERATIONS IN VIETNAM

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
, SUBJECT: Communist ReaCtions to Certain US Military Operations
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� 1. How would. the Communists react to US ground force
'operations in the northern portion or the DMZ or in immediately

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