CABLE TO AIG 7840 FROM NPIC WASHDC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04549A000600020009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 28, 1968
• Content Type: CABLE

Approved For Release 2007/02/28: CIA-RDP78BO4549AO00600020009-5
OUT6447
D ifica ion Re i e-o,r W iG
FM NPIC WASHDC
P 2801462 FEB 68 NDIN
TO AIG 7840 BT
T
CITE NPIC 3126. DIA-A
REF : NPIC MSG 3094 , DTG 24 0026Z , FEBRUARY 19 68
1. NPIC ANALYSIS OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY REVEALS A NEW ROAD EXTE
FROM THE COMMUNIST ROAD NETWORK IN LAOS THROUGH THE TRI-BORDER AREA
OF CAMBODIA AND INTO SOUTH VIETNAM IN THE VICINITY OF DAK TO. NEW (~-AdvanceCo{~,
OCCUPIED COMMUNIST DEFENSE POSITIONS ARE PRESENT AT THE JUNCTION OF Sanitized
THIS ROAD AND SOUTH VIETNAM ROUTE 512 ON PHOTOGRAPHY. WIthTT2W
2. PHOTOGRAPHY OF EVEALED THE EXTENSION OF LAOS 25X1
ROUTE 110 TO A POINT IN THE TRI- OF CAMBODIA NEAR THE
SOUTH VIETNAM BORDER (REF). BY THE ROAD HAS BEEN EXTENDED 25X1
ACROSS THE SOUTH VIETNAM/CAMBODIA BORDER AT UTM YB74 9217 AND JOINED
WITH SOUTH VIETNAM ROUTE 512 AT YB802237. THE COMPLETION OF THIS
ROAD PROVIDES A MOROTABLE COMMUNIST LOGISTICAL ROAD NET TO AT LEAST
4 US INSTALLATIONS IN THE DAK TO AREA.
3. ROAD CLEARING OPERATIONS ARE ALSO OBSERVED EXTENDING THE SAME
ROUTE FROM YB713169 APPROXIMATELY 14 NM SSE TO YA741976,
APPROXIMATELY 28 NM WEST OF KONTUM.
4. PHOTOGRAPHY OF ALSO HAS REVEALED 2 OCCUPIED 25X1
AW/AA SITES (YB798233 AND YB801236) OF 4 POSITIONS EACH AT THE
JUNCTION OF THE NEWLY COMPLETED'ROAD AND ROUTE 512. THIS IS THE
FIRST SIGHTING BY NPIC OF OCCUPIED DEFENSE SITES IN THE DAK TO AREA.
HOWEVER, NPIC DOES NOT RECEIVE ABLE MABLE PHOTOGRAPHY.
5. PRELIMINARY INTERPRETATION INDICATES A STRONGPOINT AT YB838327
WHICH CONTAINS THREE LARGE CIRCULAR AND ONE LARGE U-SHAPED TRENCH,
POSSIBLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THESE APPEAR TO BE PERSONNEL TRENCHES
PROVIDING 360 DEGREE SECURITY FOR DEFENSE. AT LEAST FOUR ADDITIONAL
STRONGPOINTS (YB783335, YB849262, YB810322, YB870270), EACH CON-
SISTING OF A CIRCULAR PATTERN OF FOXHOLES WITH ONE OR MORE AW POSI-
TIONS, ARE LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 6000 METERS NE OF THE JUNCTION AND
IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF TWO U.S. INSTALLATIONS.
6. ANALYSIS OF THE AREA FOR FURTHER COMMUNIST ACTIVITY IS
CONTI NII ING.
MAP REF: AMS SERIES L7014, SHEETS 6538 III, AND IV, 1ST ED..
GP- 1
S E C R E T
END FF MESSAGE
C,y r Ca. I &j-ii
o-tr I
Eteladed tsars 800
IowaBtxdta[ eM
.w x kaeuitlctt _