CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1967/12/12

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Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
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*South Vietnam: The Communists are continuing
intensive offensive actions, apparently as part of their
winter-spring campaign.
On 10 December the Viet Cong launched a battal-
ion-size assault on a company of the US 9th Infantry
Division in Long An Province in the Mekong Delta.
Simultaneously, two other 9th Division installations
in nearby villages were hit by small-arms fire. In
the main ground attack, part of the enemy force suc-
ceeded in penetrating the perimeter of the US company
but were driven back after approximately two hours
of close-in fighting. Ninth Division reaction forces
were deployed along possible enemy withdrawal routes
but no additional contact was made with the Viet Cong
forces. The attacks left seven Americans and 15
Viet Cong dead and 46 Americans wounded.
On 10 December the Soviet Union made an offi-
cial statement of concern over possible expansion of
the Vietnam war into Laos and Cambodia. The TASS
statement condemned alleged "plans" being made in
the US to extend military operations into the two coun-
tries and predicted that any US attempts to aggravate
the situation further in southeast Asia would be "strongly
rebuffed by peace-loving nations of the world."
The TASS pronouncement records at a more au-
thoritative level the theme sounded in Soviet media over
the past several weeks. It was apparently evoked by
extensive press speculation in the US that such an ex-
pansion was contemplated. The statement probably was
designed primarily to trade on Sihanouk's anxieties
concerning possible US intervention and could be the
prelude to a concerted propaganda offensive.
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