CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1968/01/08

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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8 January 1968
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8 January 1968
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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Vietnam: Situation report. Page 1)
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*Vietnam:
North Vietnam: Short-range, surface-to-surface
missiles intended for coastal defense may have been
introduced into North Vietnam,. If confirmed, they could
endanger US warships conducting shore bombardment
operations along the coast.
Photography of 19 December 1967 reveals two
positions just south of Thanh boa which contain camou-
flaged equipment, including one object Identified as
probably an SS-N-2 (STYX) missile and several pos-
sible rail-type launchers. Both sites contain six
revetted positions that initially appeared to be intended
for surface-to-air missile operations.
The sites were struck repeatedly by US Navy air-
craft on 5 and 6 January and operational reports indicate
that extensive damage was inflicted. There is no firm
evidence from photography or pilot reports, however,
that either site was occupied at the time of the attacks.
If North Vietnam has received STYX missiles to
oppose US naval operations near its coast, the locations
of the sites noted in photography are well-suited to this
purpose. This missile has a range of about 20 miles and
was the weapon used by the Egyptian Navy on 21 October
1967 to sink the Israeli destroyer Mat. US aircraft
carriers customarily operate beyond the range of a STYX
missile fired from the Vietnamese coast.
South Vietnam: Vice President Ky claims that he
and senior army generals have urged President Thieu to
exercise more dynamic leadership.
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Government administrative centers and Allied out-
posts in various parts of the country have been subjected
to enemy assaults during the past several days.
In Thua Thien Province on 6 January, the Communists
conducted a series of coordinated attacks against Phu
Loc District headquarters, three adjacent Combined Action
Platoons and a US Marine reaction force. Friendly forces
suffered 34 killed and 80 wounded in these actions while
the enemy lost 91 killed. On 5 January in Quang Tin
Province, the enemy assaulted a US fire support base near
a district town which had been attacked on 3 January.
These two incidents cost the Allies 46 killed and 113
wounded while the enemy is reported to have lost 80 killed.
Other district headquarters in Quang Ngai and Quang
Nam provinces of I Corps have been recent Communist
targets, while in II Corps, there were several coordinated
mortar barrages in and around the capital of Darlac
Province. A district headquarters in Tuyen Duc Province
of II Corps also received mortar fire on 5 January.
During the night of 6 January enemy forces appear
to have coordinated a number of incidents in the III Corps
provinces of Binh Duong and Bien Hoa. The brunt of this
effort was directed against a Vietnamese Army regimental
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headquarters at Tan Uyen in Bien Hoa Province, The
Communists did not succeed in overrunning the army
compound, but they appear to have held the town for several
hours. Almost simultaneously, at least four other en-
gagements occurred in the adjacent areas of Bien Hoa
and Binh Duong provinces. Preliminary casualty reports
from all incidents indicate Allied losses of 12 killed and
45 wounded. Enemy losses were unknown.
In southernmost IV Corps, the Viet Cong on 6 Jan-
uary hit a military training center, an army convoy and
a Revolutionary Development area in Vinh Long Province.
In adjacent Vinh Binh Province, two villages were as-
saulted and in Ba Xuyen Province, a district capital out-
post apparently overrun. This flurry of enemy activity
cost the Vietnamese at least 42 killed, 98 wounded and
67 weapons lost. Enemy casualties are unknown.
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