CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1968/01/16

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Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
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*South Vietnam: More sympathy strikes appear
imminent unless the government acts quickly to break
the impasse.
A spokesman for the Vietnamese Confederation of
Labor announced on 15 January that affiliated unions had
been given a go-ahead for new walkouts today and that
some categories of workers had already gone on strike.
There are, however, some indications that the gov-
ernment may agree to release the six labor leaders
arrested on 11 January. This could pave the way for
settlement of the strikes.
There are indications
that Communist forces are preparing more attacks
in III Corps.
The present disposition of the North Vietnamese
7th Division headquarters and two of its subordinate
regiments, along with the recent arrival of the North
Vietnamese 88th Regiment in southern Binh Long Prov-
ince, suggest a possible enemy move against Tay Ninh
city.
Major attacks thus far in the Communist winter-
spring campaign in III Corps have come at approxi-
mately one-month intervals, beginning with Loc Ninh
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in late October. If the pattern holds, the next major
assault could occur just prior to, or just after, Tet, the
Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday in late January.
Such an attack would not only maintain the momentum of
the enemy's winter-spring campaign, but would also re-
duce allied pressure on the base area of the Central
Office for South Vietnam, the highest Viet Cong military
headquarters.
Recently captured Viet Cong equipment reveals
that enemy forces in the Mekong Delta are being armed
with more modern and powerful weapons.
0n4 January 55 120-mm. mortar rounds were
captured in Dinh Tuong Province, the first evidence
that this heavy weapon is being introduced into the delta.
In December, allied forces in Chuong Thien and Kien
Giang provinces seized three Chinese Communist models
of the Soviet 7. 62-mm. AK-47, a modern, highly ef-
fective assault rifle. The three had been manufactured
in the third quarter of 1967 in Manchuria, over 2,000
miles to the north.
North Vietnamese Army units in South Vietnam
and certain Viet Cong main force battalions have been
armed with the AK-47 type rifle for some time. The
recently captured rifles
indicate that an increasing percentage
of Viet Cong forces in the delta are now being armed
modern automatic weapon.
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