SAIGON 0323

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03023639
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: March 1, 1968

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1. GENERAL WESTMORELAND INVITES COMMITTEE'S
ATTENTION TO FOLLOWING:
QUOTE: A. ON 10 JANUARY 1968 AT 1530 HOURS, GENERAL
WESTMORELAND AND LTG WEYAND CONFERRED, AND IN VIEW OF THE
INTELLIGENCE CERTAIN OPERATIONS THAT HAD BEEN PROGRAMMED
IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCES OF III CTZ WERE CANCELLED.
LTG WEYAND WAS DIRECTED TO REDEPLOY HIS TROOPS IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE INTELLTGENCE AND TO MOVE THEM CLOSER IN TOWARDS
SAIGON.
3. ON 15 JANUARY 19689 GENERAL WESTMORELAND
CALLED ON PRESIDENT THIEU AND SUGGESTED THAT THERE BE NO
TET TRUCE. HOWEVER, PRESIDENT THIEU WANTED 36 HOURS AND
AGREED THAT 50 PERCENT OF THE COMMAND WOULD BE PRESENT
AND AT A HIGH STATE OF ALERT.
C. ON 25 JANUARY 1968p AMBASSADOR BUNKER
AND GENERAL WESTMORELAND CALLED ON PRESIDENT THIEU AND
URGED THAT THERE BE NO TRUCE IN I CTZ. PRESIDENT THIEU
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AGREED.
D. ON 30 JANUARY 1968, GENERAL WESTMORELAND
CALLED ALL COMPONENT COMMANDERS, FIELD FORCE COMMANDERS
AND BG IRZYK DIRECTING AN 100 PERCENT ALERT. THE ATTACK
OCCURED ON 31 JANUARY. UNQUOTE.
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1. FIR ST VISIT 21 MARCH WAS TO-IFF HS IN NH-Ct.-ft ANG
MG PEERS, CG, ATTENDED BRIEFING.
2, AS WE HAVE FOUND ELSEWHERE, IFF HAD INTELLIGENCE
POINTINGTOWARD SOME SORT OF VC OFFENSIVE IN LATE JANUARY
OR EARLY FEBRUARY, BUT THIS INFORMATION DID NOT PIN DOWN
EXACT DATES AND SCOPE. BY AND LARGE IN II CORPS THE FOCUS
OF THREAT SEEMED TO BE IN WESTERN HIGHLANDS.
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AND IN CAPTURED 3.3(h)(2)
DOCUMENTS MOVEMENT OF MAJOR ENEMY FOR CES COULD BE FOLLOWED
WITH FAIR ACCURACY. ON 5 JANUARY A DOCUMENT WAS PICKED
UP DESCR IBI NG PLANS FOR AN ATTACK ON PLEIKU. ON 25 JANUARY
IFF ALERTED ALL UNITS TO PROBABILITY OF L ARGES.CALE
ATTACKS "IN CONJUNCT ION WITH TET .T5
4. IN THIS CORPS AREA, INFILTRATION INTO CIT IES WAS
ACCOMPLISHED LARGELY BY LOCAL FORCES AND SAPPERS, WITH
MAIN FORCE UNITS HELD OUT SIDE TOWN READY TO MOVE IN WHEN
INFILTRATORS HAD STARTED ACTION.
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5. THE FELT HIS LIAISON WITH BOTH ROK AND ARVN
WAS GOOD. GENERAL PEERS, HOWEVER, POINTED OUT KOREANS
WERE SOMETIMES RELUCTANT TO PASS INFORMATION TO SOME
ARVN UNITS, EVEN VIA UNITED STATES CHANNELS, 'BECAUSE OF WHAT
KOREANS CONSIDER WEAKNESS IN ARVN SECURITY.
6. GAVE TEAM BRIEFING IN WHICH HE EMPHASIZED
WHEAT-AND-CHAFF PROBLEM CONFRONTING INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS
WHO RECEIVE WEEKLY DELUGE OF ATTACK REPORTS, FEW OF WHICH
ARE VALID. ALTHOUGH APPROPRIATELY CAST FOR II CORPS
HIGHLANDS, PROVIDED IN PARA $ OF HIS NHA TRANG 2613
(BEING POUCHED) A GENERALIZED ANALYSIS WHICH COULD BE
APPLIED COUNTRYWIDE. IN GIST, HE SAYS12(eE SIMPLY WAS
NOT ENOUGH INTELLIGENCE TO INDICATE THAT A COORDINIATED
AND SIMULTANEOUS ATTACK ON PROVINCIAL CAPTIALS WOULD
OCCUR DURING'IET PERIOD.
7. TEAM THEN WENT ON TO VISIT MG STONE, CG ATH
US DIVISION, WHO EXPLAINED HIS DIVISION WENT TO FULL ALERT 04
24 JANUARY AS RESULT OF INTELLIGENCE INDICATING IMMINENT
ATTACKS ON KONTUM, PLEIKU, AND DAK TO. THIS INTELLIGENCE
CAME FROM ALL SOURCE, INCLUDING ATTACK PLAN FOR PLEIKU
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(PARA 3 ABOVE).
8., WE NEXT MOVED ON TO PLEIKU AND ARVN II CORPS.
AGAIN, DOCUMENTS AN PRISONER INTERROGATIONS INDICATED A
COMING ATTACK IN HIGHLANDS. INTERROGATIONS OF PRISONERS
TENDED TO CONFIRM THE CAPTURED PLEIKU ATTACK PLAN. ON
25 JANUARY PLEIKU WENT TO AN ALERT STATUS AS NOTED IN
PARA 3. THIS REQUIRED ONE-THIRD OF FORCE TO BE IN
BUNKERS AFTER DARK. ARVN ISSUED AN ALERT MESSAGE
ON 29 JANUARY. AT TIME OF ATTACK ARVN HAD TWO DIVISIONS
IN II CORPS AREA AT FULL STRENGTH AND TWO AT HALF STRENGTH
DUE TET LEAVES.
9. LOCAL UNITED STATES AUTHORITIES FELT COOPERATION
AMONG INTELLIGENCE SERVICES WAS GOOD IN II CORPS AREA.
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1. FIRST VISIT ON 20 MARCH WAS TO III CORPS HEADQUARTERS
WHERE TEAM BRIEFED BY SENIOR ADVISOR, COL PETERS, AND G-2
ADVISOR, LC KIZIRIAN
2. COLIPETERS STATED OFFENSIVE WAS EXPECTED EITHER
BEFORE OR AFTER TET. AS IN OTHER INSTANCES, NOTHING
PINPOINTED EXACT NATURE OF ATTACK UNTIL 30 JANUARY WHEN A
PRISONER SAID FOLLWOING DAY TAN SON NHUT, OTHER MILITARY
INSTALLATIONS IN THE CORPS AREA AND SAIGON CITY WOULD BE HIT.
ALERTING MESSAtES HAD ALREADY GONE TO ARVN FROM III CORPS,
BUT ARVN TROOPS WERE AT ABOUT 50 PERCENT STRENGTH BECAUSE
OF TET.
3. THERE WERE NO REPORTS FROM CIVILIANS PASSED TO THE
III CORPS ADVISORS; BUT, AGAIN, POINT WAS MADE THAT THERE
WERE NO MEANS OF COMMUNICATION ONCE VC HAD MOVED IN,
4. III CORPS FELT MOST SIGNIFICANT EARLY WARNING WAS
REORGANIZATION OF VC COMMAND STRUCTURE IN THE CORPS AREA.
5.
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AS IT WAS IN THE CORPS AREA BEFORE THE OFFENSIVE, CONTROL
OF THE POPULATION WAS NOT THE SORT THAT ENCOURAGED PASSAGE
OF INFORMATION., THERE ARE NOW 80 RD TEAMS IN PLACE AND 50
DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE COORDINATING CENTER S.
6. TEAM THEN VISITED II FIELD FOR CE WHERE IT WAS
BRIEFED BY COL FOUL K, G-20 AS IN OT HER BRIEFINGS, COL FOUL K
STATED THAT ATTACKS WERE ANTICIPATED, BUT THE PRECISE FORM
THEY WOULD TAKE WAS THE UNKNOWN FACTOR.THE FIELD FOR CE
WATCHED THE INDICATORS BUILD AND, ON 29 JAN, GEN WEYAND SENT
A FLASH ALERTING MESSAGE WARNING ALL HIS COMMAND ELEMENTS
THAT AN ATTACK ON FRIENDLY INSTALLATIONS COULD BE EXPECT ED
DURING THE NIGHT OF 29-.'30 JANUAR Yo
7. COL FOUL K FELT HIS INTELLIGENCE WAS GOOD. HE
REMARKED THAT ARVN III CORPS G-2 DID NOT BELIEVE AN ATTACK
WAS IMMINENT
8. TEAM NEXT WENT TO CAN T HO FOR A IV COR PS BRIEFING..
MG ECKHARDT , SENIOR ADVISOR, ATTENDED. IN THE BRIEFING IT
WAS POINTED OUT THAT THERE HAD BEEN INDICATIONS SOMETHING
WAS BUILDING AS EARLY AS OCTOBER WITH NO SPECIFIC INDICATION
OF THE TARGETSO IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THERE IS NO REAL
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IN THIS CORPS AREA.
9. AS WAS THE CASE IN III CORPS, ARVN WAS CELEBRATING
TEl AND WAS WELL UNDER STRENGTH.
10. IT WAS NOTED HERE, AS IT HAS BEEN ELSEWHERE, THAT
THE CIRCUMSTANCES WERE NOT THE SORT THAT ENCOURAGED CIVILIAN
REPORTING -- IT WAS TET; THE NUMBER OF STRANGERS IN THE
VILLAGES WAS NOT UNUSUAL (FOR YEARS VC HAVE COME INTO TOWN
FOR THE CELEBRATIONS, SINGLY AND IN GROUPS - ON FOOT AND IN
SAMPANS); AND ONCE THE VC MOVED, IT WAS DIFFICULT AND
DANGEROUS FOR ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE WILLING TO REPORT TO DO SO.
11.
CAN THO BRIEFING IT WAS AGAIN NOTED
THAT ARVN WAS FAR FROM READINESS. THERE WAS A DISCUSSION
OF
ASSETS, SOME OF WHICH HAD PRODUCED GENERAL
WARNING --- IN ONE INSTANCE A GROUP OF VC SAPPERS WERE
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12. IV CORPS UNITED STATES' COMPONENTS ARE NOW
ORGANIZING AN INTELLIGENCE COORDINATING CENTER AT CAN THO
BASE.
13.
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1. TEAM VISITED III MAF, ARVN I CO
CORPS VIETNAM, AND REGION I
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2. IN SUMMARY, GENERAL CUSHMAN FELT HE HAD AMPLE
FOREWARNING; WAS ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH MOVEMENTS OF HOSTILE
ELEMENTS, AND ACTED ACCORDINGLY. ALL AGREED THAT ASIDE
FROM DANANG , SPECIFIC VC TARGETS WERE NOT KNOWN, ALTHOUGH
THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF INTELLIGENCE INDICATING SOMETHING
WAS COMING AROUND TET. GENERAL CUSHMAN NOTED THAT ATTACKS
ON CITIES WERE EXPECTED. DEFENSE FORCES HAD BEEN
POSITIONED, HOWEVER, TO DEAL WITH DIRECT ATTACKS (FORCES
WERE STATIONED ABOUT 3 KILOMETERS OUTSIDE CIT IES ).
INFILTRATION WAS NOT ANTICIPATED ON THE SCALE USED BY THE
V C.
3. AS FOR DANANG IT HAD BEEN CLEAR FOR SOMETIME,
THAT THE CITY WOULD BE THE
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TARGET OF AN ATTACK; BUT AGAIN, THE PRECISE TIMING WAS
NOT KNOWN.
4. THERE WERE ONLY TWO KNOWN REPORTS OF CIVILIANS
VOLUNTEERING INFORMATION. GENERAL CUSHMAN NOTED, HOWEVER,
THAT VILLAGERS HAD NO MEANS OF COMMUNICATING ONCE THE VC
HAD MOVED IN.
5. THERE WAS NO TET TRUCE IN I CORPS AND ALL UNITS,
INCLUDING ARVN AND ROK MARINES, WERE ON FULL ALERT STATUS.
GENERAL CUSHMAN FEELS COOPERATION AMONG THE INTELLIGENCE
SERVICES IN THE CORPS AREA WAS GOOD.
6. THE III MAF G-3 SAID HE FELT HE HAD AMPLE INTELLIGENCE
FOR HIS PURPOSES. BOTH HE AND GENERAL ROBERTSON NOTED THAT
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SPREAD FORCES TO COVER ALL POSSIBLE
TARGETS WHEN EXACT ENEMY INTENTIONS ARE NOT KNOWN.
7. MEMBERS OF THE TEAM VISITED
WHERE BRIEFED ON THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:
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IN CONSIDERABLE DETAIL AND IT WAS APPARENT THAT CLOSE
COORDINATION HAD BEEN MAINTAINED AMONG
UNITED STATES AND GVN MILITARY AUTHORITIES.
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