NIC REPORT NO: 240/68

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00758616
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: March 2, 1968

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DATE OF INFO : 29-31 January 1968
DATE AND PLACE : 4 February 1968
LCF ACQU/SITION SAIGON, Vietnam (R - P)
NIC REPORT No:: 240/68
NIC CASE NO : FET
DATE OF REPORT: 2/3/68
NO. OF PAGES : 2
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his report was collected by a NIC Field Exploitation Team on 4 February 1968 in . SAIC
SVN. Source � is not available at the NIC for further exploitation..
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told Source that the entire country was in ix hands
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with the exception of the Saigon-Cholon area and that Source's unit was to
infiltrate Saigon and attempt to propagandize the populace while other units
attacked key installations throughout the city.
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Source entered the Saigon-Cholon area by bus from the HO BO Secret Zone on 30
January. He was met by at the corner of PHAN THANH GIAN and LY THAI TO
Streets, Cholon, at about 1930 hours and was then taken by bike to a two-story
building on NGUYEN BIEU Street. Cholon, where he received his instructions.
he had never been allowed to go tnere because
he had no accommodation address at which to stay. Other members of his unit
frequently travelled to and from Cholon.)
,3. ,Although old Source that local people would rush to the VC banner once the
' VC made the appearance in Cholon, Source noticed that the people were fearful
as ropagandized them, shying away and closing their doors on the VC. Source's
received no help from the local people.
The unit bad no rallying point in case they were dispersed. The team members
' were ordered to fight until they were able to leave the city. The exfiltration
plan called for Source to leave the city by bus. If the unit became trapped in
the city i it was to remain and fight.
5. Source was unaware of any plans for a coordinate attack across the DMZ or against
KHE SANH since he had been told that the Saigon-Cholon area was the only section
of SVN not under VC control.
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Source-sai&that if the first VC attack on Saigon failed, the VC would continue
.to'attack,until Saigon fell. Even if the first attack were to' fail completely
it would still be of great propaganda value to the VC since Saigon was the most
secure of GVN areas and was purportedly safe from attack. This myth has been
exploded by the TET attack. Source feels that the Liberation Froht and the NVN
Government will exploit this theme to the fullest.
. (InerrogatorlsComment: .Source,is a fully indoctrinated VC who joined the
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movement in 1965. His access, however, is limited.)
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