VIEWS OF ONE VIET CONG AND TWO NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY PRISONERS CONCERNIN G THE PLANS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE TET OFFENSIVE AND POPULAR SUPPORT FROM THE SO UTH VIETNAMESE PEOPLE DURING THE OFFENSIVE
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vics COMANU CENTER
STATE (RCI)
CIA-OCI
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F I CITE TDCS514/02051-6S (ADVANCE)
COJNTRY: SOUTH VIETNAi:
*DOI: 27 JANUARY 1963 - 4 FEBRUARY 1963
SUBJECT: VIEWS OF ONE VIET COW AND TO NORTH VIETNAMESE
ARMY PRISONERS CONCERNING THE PLANS AND OBJECTIVES
OF THE TET OFFENSIVE AND POPULAR SUPPORT FROM THE
SOUTH VIETNAMESE PEOPLE DURING THE OFFENSIVE.
ACQ: 1
SOURCE:
(5 FEBRUARY 1963)7*
I. A BRIEF INTERROGATION OFPRISONERS IN THE BIEN FDA
AREA REVEALS ThE FOLLOJING INFORMAIION: (A) T- 'E ORDERS-J:
FOR 1HE TET CA:%?Alta.N SHORTLY DEFO3E ThZ 111%3 U: ATTACK AND WElE
TOLD THAT THE EFFOHT UOULD EE A FINAL TKT:OSI TO LIaiRAIE'SOUTA'
.VIE7NA::,(.W.,), THE PRISONERS SAID THEY WERE TO ATTACK CITIES AND TO
-CONCENTRATE THEIR EFFORTS AGAINST HEADQUAR1ERS INSTALLATIONS,
PARTICULARLY U.S. FACILITIES, (B) LT. LEVEL CADRES.APnRENTLY WERE '
NOT, PROVIDZD.WITH WITHDRAWAL FLANS SINCE THERE :.AS .N3 iZUESTION ABOUT
.THE ACHIEVEMENT OF VICTORY. THEY WERE-TOLD THAT TEE TEl HOLIDAY WOULD
BE CELEBRATED IN "LIBERATED" AREAS FOLLOWING THE TRIUMPH. THE
PRISONERS SAID THEIR ORDERS WERE TO-CONTINUE FIGHTI13 UNTIL VICTORY,
'(C) TIL33,E ;JAS AN INITIAL BELIEF THAT THE F3PL:L.A7I0..1 WOULD ASSIST IN AL
UPRISING A3II.:IST THE GOVERNMENT-OF VIETSA'A (SV,:) AN: L. FORCES,
CD) lifTHE OPIMON ()FIRE PRI93N-3�S THE--ANTICIPATED SUPP3RT-FRO:1i
THE SV:i FOnLATION WAS NOT F3RTHCONIt4, (E) CO ::EN:ION WAS NADE_<
TO TEE_PRISONERS_OF.A EAJO R OFFENSIVE _IN THE NOR74ER4 AREAS
SVN TO FOLLOWUP OR COINCIDE WITH THE UT CAMPAIGN, (F)
THSJIRISONERS HAD -N3 KNOWLEDGE-OF ANY EFFORTS TO REORGANIZE THE
"ALLIANCE_FOR.PEACE AND-DEMOCRACY" AS A COALITION NOVEMENT TO
.4"NEG3TIATE WITH THE NATIONAL FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF SOUTH
VIETNAM (NFLSV), (G) PRISONERSVERE NOT AWARE 05 .ANY FOLLW:UP
,PLCIS FOR THE CURRENT OF1ENSIV1,4(H) I Z P3ISG;;ERS **ERE UNABLE-4
TO CONPREHEND'A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MILITARY AND FETCACLO3ICAL
VICT�RY PEC-USE THEY VIRE ORIENTATED SOLELY ,TOWAR3 A t.ILITARY
JR;UM?A:.�DCE PRISONERS WOULD NOT COMMENT ON THE REACTIONS OF
HANOI OR THE NFLSV TO THE FA:L'aF, IQ -ACHIEVE TAV!LITARY.:
OBJECTIVES OF-THE -TET OFFENSIVE.
2. DISSEM: STATE, ?ACV, 7TH AF, CINCPAC PACFLI,
AMC, PACAF, POLAD/CINDPAC.
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