CLAIMED STRENGTH OF UMDC FORCES IN SOUTH VIET NAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100560009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For j/At-P82-004URDD
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Indochina
SUBJECT Clain d Strength of U C Forces in South Viot Nam
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Colonel Jean Leroy, co gander of the Unites I.iobiles de Defense ties Chrotientes
states that he nao has under his col=and 4,500 regular forces, p1.:s
13-14,000 supplementary troops, includ nC the auto-defense units of 97 vii-
la;;;es.* The regular forces are equipped with one machine gun for every 10
rzen? the supplementary troops have one machine gun for 30 icon and one sub--
machine gun for every 10 men. Leroy's forces have about 40 radios, with
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amment Colonel Leroy's views on the nilitary
situation in South Viet Mara, estimates his force at about 5,000.
DIMISUMN
trained personnel to operate them.
in the avant Indochina is takon over by the Coy unists, Leroy states he can.
count on the support of 10,000 partisans to form resistance cells and fight on.
The island of I'inh, where I IJC forces recently carried out a fairly l.a ge~-
scale operation, is the only are in Leroy' s zone of operations which he
does not control. Ile expects all resistance on the island to be rasped out
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