THE SITUATION IN VIETNAM

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00875R001100130019-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 29, 1972
• Content Type: IM

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No. 0788/72
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of intelligence
29 May 1972
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The Situation in Vietnam
(As of 1500 EDT)
1. The situation in Kontum City appears to
have stabilized, with government forces in control
of most of the city and counterattacking against
enemy held areas in the northern and eastern parts
of the city. Last night numerous B-52 bombers
struck enemy positions on the periphery of Kontum.
No-new enemy ground attacks have been reported;
earlier information had indicat-ed the enemy would
take a breather after five days of fighting.
2. In Phuoc Tuy Province, enemy forces have
continued their attacks against the district capitals
of Duc Thanh and Dat Do, with heavy contact reported
around Dat Do. Government defenders at Duc ',Tharh
are being resupplied by airdrop. The enemy has also
launched small-scale attacks in Long Le District,
and late reports indicate the Communists now hold
seven hamlets in Xuyen Moc District.
3. Little fighting has been reported from
the other sectors of the country.
Status of Thieu's Bid fc,r Emergency Powers
4. On the eve of the South Vietnamese Senate's
consideration of President Thieu's request for emer-
gency powers, the leaders of the pro-administration
bloc in the Senate are claiming that progress has
been made toward working out a toned-down proposal
acceptable to the President. Thieu has indicated
that a bill narrower than the one he originally re-
quested, which would restrict his emergency powers
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fai.rs, would be satisfactory. Thieu's backers in
the Senate believe that such a formula would not
generate any additional votes for the bill, but it
would make it easier to persuade some opposition
Senators to abstain from the voting. If as many
as five Senators abstain, they feel Thieu has a
good chance of winning the required majority.
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