JPRS ID: 10325 VIETNAM REPORT

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JPRS L/10325
16 February 1982
VIETNAM REPORT
(FOUO 3/82)
_ CONTENTS
MILITARY AFFATRS AND PUBLIC SECURITY
lnformation on Vietnamese Military ilnits 1
IN7'ERNA1'iONAI, itF:I.ATIC~NS, TREIDE AND AID
('orrupCiori, Economic Woes Plague Commiinist ~~vernment
(Thai Quang Trung; L'EXPRESS, 11 Pec $1) 6
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MILITARY AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC SECURITY
INFORrIATION ON VIETNAI~fESE MILITARY UNITS
[The folZowing information on Vietnamese military units has been extracted from
Vietnamese press sources published in Hanoi, unless otherwise indicated. Unit
- designators and subordination are as they appear in the original source. The re-
. marks include a brief. summary of the salient information available in the news
item.)
tJni t Remarks
3rd MR Subordinate units coordinate combat readiness
B.19 Gp and econom:ic construction. (NHAN DAN 4 Jan 82
B.30 Gp P 2)
N.13 Gp
5,66 Gp
Factory 59, Technical General Completed 1981 plan. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN
Department 1 Jan 82 p 1)
- Border Defense Post 303, Lai Chau Photo of patrol. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 1 Jan 82
Province P 1)
T}iac Ba Infantry Gp, Hoang Lien Subordinate units include at least 15 companies
of wh:ich one is the 17th company. (QUAN DOI
NHAN DAN 1 Jan 82 p 1)
B.33 Gp Activated in 1975 sometime after April. Com-
posed of regiments from the southern Central
Highlands of the Sth Military Region. At that
time the regiments converted from combat to aco-
nomic construction. Has since cleared 10,000
hectares in Krong Pach and Ma Do Rac Pistricts
of Dac Lac Province. Is making preparations to
receive settlers from Thai Binh and Nghe Tinh
Provinces. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 1 Jan 82 p 2)
Qtiang Trung Missile Regt Commander: Trinh Lan [TRINHJ LAAN].
~ -44th Bn -Battalion Commander: Tran Minh [TRAANF
MINH]
(QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 1 Jan 82 p 2)
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12th Corps [Binh DoanJ Photo of unit entertainment troupe. (QUAN DOI
NHI~TDAN2Jan82p3)
B.65 Gp " " " "
B . 33 Gp
Truong Son Corps [Binh Doan] Assigned tn economic construction in the Cen-
traY Highlands. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 2 Jan 82
p 3)
B.9Z Gp An Engineer organization engaged iu road con-
struction in the Khau Co area. (QUAN DOI NHAN
DAN 2 Jan 82 p 3) ~
B.7:~ Gp Assigned to an "international mission." (QUAN
_ DOI NHAN DAN 2 Jan 82 p 3)
Dong Bang Gp, Ta~ N~uyen Corps Conducted tactical competition for subordinate
[Binh Doan] units. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 3 Jan 82 p 1)
Thang Long Gp
"Dung Cam Danh Hang" Gp
068 Tratis~ortation Gp Serving in Kampuchea. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 3 Jan
82 p 1)
lst Bn, rf.98 Gp, lst MR Photo of patrol on the northern border. (QUAN
DOI NHAN DAN 3 Jan 82 p 1)
4th MR Provinces include Thanh Hoa, Nghe Tinh and
Le Loi Gp Binh Tri Thien Provinces.
-"H" Engineer Gp -Road construction at Le Hong Son.
(QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 3 Jan 82 p 1)
- M.22 Gp, Tay Bac Forces Located on northern border opposite PRC forces.
(QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 4 Jan 82 p 1)
B.56 Gp, 'Cay Bac Forces
Vinh Quang Div Commended editorially for weapons maintenance.
(QUAN ll0I NHAN DAN 4 Jan 82 p 1)
M.98 Regt Commended editorially for training accomplish-
ments. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 4 Jan 82 p 1)
Vinh Quang Div, Huong Giang Corps Produced 2.8 mi~lion bricks and 290 tons of
[Binh Doan] lime to construct unit housing and equipment
09 Regt shelters. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 4 Jan 82 p 2j
56th Regt
4th Gp Located in Lang Giang District, Ha Bac Province.
- (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 4 Jan 82 p 3)
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Huong Giang Corps [Binh Doan] Proliferation of musical troupes noted.
Vinh Quang Gp (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 4 Jan 82 p 3)
B.25 Gp
H.03 Armored Gp
B . 63 Signal G~,
M.22 Gp A mobile unit located on the northern border.
(QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 4 Jan 82 p 3)
- Cuu Long Corps [Binh Doan] Training activities noted. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN
S.86 GF 4 Jan 82 p 3)
H.4 Gp
M. Gp
B. Gp
3rd MR
_ B.29 Div
B.50 Div
20th Bn, M.98 Gp, lst MR Commended for thwarting many PRC border viola-
tions. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 5 Jan 82 p 1)
71.st Air ro-rce Gp Activities of unit training battalion reported.
(QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 5 Jan 82 p 1)
National Defense Plant 55, Director: Nguyen Van Chuong [NGUYEENX VAWN
_ Technical General Department CHUWOWNG]. Located in the south. (QUAN DOI
NHAN DAN 5 Jan 82 p 2)
National Defense Plant Z.51 Photo shows that plant manufactures bicycle
_ tires. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 5 Jan 82 p 2)
Machine ShoP 55, Navy Performs light and medium repairs for vessels.
~ (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 5 Jan 82 p 2)
1.9 rfay Cemt~nt GnLerprise, 4tti MR Production results given. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN
5 J~n 82 p 2)
Signal I'actory X.10 Modifies vehicles for mobile communications ~nd
command. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 5 Jan $2 p 2)
Armed Forces I'olk rteriicine Commander Colonel Trieu Van Cu [TRIEEUJ
Hospital VAWN CUWJ]. A newly activated organization.
- (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 5 Jan 82 p 3)
103rd Milit~iry Hospital, Medical Selects nurse and medical technician of the
Department, Rear Services General year. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 5 Jan 82 p 3)
Department
Navy Youth union activities reported. (QUAN DOI
, 03 Gp NHAN DAN 6 Jan 82 p 1)
M.47 Gp
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M.26 Gp
05 Gp
Ol Gp
B.03 Gp
M.31 Engineer Gp
Shop 51
. Shop 70
Shop 48
MF.25 Gp
Shop 58
Vessel HQ 754
Vessel 757
Vessel 746
B.77 AAA Gp Photo of unit Sam missile. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN
6 Jan 82 p 1)
8th Co, 134th Gp Wire teams self support farming activities re-
ported. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 6 Jan 82 p 2)
~ 19th Bn, B.OS Gp, 5th MR Self support farming activities reported. (QUAN
DOI NHAN DAN 6 J3n 82 p 2)
H.69 Engineer Gp Serving in Kampuchea. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 6 Jan
82 p 2)
2nd Co, lst Bn, B.76 Engineer Gp, Raising self-support vegetables, bananas and
7th MR chickens. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 6 Jan 82 p 2)
Fuel Station 7, S.52 Gp Located at Hung Thai Village, Hung Nguyen Dis-
trict, Nghe Tinh Province. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN
6 Jan 82 p 3)
26th Regt Located at An Hoa_ Village. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN
6 Jan 82 p 3)
National Defense Factory Z.53, Producing in support of economic c~nstruction.
Technical General ilepartment (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN 8 Jan 82 p 1)
30th Bn, B.72 Gp, Truong Son Road construction work. (QUAN DOI NHAN DAN
Forces aka Truong Son Corps 8 Jan 82 p 3)
~ [Binh Doan]
Radar Forces Concentrates on improving basic level units.
38th Co, H.91 Gp (QUAN DOI ~THAN DAN 8 Jan 82 p 3)
26th Co, Phu Dong Gp
47th Co, Song Ma Gp
46th Co, H.95 Gp '
16th Signal Co, Ba Be Gp
50th Co, H.94th Gp
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l:?th Infantry Gp, Quyet Thang On 9 January 1982 was visited by a military dele-
Corps [Binh Doan] gation from the GDR. (NHAN DAN 10 Jan 82 p 1)
Thang Long Air Force Gp Commander: Pham Thanh Ngan [PHAM.T THANH NGAAN].
On 9 January 1982 was visited by a military
delegation from the GDR. (NI-iAN DAN 10 Jan 82
p 4) NOTE : On 1 October 1981 Pham Tt~anh Ngan
was reported as commander of the B.71 Air Force
Gp.
v 45th Navy Gp Photo of artillery crew. (NHAN DAN 12 Jan 82
p 1)
"Hai Ba Trung" Self Defense Regt, Photo of unit personnel. (LAO DON~ 17 Dec 81
- Kim Dong Textile Plant. P 1)
_ I'actory 1165, Rear Services Photo of workers checking small motors. (LAO
- General Department DONG 17 Dec 81 p 3)
05 National llefense Factory Unit r.eam chief commended. (LAO DONG 17 Dec 81
p 3)
- M.17 National Defense Factory A typical day at the factory described. (LAO
DONG 17 Dec 81 p 4)
859th Gp, Quang Nam-Danang Photo of female unit members on firing range.
Province (PHU :W VIETNAM 16-22 Dec 81 p 3)
06 Gp, Chemical Warfare Forces Located at Ngoc Chau Village, Tan Yen District,
Ha Bac Province. (TIEN PHONG 29 Dec-4 Jan 82
p 3)
CSO: 4209/201
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, TRADE AND AID
CORRUPTION, ECONOMIC WOES PLAGUE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT
Paris L'EXPRF.SS 11 ~ec 81 in French pp 134-35, 137-38, 141, 143-44, 146
' [Article by Thai Quang Triing: "Vietnam: The Lost Revolution"]
['I'extJ According to r_he most recent evidence, the economy
oE Vietnam is experiencing a state of bankruptcy in the
Polish style. In order to pay its debts, the government
exports its citizens by the hundreds of thousands to the
U.S.S.R. Anarchy is rampant in the South. Underground
forces are developing. The military occupation of Cambodia
is bogged doc~in. Six years after the fall of Saigon (April
1975), is the Vietnamese Communist Party about to "lose
the revolution" after having lost the peace? Has Hanoi
become one of the weak links of the Soviet system?
L'EXPRESS has asked Thai Quang Trung, Vietnamese ~urist
and historian, to explain the amazing turnaround of this
situation.
_ The disaster is frightening. "Will the ship survive?" an important member of
the Central Committee asked himself r.ecently in an editorial in NHAN DAN, the
- party newspaper. "The only thing the crew and passengers can do is maintain
discipline and obey the captain's orders fearlessly. The example is taken
from Stalin. His teaching is even more significant for us today." This rever-
ence for Stalin is doubly symptomatic oF the state of disarray and the anach-
- ronisms that have beset Ho Chi Minh's party for the past year. In the rooms
of the Central Committee in Hanoi, Djougatchvili-Stalin coldly surveys the
- future of party discipline. The Vietnamese Communist Party can no longer cope
with the present.
The party is sick. It is suffering from senility: "gerontocrats" are fighting
over Power in Hanoi. In the Politburo, by Vietnamese standards, the 4th age
reigns: Le Duan is 74, Truong Chinh, 74, Pham Vam Dong, 76, and Le Duc Tho,
72. In the Central Committee it is the 3rd age, or close to it. The comrades
of Ho Chi Ptinh--in the party since the 20's and 30's--were formed during the
Komintern period. The old guard is worn out. The others, whose character was
for.ged by.a long clandestine resistance, have a besieged citadel complex. This
caste has hardly changed. Politically paranoid, it refuses to free itself six
years aFter the "liberation." There is a formidable cultural monolith: Stalinism
- reigns.
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The party leadership is also afflicted with the "Albanian syndrome." Family
centralism, a clear sign of degeneracy here as in Albania, has replaced democratic
centralism in the party. It is the "gia-dinh tri," or family dictatorship. The
_ party-state is now practically controlled by three clans: the Le Duan family,
Le Duc Tho and his brothers, and the Truong Chinh group. Truong Nhu Tang,
former minister of justice of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South
Vietnam, and now an exile in Paris, analyzes the paralysis of the party-state
as follows: "Le Duan is obsessed with power. He means to reign as a family.
The Le Duc Tho system is a party within the party. The administration of Pham
Van Dong runs up against the bars put up by Truong Chinh. Everyone obeys only
the directives of his own clan."
Factional rivalries are grafted onto the Sino-Soviet quarrel. At the IVth Party
Congress, in December 1976, the Le Duan - Le Duc Tho coalition managed to eliminate
?.7 of the 69 members and deputy members of the Central Committee. Expelled from
the Politburo, EIoang Van Hoan--now an exile in Peking--is only the scapegoat.
The real target is Truong Chinh ("Long March"), who is well known for his Maoist
opinions. He managed to stay in the Politburo and to retain the presidency of the
National Assembly thanks to his loud llth-hour anti-Chinese talk. Tru~ng Chinh
is a long-distance runner. This is not his first time around. Secretary-general
of the party fr.om 1940 on, this orthodox theoretician had to step aside for Le
Duan after the failure of the bloody agricultural reform of 1956. But he has
been back in the Politburo since 1958. He has just made a strong comeback by
- becc~ming--in J;:~y 1981--president of the Council of State, supreme governing body
of the country according to the new constitution. As commander-in-chief of the
armed forces, he presides over the National Defense Council.
Apparently Le Duan still has the upper hand in the party. Through his son, the
first secretary controls the special security force of the Politburo and of the
Centra7. Committee. Through his brothers-in-law he oversees the Propaganda Commis-
sion, the State Committee on Science and Technology, and the school for party
~ffi.cials, which is directed by Tran Quynh, ~aho has just lost the important
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