(EST PUB DATE) VIEWS OF ONE VIET CONG AND TWO NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY PRISONERS CONCERNING THE PLANS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE TET OFFENSIVE AND POPULAR SUPPORT FROM SOUTH VIETNAMESE PEOPLE DURING THE OFFENSIVE
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Tet Declassified [8]
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
00193271
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RIPPUB
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U
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1
Document Creation Date:
April 27, 2019
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April 30, 2019
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Publication Date:
February 4, 1968
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SOUTH VIETNAMESE PEOPLE DURING4Tille5y;E: -
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.(SI). THE PRISONERS SAID. THEYHWERETOATTACK CITIES AND TO
CO::-CETRATE THEIR EFFORTS AGAINST HEADWARTESiNSTALLAT IO NS
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DED .ITH 'rITHI-)RAWAL. FLP,N5 SINCE THERE AS NO QUEST ION ABOUT
IEVEMENT OF VICTORY. THEY WERE TOLD tHATT:HE;TETHOLIDAY WOULD
CE=RATED IN -LIBERATED" AREAS FOLLOWING THE 7.TR IUMPH, THE
F7.ISDERS SAID THEIR ORDERS WERE TO CONTINUE FIGHTING UNTIL VICTORY,
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TH::: PRISONERS WOULD NOT COMUNT ON THE REACTIONS', OF
OR THE NIIISV TO THE FAILURE ,TO APPROVED FOR RELE�isF.
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