Approved for Release: 2019/04/17 C00009977 - vics COMANU CENTER STATE (RCI) CIA-OCI ZEN 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. GP-1 625 � 'Approved for Release: 2019/04/17 C00009977� il'��,`,��.�� 5�.� A.,. �

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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