DURING THE TET ATTACK ON SAIGON

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00758619
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 27, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: March 2, 1968

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.COUNTRY : SOUTH VIETNAM (SVN)
SUBJECT
Attack on SAIGON
NIC REPORT NO : 243/68
NIC CASE NO : FET
during the TET DATE OF REPORT: 2/3/68
NO. OF PAGES : 2
DATE OF INTO : 30 January - 1 February 1968
DATE AND PLACE Vietnam, SAISON
OF ACQUISITION : (13 February 1968)
REF: None
This report was collected by a NIC Field Exploitation Team oh 13 February
1968 in SAIGON City, SVN. Source is not available at the NIC for further
exploitation.
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%'hile __visiting his mother for TET
on 30 January
1968, heard that Viet Cong (VC) had come to the
village. e immediately boarded a bus 1200 hours. VC stopped
the bus along Route 5, and abducted and 12 other people.
The VCtlieri_ led th to a village whose n did not know,
where a 2006man VC group was quartered, saw rifles, but did
� rnnt:k;ow their make. The 200-man unit move out on 31 January with
nd the 12 other impressed people carrying the ammunition in
wooden boxes. The group moved to the PHU DINH area.
2. On arrival there, the ammunition bearers were told to evacuate
� the wounded to a village between the RACH CAT Road and PHU DINH.
They made seven trip, ',moll man carrying a wounded soldier per
trip. At 0400 hours, 1 February as began his eighth trip,
government of Vietnam (GVN) aircraft bombed thA P1411 nTmu nyies
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