NIC REPORT NO: 250/68

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00758638
• 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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THIS REPORT IS THE RESULT OF. THE INTIZROGATION ACTIVITY CONDUCTED
' BY THE NATIONAL INTFAROGATION CENTER (RIC) UNDER THE JOINT AUSPICES
OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION (CIO) AND THE U.S. CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF DETACHMENT 6,
6499TH SPECIAL ACTIVITIES GROUP (USAF).
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DATE OF INFO 4-7 February 1968
' DATE A/010 PLACE : 11 February 1968
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DATE OF REPORT: 2/3/68
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SAIGON City, SVN. Source is not.availableat the NIC for further exploitation.
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ebruary 1968 received order to go on a mission to meet
Viet Cong Battalion 6 in the SAIGON area. left DUC HOA District, LONG AN
Province, with a platoon of 28 men at 1900 hours 5 February, on the understanding
that the group would be gone for two or three days and would return to DUC HOA
at the end of that time. The group was equipped with AK rifles. Depending on
individual strength, the soldiers carried from 120 to 300 rounds each for their
weapons. The platoon leader carried a K54 pistol. Each man was also supplied with
one liter of rice and was to receive eight Government of Vietnam piastres a day
for food.
The 28+man group. folloured a route which went through TAN HOA and CAU TRE.
did-not�know the names of other places through which the group passed because it
travelled mostly at night. Many of the group members lost their way, leaving the
group with nine men. En route to SAIGON, the nine men met and attached themselves
to a larger 100-man group (unit unknown). This group was equippe 'th AK rifles
and B408 (number of weapons and rounds for each weapon unknown). saw no other
military men moving toward SAIGON.
band and the larger force arrived on the western outskirts of CHOLON
SAIGON at about 0300 hours 6 February 1968. The group members quartered in local
houses in which the inhabitants supplied them with food. Later in the morning,
was assigned to _ composed of sickly personnel. The
other e_rembers of his original group were assigned to Company 1, Battalion 6,
to which
was assigned on 7 february. The 100-man group left for another
destination within the SAIGON-CHOLON area. From 7 February to the time of
capture on 9 February at approximately 0700 hours, Company I was not committed to
battle, was captured after Government of Vietnam police made a sweep of the
area in which he was housed for the evening.
AK rifles
Company I had a strength of 60 to 70 men, all equipped with
and had about 120-130 rounds per weapon.
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