VC RECRUIT TRAINING INSTALLATION, CAMBODIA

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00759176
• 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 7, 1968

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INTERRO6ATION REPORT
THIS REPORT IS THE RESULT OF THE INTERROGATION ACTIVITY CONDUCTED
BY THE. NATIONAL INTERROGATION CENTER (NIC) UNDER THE JOINT AUSPICES
OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE CRGANIZATION (cm) AND THE U.S. CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF DETACHMENT 6,
609TH SPECIAL ACTIVITIES GROUP
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COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM (SVN) NIC REPORT NO. : 268/68
CAMBODIA
NIC CASE NO : FET
SUBJECT : VC Recruit Training Installation,
CAMBODIA DATE OF REPORT : 7/3/68
DATE OF INFO : December 1967 NO. OF PAGES .: 2
DATE AND PLACE 7 February 1968 (N) REF: CIO Report 161/68
OF ACQUISITION 1 SAIGON, Vietnam
This report was collected by a. NIC Field Exploitation Team on 7 February 1968 in
'SAIGON City, SVN. Source is not available at the NIC for further exploitation.
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SUMMARY
In December 1967, severai%members.'of.ComPany 3, VC Battalion 6 were sent for
15 days training at an installation in a forest in the BA THU area, CAMBODIA,
adjacent to the CAMBODIA/SVN border. About ten days later Company 3, Commander
arrived and ordered them to cease training and temporarily disguise themselves
as local inhabitants as a U.S. press delegation was coming to observe the situa-
tion as GVN accusations were that Cambodian territory was sheltering liberation
troops. They resumed their training after four or five days when the U.S. delega-
tion did not show up.
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In December 1967, several members of Company 3, VC Battalion 6 were sent for
military training at an installation in a forest in the BA THU area, CAMBODIA,
adjacent to the CAMBODIA/SVN border. Nearby was a dispensary for VC wounded.
The instructors were military cadres sent from COSVN regional level and
included among the instructors were: BAO, 3A DEN, TU HEN and LAM. The
installation could only receive about 50 recruits and the training period
was about 15 days.
The installation consisted of two buildingis measuring 4 x 8 meters which
were' used as teaching conference halls. During training the VC recruits
went daily to conference hall for study arid to neighboring forests for military
pradtive. At, night they slept in the houses of the local people most of
whom were Vietnamese, Duty attendants were responsible for their food.
3. Shortly after the members of VC Battalion 6 arrived at this installation in
December, they were advised not to leave the premises. Two days later two
Cambodian soldiers came to the installation and asked them if they were from
SVN. Ten days later, TY, the Company Commander of Company 3, Battalion 6,
arrived and told them training was to be stopped temporarily and they were
to disguide themselves as local inhabitants. The explanation was that the
Cambodian government was permitting a U.S. press delegation to come there to
observe the situation because of GVi accusations that Cambodian territory was
sheltering liberation troops. However, after waiting four or five days for
the U.S. delegation which did not show up, the training was resumed.
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