COVERAGE OF THE SAIGON-GIA DINH SITUATION FOR THE PERIOD 0800 3 FEBRUARY TO 2130 6 FEBRUARY 1968

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• Publication Date: February 13, 1968

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COVERAGE OF THE SAIGON-GIA DINH SITUATION- FOR THE
osefq 3 FEBRUARY TO 2130 6 FEBRUARY 1963
Act) VIETNAM, SA I GON /7 FEU UAP.Y 196g/
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I. THE FOLLOWING CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS WAS POSTED A it
COMBINED SECURITY COMMITTEE AS THE EVENTS WERE REPORTED . S
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SOME INACCURACIES. THE. CHRONOLOGY IS PRESENTED, HOWEVER, SINCE VI'
GIVES A GOOD PICTURE OF HOW THE VC ATTACK ON. SA IGON- GIA DIm
DEVELOPED DURING THE PERIOD COVERED,:
3 FEB
030011 TUE CURFEW IS LIFTED FROM 0800H TO I40H TODAY IN SA ION
AREA. IT IS ONLY IN EFFECT FROM THE 1ST PRECINCT THR.0 STH
PRECINCT, EXCEPT THE 9TH PRECINCT AND GIA DINH AREA. VEHICLES
AND BICYCLES ARE NOT Al.LOWED MOVING ON THE STREETS.
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0900H THE VC ARE CONCENTRATING AT WAREHOUSES LOCATED AT COORDINATES
XS 7901360 AND XS 7g9859, ALONG ME COC CANAL 171 PRECINCT/.
REQUEST A IRSTRIVES TO BE DIRECTED ON THESE COORDINATES.
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FRIENDLY FORCES REMOVED. BODIES OF THREE VN DEAD POLICEMEN
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AND ONE NEWS REPORTER ON LY THAI TO STREET /5TH P ECINCT /.
DEAD CIVILIANS AND VC ARE REMOVED BY THE SAIGON Ft E BRIGADE.
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A VN RANGER UNIT IS ORDERED TO CROSS THE NH! THIE DUONG BRIDGE
/8TH PRECINCT/ TO CLEAR A VC MACHINE GUN CELL .
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110511 A VC PLATOON IS APPEARING AT THE NGUYEN VAN TO POe ICE SUB-
1120H MSS/CMD INFORMED THAT APPROXIMATELY 50 VC FULLY A MED ARE
APPEARING AT A ROW OF TEN HOUSES NO 322 ON SU VAN HANN STREET
STATION /6TH PRECINCT/.
/5TH PRECINCT/. REQUEST TO CROSSCHECK THIS INFOR,ATION
/REPORTED BY LOCAL POPULATION/.
133010 AN ARVN JEEP BEARING PLATE NO, 1234 15 WAS SEIZED BY THE VC
IN THE VICINITY OF NO. 30 PETRUS KY STREET /5TH PRECINCT/.
TWO ARMED VC ARE APPEARING AT HOUSE NO 194 TU DUC STREET /1ST
PRECINCT/.
160011 A NUMBER OF VC ARE PENETRATING INTO THE CHILDREN'SiHOSPITAL
LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF SU VAN HANN AND LY THAI tO STREETS
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/5TH PREC INCT / � SEVER AL MED ICS WOR V I NG THERE ESCAPED
FEARFULL Y
1630H THE 3D PRECINCT POLICE APPREHENDED TWO VC AT KY VIE N TO
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PAGODA LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF PHAN DINH PHUNG AND BAN Ca
STREETS /30 PREC !OCT
TEN SUSPECTS ARE rPOTTED ENT EP ING A CATHOLIC cHIPcH LOCATrb
AT NO 38 KY �D ONG STREET /30 PREC INCT /.
172M IT IS CONFIRMED THAT T}'rE ARVN VEHICLE STOLEN nY THE'Vr� THIS
AFTER NOON IS AN A MPUL A NCE JEEP BEAR I Nr: LICENCE PL ATE NO 193415 .
1910H VC WEAPONS ARE REPCRTEDLY SET UP AT THE MAC DM CHI CEMETERY
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FACING THE U .S . AMBASSADOR IS RESIDENCE c,
1955H A VC GROUP IS APPEARING AT NO. 16/1 ROANG DIEU STREET /TAN
BINH DISTRICT/.
225011 VC FIRED APPROXYOUR ROUNDS OF B-40 ROCKETS INTO THE 6TH,
PRECINCT POLICE STATION.
FEB
251 A RICE WAREHOUSE LOCATED, ON LE ODA NG L IEM QUAY /6T H,FRECINCT /
WAS UNDER VC PRESSURE.
0522H A VC BATTALION IS REPORTEDLY APPEARING IN THE VICINITY OF A ROKFV
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NtiMRER OF VC APPEAR ON THE ROOF OF THE RI NI( TAY ALCOHOL
PLANT LOCATED ON LE (WANG. ITEM (WAY /6TH PRECINCT / FACING
THE 7TH PRECINCT POLICE STATION.
0930H
THREE VC APPEAR AT THE BINH TIEN BUDGE /61H PRECINCT /.
0935H
THE VC /STRENGTH UNKNOWN/
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CONCENTRATED IN THE VINH .KHANH MOVIE THEATER LOCATED ON
LE (MANG LIEM (WAY /6TH PRECINCT/ APPROX. 70 METERS- FROM
THE U- SHAPED BRIDGE.
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OF THE BINH TAY ALCOHOL PLANT LOCATED
ON LE QUANG ITEM QUAY /6TH PRECINCT/.
1055H
A VN RANGER UNIT CLASHED WITH THE VC AT THE BINH TAy ALCOHOL
PLANT /6TH PRECINCT/.
FRIENDLY FORCES CLASHED WITH THE VC AT CAU (INH BRIDIGE, IN THE
VICINITY OF THE NGUYEN VAN TO POLICE SUB-STATION /6TH PRECINCT I.
1)58H THE 61H PRECINCT POLICE REQUESTED THAT REINFORCEMENTS BE
PROVIDED TO NGUYEN VAN TO POLICE SUB-STATIONi�
1115H A VN RANGER UNIT OPERATING AT THE BINH TAY ALCOHOL PLANT ASKED
FORITAIR-:' SUPPORT
" 1250)4 A POLICE JEEP BEARING LICENSE PLATE NO VA 9469, PAINTED LIGHT
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1450H ABOUT 10 VC WERE SPOTTED AT THE VUNG POT ALLFWAY ON
IRAN NHAN TON STREET /5TH PRECINCT/, PETwEEN Nunn VUONG tO)
VINH VIEN STREETS.
1455H SNIPER F TRE.D ON THE 5T H PRECINCT POLICE FORCE THAT WAS
0131..:13 AT I NO ON SII VAN HA NH A'!1) re NM VA Nr; STREETS , AT MN LA!
WARD /5TH PCT/.
1500H THE VC ATTACKED AN AR VN JEEP MOVING ON BINH TIEN BRIDGE /6TH
PCT/. THEY SET IT ON FIRE, CAPTURED ALIVE THREE AON SOLDIERS
AND TOOK THE LATTER TO 91\ I SAY 7ERF'Y
1500B IT WAS REPORTED THAT VC RETURNEES WHO WERE STATIONED AT A
RETURNEES' CENTER LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF TRAN NHAN TOP AND
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VINH VIEN STREETS /5TH PRECINCT/, HAVE LEFT THEIR CENTER .
LOCAL PEOPLE DISCLOSED THAT APPROX 1,91n
VC WEARING VARIOUS CLOTHES, FULLY ARMED, wERP SPOTTED c,oNcEN-
TRATING IN CAY XOAI MARKET LOCATED
TRUNG MILITARY TRAINING CENTER AND
ON THE ROAD LINKING OUANG
SAIGON.
TONIGHT A COMPANY-S IZEDfC,VC UNIT
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/4 FEBRUARY 1968/ THI, VC WILL RLGROUP THEIR FORCES IN ORDER TO
ATTACK GVN OUTPOSTS LCCATED IN AREAS BORDERING SAIGON CAPITAL.
THE VC WILL ALSO SHELL THE TAN SON NHUT AIRBASE AS WELL AS
OTHER !7ENSITIVE IrTALLATIONS LOCATED IN SAIGON CITY4
IT IS KNOWN THAT THERE ARE TWO
PAGODAS WHERE THE VC ARE REPORTEDLY HIDING--
1. THICH CA TU PAGODA LOCATED ON IRAN GUANG DIEU STREET
/3D PRECINCT/0
2. PHAP VAN PAGODA LOCATE9 0!Q TRPONG MIH GIANn STREET /30 PCT/.
1950H THE VC, USING A MEGAPHONE, APPEALED TO THE OWNER OF BINH TAY
ALCOHOL PLANT IN 7TH PRECINCT TO LET THEM INc
2100H AN ESTIMATED 40 VC HAVE IOILTRATED INTO THE STORAGE AREA OF THE
SAIGON HARBOR LOCATFD IN THE TRIANGULAR AREA COVERING LY THAI TO7
PETRUS KY AND HUNG VUONG STREETS /5TH PRECINCT/. SEVEN HARBOR
PERSONNEL ON DUTY HAVE PLED.)
215..5H THE VC HAVE CUT BARBED WIRE AND BROKEN INTO HOUSE N0_34I
52230H
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230014 TEN U /I PERSONS, WEARING. BL ACK PAJAMAS, HAVE REPORTEDLY
MOVED INTO AN AREA COVERING NGUYEN CANH CHAN, CHUONG DUON(1,
PHAT DIEM AND TRAN HUNG DAO STREETS,. 2D PRECINCT .
2345H A NUMBER OF U/I PERSONS HAVE APPEARED AT A VACANT HOUSE. NO
152VC BOX THI XUAN STREET /20 PRECINCT/. A SIGN "KIm LOAN �
FACTORY IS IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE:
5 FEB
0005H A NUMBER OF VC HAVE REPORTEDLY APPEARED IN AN AREA COVERING
PHAN DINH PHUNG, NGUYEN THIEN THUAT, PHAN THANH GIAN AND LY
THAI TO STREETS.
00I0H OUR FRIENDLY FORCES HAVE. EXCHANGED FIRE WITH THE VC IN THE
ABOVE RECTANGULAR AREA'
0025H A VC PLATOON HAS REPORTEDLY MOVED FROM PHU LAM AREA TOWAPD SAIGON/
PASSING BY LO SIEU HAMLET /6TH PRECINCT/.
cio3rilli A COMPANY-SIZED VC UNIT HAS INFILTRATED INTO HOUSES LOCATED
AT THE REAR OF IRAN VAN CHAU POLICE SUS-STATION /8TH PRECINCT /,
AND TWO OR THREE OF THEM WERE KILLED BY THE POLICE
0325H THE ENEMY HAVE CONDUCTED AN INTENSIVE GROUND ATTACK ON TRAN VAN
CHAU POLICE SUB-STATION.,
5 0425H THE VC HAVE ATTACKED A RF GUARD POST LOCATED AT NH! THIEN DUONG
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0430H THE IRAN VAC,: CHAU FOLCE SUR-STATION WAS PARTLY COLLAPSED,
A NutoPER DF POLlEN WERE WOUNDED AND THE VC HAVE STAYED
CLOSE TO THE FENCES
044Th THE VC HAVE ATTACKEP HE KVA CONG MUOI POLICE SUP-STATION.
0503H THE POLICE JEEP BEA G LICENSE PLATE NO CS R-13, EOUPPED
ATM A MeHINE GUN
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0/05H REQUEST FRIENDLY A
0710H SAIGON HARBOR POLIC.
AREA LOCATED AT THE
/5TH PRECINCT/.
0722H REQUEST FRIENDLY ARTY RE DIRECTED AT COORD. YS 77N37.
1027H VN POLICE FORCES ARRESTED ONE SUSPECT WHO CROSSED THE
HONG THAP TU AND NGUYEN THIEN THUAT INTERSECTION /3D PRECINCT/.
1..0H AROUT 200 VC REPORTEDLY INFILTRATED INTO THE VICINITY OF PHU
THO HIPPODROME /5TH PRECINCT/4',
1225H THE VC ARE RECEIVING AMMUNITION AT THE ESSO GAS STATION LOCATED
AT THE CORNER OF HAI BA TRUONG AND IRAN CAO VAN STREETS /151
S SE 17tF.0 RY THE VC AT HIEP AN BRIDGE
BTH PRECINCT!:
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1325H ABOUT FIVE TO TEN VC ARE SIGHTED AT THE CORNER OF NHAN
III AND HUNG VUONG STREETS /5TH PRECINCT/:
1330}-1 THE VC ARE ESCAPING FROM NGUYEN THIEN THUAT STREET TOWARD
THE ROM/ BILLET LOCATED ON PHAN THANH GIAN STREET /3D PT/.
t5�0H A SIZEABLE VC UNIT IS REPORTEDLY SHELTERING AT THE QUANG DONG
CEMETERY LOCATE-1 IN THE VICINITY OF PHI! THO RACE TRACI? ATP
PCI!. TTO VC CONPANIES. HAVE 1-;,..FW.TE:)LY PENETRATED INTO THE
ORPHANS' HOUSE LOCATED IN THE. VICINITY OF cow; HOA VILITARY
�HOSPITAL IN DO VAP DISTRICT /GIA DINH PROV./ TO GET FOOD.
1655H AN ARMED VC lNIT /STRENGTH UNKNOWN/ IS REPORTEDLY 'LOCATED IN
THE VICINITY OF THE BINH LOI BRIDGE ON NATIONAL ROO 110 1 IN
THU DUC DISTRICT /GIA DINH PROVINCt:/.
AN ESTIMATED 111 oPmFD VC FROM PLOCK NO 6,1 CAU 'ow).
REPORTEDLY MOVED ALONG A CREEX TO STATiON T MSEL.i/E 5 197 tYLocK
NO 5 OF THE SAME WARD /3TH PRECINCT].
LAST NIGHT 4 FE'l Trn VC COMPANIES, FULLY ARMED, S 11,z1-
FROM BINH TIEN 1.0ARD, 4TTArl(!�:0 THE NGUYEN VAN TO POLICE PUP-
STATION /6TH PRECINCT /. ANOTHER VC PLATOON ARMED WITH THREE
AUTOMATIC RIFLES HAVE REPORTEDLY,PENETRATED INTO L,0 SIEU WARD
IN THE. VICINITY OF CA Y MAT AR VN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL
/6111 PRECINCT/.
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1905H IT IS REPORTED THAT THE VC HAVE CONCEALED THEIR litFAPONS
AT LAM TOY !MIA PA GO A LOCATED AT ALL reA Y NO 11 TR UO Nri
MINH GIANG STREET 3D PRECINCT I.
2111P AN ESTINTED 1,1:10 V': PAVE APPEARED AT THE HIEP AN BRIDE IN THE
VICINITY OF TRAN VAN CHAU POLICE SUR-STATION P! A V ATTEMPT Tn
CONDUCT AN ATTACK ON THE 8TH PRECIPCT POLICE STATION TONIGHT.
2O0oH A TOYOTA SEDAN, LICEMSE PLATE EH 3,-,31, IS BEING USED TO
TRANSPORT VC WEAPONS. IT HAS FREQuENTLYmoVED AROUND mIN4
mANG, PHAm THAMH GIA,N rVAr 9 I 'Ili PHUNG STREETS /31D AND 5TH
PRECINCTS/.
2030H THE IRAN VAN CHAU POLICE dUB-STATI ON HA S BEEN OVERRUN BY THE VC.
SUBSEQUENTLY THE VC ARE CROSSING THE RIVER TO ATTACK THE 8TH
PRECINCT POLICE STATION. NOW THE STH PRECINCT POLICE ARE
EXCHANGING FIRE WITH THE VC.
2110 TIE 8111 PRECINCT POLICE STATION HAS BEEN SET ON FIRE BY TPF
VC. , POLICEMEN WHO ARE STATIONED THERE HAVE MOVED TOTHE FIRE
BRIGADE STATION OPPOSITE IT
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6 FEB
0015H AN ESTIMATED VC HAVE REPORTEDLY MOVED FROM PINH TAY
MARKET PLACE TO CAY MAT MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL LOCATED
ON PHAM DINH HO STREET /6TH PRECINCT
ROUSH THE VC HAVE REPORTEDLY APPEARED ON TONG DOC PHUONG ST EET AND
AT CHA TAM CATHOLIC CHURCH LOCATED AT THE 5TH PRECINCT.
0125H AN ESTIMATED 100 VC HAVE ,REPORTEDLY MOVED FROM CAY MAI o
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL TOWARD SAIGON;
��1 THE CHOLON POWER PLANT L9G(4TED ON TAN HUNG STREET /5TH PRECINCT/
WAS DAMAGED BY AN EXPLOSION OF UNKNOWN ToYPE AND A NUMBER .OF
WORKERS ON DUTY WERE WOUNDED .
0205H THE VC ARE CONDUCTING A GROUND ATTACK ON BA HOA POLICE S UP-
STATION LOCATED AT 7TH PREC,INCT WITH CREW- SERVED WEAPONS.
REINFORCEMENTS ARE REQUESTED.
0310H THE CHIEF OF BA HOA POLICE SUB-STATION AND A NUMBER OF POLICEMEN
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0315H THE VO VAN HO! POLICE SUB-STATION /5TH PRECINCT/ IS BEING ATTACKED
BY THE VC.
0540H BOTH BA HOA AND VO VAN Ho! POLICE SUB-STATIONS ARE LOSING RADIO
CONTACT WITH SMPO AND DGNP.
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0300H CORRECT INA-- THE TRAM VAN CHAU POLICE S1111-5T AT MN HAS NOT PEEN
SEI7ED BY THE VC AS REPORTED AT 2.031H ON 5 FEB 69. POLICEMEN
HAVE STILL STV(ED T MEIR STATION TO FIGHT THE VC THROUGHOUT
T HF: NI GHT .
0S3VH THE VC ARE SPOTTE1) HE VICINITY OF NGUYEN VAN LIEN POLICE
SUB-STATION /8TH PRECINCT/o
1030H NGUYEN VAN THOAI POLICE SUB-STATION IS UNDER VC FIRE. ONE
POLICEMAN WAS WOUNDED.
THE VC ARE SIGHTED APPEARING AT THE CORNER OF PHO CO DIEU AND
LY NAM DE STRI..FTS /5TH PRECINCT/`..
THE VC SET BARRELS ON 110A HAO STREET /5TH PRECINCT/ FOR BARRI-
1045H
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CADES .
THE VC HAVE PUT A TAXICAB IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE IRAN F40 A N QUA NI AND THUAN KIEU INTERSECTION IN ORDER
TO BLOCK THE TRAFFIC.
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TOWARD CI:7;1,74,y 140-,'PITA1. RECEIVED VC SNIPER FIRE /511PREGINCTi.
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DISGUISING AS Vt! POLICE.--N ARE CHECKING PAPERS OF PEfLE
PASSING BY LO SIEU STREET AND CHO THIEr MARKET /5TH 'PRECINCT/.
1400H THE 3D ARVN MARINE RATTA1 ION MIST rot7 To PEI NFORCE THE nPt. Try
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NGUYEN Cu TRIN) AND NIAi DIEM. STRFF.TS Pn PRECINCT I.
1515H OUR FRIENDLY FORCES WERE HIT BY VC FIRE AT THUAN VIEU AND
IRAN HOANG RUAN INTERSECTION /5TH PRECINCT I.
154511 OUR FRIENDLY FORCES HAVE CLASHED WITH AN ESTIMATED 100 VC
AT THE REAR OF VIEN DON( SCHOOL LOCATED ON NGUYEN VAN THOAI
STREET /TAN. BINH DISTRICT /. WE SUFFERED ONE WIA
U745H AN ESTIMATED 213 ARMED VC HAVE INFILTRATE!) INTO THE GIAC
MINH PAGODA AND ANOTHER PAGODA NEXT TO THE GIAC MINH � THESE
PAGODAS ARE LOCATED ON PHAN THANH NAN STREET /3D PRECINCT/
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2130H THE VC JUST RELEASED AN ARVN SERGEANT AND 24 ADDITIONAL ARVN
SOLDIERS /PLACE OF CAPTURE AND PLACE OF RELEASE NOT KNOWN/.
THE ARVN SGT ESTIMATES THAT THE VC STRENGTH IS BETWEEN WI TO
120 MEN. THEY ARE IN POSSESSION OF AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF 3-WHEEL
LAMBRETTA RUSSES9 JEEPS� GMC TRUCKS AND AMBULANCE VANS. THERE
IS SPECULATION THAT THE VC WOULD USE THESE VEHICLES TO INFILTRATE
INTO THE SAIGON CAPITAL /INFORMATION FROM 1) GNP /.
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