MILITARY SITUATION IN SOUTH VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100070035-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: July 12, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

SUBJECT: MILITARX SITUATION IN SOUTH VIETNAM .
Fighting is light in most parts of the country. In
the central highlands, however, a government operation
which began on July 2 in Dar Lac Province against Communist
units west of Ban Me Thuot has met increased resistance.
Contact with several of the South Vietnamese units has been
lost.
There are reports that fresh Communist units are
being brought into the Ben Cat area north of Saigon to
attack government military bases and inflict heavy casual-
25X1 ties on South Vietnamese units. Other reports suggest that
increased action on this front will be timed to coincide
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WHITE HOUSE SUPPORT STAFF
DIRECTOR: WHITE HOUSE SITUATION Rr!()".'.
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with South Vietnamese provincial council elections this
Sunday.
There has been no official confirmation of press
reports that heavy government air strikes have been con-
ducted against Communist areas along the Cambodian border
north and west of Saigon. Government commando raids and
air strikes reportedly have succeeded in cutting the Com-
munist oil pipeline along the border in the western high-
lands.
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