"COMMUNIST EVASION OF THE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS ON VIETNAM, KOREA, AND LAOS"

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 12, 1963
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
12 June 1963
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: Communist Evasion of the International
Agreements on Vietnam, Korea, and Laos
Since the end of the fighting in Korea, the
United States has had an opportunity to observe in
practice the implementation of international agree-
ments by truce supervision commissions in Korea,
Vietnam, and Laos. Communist violations of the in-
ternational agreements made with respect to each of
these countries have been numerous and flagrant.
Nevertheless, the supervisory commissions have been
able to document only a handful of Communist trans-
gressions. Their failure has been due to Communist
evasion, harassment, and obstruction. At the same
time that the Communist members of the commissions
used their positioris.to violate both the spirit and
letter of the agreements, they gained an additional
advantage by collecting valuable intelligence on
non-Communist military activities through commission
operations. They have been aided in their actions
by the functional weakness of'the commissions under
terms of the international agreements.
General Nature of Communist Evasion
1. The Communists have managed to evade de-
tection by the commissions of violations in North
Vietnam and North Korea by placing crippling re-
strictions on the scope and frequency of inspections
by commission investigation teams. Endless Commu-
nist excuses, such as an alleged lack of transporta-
tion or security in the area to be investigated, have
also been used to block operation of the teams.
2. Since the commission for Vietnam was estab-
lished in 1954, North Vietnamese military facilities
have been steadily expanded'and the army has been
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approximately doubled in strength. During the
same period a relatively modern, well-balanced
army has been created in North Korea to replace
the broken, defeated force left at the end of
the Korean War. Both of these developments are
in direct violation of the international agree-
ments on Vietnam and Korea.
3. In Laos and South Vietnam, the supervisory
commissions have been hamstrung by the actions of
Communist commission members, who have been able
to delay the initiation of inspections until local
Communist authorities could take appropriate action
to cover up violations. Inspection teams in Laos
and South Vietnam have also been overloaded by count-
less false Communist charges of violations by pro-
western forces in those countries.
4. In the meantime, North Vietnamese troops
and supplies have been used with impunity by Hanoi
to support Communist Pathet Lao aggression in Laos.
Hanoi has also fueled the Communist insurrection in
South Vietnam with a stream of guerrilla infiltrators,
money, and supplies. These activities are barred
by the international agreements.
5. While sabotaging commission operations in
South Vietnam and South Korea, Communist commission
members have used their posts to collect military
intelligence on South Vietnamese and South Korean
armed forces. In South Vietnam, the Communists
have also used the commission as a link with the
local Communist guerrillas.
6. In obstructing the operations of the super-
visory commissions, the Communists have been aided
by the failure of the international agreements to
spell out in detail commission powers and procedures.
No enforcement mechanism was provided any of the
commissions and investigative procedures were left
vague. The Communists have particularly used the
latter weakness to bog the commissions down in a
mass of procedural red tape. The commissions have
also been weakened on occasion by members from neu-
tral nations who, bending over backward to demon-
strate their neutrality, have unfairly favored the
Communist side.
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