COMMUNIST MOVEMENTS IN LAOS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00472A000400010028-7
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2012
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: January 28, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
28 January 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Communist Movements in Laos
1. Recent reports from roadwatch teams on
Routes 12 and 23 reveal continuing Communist truck
movement into the Panhandle area of Laos from
North Vietnam. We still lack specifics on cargoes
and destinations involved in this activity, but*
it adds further evidence of a general reinforce-
ment in this area,
2.
in the period from 11 to 26 January a total of some 70
trucks moved west on Route 12 toward the Nhommarath-
Mahaxay area, for an average of about 5 trucks
per day. In the same period, about 100 trucks
moved south on Route 23. These movements included
a 60 truck convoy on 25 January, the largest south-
bound convoy observed on Route 23 since mid-December.
Most of the above trucks carried unidentified cargo,
although in some instances small numbers of Com-
munist troops were apparently transported.
3.
On 20 January gov-
ernment forces captured a North Vietnamese prisoner
who admitted in a preliminary interrogation that
he was assigned to a PAVN unit operating in the
Tchepone area. He said that he entered Laos last
November.
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4. We still have not regained our roadwatch
capability along Route 7; the last report was on
28 December. However, there are indications that
Communist traffic continues to move into the Plaine
des Jarres via this key route. Recent photography
confirms earlier visual sightings
of the use of a ford just north of the
destroyed Ban Ken bridge, east of Ban Ban.
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