MILITARY AND CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN SOUTH VIETNAM

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: April 27, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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OCI No. 1204/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
27 April 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Military and Civilian Casualties in
bouth Vietnam
1. Attached as Table 1 are statistics on cas-
ualties sustained by the Viet Cong and'government
forces since the beginning of the year. The figures
for wounded in action on the government side have
been isolated from the killed in action and missing
in action categories so as to give a greater com-
parability with casualties on the Viet Cong side.
(No wounded in action statistics are available for
the Viet Cong.)
2. Firm statistics on civilian victims of
Viet Cong terrorism have been available in Washing-
ton only since MACV instituted its FISHNET report-
ing series shortly after the Viet Cong attack on
Pleiku in early February. The intelligence commu-
nity is now embarked on efforts to develop reason-
ably firm figures for this kind of activity for the
preceding years.
3. MACV breaks civilian casualties down into
"outrages" and "atrocities," but the criteria
Saigon uses to distinguish between these categories
are not available in Washington. These figures are
attached as Table 2.
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Ccoparison of Viet Cong and Government Personnel Losses Reported by MACV
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Government Viet Cong
TOTALS TOTALS
WSE[C KIA MIA KIA & MIA WIA KIA, WIA, MIA
26 Dec 64
- 2 Jan 65
2-9
Jan65
w
9 - 16
Jan 65
Ix
u
17 - 24
Jan 65
24 - 31
.Ian 65
Cl)
31 Jan 65 -?6 Feb 65
6 - 13 Feb 65
? 6-13 Mar 65
13 - 20 Mar 65
20 - 27 Mar 65
27 Mar 65 - 3 Apr 65
3 - 10 Apr 65
10 - 17 Apr 65
13 - 20 Feb 65
20 - 27 Feb 65
27 Feb 65 - 6 Mar 65
350 1 536 556 232 153 385 4 7) 11852)
146 40 186 (308) ( 494)
201 125 326 480) ( 806)
225 100 325 524) ( 849)
42 140 182 (124) ( 306)
290 611 901 (657) (1558)
212 201 413 (479) ( 892)
294 398 692 (513) (1205)
232 304 536 479) (1015.)
252 239 491 485) ( 976)
103 93 196 274) ( 470)
89 65 154 242) ( 396)
189 110 299 386) ( 685)
155 59 214 451 ( 665)
90 29 119 (238 ( 357)
KIA
Captured
TOTALS
KIA & Captured
510
185
595
426
86
512
546
196
742
638
160
798
182
49
231
505
128
633
442
39
481
364
88
452
498
72
570
558
74
632
258
106
364
325
106
431
795
80
875
643
134
777
260
61
321
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Civilian Casualties Reported by MACV
Outrages
Killed Wounded Kidnaped
February 33 55 232
March 139 145 322
April* 95 164 799
Atrocities
Killed Wounded Kidnaped
February 20 - - - - - -
March 36 96 100
April* 32 168 - - -
*Incomplete
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