CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 5, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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National Intelligence Bulletin
May 5, 1975
CONTENTS
VIETNAM: The communists form a "military management com-
mittee" to oversee the occupation of Saigon. (Page 1)
CAMBODIA: The deported foreigners will have harsh words
for their former captors. (Page 3)
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National Intelligence Bulletin
May 5, 1975
Over the weekend the communists announced the forma-
tion of an 11-man "military management committee," headed
by Viet Cong General Tran Van Tra, to oversee the occupa-
tion of Saigon. The committee reportedly met yesterday
with a number of senior officials of the former govern-
ment, including Duong Van Minh, Nguyen Van Huyen, Vu Van
Mau, and others, all of whom were "allowed to return
freely to their families."
The communists made a number of other moves intended
to restore normalcy to Saigon. They included:
--a call for all Saigon municipal employees to return
to work--1,500 had reportedly done so on May 1;
--the publication yesterday of the first edition of
the new newspaper Saigon Liberated Daily;
--announcement of the first Viet Cong flights into
Tan Son Nhut;
--resumption of programs on Saigon television;
--announcement of "registration" procedures for
former government military personnel.
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The more than 300 foreigners deported from Cambodia
over the weekend will have harsh words for their former
captors but will not publicize their experiences until
the remaining deportees reach safety. It may be over a
week before the deportation to Thailand is completed.
The three Americans among those arriving in the
first group told US officials that the three-day journey
in open trucks was extremely difficult and claim that at
least one person died en route. They also told of "ugly
incidents" during the journey resulting from the refusal
of seven Soviet personnel in the group to share provi-
sions.
Some international repercussions may well be in store
for the new authorities in Phnom Penh for their handling
of the deportations. The communists' failure to grant
the French permission to ev uate personnel b air has
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Moscow has pro es e e
rough treatment o Soviet personnel during the initial
occupation of the capital and must be upset over their
humiliating expulsion.
xeno-
phobia on the part of the new a o ian aaerszrlVin the
two weeks since Phnom Penh's surrender. This behavior is
sure to provide grist for the mills of the 26 journalists
among those originally confined in the French embassy
compound. The more internationally attuned Prince Sihan-
ouk--who attended funeral ceremonies for his mother in
Peking yesterday and who may return to Cambodia this
week--is probably dismayed at the backwoods di lomac
now in evidence in Phnom Penh.
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