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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100070005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document coatains lniormation affecting the Na-
tional Defenso of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.E3. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of ita contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person !s prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL -UoSo OFFICIALS ONLY
SUBJECT D?sertion of Hoa Hao Leader Vinh
25X1A
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
25X1A
7 Au.gllst l9` 3
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
R,EFER~ICES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS iENTAi1VE.
(fOR KEY. SEE REVERSE)
SOURCE:
TNf FBLIQI~tN~ REI~iIY WAS !~lEYIOUSl.'F
pESrRI~UTEO AS PRELIMINAUY
,~.Y.IhUl~li1H NUNC$ERfD ... .:......................:
1, About 2~. July Hoa Hao leader Vinh, aka Pa Gamo Fighting Cock)9 deserted his
post near Mytho (N 10-219 E 106-21) with one compa~iy of troops. He entered
the Plaine des Jones and made contact with Ba Cut,
2, Ba Cut sent his Chief-of.-Staff to the headquarters o# Trinh Minh. The9 but his
arrival has not as yet been reported,2
25X1A
~omments
25X1X
25X1A
1. A previous Hoa Hao desertion from the Vietnamese National Arm was reported
25X1 A on 27 June which 25X1 A
stated tha e a emp s o e ie namese ommander-in-Chief9 Nguyen Van
Hinh9 to underrrline the leaders o.f. Nationalist groups had led to the defec-
tion of Ba Cut,.
Trinh Minh The is a dissident Cao.Dai military leader.
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