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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000400050041-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: September 12, 1967
• Content Type: CABLE

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R OLE, T HEY INFL ICT CASUALTIES ON ALLIED. -FtRtCES.
`:EET SELF -EFENSE FORCES ARE AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENT WHICH
OPERATE IN GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED AID CONTESTED AREAS. THEY
PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE COMMUNIST EFFORT, PRIMARILY BY CL.ANDESTINr
INTELL IGFNCE AI TIVI:T'IES' AND AS A r RESIDUE OF THE COMMLJN IST
PRESENCE 'j N IUCH .AREAS.
`" tm rNG T'HE. PAST YEAR WE HAVE LEARNED MORE ABOUT A VC
ORGAN IZF`T' ION CALLED ;. SSUALT YOUTH'. THEY SERVE FULL-TIME AT
DISTRICT LEVEL AND AE'OIE, AND THEY ARE ORGANIZED INTO BATTALIONS
C I PANIES, AND PLATOONS. ALTHOUGH SOME ARE ARMED O THE COMMUNISTS
D O NOT CONSIDER THEN AS A COMBAT' 'FORCE; THEIR PRIMARY MISSION
APPEARS TO SE A LOGISTICAL ONE lRtbVUEVTLV'lN BATTLEFIELD AREAS.
COXE OF THE CASUALTIES INFLICTED BY ALLIED FORCES IN PAT_ .LE ,AR.F
CUSTAINED BY THE 'SSAULT YOUTH' . THIS ORGANIZATION AL50~3ERVES
A MANPOWER POa. AND TRAINING PROGRAM FOR' YOUTH WHO LATER 00
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r EM tS ARE PROBABLY INCLUDED IN OUR CASUALTY FIGURES AND THEY
ACCOUNT FOR A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE CHIEU HOIS." END 'TEXT
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