SELECTED NEW LIFE RURAL HAMLETS WESTERN PLEIKU PROVINCE SOUTH VIETNAM

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 3, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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SELECTED NEW LIFE RURAL HAMLETS
WESTERN PLEIKU PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM
1. IN MARCH OF 1962, THE DIEM GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH VIETNAM,
SUPPORTED BY THE UNITED STATES, INSTITUTED A PROGRAM OF REORGANIZING
THE HAMLETS OF THE COUNTRY INTO FORTIFIED DEFENSIVE POSITIONS CALLED
STRATEGIC HAMLETS.
2. THE PURPOSE OF THE STRATEGIC HAMLET PROGRAM WAS TO MOVE THE
PEASANTS IN FROM THE VIET CONG-INFESTED COUNTRYSIDE TO THE FORTIFIED
VILLAGES, THUS DEPRIVING THE ENEMY OF FOOD AND COVER AND PLACING THE
ONUS OF ATTACK ON THE VC.
3, THE STRATEGIC HAMLET CONCEPT CALLED FOR THE BUILDING OF DEFENSE
WORKS AROUND EXISTING VILLAGES -- MOATS, TRENCHES, WATCH TOWERS, BARBED
WIRE AND EMPLACED BAMBOO SPEARS, ETC. EACH HAMLET WOULD TRAIN MEN (AND
SOMETIMES WOMEN IN PARAMILITARY TACTICS FOR DEFENSE OF THE VILLAGE.
A CIVIL GUARD AND A SELF-DEFENSE-CORPS, COMPRISED OF INHABITANTS OF THE
DISTRICT, WAB TO BE ORGANIZED AND TRAINED BY THE ARMY. WHEN THE
TRAINING REACHED AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL, THE ARMY WAS TO MOVE OUT AND THE
LOCAL UNITS WERE TO TAKE OVER. THE VILLAGE THEN BECAME KNOWN AS A
"STRATEGIC HAMLET" (AND LATER AS A "NEW LIFE RURAL HAMLET"~. PRIOR TO
THE ARMY'S WITHDRAWAL, IT WAS CALLED A "SECURE HAMLET".
4. THIS GRAPHIC DEPICTS THE DETERIORATION OF THE HAMLET PROGRAM
IN WESTERN PLEIKU PROVINCE SINCE LATE 1963.
These notes have been prepared For briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work.
Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid
only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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5. REVEALS AN ACTIVE STRATEGIC 25X1
HAMLET AT PLEI GIRAO M`NOU (INSTALLATION N0. 07/0077/A IN NPIC
STRATEGIC HAMLET STUDY), UTM YA82~237~, TO CONTAIN FORTY BUILDINGS
AND APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY-FIVE SHEDS AND HUTS. THE HAMLET IS SECURED
BY A DOUBLE FENCE.
TROJAN HORSE REVEALS THAT THE SECURITY
FENCING HAS BEEN REMOVED AND SEVERAL OF THE BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED
OR DAMAGED. NUMEROUS BOMB CRATERS ARE OBSERVED.
6.
REVEALS AN ACTIVE STRATEGIC 25X1
HAN~ET ONE NM NORTH-NORTHEAST OF PLEI P'NOUK (INSTALLATION N0. 07/oo53/A),
UTM YA950296~-, TO CONTAIN FORTY BUILDINGS AND SEVENTY-FOUR SHEDS AND HUTS.
THE HAMLET IS SECURED BY A DOUBLE FENCE.
TROJAN HORSE REVEALS THAT THE DOUBLE 25X1
FENCING HAS BEEN REMOVED AND ALL BUILDINGS RAZED.
7, REVEALS AN ACTIVE STRATEGIC 25X1
HAP~ET I.4 NM EAST-NORTHEAST OF DINH DIEN LE KIM (INSTALLATION N0.
07/oo59/A), LTTM YA973396~, TO CONTAIN ONE HUNDRED TWO BUILDINGS AND
SEVERAL SMALL HUTS. THE HAMLET IS SECURED BY A DOUBLE FENCE.
TROJAN HORSE
HAS BEEN RAZED.
~ UTM COORDINATES ARE BASED ON MAP SERIES L6o5
These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work.
Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid
only For the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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SELECTED NEW LIFE RURAL HAMLETS
WESTERN PLEIKU PRpVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM
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