COMMUNIST VIOLATIONS OF THE VIETNAM AND LAOS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS AND RELATED DEVELOPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T01719R000100180011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 15
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 12, 1973
• Content Type: PERRPT

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Communist Violations of the Vietnam
and Laos Settlement Agreements
and Related Developments
Secret
12 December 1973
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Forty-Second Report
COMMUNIST VIOLATIONS OF THE VIETNAM AND LAOS
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS AND RELATED DEVELOPMENTS*
(This report covers the week
from 5 December through 11 December 1973
The Key Points
? The flow of regular infiltration groups to South Vietnam
has resumed after a one-week standdown.
? After increasing markedly last week, logistic activity
continued to be very heavy in the panhandles of North
Vietnam and Laos. 25X1
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* This report has been prepared jointly by the Central Intelligence Agency
and the Department of Defense.
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This report is the forty-second in a series summarizing evidence received
during the reporting period of (I) Communist efforts to infiltrate new
manpower and military supplies toward and into South Vietnam, (II)
Communist-initiated combat activity in violation of the Vietnam and Laos
settlement agreements, and (III) other developments affecting Communist
military capabilities in Indochina.
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Ban Phone areas. showed that some of the trucks
6. The heavy surge of southbound truck traffic
last week along the central sections of the new dual-lane route
through southern Laos has continued. F- j
revealed clusters and convoys of trucks totaling severe hundred
vehicles parked or heading north and south between the Muong Nong and
are now proceeding south toward the tri-border exit routes leading into
Kontum Province, South Vietnam. Northbound traffic was somewhat greater
this week than last, although most of the trucks observed were heading
south. The repeated sightings of hundreds of southbound trucks along the
same new route segments south of Muong Nong suggest that many
additional trucks entered this area during the week or that the same trucks
are making many round trips between staging areas.
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unspecified period. Vehicle activity along some areas of the dual-lane road,
however, is still being hampered because of the effects of recent poor
weather.
8. Supply movement through northern South Vietnam was light
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most of Route 9 was generally passa le but a travel along
the western supply corridor was severely restricted by muddy roads.
Although the movement of supplies down the Communists' new supply
corridor in South Vietnam probably will be very difficult in the weeks
ahead because of heavy rains, the North Vietnamese may intend to move
supplies westward along Route 9 into southern Laos, where the dry season
has just begun. Once in Laos, supplies could then be shipped southward
along those segments of the Communists' new dual-lane road that are
completed.
II. Communist-Initiated Combat Activity in South Vietnam
and Laos
9. In South Vietnam the total number of Communist-initiated
cease-fire violations reported by the South Vietnamese Armed Forces since
27 January, since 15 June, and for the last week (5-11 December) are
shown below:
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Total Since Total Since
Military 27 January 15 June Last Week
Region Cease-Fire Cease-Fire (5-11 Dec)
Major Minor Major Minor Major Minor
Total 4,172 26,990 1,803 13,035 50(93)1 519 (614)1
MR 1 1,498 5,464 473 2,105 8 71
MR 2 696 4,500 432 2,646 16 75
MR 3 629 4,787 227 2,211 8 112
MR 4 1,349 12,239 671 6,073 18 261
10. Some of these violations may have been initiated by South
Vietnamese forces rather than Communist forces, and it is impossible in
all cases to determine the actual instigator. The tabulation above and the
charts following the Annex, however, show fairly accurately the trend in
the amount of combat that has occurred in South Vietnam since the
cease-fire. The fact that a combat incident occurred at a particular time
and place is generally reported accurately by the South Vietnamese, even
though the question of who started it may not always be treated objectively.
11. Fighting continued in Quang Duc Province of Military Region 2
during the week. ARVN reinforced the provincial capital of Gia Nghia on
5 and 6 December with the 45th Regiment of the 23rd Division. ARVN
forces have reoccupied the town of Kien Duc, which had fallen to the
Communists on the 5th. Current enemy activity consists of limited ground
probes and attacks-by-fire.
Laos
12. There was no significant military activity in Laos last week.
III. Other Developments Affecting Communist Military
Capabilities in Indochina
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VIETNAM AS REPORTED BY RVNAF
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CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS IN SOUTH
VIETNAM AS REPORTED BY RVNAF
(1 AUGUST 1913 TO THE PRESENT)
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