VIETNAMESE MILITARY OPERATIONS NONG SAMET REFUGEE CAMP, KAMPUCHEA PHUM KOUK DEPLOYMENT AREA (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: December 24, 1984
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VIETNAMESE MILITARY OPERATIONS
NONG SAMET REFUGEE CAMP, KAMPUCHEA (SWN/NF)
1. SIGNIFICANCE: DAMAGE FROM VIETNAMESE MILITARY OPERATIONS WAS
OBSERVED AT NONG SAMET REFUGEE CAMP (SWN)
2. REMARKS: AT LEAST 225 DWELLINGS IN THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE
REFUGEE CAMP, REPRESENTING AN ESTIMATED FIVE PERCENT OF THE
ENTIRE CAMP, WERE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED
NO DAMAGE TO THE LARGER
ADMINISTRATION BUILDIN SERVED. AT LEAST SIX TRUCKS
--GS-WAS 0
WERE IN THAILAND NEAR THE ROAD WHICH LEADS INTO THE CAMP (NOT
ON GRAPHIC). THE TRUCKS WERE PROBABLY INVOLVED IN RELIEF OR
EVACUATION EFFORTS. NO OTHER ACTIVITY WAS OBSERVED IN THE
CLOUD FREE AREAS. (SWN)
INDICATIONS FOR A PEOPLE'S ARMY OF VIETNAM (PAVN) OR PEOPLE'S
REPUBLIC OF KAMPUCHEA (PRK) ATTACK ON THE REFUGEE CAMP WERE
OBSERVED AS EARLY WHEN ONE PROBABLE INFANTRY
SQUAD WAS ON A TRAIL APPROXIMATELY 2 KM SOUTHEAST OF THE CAMP,
AND NUMEROUS BRUSH FIRES WERE IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF THE
CAMP. A PROBABLE PAVN INFANTRY REGIMENT
SUPPORTED BY ARTILLERY WAS NEWLY DEPLOYED IN THREE SEPARATE
AREAS IN THE PHUM KOUK KHVAV DEPLOYMENT AREA. THE LARGEST
AREA, WHICH PROBABLY CONTAINED THE REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS, ONE
INFANTRY BATTALION, AND PROBABLE ARTILLERY POSITIONS, WAS
CONSTRUCTED AND OCCUPIE PHUM
KOUK KHVAV DEPLOYMENT AREA IS APPROXIMATELY 12 KM EAST OF NONG
SAMET REFUGEE CAMP AND WAS THE SITE OF A DEPLOYED PAVN COMBAT
FORCE PRIOR TO THE ATTACK ON THE REFUGEE CAMP IN MARCH AND
APRIL 1983. (SWN/NF)
ANALYST'S COMMENTS -- THE FACT THAT ONLY SMALL PORTIONS OF THE
CAMP AND NONE OF THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDINGS WERE DAMAGED OR
DESTROYED INDICATED THAT PAVN/PRK INFANTRY UNITS HAD NOT YET
TOTALLY OCCUPIED THE CAMP HOWEVER, PRESS
SOURCES REPORTED THAT A PAVN ATTACK ON THE REFUGEE CAMP ON
RESULTED IN AT LEAST 60,000 CIVILIANS FLEEING THE
CAMP INTO THAILAND AND THAT REPEATED COUNTERATTACKS BY
RESISTANCE FORCES HAD FAILED TO RECAPTURE THE REFUGEE CAMP.
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