CIA/DIA WEEKLY REPORT ON COMMUNIST CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-538-1-7-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 30, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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April 30, 1973
CIA/DIA Weekly Report on Communist
Cease-fire Violations
Attached at Tab A is the CIA/DIA's weekly report (from April 20-26, 1973)
on Communist violations of the cease-fire agreements in Laos and Vietnam.
The report notes that only a small trickle of new infiltrators -- all non-combat
personnel -- were detected in the past week but that heavy logistics activity
continues all along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and in northern South Vietnam.
-- As a result, a careful reappraisal of all intelligence infiltrations
starting south since January 28 has - been revised upward from 10, 000 to
15, 500, giving a new total of 40, 000 North Vietnamese personnel who have
been in the pipeline since the cease-fire. All but 3-4, 500 are combat re-
placements. Another NVA anti-aircraft regiment has been detected in Khe
Sanh; the unit almost certainly moved into South Vietnam after the cease-fire.
From MR-4 we have received the first evidence of an interregional redeploy-
ment of a major Communist unit in southern South Vietnam (an NVA regiment
may have been shifted from Binh Long in MR-3 to the Hong Ngu area of MR-4).
-- Heavy Communist logistics activity continues in southern North Vietnam,
the Laos panhandle and northern South Vietnam. Detected vehicle traffic
was unusually high in the Lao panhandle and truck activity moving south
through entry corridors into Laos remained at last week's levels. (The
report attributes declines in sensor detected activity to decreasing effective-
ness of our sensor field in the panhandle.) Large amounts of munitions still
are being shipped into Quang Tri Province.
-- The Communists are continuing to construct roads paralleling the Ho
Chi Minh Trail systems but located wholly inside South Vietnam. A 52-mile
segment of cleared road was observed extending south from central Pleiku
to central Darlac Province in MR-2.
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-- Combat activity during the week generally was at a low level in both
South Vietnam and .Laos.
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