CIA REPORT ON ENEMY LOGISTICS AND MANPOWER DEVELOPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-558-15-3-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 26, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
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April 26, 19.73
MEMORANDUM. FOR: MR. KISSINGER
FROM: WILLIAM L. STEARMAN
SUBJECT:
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
CIA Report on Enemy Logistics and
.Manpower Developments.
Attached at Tab A is the CIA's weekly report covexing April 1724, 1973
on Communist logistics and manpower infiltratioxa.s. The report .states
that heavy North Vietnamese logistic activity continues in the North Vietnam.
panhandle, in northern South Vietnam and in. adjacent areas of Laos., but
that infiltration of military personnel ended. However, small graup5 of
special purpose cadre continue to be detected in the pipeline.
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but during the reporting period 16 special purpose groups (or about 425 men)
were newly detected in Laos and North Vietnam. Since. January 2S, a total
of 15, 000 North Vietnamese personnel have entered the pipeline.
-- Tn southern South Vietnam, relocations by elements of up 'to 3 NVA
divisions have sulastantially increased the concentration of Communist units
(6 regirn?ents, 2 division headquarters) in the nortla.ern delta/C'arxibodian
border area near the potential entry .point of Hong Ngu. Meanwhile, the
North Vietnamese have probably deployed at least two AAA regiments from
southern Laos into Cambodia since mid-?February. This is the first. de-.
ployrnent of North Vietnamese AAA regiments into the CO5VN area of .
Cambodia.
-- The? level of detected vehicle traffic moving in Laos declined some-
what. ?during the past: e~ieek, but the rate remained high. .High .levels of
resupply are also reported ix~, the central and southern Laotian panhandle'
and eastern Cambodia. Allied air. strikes in Caxxibodia against traffic
control points and moving targets are causing considerable destruction of
facilities and supplies, but large volumes continue to be moved. The
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Gommun:st legal entry route .from. Minot ,and Krek. through. Xa Mat (~rhere
tlirs.ICCS is sti l~absent) in MR-3 reportedly is carrying all types .af
xizilitary-.related traffic;. cQng$rtaction of new roads and e~cten.si~cr~; story e
of .facilities is.proceeding rapidly in. the MR