DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM INDEPENDENT MILITARY UNITS, SOUTH VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010000070002-5
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Democratic Republic of Vietnam"Independent
Military Units, South Vietnam
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Independent Regional Units
1. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) has organized independent units
(Biet Dong Doi)l for each canton., province and interzone of Mouth Vietnam.
These.units3, directly responsible to the local military intelligence
bureaus., have the following assignments:
a. To maintain contact with their respective command posts.
b. To activate mass uprisings on the orders of the high command and
occasionally to lend support to the espionage services.
c. To sabotage French commercial bases and to destroy scattered
French forces by guerrilla tactics.
d. To cooperate with regular units in launching attacks or opening
new fronts.
2. These units form the nucleus of Communist Party of Indochina (PCI) activity
in the area and are staffed entirely with tested PCI sympathizers.
Units in the Saigon-Cholon Area
3? The organization of the Biet Dong Doi in the areas surrounding Saigon-
Cholon differs from th .of the provinces in that they are responsible
directly to the Regional2 Administrative and Resistance Committee and
only indirectly to the regional intelligence bureaus. At present the
activities of the Biet bong Doi of Saigon-Cholon have been greatly
restricted as the result of measures taken by the French Surete of South
Vietnam
14? Other DRV para-military units in the Saigon-Cholon area include:
a. The 950 "Death Volunteer Brigade," commanded by Cao Dang Chiem3,
aka Pham Hung, who is concurrently assistant chief of the DRV
Security Services for South Vietnam.
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b. A security shock unit, also organized by the Security Services.
5. . These three organizations are virtually inactive at present. The DRV high
command has ordered them to concentrate on internal organization and the
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~? Comment. While the strength of these units is not clear,
it is probable, from the description of their activities, that they
are small PCI units, organized for terrorist activity.
Resistance Committee of South Vietnam, rather than that of Saigon-Cholon.
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cv uune 1y,,)1 eontirms Chiem's position as assistant chief of the
DRV Security Services of South Vietnam.
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