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Hold Vital Poets in Saigon
Most Natives of South 1
The study estimates that the
enemy has infiltrated more'
than 30,000 agents-most of.
them natives of the southern!
part of divided Vietnam--into;
WASHh`TGTON, Oct. 1S-The South Vietnamese Army, will tions charged tivith eradicating!
perform well in battle for some the Vietcong guerrillas and'
Central Intelligence Agency has
their North Vietnamese allies.i
told President Nixon that the: time to come, as occurred in g
(Eiioh White House officials
Vietnamese Communists . have) Cambodia. said that the study gave a total
infiltrated more than 30,000 of about 20,000 agents but the
agents into the South Viet n