Mr. Jatm Vomer
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CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Directorate of8
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
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Communist aid deliveries to North Vietnam have Increased significantly each year clnce the US bombing program began. As shown Inverage .annual deliveries of both economic and military aid vere at reasonably low levels prior to the bombing.owever, total aid deliveries Jumped to' SUM million and have increased rapidly each year since. We estimate tbat total aid deliveries7 reached one billion dollars and that they vill be even greater
o date North Vietnam bas received2 billion ln military and economic assistance from Communist Over thlt- long period, the assistance haE been divided ubout evenly between mllitury and economic goods . owever, military aid has accounted for an increasing share of total assistance and6T it accounted Tor almost two-thirds of total deliveries.
3- 'Ihe USSR and Communist China account for the built of the assistance provided to North Vietnam. The Soviet Union has
provided overillion In Military and ecoooalc assistance, orercent of the total. Communist China bM euppllcd Juet over& billion in econoaic andacclstaocc. The European Satellites have provided5 Billion In aid, almost cx-cluoively ln economic aouistance programs. They are, bovcver,reater role In pro rid lug military goods for delivery0 under the teroa of aid ugreemcnte negotiated lo the Burner and foil
fe. DuringJi deliveries of combat materiel to North Vietnam amounted to only JlfeO nlllloo. Since the boablng pegnn, the USSR and Conrrjualrit China bavp greatly expanded their military eld to North Vietnam
Tbe USSR bas supplied almostercent of the .total value of military equipment delivered5 and OcnunlBt China the bulk of the reminder. East European couutrlea have GuppUed only negligible quantities of combat materiel.
5- Soviet military deliveries have cooceutratodir defence equipment Including curfnce-to-olr mlfPllec, antiaircraft guns, rodor, and fighter aircraft Including. Chinese military old has concentrated on building up North Vlctcaserc ground forces and nuataliang the military efrort in youth Vietnam. In addition, China apparently has supplied radar and7 provided large nunl>cro of MIC-IT'omoot of them delivered to replace the heavy louses in the latter port of the year.
Military**
MiUlon US j
Coamunist Aid to North Vietnam*
Soviet Union
China
Europe
Union
China
Europe
Economic Military Aid
oco
show the value nt Soviet Foreign trade pricea of weapons, other military equipment and ammunition. They exclude aid for the construction
of military Installations and defense-related facilities.
may not add due to rounding.
USSR and Communist China both have militarythe (forth Vietnamese, primarily ln support and North Koreamail contingent of plloto flyingpatrols for tbe Worth Vietnamese Air Force. China basmilitary contingent estimated at upOO troopsthe construction, repair and defenoe of linescas unl catproviding ease military training. Aetcchnlclana presently are in North Vietnam advisingtraining on the SAM systems, aircraft, coaanunicationssupport. Die value of this technical assistance has
not been estimated but it could conceivably run to the tens ofne of dollars overear period since, the bombing began.
certainly all combat material delivered tohas been grant old. In the series of public announcements
, on military aid agreements signed vith ceven Communist countries in tbe fallive specifically mentioned that military aid would begratuitous" or "freo". Decides its Ideological elmlm to free nllitary aid from Its CocsrunlBt allies. North Vietnam simply docs not have the means for repaying present or past levels of aid. Economic Aid
addition to combat materiel Communist countriesan increasing amount of economic assistance much ofvur-relntod commodities, petroleum, trucks and construction
materials. Ibe bulk of theee goodi- are provided oa grant aid although some arc included under long term credit arrangements.7 billion in econcelc aid hat been provided to Worth Vietnamercent of this aid haa been Gupplicd during the paBt three years. Although economic aid haa increaoed each year,0 Billion5o "milliont in much smaller than military aid.
9* The economic aid programs are also dominated by tbe OSSR and Carosunlat China. The USSR has supplied iflCO million or Vf percent of the economic assistance provided during tho pastears. Coanualct China accounted for0 nllliod arercent of the total. The European Satellite6 provided lose5 nillion, or aboutercent of tho total. During the pact tvo years, however tho Soviet Union hoc alab undertaken to provide an increasing Bhare of the economic old program and7 it accounted for aboutercent of the deliveries of economic goods.
10. The supply of almost every category of economicincreased during the past three years. Imports oftonf of petroleua primarily froa tbo USSR, werepercentercent greater than
About UO percent of the petroleum lc consumed directly by the military and another large part lo consumed in military support activities. Annual Imports of aboutehicles in67hird higher than the number Imported
Imports of aboutons of miscellaneous and ge cargo, that Include construction machinery and material*,ara parts and other goods possibly satisfying nilltary needs oleo vere Increasedhird7 Seaborne imports of bulx foodstuffs totalled overCO tonainea the level of tbe previous year andimes tbe Imscdiate pre-bonbing level.
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