SITUATION REPORT ON HOI AN CITY AND QUANG NAM PROVINCE, AS OF 1800 HOURS ON 1 F

Created: 2/1/1968

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COUNT KY : SOTTB VIETNAM SUBJECT: SITUATION REPORT ON nOI AN CITY AND QUANG NAM PROVINCE, AS0 HOURSEBRUARY

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ACQUIRED :VIKTNAi, DANANG . mm . OURCE: THIS ITUATION REPORTEBRUARY PREPARED BY.

BOI AN, QUANG NAM PROVINCE, LOUDSPEAKERSOF CURFKV AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS. PEOPLE VERETO RESTRICTIONS. THERE WES NO APPARENT FEELINGBUT THE PEOPLE WERE NERVOUS AND ACTIVITY PROCEEDEDREDUCED PACE. ROAD BLOCKS RESTRICTED CIVILIANCONG (VC) VERE IN THE AREA is VARIOUS DISGUISES,VC HAD LEFT THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF HOI AN TOVN.

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DUYDISTRICT VAS ATTACKED BY THE VC ON TBE NIGHT OFANUARY AND TBE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS CONTINUED TO BURN IN THE AFTERNOONEBRUARY. SOME OF THE RESIDENTS HAD BEEN EVACUATED.

IN HOA VANG DISTRICT THE BUDDHISTS CLAIMED THEY HAD ONE THOUSAND REFUGEES IN NEED OF FOOD, AND THB AMERICANS VERE GOING TO LOOK INTO ASSISTANCE FOR THEM ON THE MORNINGEBRUARY.

CONTACT VITH REVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT CADRE (RDC) TEAMS VAS LIMITED DURING THE PAST THREE DAYS. TEAMS IN HOA

VANG AND DIEN BANK DISTRICTS BAD CONTACT WITH THE VC. TEAM 4's LEADER AND HIS ASSISTANT VEREEAMUFFERED ONE KIA; TEAMNE KIA; TEAMNE KIA; AND TEAMAD CONTACT0 ON 1 FKBRUERY BUT RESULTS ARE UNKNOWN. AS STILL ON CAM THANH ISLAND, ABOUTETERS ACROSS FROM THE MARKET IN HOI AN, VBICH IS CONTROLLED BY THE VC.

6. ONE RALLIES TO THE FIFTY FIRST ARVN BATTALION, EMBER OF THE SECOND NORTH VIETNAM (NVA) DIVISION, ONE OF THREE VC ELEMENTS IllnfcLUW THAT ATTACKED THE DANANG COMPLEX, SAID THAT THESE FORCES (UNSPECIFIED) SUFFERED HEAVY CASUALTIES. BS CLAIMED HE VAS THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF HIS PLATOON, ONE REASON BE RALLIED. ACCORDING TO HIS STATEMENT THB MIBBION OF THE THREE UNITS VAS TO ATTACK HOI AN AND DANANG CITY DURING THB FIRST THREE DAYS OF TET.

6. FIELD DISSEM: STATE OSMACV III HAF CORDS REPORT CLASS mmtmw ^LfBfc-

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