COUNTRY: SOUTH VIETNAM
SUBJECT: SITUATION REPORTORPS AS0 HOURS ON 5
FEBRUARY
ACQUIRED: VIETNAM, DANANG EBRUARY t )JEl^flVSOURCE : THIS ITUATION REPORTEBRUARY PREPARED BY
QUANG TRI PROVINCE RATHER HEAVY FIGHTING ERUPTEDAND CONTINUED UNTIL IN TBIEU PHONG DISTRICT NO FURTHER DETAILS WERE AVAILABLE. FOUR VIETARMY (VC/NVA) BATTALIONS AND POSSIBLY EIGHT, AREMOVING TOWARD QUANG TRI FROM THE SOUTHWEST. NOBEEN MADE WITH THEM AS YET. IF THESE UNITS ACTUALLYWHERE REPORTED THEY PROBABLY WILL NOT ATTACK DURINGBUT POSSIBLY MAY DO SO TONIGHT. THE WEATHERVERCASE,
SO LITTLE AIR COVER WILL BE PROVIDED. PEOPLE ARE EDGY AND NERVOUS BUT GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS.
QUANG TIM PROVINCE REPORTSIETNAMESEAGENCY STATE THAT THE VC PLANS MASS ATTACKS ON TAM KYDISTRICTS BEFORE EBRUARY. PEOPLE ARE GOINGBUSINESS AS USUAL WITH FEW SIGNS OF PANIC. BOTH ARMYREPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (ARVN) AND VIETNAMESE POLICE UNITSTO SWEEP TAM KY CITY AND SURROUNDING AREAS. THE PEOPLE WILL
NOT DEMONSTRATE FOR FEAR OF BEING PICKED UP BY TBE POLICE. TO REPORTS RECEIVED, THE PRIME TARGET OF THE NEXT VCWILL BE TAM KY CITY AND THE SECONDARY TARGET WILL BB THB TWO NEARBY REFUGEE CAMPS.
REPORTS FROM QUANG NGAI PROVINCE INDICATE THE VC WILL MAKE ATTACKS ON THE CITY AND IN THE DISTRICTS SOME TIME BEFOREEBRUARY. THE CITY POPULATION CONTINUES TO GO ABOUT ITS BUSINESSORMAL FASHION, BUTTHKRE ARE SIGHS OF UNCERTAINTY.
IN HOI AN CITY, QUANG NAM PROVINCE,EETING WAS HELD BY LOCAL INHABITANTS ON THE MORNINGEBRUARY WITH HO FURTHER DETAILS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. ORMAL ATMOSPHERE PREVAILS WITHIN THE CITY AND THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF ANY FORTHCOMING VC ATTACKS.
FIELD DISSEM: STATE USMACV CORDS III MAF 7TH AF USARV COMNAVFORV USAID DIR/JUSPAO (MR. ZORTHIAN ONLY) CINCPAC ARPAC PACAF (ALSO SENT SAIGON)
REPORT CLASS J
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