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SOUTH VIETNAM, EBRUARY lBBfc
SITUATIONORPS AS OF UOOEBRUARY6
ACQUIRED: VIETNAM, DANANG (i FEBRUARYS) SOURCE : THISITUATION REPORTEBRUARY PREPARED BY CAS. JEff?
DURING THE NIGHTEBRUARY THERE WERE KB FEW DEVELOPMENTS AND NO SIGNIFICANT VC ACTIVITY IN QUANG TRI, QUANG NGAI, AND QUANG TIN PROVINCES. IN QUANG NAM PROVINCE THEOF KOREA (ROK) TROOPS LAID AN AMBUSH IN THE VICINITY OF BIEU NEON DISTRICT HEfADQU RTERS; CONTACT WAS MADE WITH THE VC WITH UNKNOWN RESULTS. THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (ARVN) ENGINEER COMPOUND IN BOI AN CITY RECEIVED THREE ROUNDSM MORTAR. IN DIEN BANE DI8TBICT, QUANG NAM PROVINCE, THE VC KNOCKEDOWER PLANT.
EBRUARY, THE DANANG CITY POLICE ARRESTED A EAR OLD BOY WHO WAS TRYING TOACKAGE AS THE POLICE. THE PACKAGE CONTAINED4 PISTOLS ANDILOS
OF EXPLOSIVES. HE IS NOW UNDERGOING INTERROGATION. THERE WERE TWO SIGHTINGS OF FROGMEN REPORTED IN THE THANH BINH BEACH AREA OF DANANG BUT THESE REPORTS HAVE NOT YET BEEN CONFIRMED. OTHERWISE, THERE WERE NO INCIDENTS OF SIGNIFICANCE IN DANANG.
3. ETIRED ARVN MAJOR, NOW AN EMPLOYEE OP CAS, PRESENT FIGHTING KITH NUMEROUS PERSONS IN DANANG. THEAMONG THE POPULACE IN DANANG CONCERNING THEIN SOUTH VIETNAM SEEMS TO BE THAT. AND THEOF VIETNAM (GVN) DID NOT HAVE ANY ADVANCE VC MOVEMENT INTO THE CITIES. THE VCOLITICALDEMONSTRATING TO THE WORLD THAT THEY HAVE SUFFICIENTWHICH IN ONE NIGHT TO ENTER VIRTUALLY EVERY IMPORTANTSOUTH BIETHAM. IT IB RECOGNIZED, HOWEVER,THAT MILITARILYWERE VICTORIOUS AS EVIDENCED BY THE MANY VC
KILLED AND WOUNDED AND THE MANYWKAPONS CAPTURED.
FIELD DISSEM: STATE USMACV CORDS III MAF 7TB AF USARV COMNAVFORV UEAID DIR/JUSPAO (MR. ZORTHIAN ONLY) CINCPAC ARPAC PACAF (ALSO SENT SAIGON)
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