INFORMATION CONCERNING UNITED STATES PRISONERS OF WAR

Created: 12/24/1966

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COUNTRY SUBJECT

DATE OP INFO

NORTH VIETNAM

Information Concerning UNITED i

STATES Prisoners of

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DATE OF REPORT:

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DATE AND PLACE6 OF ACQUISITION: SAlQON, Vietnam

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SUMMARY

Duringust prior to his departure for infiltration ofhe Source talked with his The converse, ticplace in TAY SO* Village, LAP TllACK District, VINH PHUC Province,both men were born and raised. Theywere neighbors in the villageknown each other for many^disclosed that ho was employedEnglish-Vietnamese language interpreter with tha North Vietnamese ArrayCommand and that he was engaged in supporting NVA interrogationsSTATES priaonars ofajor SUKICO and Captains and PATTO (all names phonetic*. The prisoners ware interrogated onfamily backgrounds, their units, and their ranks and positions. conditions of confinement were not onerous. They were well fedthe best quality cigarettes. Captain KENNY was required to writea paper setting forth his opinions about the war. He was thena press conference and answered questions on this subject.

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Vietnaoese language interpreter by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA)and that his duties Included support of NVA interrogationsprisoners of war. fhose prisoners were Jntemed inwi:re interrogated there. The exact locations of the detention areathe. prison area were not known. Little, If any, coeroicn waathe.Worth Vietnamese to obtain information fron the prisoners. free to walk about inside the interrogation detentionwar. an open area). Following theirheslantrison area by car and ware ahown around HANOI. Thoypat ln prison during the period of interrogation. Tba prisonersea* Vietnamese food and^so wore given bread and ohioken houp toolgarattes were bought for them. Tho chief topics of int^rro-

gatlonivare the family background of theheir militaryttjplr ranks andMajor 5UHICO (whom he describedroapoctivo

as^rbciSut awaiting assignment and as the holder of tbe PH.D. degrert inTO (FleLd Co-nent: thia name aay be tbe Vle*-nawwc vsrsldh ofnd KENNY, and an officer deaorifeedieutunflpt-ColondJ and member of the UNITED STVTES Seventh FlootCcrownti th>

tantecret) information. His captors then shoved him Sootaliefc-Bloc newspapers anddealing with the war and asked him tc wile aabout his views and opinions on the war. He wrotend signed it. Later, Captain KENNY wasnreMntedress conferonce and answered questions on this subject,sted that'the Lieutenant-ColoneJL (sic) gave complete information concSrning the organisationquipment of the UNITED STATES Seventh Fleet.

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lis populated byamilies. eTT4 Moat houses were made of br

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dirt street cut tEPcUgh tneost houses were somo were made of thatch. The houses are not numbered.

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