1. DAMAGE TO CHINESE AND SOVIET EMBASSIES FROM USAF RAID ON HANOI ON 14 DECEMB

Created: 12/18/1966

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t. DAMAGE TO CHINESE*AND SOVIET EMBASSIES FROM USAF RAID ON HANOI ONECEMBER

ESULTS OF'ND:ECEMBER RAIDS AND EFFECT ON HANOI RESIDENTS.

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(SUMMARY. SHRAPNEL FROM JETTISONED ROCKETSSAF

O AIRCRAFT HIT BY GROUND FIRE DURING THEECEMBER RAID ON THE

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OUTSKIRTS OF HANOI EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED THE ROOF OF THE -

OCKET DEMOLISHED ONETHE EMBASSY, AMD-;

O SHRAPNEL STRUCK THE SOVIET EMBASSY. NEITHER THE NORTH VIETNAMESE

NOR THE SOVIETS HAD MENTIONED THIS DAMAGE AS OF 16

ALLEGEDLYERSONS WERE KILLED DURING THEECEMBER RAID.

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BUILDINGS NEAR THE RAIL DEPOTWUX DURING THE 13 DECEMSEP RAID HERE DAMAMGED OR DESTROYED. BOTH THE ND 14 DECEMBER PAIDS FRIGHTENED THE PEOPLE OF HANOI, BUT REPAIR OF THE DAMAGED BUILDINGS BEGAN IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FIRST RAID. ON 17 DECEMBER TWO' LAPGE SOVIET SINGLE-ROTOR HELICOPTERSIZE NOT PREVIOUSLY NOTED WERE AT GIA LAM AIRPORT.)

ECEMBER UNITED STATES AIR* FORCE RAID ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF HANOI PRODUCED SOME DANANGE IN HANOI PROPER WHEN ONE AIRCRAFT WAS HIT BY GROUND FIRE AND HAD TO JETTISON ITS ROCKETS. THE ROOF OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY RECEIVED EXTENSIVE DAMAGEOCKETLANCING GLOWREE IN FRONT OF THE EMBASSY SENDING SHRAPNEL INTO THE ROOF. INNE AUTOMOBILE PARKED NEAR THE EMBASSY WAS DEMOLISHEDOCKET.

SOVIET EMBASSY ALSO RECEIVED SMALL SHRAPNEL HITS

FROM THE SAME AIRCRAFT. AS"OF 16 DECEMBER NEITHER THE NORTH VIETNAMESE NOR THE SOVIETS HAD MENTIONED THIS DAMAGE.

4. THE 13 DECEMBER RAID ON THE RAIL DEPOTB (SHEET O DESTROYED AT LEAST THREE BUILDINGS IN THE DEPOT COMPLEX AND LIGHTLY DAMAMGED TWO OTHEPS. THE fiUAPD POST AND THE FIRST TWO BUILDINGS AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE COMPLEX APPEARED C ONLY SLIGHTLY DAMAMGED. ONE-HALF OF THE FIRST CIVILIAN HOME ON THE

NORTH SIDE OF THE ROAD AS ONE LEAVES THE DEPOT AND TRAVELS HANOI WAS DESTROYED. REPAIR OF THE DAMAGED BUILDINGS

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FPIGHTENED THE POPULATION OF HNAOI WHO HAD'C OMETHAT HANOI AND ITS IMMEDIATE ENVIRONS WEPE IMMUNE

6. ON 16 DECEMBER MOST MILITARY POLICE AND MILITIA IN HANOI WERE WEARING STEEL HELMENTS. THE POPULATION SEEMED MORE ANIMATED THAN USUAL AND WORK CREWS WERE MOVINGUCH FASTER

PACE. SOME 5* MEDIUM CALIBER ANTIAIRCRAFT WEAPONS MOUNTED ON q FOUR-WHEEL VEHICLES WERE SIGHTED ENTERING THE CITY FROM THE

DIRECTION OF HAIPHONG. IN ADDITION, ANTIAIRCRAFT CREWS WITH CALIBER WEAPONS VERE POSTED ON THE ROOFS OF SEVERAL BUILDINGS IN

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