VIET CONG ORDERS TO STUDENT CADRES TO EXPLOIT UNREST IN DANANG AREA BUT TO FOLL

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VIET CONG ORDERS TO STUDENT CADRES TO EXPLOIT UNREST IN DANANS AREA BUT TO FOLLOW DIRECTIONS OF VIET CONG FRONT EXCLUSIVELY

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(SUMMARY: VIET CONG (VC) INSTRUCT IONS HAVE BEEN ISSUED TO STUDENT CADRES IN THE DANANG AREA TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CURRENT UNREST BY INFILTRATING DEMONSTRATION GROUPS AND ATTEMPTING TO CONCENTRATE. ALL FORCES AGAINST THE AMERICANS AND THEIR ALLIES IN AN EFFORT TO CAUSE DISSENSION AMONG THEM. AN l8 MARCH CAUTIONARY INSTRUCTION TO VC STUDENT CAORES, HOWEVER, ADVISED THE STUDENTS TO FOLLOW THEDIRECTIVES OF THE VC FRONT ONLY, POINTING OUT THAT ALL POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF "REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS" WHICH ARE NOT CONTROLLED BY THE FRONT ARE HARMFUL TO THE FRONT. AS PART OF THEIR INSTRUCTIONS*

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"FOR INFILTRATING DEMONSTRATION GROUPS, THE STUDENTS WERE TOLD TO INSERT CERTAINOVERNMENT, ANTl-AMERI CAN SLOGANS ON THE BANNERS OF THE GROUPS AND TO ARGUE AT GROUP MEETINGS THAT THE OUSTER OF GENERAL NGUYEN CHANH THI WAS AN AMERICAN CONSPIRACY, 8UT TO AVOIO ANY MENTION OF THE RESTORATION OF THI TO HIS POSTORPS INSTRUCTIONS WERE ALSO GIVEN TO INCREASE CLANDESTINEACTIVITIES IN DANANG AND, SECONDARILY, TO STEP UP ARMED ACTIVITY IN THE CITY.)

2. ON lU MARCH THE VC DANANG CITY COMMITTEE SENT INSTRUCTIONS TO THE DANANG LIBERATION STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF

1 CURRENT UNREST IN THE DANANG AREA OVER THE OUSTERORPS

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* COMMANDER GENERAL NGUYEN CHANH THI BY INFILTRATINGOVERNMENT I DEMONSTRATION GROUPS ANO TURNING THEIR MANIFESTATIONS TOWARD AN AMERICAN, ANTI-MLACKEY"rHEME. THE PRINCIPAL VC OBJECT, THE STUDENTS | WERE TOLD, ONCENTRATION OF FORCES AGAINST AMERICANS AND THEIR I ALLIES IN ORDER TO SPREAD DISSENSION AMONG THEM.

3- THE VC DIRECTIVE FYJINTED OUT THAT THE PRESENT TROUBLE IN DANANG IS SYMBOLIC OF THE OlFFERENCLi VECN GCHERALS THIEU, KY, AND THI ANO THAT, SINCE THE VC BELIEVE HIE CRISIS WILL CONTINUEONG TIME, IT WOULD BE USEFUL TO EXPLOIT THE UNREST TO ADVANCE THE "PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT." LIBERATION STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION CADRES WERE INSTRUCTED TO ATTEND MEETINGS OF OTHER GROUPS, ARGUE THAT THI'S DISMISSAL WAS AN AMERICAN CONSPIRACY AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT ERVANT OF THE AMERICANS, AND ATTEMPT TO INSERT THEFOLLOWING SLOGANS

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ON THE BANNERS OF THESE OTHER GROUPS: "DOWN WITH THE DICTATORIALDOWN WITH THE IMPERIALIST ALLIES", "REMOVE

FOREIGN TROOPS FROM VIETNAMESEVIETNAMESE SHOULD SOLVE

! THEIR OWN INTERNALND "THE VIETNAMESE WANT PEACE AND AN i END TO THE WAR."

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THE STUDENTS WERE CAUTIONED TO AVOID ANY MENTION AT THE

OF THE RETURN OR RESTORATION OF GENERAL THl' AND WERE

INSTRUCTED TO STEP UP THEIR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES THROUGH THE

DISTRIBUTION OF LEAFLETS URGING STRIKES AGAINST THE

AND DEMANDING THEIR REMOVAL FKOM SOUTH VIETNAM. THE STUDENTS

TOLD, JN ADDITION, THAT ALTHOUGH .hi: PKiHCIPAL EMPHASIS IN THE

STRUGGLE IS TO BE ON POLITICAL ACTIVITIES, THERE MUST ALSO

BE INCREASED ARMED ACTIVITY IN DANANG ALTHOUGH

J HE STATED HE HAO NOTHING DEFINITE ON WHICH TO BASE HIS BELIEF,

i SOURCE SAID HE FEARED THE VC MIGHT SOON ENGAGE IN NIGHTTIME ACTS OF

TERRORISM.)

ADDITIONAL SLOGANS. WERE DISTRIBUTED TO STUDENTS IN THE

! DANANG AREA ONARCH. THESE INCLUDED THE "DEAR PEOPLE, IN VIEW OF THE SERIOUS SITUATION, WE

| REQUEST THAT THE PEOPLE REALIZE THE PLOTS OF THE VNQDD AND THE .

PEOPLE'S FRONT IN ORDER THAT ALL PLANS OF THE AMERICAN AND THEIR SERVANTS, WHO ARE SELLING'OUT OUR NATION, MAY BE THE PEOPLE'S FRONT PROBABLY REFERS TO THE POPULAR f.

TRUGGLE FORCE FOR REVOLUTION.)

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. /knock down the American imperialists, the group of vietnamesend the thieu, co, ky servant group.1

/knock down the servant group, the south vietnamese puppet government, and the servants who are selling out ourthieu, ky, co."

d. "dear soldiers, you should not serve america as servants. let us fire at the american pirates and the people's front. /signed/ danangssociation."

e. "long live the national LIULKn Itfl 1'NONI, long live ho chi minh. /signed/ the military population of the mrst tactical zone-"

n *l8 march the danang committee of the vc front issued the following cautionary instructions to its student cadres in danang:

revolutionary'ano liberationin danang and some other groups should be directedby the national liberation front /vc front).

activities of revolutionaryare not controlled by the national liberations "

well as revolutionary cadres who are not strictly controlled and

led by the front are harmful to the front's principle of

c- "all front revolutionary organizations and legal

illegal cadres must be governed by front leadership. caores of all V

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ECHELONS MUST BE EXAMINED AND

NOT UNDERTAKE INDEPENDENfjECTflSN^BYJEDLLOWING

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YOUR PERSONAL OPINIONS ORElbgDERS^FJt^UR 'SUPER IORSF THEY DISAPPROVE YOUR PROPOSALS. *

UTY TOUNITED IN PURPOSE. THIS PROYpESj^jOPPORWNIJY FORYOUR PERSONAL RECORD BY THE FRONrCOMMTftEE^BEFORECERTAIN TASKS."

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