NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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48. Suggestions were given to psychological warfare officers on the adoption of combat techniques, exploitation of enemy weaknesses, and more uniform training. Both French Union and Vietnamese forces have ambitious plans for expansion of psychological warfare. General Navarre was receptive to my recommendation that the two French and three Vietnamese officers who completed the psychological warfare course at Ft. Bragg this June be used to organize and supervise a psychological warfare training program. The addition of a psychological warfare officer to the MAAG staff in the near future should benefit the initiation of a comprehensive program (see Annex "V").
49. Prisoners of War: French officers estimated they held about 30,000 Viet Minh PW's in camps throughout Vietnam. French Union forces have the responsibility for holding PW's since the Vietnamese government has not signed the Geneva Convention. Separate camps have been established for what the French term "de-intoxication" of selected PW's, stating they obtained the idea from our "de-nazification" camps in Germany. Ten "de-intoxicated" Viet Minh are now cadets at Dalat.
50. Employment of a U.S. Intelligence Personnel in Tonkin: I discussed the subject of employing a team of U.S. intelligence personnel, to work with the French G~2 in Northern Vietnam, with General Navarre at considerable length. In our conversation, I stressed the fact that cessation of the war in Korea would eliminate an existent source of U.S. intelligence on Chinese military forces and that some of the slack might be taken up by increased intelligence on these forces to be obtained from French sources in Indochina, particularly through the
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