Vietnam Order of Battle for Psychological Operations. Laos: Laos regained independence from France on 1. July 1. 94. 9 as a constitutional. The nation consisted of political ideologies from communist to conservative to. The Communist forces were made up of Prince Chao Souphanouvong (The Red. Prince), Kaysone Phomvihane, the Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese allies (supported. Red China and the USSR). The pro- Western forces included King Savang Vatthana, Prince. Boun Oum, General Phoumi Nosavan and the Hmong guerrillas and militia led by General Vang. Pao (backed secretly by the U. S. Government and the Central Intelligence Agency). The. neutralists consisted of Prince Souvanna Phouma, General Kong Le, and the Royal Lao.
Government. Conflicts among neutralist, communist, and conservative factions led to. The formal. Declaration on the Neutrality of Laos, signed on 2. In June 1966, the Army Vietnam Combat Artists Program was established as part of the United States Army Art Program, utilizing teams of soldier-artists to make. Dogs have loved us for thousands of years, despite humanity’s many flaws and foibles. New research suggests dogs were domesticated from wolves just once—that’s. The United States Merchant Marine refers to either United States civilian mariners, or to U.S. Both the civilian. TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 22, 2017 – Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions, announced its founder and honorary chairman, Bruce C.H. Ynet, Yedioth Ahronoth Group's web site, is Israel's most comprehensive authoritative source for real-time news and Hebrew content on the web. Updated 24 hours a day. July 1. 96. 2, provided for a coalition. October. The. three factions then formed a coalition government with Prince Souvanna Phouma as premier. The United States got more deeply involved in Laos. Ho Chi Minh Trail, and also to. Vietnam and into Laos. In addition, the 4. Lima Site 8. 5 (Pha Thi) was loaded with modern electronic equipment to help the USAF in. North Vietnam. Trail Campaign Leaflet T- 1. The leaflet above is written in both Vietnamese and Lao and is addressed to Vietnamese. Laos. PASSPORTTo: North Vietnamese Soldiers Living in Laos. You have the opportunity to escape death and live in safety and peace. The Lao Royal. Government and its people will welcome and treat you as brothers. Please show this. LAO soldier or civilian. Tong Tu Lenh,Commander in Chief of Lao Military Forces. An Air Commando who was stationed at LS- 2. A (Long Tieng) and LS- 1. Mouang Kassy) told. Those of us who fought the war from Laos have always considered it to have been more. But since the whole mess was classified as. Viet Nam will dismiss Laos. Laos was divided into five Military Regions (MR). MR I was in the northwest, including. Luang Prabang and the borders with Burma and China; MR II was in the northeast, including. Long Tieng, Sam Neua and Sam Thong; MR III consisted of the central panhandle region. Savannakhet and much of the Ho Chi Minh trail. MR IV was in the south, including. Pakse and the Bolovens Plateau; finally MR V consisted of the neutral zone around Vientiane. Early in the war there were plans to use local Lao tribes as part of an American- led. This plan was forwarded to American Ambassador Sullivan who was. Furthermore. if the resistance got into trouble there would be no way to militarily support them, which. Amidst the Vietnam War in 1. U. S. A Lao People's Democratic Republic, strongly influenced by Vietnam. December 1. 97. 5. The Republic of Vietnam and the United States Government. PSYOP campaigns targeting enemy troops in both Laos and Cambodia. A PSYOP officer who served in 1. Laos. against the Viet Cong moving southward on the Ho Chi Minh Trail: There was the B- 5. Follow- up Program. Within four hours of a B- 5. B- 5. 2s and showed him a picture. It reminded him. that the bombers would come again and urged the Viet Cong to use the printed safe conduct. Another operation, the “Trail Campaign” was directed. Ho Chi Minh Trail. The front of the leaflet. B- 5. 2 dropping bombs. The back is all text: You will never see one of these. You probably won't hear it. It flies too high. It is a B- 5. 2 bomber, used by the. South Vietnamese people's powerful American allies to blast aggressors out of their hiding. One B- 5. 2 carries 2. The B- 5. 2 can strike you at any. Your chance to avoid this fate will come. Look for your safe conduct pass. We should mention the fear factor produced by the B- 5. Truong Nhu Tang talks. Viet Cong Memoir. He called the strikes “undiluted. Despite having been hunted by South Vietnamese and American. Truong Tang noted that “nothing the guerrillas had to endure. B- 5. 2 bombardments.”Cambodia: During late 1. U. S. Military Assistance. Command Vietnam (MACV) conducted an intensive PSYWAR campaign against North Vietnamese. Cambodian border with South Vietnam. In an effort to. minimize violation of Cambodian air space, MACV used the wind drift method of leaflet. Cambodia. However, information from a recently declassified top secret. US PSYOP structure in Vietnam published in the MACVSOG Command History. Index B, 1. 97. 1- 1. Under no circumstances will anyone having knowledge about these. Cambodia. Public comments on. This all- text leaflet says: Attention Cambodian Friends The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army are bringing supplies and personnel into. Cambodian sanctuaries to launch attacks against the Cambodian and. Vietnamese people. They have invaded the neutral nation of Cambodia. To oppose this. aggression and destroy our common enemy it is necessary to bomb enemy base camps, supply. Follow the instructions on the reverse side and you will be. Instructions for safety: 1. Stay in your homes. Stay of roads, bridges, trails and waterways. Stay away from enemy troops. US PSYOP Structure in Vietnam. Leaflets Prior to the Entrance of U. S. PSYOP Units in 1. American PSYOP leaflets appeared before the arrival of the companies, battalions and. The below leaflet was used in 1. This all changed with the arrival of U. S. Army PSYOP units with their codes that. Leaflet 1. 9Leaflet 1. Viet Cong walking with the village’s stolen rice and. The text is: Stop the Viet Cong from stealing rice and crop and kidnaping youngsters. Inform the. army of the whereabouts of the Viet Cong. Leaflet 2. 1This leaflet depicts a VC in the bush while behind him a giant soldier stands with. The text implies it is a South Vietnamese soldier but the size and the. American” to me. The text is: Soldiers of the South Vietnam National Liberation Front: All of your hiding places. Army of the Republic of Vietnam. You can be destroyed at any. Other leaflets printed by Special Forces or unknown organizations bore no code numbers. Propaganda and safe- conduct passes and leaflets were produced under the jurisdiction of. Joint U. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO). JUSPAO was formed in July 1. Vietnam's transition from French rule. JUSPAO was given authority. Americans and Vietnamese and between American military and civilian agencies. Major Marcus S. Welch says in Irregular Pen and Limited Sword: Psywar, Psyop, and. Miso in Counterinsurgency, Pennyhill Press: JUSPAO was a complex organization, consisting of five major departments: Office. Director, Information, Cultural Affairs, North Vietnamese Affairs, Technical. Services, and Field Development. JUSPAO was sizable; at its peak it possessed a staff of. American and Vietnamese employees, rivaling its military counterparts. JUSPAO. delved into television, supporting Truyen Hinh Viet Nam, a Government of Vietnam. Similarly, JUSPAO created a number of printed products such. Ngon Song newspaper, and the Huong Que, Gioi Tu- Do, Long Ne, and Van Tac Vu. Synchronization and coordination were also the responsibilities of JUSPAO. With a civilian director (initially, Barry Zorthian) reporting to the U. S. Information. Agency (USIA), JUSPAO integrated the psychological operations of the U. S. Information. Service (USIS, USIA's overseas arm), The State Department's U. S. Agency for International. Development (USAID), the Joint Chief's Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), and the. U . S. At its apex it employed 6. Americans and 1. 16 from the military. Zorthian seemed a good choice for the. Marine and a reporter for Time. Magazine before working for the United States Information Agency. An understanding was. JUSPAO would retain responsibility for overall PSYOP policy. Chieu Hoi surrender program, MACV would. PSYOP tactical field operations. Don North wrote about Barry Zorthian in January 2. He. said in part: At Yale, Zorthian practiced journalism. Marine artillery unit in the. South Pacific and came out a captain. After the war ended, he took a job at CBS radio in. New York. He received a law degree from New York University but instead of practicing law. Voice of America as a reporter, editor. In 1. 96. 1, Zorthian joined the State Department and became a deputy public affairs. U. S. Embassy, New Delhi, India. Three years later, in February 1. U. S. Murrow appointed him as head of the Joint U. S. Some of the more bizarre techniques that didn’t prove to be very successful. Viet. Cong and broadcasting funeral music from helicopters to enemy positions, followed by a. Vietnamese, “Daddy, Daddy, please come home!”The most successful PSYOP initiative was the Chieu Hoi or Open Arms program which. Zorthian supported and greatly expanded in 1. Several times, I saw Viet Cong emerging. Delta with fistfuls of “safe conduct ” passes dropped. The Chieu Hoi program promised economic aid, jobs, and relocation of families to. It is estimated to have caused 2. Daniel A. Castro adds in his 2. Naval Postgraduate School thesis: Do. Psychological Operations Benefit from the use of Host Nation Media: The Vietnam War saw one of the most intensive PSYOP campaigns ever executed, far. PSYOP effort in World I, II, and Korea. In World War II there were 1,0. PSYOP, in Korea there war 6. Koreans. and Chinese. In Vietnam, the numbers ballooned to over 1,2. Vietnamese conducting PSYOP with an annual budget over 1. He adds: I was stationed at MACV in Saigon from April 1. May 1. 97. 1 and lived in the Dodge. City barracks. I worked in PSYOP in the main Headquarters (1 floor up and about 1. General Creighton Abrams). Dave White. First week in- country at MACV – April 1. There were Army and Air Force sections that dealt with the PSYOP units in the field. I worked 1. 0- 1. Headquarters of MACV typing messages, making presentations, and delivering. I saw samples of leaflets from various campaigns, but was never. I guess you could say I was a Psyclerk, and not a. Psywarrior. Barger mentions MACV in his U. S. Army Command and General Staff. College 2. 00. 7 Master’s thesis Psychological Operations Supporting the.
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