Vc MR-5 Prisoner of War Camp Containing U.s. and Arvn Prisoners
Central Intelligence Agency · 1971
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Description
Military Region 5's Viet Cong prison camp, holding both American and South Vietnamese prisoners, is the subject of a January 1971 report. The heading shortens the captors to VC and the South Vietnamese to ARVN, their army's initials. Mixed camps were the southern system's norm.
A camp holding both groups shows how captivity worked below the level of Hanoi's famous prisons. Prisoners shared guards, rations, and risk, whatever their uniforms. For officials, one camp report could update many men's files at once. The entry preserves the southern network's daily shape, counted in two nations' prisoners together.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Central Intelligence Agency |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1971 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9827 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive — CIA Reading Room mirror |
Source: https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-0000009648