1. Prisoner of War Camp at Hong Het 2. Presence of Vietnamese Communist S in H
Central Intelligence Agency · 1962
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Description
A prisoner of war camp at Hong Het leads a January 1962 item, followed by notes on Vietnamese communist presence in an area the title cuts off. The date matters: 1962 stands at the very start of America's deep involvement in Vietnam and Laos. Prison camps already existed to be reported.
Early items like this one show the captivity record beginning before the big war. A camp at Hong Het in 1962 predates the famous prisons' full growth. Analysts then could not know the system would run for another decade. The file preserves the record's first page for this corner of the war.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Central Intelligence Agency |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1962 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5197 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive — CIA Reading Room mirror |
Source: https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-0000009920