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Pointing ??? map, Nixon said that the new operation would be aimed at "cleaning out" Communist sanctuaries on the "Fishhook" corridor, which extends along the border about 70 miles northwest of Saigon. The primary target is the headquarters of the Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN), the Communist base directing the South Vietnamese war effort...
...apex in Hanoi sits Ho Chi Minh and his top political commissar, Le Duan, 59, who handles overall strategy for Ho's revolution. Also in Hanoi is Lieut. General Nguyen Van Vinh, 50, who directs the southward flow of men and supplies. It is to him that COSVN reports. Until he died last month, General Nguyen Chi Thanh commanded COSVN, aided by at least six other...
North Vietnamese generals stationed in the South. COSVN keeps a close watch on all the military and political activities of the Communists in South Viet Nam; its authority is ensured by the fact that even in Viet Cong regular units, one-third of all the officers at battalion level and above are from North Viet Nam?not indigenous guerrillas...
...Front is equally tightly controlled. The power-wielding part of the Front is the People's Revolutionary Party, the southern branch of Ho's Lao Dong Party that the Hanoi journal Hoc Tap calls "the soul of the N.L.F." Its five regional committees, .supervising the five areas into which COSVN has divided South Viet Nam, are each headed by a man with military experience. From province to district to village committee, and on down to hamlets where everyone has both a military and civilian job to do, everyone takes his orders from overhead, meaning ultimately from Hanoi. The organization embraces...
...intricate collecting and disbursement system runs right up the organization ladder to COSVN, and vouchers are required for all expenditures, adding to the snowstorm of paper circulating inside the V.C. administration. Corruption is dealt with severely, but it is persistently present. At least one tax collector in Dinh Tuong told the Allies that he was chosen "because my family was rich and the Front did not have to worry about whether I would flee with the cash...