CLASSIFIED
To Brigadier General Melvin Zias Commander 101st
Division
From Major General R Deitch, commander 4th PSYOP
Group, JUSPAO Vietnam
General Zias Sir,
You will no doubt be aware of the
work carried out by the PSYOP branch of the Joint US Public Affairs Office and
the faith General Westmoreland has in that work. In the light of the J5 PSYWAR
analysis, It is hoped that our efforts will be more embraced by the whole of
the military presence in theatre. The emphasis of our fight is pacification and
giving CORDS our unflinching support.
We have been running 'Frantic Goat'
ops in the boarder region for several months now and have been looking for an
opportunity to follow up on this operation to assess its effect on the PAVN and
VC in the area.
It has come to our notice that a
Battalion size insertion of the 2/502nd will take place in the next few days
into an area that is ripe for such a recon by one of our teams.
Please inform Colonel Eyles that a
five man unit from the 6th PSYOP battalion will be joining the 2/502nd until
further notice. His companies will facilitate their operations toward the CHIEU
HOI programme by running MAGIC EYE and Wandering Soul missions when ever
possible.
The unit will report directly the 4th
PSYOP Group.
You may be interested to listen to
the attached tape.
To Major General R Deitch, commander 4th PSYOP Group,
JUSPAO Vietnam
From Brigadier General Melvin Zias Commander 101st
Division
General Deitch.
I will pass on the warning to LtC
Eyles and order that he accommodate your team as fully as possible.
I certainly hope that these theatrics
offer an extra weapon the arsenal we can physically bring to bear on the enemy.
I'll reserves judgement on what it does to them until I get reports back from
the field, though it put the shivers on me.... The next thing you know the
Japanese will be making horror movies like this.
I'll also inform my S2 and S3 section
of this
Bgde Gen M Zias CO 101st DIvision
EYES ONLY
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