By 1969 the US Army had identified 40 rifle/carbine types, 22 machine gun types, 17 types of mortar, 20 recoilless rifle or rocket launcher types, nine types of antitank weapons, and 14 anti-aircraft artillery weapons used by ground troops on all sides.

CIA activities in Vietnam were operations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in Vietnam from the 1950s to the late 1960s, before and during the Vietnam War. After the 1954 Geneva Conference, North Vietnam was controlled by …

Until mid-1965 the Communist forces fighting in South Vietnam were equipped for the most part with old Free World weapons from the French-Indochina War and captured US materiel. Only limited amounts of Soviet and Chinese weapons were in use at that time.

Project Eldest Son (also known as “Italian Green” or “Pole Bean”) was a program of covert operations conducted by the United States' Studies and Observation Group (SOG) during the Vietnam War. The project focused on placement of exploding cartridges into supplies used by communist combat forces in southeast Asia.

Title: SOURCES OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO VIET CONG AND NORTH VIETNAMESE MILITARY FORCES Keywords: SOVIET MILITARY ANALYSIS, tgdnotsu Created Date

2020年4月7日 · Initially, SOG’s primary weapon was the 9 mm Luger Karl Gustav Model 1945 submachine gun, nicknamed the “Swedish K.” Obtained through the Central Intelligence Agency, these untraceable guns...

This collection of declassified estimative products is the first such release by the Central Intelligence Agency of documents exclusively on the Vietnam war. The National Intelligence Council (NIC) commissioned Lloyd Gardner, the renowned American scholar on the Vietnam war, to prepare an introductory essay providing historical context for the ...

2024年9月16日 · Available from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Library, Electronic Reading Room, six volumes of declassified histories describe the CIA's role in Indochina during the Vietnam War. These histories, written by Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., are based on extensive research in CIA records and on oral history interviews of participants.

The Declassified CIA Documents on the Vietnam War database [http://library.usask.ca/Vietnam] is the result of a sabbatical leave research project approved and supported by the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. It includes only declassified documents created by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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