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on > RE: COUMNTEROR. (1. ION WEEK te om, told us that several hundred GI's have gone over to their side and are now fighting on the side of the NLF. A few of them in the front lines, others working in the liberated areas developing propaganda. And there are also maybe about two or three hundred GI's that the Provisional Revolutionary Government, who deserted, that the Provisional Revolutionary Government has gotten to come to the side (next few words unintelligible}. And they've gone threugh the _ _ (unintelligible) in order to get out of the struggle. And they ey do a lot of work-with U. §. troops, SRS RE oh aa etd) ay I-had a long discussion with a military guy from about the way they saw this. And they saw it as long range political work. They talk about they devejJoped out their basic (unintelligible), developed3 jn study with them that a lot of the treops in the defense problem were colonial troops from other colonized countries, The kind of work that they would do among the French troops had a political purpose of trying to send these guys Over so that when they went back to their respective countries that they would engage in the liberation struggle. And they do the same sort of work with the American GI's and have the sane kind of long range international contraspective on the importance of that. They have GI coffee houses and stuff like that. In Saigen where they find the GI‘s and they work with them and explain to them what people's war isz}] about and what the struggle is all about. Sometimes they'll win a guy over. And they told us one story about one guy they «on over who wanted to desert right then, but they convinced him to go back to his battalion, which was a tank battalion, to organize the rest of the guys, and they said that when he came back he brought thirty guys with him. And thirty of them as a unit signed over, FEE ET OE RE SR Pe a NS PO et eS Le ee Oe Ee Re Ree eT ERT ER tT ~ es a = poe RE neh Bonet ‘ are B ss * ute Question: Do you have any idea of how many casualties ... (rest unintelligible.) Ans ver: Well, their casualty figures that the NLF gives is about two times the size of what the U. S. admits. There's no way, there's no way of judging, you know, what the real situation is. (126 le ae i De le he [iat aD ees el ie BETTE ET RSE 8 Tia Pre xy meng? J* ote on amine pene ME EF eg at Cat ety