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aN ~ RE: COUNTERORi LON WERK around Saigon, that they're just completely tied up doing that, protecting their own supply lines, trying to just mainly try to keep their bases from being overrun. At present the only kind of offensive, if you can call them that, offensive operatjons that the U. S. military is able to pull off in Vietnam are of tvo sorts. Both of them are very eynical, I think, in terms of the buman cost of the war. The “one tactic that is the use of __ __. (unintelligible) troops in Vietnam that has supposedly replaced search and destroy and clear and hold, is a tactic that the U. S. calls interception from afar. And basically the way the Vietnamese explained this to us is what the U. S. does is take a bunch of GI's in a helicopter and fly them out into somew: ere in the liberated areas and drop them, and then they'll sort of have observation planes which watches which direction they get ‘viped cut fran. And then at that point they use that to’ decide where to send the B-52's to bomr. In other words, they're ing Gi's as decoys. And that's basically what they, they way the People's Liberation Armed Forces see that tactic. One cf the people who we spoke to was a Regional Commander of the People’s Liberation Armed Forces near, in a region near Quay, in South Vietnam, And he ran down for us in a very systematic way a lot of the different bankrupt strategies of the U. S. military. We also spoke to representatives from women's organizations, representatives of national minorities, or working youth, official representatives of both the DRB and PRG, journalists, school teachers, There was quite a wide variety of different Vietnamese. The othertactic that the U., S. uses is what they call accelerated pacification. And essentially the way that works is that helicopter gunships or planes will come in and drop napalm on a village, people will run out of the houses to get away from the napalm, then they drep anti~personnel weap ns, these pellet bombs and then come in with napalm and more bombs, until the total destruction. That's what the U. S. calls accelerated 115