Accession Number:

AD0672745

Title:

Political Motivation of the Viet Cong: The Vietminh Regroupees

Descriptive Note:

Memorandum

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA

Personal Author(s):

• Zasloff, J. J.

Report Date:

1968-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

201.0

Abstract:

An analysis of the social and political forces fundamental in shaping the political attitudes of those South Vietnamese who, as members of the Vietminh Resistance Movement, fought against the French and are now fighting as one of the groups that make up the Viet Cong. The approximately 30,000 regroupees chosen for infiltration of South Vietnam provide military leadership and fill key political positions within the Viet Cong. They consider themselves primarily as Vietnamese patriots, and this was as a continuation of the struggle to free Vietnam from foreign domination, a struggle in which the American has replaced the French. Their Communist indoctrination, though focusing on nationalism, asserts that the revolution will abolish the exploiting classes and thus achieve economic equality and social justice.

Descriptors:

• *INSURGENCY
• COMMUNISM
• COUNTERINSURGENCY
• EDUCATION
• LIMITED WARFARE
• MILITARY TRAINING
• PRISONERS
• PROPAGANDA
• PUBLIC OPINION
• VIETNAM

Subject Categories:

• Sociology and Law
• Humanities and History
• Unconventional Warfare

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE