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slackened, as both countries sought to improve
relations with the United States.' Pressed, the
North Vietnamese.fought to hold supply lines
open, but otherwiseadopted an approach known
as the "Five Forbids": \their forces were forbidden
to attack the enemy; to attack enemy troops carrying
out land grab operations; to surround
enemy outposts; to shell outposts; to build combat
villages."
CU) Southern communist commanders were
angry with Hanoi's strictures, and many continued
to battle Saigon's troops for territory. Both
sides violated the cease-fire agreement, and the
casualties piled up. Some 100,000 NVAand PRG
troops died in the first two years of thecease-fire,
while 56,500 ARVN troops perished. There were
85,000 civilian casualties. Another 80.0,000
became refugees, adding to the extraordinary
number already staying in camps.
(S//Sf) Going It Alone: The DGTS
aftertheParis Peace Agreement to
the Fall ofSaigon, 1973-1975
ES//SI) In early 1973, the last:h:VoDu.S.
SIGINT sites in Vietnam, the venerable ASA
missions at Phu Bai and the air base at Bien Hoa,
were scheduled to be completely closed. In truth,
though, they had been functionally inactive since
late 1972J
NSA maintained its liaison with the Vietnamese
SIGINT organization, which itself had been
renamed, for the last time as it happened, as the
Directorate General for Technical Security
CDGTS).2I
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