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(U) French POWsftom Dien Bien phu being marched to Viet Minh prison camps
\ IAt J750 hours, a
lonely, last outpost of the French 31st Combat
Engineer Battalion (callsign "9DMO") radioed
Hanoi with the simple message: "We're blowing
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up everyt mg. 1. leu.
(U) The French had finally emerged from
their experience in the tunnel of Indochina only
to discover defeat's infinite darkness.
(U) Notes
1. (TS//SI) National Cryptolcgic School, On
Watch: Profiles from the Notional Security Agency"s
Past 40 Years, 1986, 24.
2. (TS//SI) JPAG Memo, State Department
Correspondence, Memorandum for Coordinator of
Joint Operations, "Communications Intelligence
Priorities," 19 November 1946, NCA, CBNH 66. ACC#
19322.
3. (Te//eI) George Howe, Narrative HistOl~' of
AFSA and NSA,I
September 1949; Technical Annex LA. Reference to
Volume V.A.16, 7.
4. (TS//5I) ASA Cryptanalytic Annual Report
1945-46,25, Series V.C.l.P.
5. (Te//eI) Howe, 7 fn.
6. cn;//el) Ibid., 16-19.
8. (T5//5I) Hanoi to Moscow, 23 September 1945.
H-207443, NCA, ACC# 2022C. EO 1. 4. (c)
9. (T5//SI) Hanoi to London, 26 September 1945,
H-212427, NCA ACC# 2022C.
10. (U) Vichy to Hanoi, SIS #116843, 3 February
1944, NARA., RG 457, ASA Multi-national Diplomatic
Translations. The failure to include Vietnamese in the
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