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1. At approximately 1700 hours sometime during the period 1L-16 January 1968,
Independent Sapper Battalion L06, directly subordinate to the VC's KONTUM
Provincial Comittee, received warning of an impending B-52 strike on its base
camp. At that time, the battalion was located about three kilometers south of
the Mbntagnard hamlet of KON GUN (AS 805105), KONTUM Province.

2. The notification of the attack was delivered to the battalion commander by a

messenger from the KONTUM Provincial Committee (location unknown). It announced
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to move south towards KONTUM City to a specified location. The journey took one
day to complete.= (Source had no knowledge of any means by which the VC/NVA obt51n..
=ed.information concerning B-52 strikes.)

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area, they were not considered adequate protection for personnel in the event
of a B~52 strike. Members of the battalion had been previously told that if a
bomb hit within 10 meters of the trenches and foxholes they were hiding in, they
would be killed.
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battalion had not been ordered to carry all their equipent with them and some '

‘cooking utensils and weapons were left behind. Several days later, a few personnel
ffrom the battalion returned to the old base camp area to retrieve the equipment
whichghad been left there. There was no evidence that such an attack had actually
taken“place. Upon returning to the battalion's new base camp; they reported that
the area had not yet been bombed.

5»l ($0URQE COMMENT: The warning of a B-52 strike had.been false and had been
*int¢h§1°na11y sent to the battalion in.order to have it move nearer to KONTUM
City in preparation for its attack there during TET. He based his opinion upon
the fact that no one had seen any enemy aircraft flying over their former position
during the period imediately prior to the receipt of the warning notification.
He was convinced that the KONTUM Province Committee had used this means to move
the battalion_closer to KONTUM City without having to inform its members of the
upcoming attack on the province capital.)
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