Dong 559 organization
also: 559 Transportation and Support Group, DON 559
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the Western-installed government. The nonviolence policy practiced by the Viet Cong changed abruptly in 1959 when, in response to the 1059 Law and CIA intrusions into the North, the Lao Dong Central Committee organized the 559 Transportatio…
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the Ho Chi Minh Trail through the rugged mountains and fever-ridden jungles of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Dong 559 paved the way for the Viet Minh veterans who had gone north in 1954 and returned in 1959 to organize self-defense gro…
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groups in South Vietnam. This basically, in response to that, U.S. Special Forces commandos were trained in, get ready for it, behind the lines anti-guerrilla and intelligence gathering operations. So basically what we have here in our term…