Broadcasting in an insurgency environment: USIA in Vietnam, 1965-1970 1
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| adam_text | SUMMARY TABLE OP CONTENTS
Chapter Page
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS..............................ii
LIST OP TABLES.................................xiii
LIST OP PIGURES ............................... xv
LIST OP TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS................xvii
I THE STUDY ........................................ 1
II THE STRUGGLE POR UNIFICATION* A REVIEW OP
VIETNAMESE POLITICAL AND PACIFICATION HISTORY . 42
III AN INVENTORY OF FACTORS AFFECTING SOUTH
VIETNAMESE BROADCASTING . . . *..............199
IV PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE IN SOUTH VIETNAM:
THE BUREAUCRATIC JUNGLE.........................284
V BROADCAST MEDIA POTENTIALLY AVAILABLE TO
SOUTH VIETNAMESE AUDIENCES ........... 349
VI EVOLUTION OF SOUTH VIETNAMESE BROADCASTING . . . 397
VII COMMUNICATOR AND AUDIENCE UTILIZATION OF
BROADCASTING IN SOUTH VIETNAM................506
VIII CONCLUSIONS.................................... 625
BIBLIOGRAPHY ............. .......... 667
APPENDICES...................................698
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TABLE OP CONTENTS
Chapter Page
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .............................. ±±
LIST OP TABLES . . . ...................... .xiii
LIST OP FIGURES..................................
LIST OP TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS..............xvii
I THE STUDY..................................... 1
Introduction............................... 1
Review of the Literature ••••••••«• 4
Finding Aids............................. 4
The Vietnamese Conflict................. 5
Psychological Warfare and Propaganda ... 16
USIA and Overseas Mission Operations ... 17
South Vietnamese Culture ................19
Mass Communication and Modernization ... 20
Mass Communications and Psychological
Warfare in Vietnam.................... . 24
Published U.S. Government and South
Vietnamese Sources ..................... 27
Primary Sources ........ ..•••••••• 26
USIA Documentation • • • • ..............28
Department of the Air Force Research
and Analysis Division Archives ...... . 32
Vietnam Observations................... 34
Interviews............................. 34
The Study................................. 34
Purpose of the Study...................... 35
Study Organization .........................36
II THE STRUGGLE FOR UNIFICATION: A REVIEW OF
VIETNAMESE POLITICAL AND PACIFICATION HISTORY . 42
Physical Expansion and Political
Growth (111 B.C. -1802) . ................. 42
Chinese Domination ••••«••..••. 42
Vietnamese Sovereignty and Instability
(938-1802)............................ 45
Emerging Crisis of Values • ..............55
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Page
European Contact and Exploitation
(1802-1954)................................ 57
Vietnam Divided ............. 58
French Impact •........................... 59
Vietnamese Resistance to the French . . . 62
Republic of South Vietnam...............64
Ngo Dinh Diem 1954-1963 ..................... 65
1954-1959 65
1959-1963 ........................... . 73
Revolving Governments: November 1963-
October 1967 . . . ......................... 85
Political Cleavages............... . . . • 85
The Ky Government, 1965-1967 .............. 91
Symbolic Transformation to
Constitutional Government • ...............102
1967 Suggestions of Public Reaction
to GVN Politics........................... 104
Second Attempts in National
Reconciliation 106
1967 National Elections .................. 107
Pacification: 1952-1970 ..................... 113
Definitions.............................113
Pacification Problems . .................. 114
Pacification Programs and Information
Activities .............................. 118
Pacification Organization ................ 123
Tet 1968 132
Indications of Public Reaction to
Tet 1968 ................................. 140
Pacification Reinvigorated ............... 144
Political Consolidation, Expansion and
Fragmentation: 1969-1970 • «••....«. 147
Political Developments .••.•••»•• 147
Political Communications: Diem and Thieu . 154
Rural Development......................... 156
Emerging Economic Crisis................160
Urbanization ............................ 162
Suggestions of 1970 Public Opinion .... 163
Changes in Viet Cong Tactics............166
U.S. and Vietnamese Cleavages...........167
1970 Elections 168
Chapter Summary ..............................170
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III AN INVENTORY OP FACTORS AFFECTING SOUTH
VIETNAMESE BROADCASTING .....................199
The Physical Environment . . . . ............200
Geography...............................200
Resources • 203
Literacy . .......... ......... 205
Population and Ethnic Groupings...........205
Ethnic Groups and Languages ....... 206
Government of the Republic of Vietnam .... 211
Branches of Government ...................211
Minister of Information................ . 215
The National Liberation Front • .............220
From the Ground-Up Versus the Top-Down • • 220
Appeals of the Party......................225
National Liberation Front
Communications.......................... 228
Social and Political Dimensions..............232
Religions ........................ ...... 232
Regionalism ...................... ...... 237
ARVN and Vietnamese Publics ....... 239
GVN Bureaucrats and Rural Populations . . 240
Communication Patterns .................. 243
U.S. Presence ...............................246
Intervening Factors Affecting Broad-
casting and Vietnamese Vulnerabilities
to Mediated Propaganda....................246
Vietnam as a Laboratory Accompanied
with Old Stereotypes ............... • • • 251
The Vietnamese Family and Village
Structure............................... 253
Economic Dimensions ... .................... 260
Content ............................ .....261
Limited Electronic Equipment
Manufactaring ................... ........262
Corruption................................267
Intercountry Relations.......................268
Chapter Summary ............................ 270
IV PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE IN SOUTH VIETNAM;
THE BUREAUCRATIC JUNGLE...........................284
Introduction..................................284
USIA Role in RVN...........................284
The Bureaucracies •• ........... ..... 288
JUSPAO.....................................291
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Psychological Warfare • .............. 293
Psyop Agencies 296
GVN and U.S. Differing Perceptions of
Psychological Warfare 301
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office ...... 304
Beginnings.......................... 304
Feedback Mechanisms ........... 309
Mass Media Construction and Development . 312
The Republic of Vietnam Ministry of
Information ............................. 314
Information Activities Under the
French (1923-1954) .................... 314
Information Administration After 1954 . . 315
Psyop Policies 1965-1970 324
JUSPAO Guidances and Themes ........... 324
Shifting Psyop Priorities ............. 334
Psyops in Vietnam and Previous U.S. Wars . . 336
Chapter Summary ..••••• .................. 340
V BROADCAST MEDIA POTENTIALLY AVAILABLE TO
SOUTH VIETNAMESE AUDIENCES......................349
Overview of Vietnamese Broadcasting • • • • •
Introduction ............ .......
Vietnamese Media Development .......
GVN Internal Radio Services . ....
GVN External Radio Services • . ........
GVN Television.......................
National Liberation Front and North
Vietnamese Radio Applications .»••••••
Liberation Radio ......................
North Vietnamese Broadcasting ......
U.S. Media Available in South Vietnam . . . .
AFVN Radio .............. ........
AFVN Television .................
USIA Broadcasting Activities
Miscellaneous Services ................ . .
British Broadcasting Corporation ♦ . . . .
Korean Broadcasting ................ . .
Chapter Summary ........
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EVOLUTION OF SOUTH VIETNAMESE BROADCASTING . . .
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Radio Communicators
Administration .
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Stations and Services .................. 400
U.S. Assistance in Station Construction . 405
Provincial and Local Stations .......... 411
Staffs ......... ....................... 418
Radio Content: Channel A...................419
Contributors ................. «....»••• 419
U.S. Assistance in Programming ......... 423
Qualitative Description of VTVN
Channel A Content.......................424
Programming and Program Categories .... 426
Romance and Sentiment ............ ..... 440
Banned Music ........ ................... 445
Drama.............................. . 447
. Quantitative Description of VTVN
Channel A ...... ........................ 449
Qualitative Description of Newscasts . . . 451
Quantitative Description of Newscasts . . 458
Radio Content: ARVN Channel B ....... . 464
Qualitative Description ... ............ 464
Channel A and B Comparisons ............468
Television Communicators ................... 469
Administration .................... 469
Inauguration of THVN....................470
U.S. Advisory Assistance ............ 471
Stations................................473
Staffs..................................475
Networks ...... ........................ 477
THVN Content...............................478
Vietnamese Produced Programs ........... 478
Information and Education...............480
Television and Politics ••••....• 481
Chapter Summary........................... 485
VII COMMUNICATOR AND AUDIENCE UTILIZATION OP
BROAPC.ASTING IN SOUTH VIETNAM.............. 506
Communicator Utilization of Broadcasting . . 506
Communications Gap.........................506
Mass Media Punctions.....................507
Articulated Roles and Punctions of
Vietnamese Broadcasting ............... . . 515
Criticism of the USIA Assistance in
Vietnamese Media Development ....... 517
Summary .....................................527
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Indications of Audience Utilization
of Radio Broadcasting ......................528
Survey Research..........................528
1970 Media Survey of Urban Vietnam . . . - 531
Exposure to Media ....... .............. 533
Use of Radio . ..........................538
Stations Listened to Most Often..........541
Radio Program Preferences................549
Earlier Survey Research .............. . 553
Indications of Rural Audience Media Use . 556
Indications of Enemy Use of Radio
Broadcasting .......................... 576
Indications of Audience Utilization of
Television Broadcasting ............... ... 585
1970 Media Survey of Urban Vietnam . . . . 585
Indications of Rural Viewing Behavior
Based on Anecdote 589
Program Preferences Among Urban
Respondents............................ 591
Vietnamese Eavesdropping on American
Television............................. 592
Media and Cultural Change: An Assessment • . 595
Taking the Cultural Differences
into Account ................. •••••••.. 604
Chapter Summary • ................... ..... 609
VIII COSCIAJSIONS ..................................625
Summary .................................. 625
The Struggle for Unification ....... 625
Pactors Affecting South Vietnamese
Broadcasting........................... 632
The Psychological Warfare Bureaucracy . . 636
Broadcast Media Potentially Available
to South Vietnamese Audiences ...... 639
Evolution of South Vietnamese
Broadcasting........................... 641
Communicator and Audience Utilization
of Broadcasting ............. 648
Conclusions 656
BIBLIOGRAPHY...................................667
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APPENDICES......................................698
As Reissue of the National Psychological
Operations Plan for Vietnam ..............
Bs Psyop Support for 1969 Pacification
and Development Plan
Cs Psychological Operations in Vietnam:
Formal Organizations • « • • • ...........
D: VTVN/ARVN Radio Network ..................
E: AFVN and THVN Television Content Week
of October 11-17, 1970 ...................
Fs Changes of Ministers of Information
December 1946-September 1969 ............ .
G: Position Descriptions of Key JUSPAO
Officers Who Assist the GVN ..............
H: JUSPAO Support to the 1970 Pacification
and Development Program
I: Provincial Radio Stations Combined
Program Analysis . .......................
Js Weekly Broadcast Schedule of VTVN Channel
A Effective January 1, 1969, and Updated
to September 1969 ......................
Ks Status of Provincial Stations
September 1963 • . « .....................
L: Extracts of the 1970 JUSPAO Media Survey
of Urban Vietnam Parts I-III ................
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LIST OF TABLES
Changes in South Vietnamese Government
Leaderships 1965-1970 .. .................. * .
South Vietnamese Communal Groups #*.♦•••
USIA Personnel Employed in Vietnam: 1966-1971 -
Republic of Vietnam Media Development and
UNESCO Minimums * .............................
Republic of* Vietnam Radio Broadcasting System .
Republic of Vietnam Television Broadcasting
System ..............................
Liberation Radio Services to South Vietnam
and Europe................... • . • ...........
North Vietnamese International Broadcasting . .
AFVN Facilities in the Republic of Vietnam . .
THVN and AFVN, Saigon, Television Content:
August 1969 ............................. • . -
VOA Vietnamese Broadcasts for the Week Ending
February 27, 1970 • ...........................
Republic of Korea Armed Forces Radio Stations
in South Vietnam ........................ • . •
The Broadcasting System of South Vietnam:
1965-1966 ................................... .
VTVN Channel A Programmings 1963 and 1969 . ♦ .
Content of VTVN Channel A Newscasts During Peak
Listening Hours, Week of August 12-18, 1969 • .
Exposure to Media in Saigon, Other TV Cities
and Provincial Cities Within the Last Year . .
Sources of News About Vietnam Among Saigon,
Other TV City and Provincial City Respondents •
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18 Best Source of News About Vietnam.............537
19 Frequency of Radio Listening in Saigon, Other
TV Cities and Provnicial Cities Per Week . . . * 539
20 Radio Stations Frequently Heard . . . ............544
21 Frequency of Listening to Major Stations . . . . 545
22 Favorite Radio Station.......................... 550
23 Saigon Respondents; Reasons for Preferring
Certain Stations...................................551
24 Reported Station Listenership in Four Military
Regions: July-September 1966 . ............... 560
25 1967 Simulmatics Survey: After Dinner Activities 564
26 1967 Simulmatics Survey: Special Recreational
Preferences ................................... 565
27 1967 Simulmatics Surveys What is Possessed by
Vietnamese Villagers ....................... ... 566
28 1967 Simulmatics Survey: TV Opinions ...... 568
29 1967 Simulmatics Survey: TV Knowledge ...... 569
30 1967 Simulmatics Survey: Frequency of Radio
Listening...................................... 571
31 1967 Simulmatics Survey: Radio Program
Preferences...................................... 573
32 1967 Simulmatics Survey: Second Choice of
Radio Program Preferences........................ . 574
33 1967 Simulmatics Survey: Reasons for Program
Preferences .............. 575
34 Frequency of TV Viewing in Saigon, TV Cities
and Provincial Cities ..........................586 35
35 Frequency of Viewing AFVN Television Each Week . 594
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