NOTHING LEFT TO GIVE UP PART 1

DOCID: 3128922(U) Cryptologic Almanac 5Qth Anniversary Series(U) "Nothing Left to Give Up":SIGINT and the Fall of Saigon, April 1975 (Part I)(U) On 30 April 1975, the city of Saigon, capital of South Vietnam, fell to the forces of thePeople's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). This event marked the end ofa struggle to reunifyVietnam begun in September 1945 by the nationalist-communist party, the Viet Minh,under Ho Chi Minh. The United States had been involved since 1950, first helping theFrench, without su...