CIA Reading Room cia-rdp78s02149r000200010025-1: PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF DESTRUCTION OF YEN BAI TOWN

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Approved For Release 2001/03/03 : CIA-RDP78S02149R000200010025-1 1140 IT 01`7101 BISSM4 a ` :,rtc,,>raphia Evidence of Dostru tion of Yen Bai Tern. 'lnder Rolling Thunder 22 and 23 (cover -' n[.r the riod July 9 to 23 ), our ?ti?crai't were authorizad to strike the Yen I;.:i Ora-In :-ace tarot, located 2 nautical 1 j,es nortlhea.at of Yea I~aj town, and to rein am d recce on a 40 nautical mile r0;:a;L4nt of the highway arid railroad to the northwest and southeast of yen Bait i ,ontveen July 9 and 17, nine misaaions were run on the depot, resulting in 3 struotian of 45 mzrcent of its capacity. Alpo on tl:coa mission, a railroad e near the depot's motor goal was struck. reau1tinz in consic.Vrab).aa &mica to ci4ntl a1 and business-t y buildings 0-3 Erell r.s to rolling stock and railroad -: fwciuitlea. The railroad vard, which was not a fa:30d tart wider the R< ll inFr `itL 'der prowars, wag app tr ntly struck as a tax; ;ct of opportunity under the rules 'car armed reconnaissance missions. The attached photo apps show, that the main art of town adjacent to the railroad yard, intact on July 13, had borm generally "eatroycd by July 19 aad that other ecctlona of Vie turn had beezi damar.=AC? or destroyed. On. ,Lily 32, R.7s,-)J. radio char,-,e I t_..zt UO pl. ac h~.d struck r dI.,aal facilities in Yen Arai tcxaxz killln ?a,4 1 ;eo le, r.: i:1y r.cdical personn,cl, in the first thr 'e days of raids. We carrot vorlfy thi3 alleLcation. Subseeucnt1v, in kee:pin ; with their ,zenera] effort to rsiC.; mj . non-Tr dical civilian ra nT,e F the th WlotnaA.inco d1 not releaae any details in their protests about the July -? 7 raids which, to ;udb,:e from the p::otc aphs , probably caused more day 1.317 raida which, to _e to I. civilian pop lation. Approved For Release 2001/03/03 : CIA-RDP78S02149R000200010025-1