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taking the provincial capital, at what would probably prove
 to be a relatively small price.

It is also possible that the airfield at Saravane plays
 some role in Communist intentions. It is a 4,800 foot laterite
 strip which conceivably could be used for staging North
 Vietnamese fighters-interceptors for operations in South
 Vietnam. DRV IL-14s could also use the field, but Hanoi's
 IL-28 bomber aircraft could probably not be effectively flown
 into and out of the strip.

We would rate continued strong Communist military pressure
 on at least the environs of Saravane as a very strong possibility;
 an attack on the town itself is about a fifty-fifty proposition
 at present.

Official sources:

Central
 Intelligence Bulletin 7 Feb 68.

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Assessment of the fighting in the Saravane area of Laos. Lao military sources report substantial concentrations of North Vietnamese troops along Routes 23 and 16. Memo. Central Intelligence Agency. TOP SECRET. Issue Date: Feb 14, 1968. Date Declassified: Apr 11, 1997. Sanitized. Complete. 4 page(s). Reproduced in Declassified Documents Reference System. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.

Document Number: CK3100127551

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