[Milsurplus] CIA team radios in North Vietnam ?

[Hubert Miller]

Continuing to thin out the old magazines, I was reading in 'Military' magazine from June 1999 a review of a Naval Institute book,
"Secret Army, Secret War : Washington's Strategic Spy Operations in North Vietnam",  Sedgwick Tourison.   "....beginning In 1961,
teams of South Vietnamese agents, recruited by the CIA and the Pentagon and parachuted into North Vietnam to establish
behind-the-lines resistance bases. Some of the radio operators captured within hours of their landing were persuaded by Hanoi's
Counter-Espionage Directorate to operate their radios for Hanoi and tell Saigon and Washington what Hanoi wanted them to hear.
....Apparently, unknown to Washington, all paramilitary teams reporting to Saigon that the CIA had turned over to the Pentagon,
teams whose very existence was crucial to the concept...were operating their radios under Hanoi's control....In WWII, the Allies'
grand deception operation lasted approximately two years. In Vietnam, Hanoi's deception lasted at least ten years...."

I have not read this book. I wonder if anyone here has, and-or knows what radios such teams were equipped with ? I may add the
book to my 'eventual read' list.

An article I read in "Morsum Magnificat" a couple decades back talked about radio networks France had operating in their
Indo-China colony. The radios were the B2 agent radios from British WWII stock. The author, a former network radio operator,
described the B2's as near totally worn out. Finally his repeated complaints won him the issue of a brand-new GRC-9.
-Hue
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