Central Intelligence Office
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The Central Intelligence Office (vi: Phủ Đặc ủy Trung ương Tình báo) was the national strategic intelligence agency for the government of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), headquarters in Saigon.[1][2] It was created in 1961, via Executive Decree No. 109/TTP, signed into law on May 5, 1961, by President Ngô Đình Diệm. The agency was responsible for investigating, gathering and analyzing strategic & military intelligence information on communist North Vietnam, and its branch in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and report and advise the South Vietnamese government on national security.