Central Office for South Vietnam (Communist headquarters)[239

Central Office of South Vietnam (1961+)

Central Office for South Vietnam - The field headquarters for the Viet Cong / NVA forces fighting in South Vietnam. Located just inside Cambodia, northwest of Saigon.

central office of South Vietnam. Communist headquarters for military and political action in South Vietnam.

COSVN, pronounced "CŎS-vĭn" and standing for Central Office for South Viet Nam, was a North Vietnamese military headquarters (HQ) during the Second Indochina War (Vietnam War). It was in overall command of the communist effort in South Vietnam, which included the efforts of both the Việt Cộng and the North Vietnamese army. Whether COSVN really existed, and if so, where it was at any one time, and how important it was, have been contentious subjects, but U.S. military intelligence generally believed quite certainly that COSVN existed and that it was a valuable target (Westmoreland 1976:55,56,206,389).