Vietcong

alternative Viet Cong · alternative VC

1. A communist organization and guerrilla army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that waged an insurgency against the South Vietnamese government, the United States, South Korea, and Australia during the Vietnam War. It was ultimately directed by communist North Vietnam, supported by China and the Soviet Union, and formally organized as the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam in 1960.

plural Vietcongs · alternative Viet Cong · alternative VC

1. A member of this organization.

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   Then I went to Cam Ranh Bay, a huge base, and received the same official briefing, upbeat and hopeful. Afterward, I asked the briefing officer if he thought any Vietcong were working on the base itself. He said yes. I asked how many, and he said, “We figure twenty to thirty percent of our employees are Vietcong.”

   2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, Scribner, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 78