January 1968 Orders for 441st MI Det members to be
assigned to MAC-SOG in Vietnam:
(Called the Studies and
Observations Group, this top secret military special operations command under Colonel John Singlaub carried
out CIA military missions in third countries including Cambodia, Laos, and North
Vietnam. Excellent books on the subject include SOG, The Secret Wars of
America's Commandos in Vietnam by John L. Plaster, Simon & Schuster, New
York, 1997 (ISBN 0-684-81105-7) and The Secret War Against Hanoi by
Richard H. Shultz, Jr., HarperCollins, New York, 1999 (ISBN 0-06-019454-5). The
orders below are interesting as a security violation since a MACSOG
"connection" is cited within. 441st members carried out intelligence
duties in support of MAC-SOG. Most of these 441st members were further assigned to
Command and Control Detachment (C&C) in DaNang (later C&C North). Six of
these 441st members worked with members of the 5th Special Forces Group
(Airborne) who were assigned to Ops 35 of MAC-SOG under the command of Colonel
Johnson. SP6
Charles Owen and SSG Tadashi Sasahara were further assigned to the Forward Operational
Base (FOB) at Khe Sanh and survived the entire North Vietnamese siege of the
base in 1968.