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Aside from some districts in the Mekong Delta, the Viet Cong failed to create a governing apparatus in South Vietnam following Tet, according to an assessment of captured documents by the U. S. CIA.

The breakup of larger Viet Cong units increased the effectiveness of the CIA's Phoenix program ( 1967 – 72 ), which targeted individual leaders, as well as the Chiêu Hồi Program, which encouraged defections.

By the end of 1969, there was little communist-held territory, or " liberated zones ," in South Vietnam, according to the official communist military history.

There were no predominantly southern units left and 70 percent of communist troops in the South were northerners.