Secret Mailbox and Hideout of the Saigon Special Forces

A house on Dang Dung Street that once stored letters and secret documents bound for the resistance base, now set inside a cafe

The house at 113A Dang Dung Street in Tan Dinh was once where letters and secret documents of the Saigon Special Forces were stored and passed on to the resistance base. The site is part of the exhibition network of the Saigon Special Forces Museum, together with the museum's headquarters at 145 Tran Quang Khai, Gio Long Biet dong Sai Gon in Can Gio, and the weapons cache at 287/70 Nguyen Dinh Chieu. Inside are many photographs, papers and documents about the Saigon Special Forces; clocks, a cassette player, oil lamps, a telephone and a wooden chest of drawers stand as "witnesses" of the era. Visitors can also see the structure of the Special Forces' hideouts first-hand. Good to know before you go: this is not a relic site with its own gate and ticket counter. The site is inside a working cafe at No. 113A; a bronze plaque at the door reads "Historical Relic: Secret Mailbox and Hideout of the Saigon Special Forces". Visitors enter through the cafe, during the cafe's opening hours. This is a family's private home and has NOT yet been officially designated a relic; in November 2025, the City Centre for Relic Conservation held a scientific seminar proposing that it be designated a City-level Historical Relic. The site is the starting point of many itineraries promoted by the Department of Tourism, such as "In the Footsteps of the Saigon Special Forces".

English text: machine translation from the Localis platform — proper names kept in Vietnamese.