REORGANIZATION OF PROVINCIAL AND DISTRICT CONG AN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
who must also be a member of the Lao bong Party, is in charge of the prerars
tion of all studies and .tracts'',, and guiding the members of the Cong An.
The chiefs of bureaus and the chiefs of local dependent Cong An posts should
be selected from among.the tested members of local Democratic Republic of
Vietnam(DRV) population.
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COUNTRY
Indochina
REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT
Reorganization of Provincial and
District Cong An
DATE DISTR. 2 April 1953
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for discipline within the organization itself.
The Chief of the Propaganda and Education Bureau (Tuyen Huan) of the Cong An,
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1. After the purging of officials (Gian Chinh), the Cong An of the various
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this reorganization was an order issued by the Minister of Interior
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The Chief of the Provincial Cong An must be a member of the Lao Dong Party,.
and must be nominated by the Chief of the Interzone Cong An. His function
is to handle the administrative matters of the Cong An..
The Deputy Chief must also be a member of the Lao Dong Party. He concerns
himself with the technical functions. of the. Gong An and is also responsible
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Gong An agents and other officials obtained reports from
local authorities and from local committees Of semi-offietal organizations.
the Cong An'As aim was to enlist the entire popele in
the gathering of information, and there was a considerable increase -In. the
-unt of information gathered.. In People's conferences y. the point was often
made that each citizen had the duty of participating in the Resistance and aiding
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the Cong An, and the right of criticizing the Cong An for its abuse and
shortcomings.
7 In the villages, the Cong An, which had been in some ways a formalized organi-
zation aided by individual members of the local DRV Committee, found itself
greatly enlarged by the direct and active participation of local committees'
and various semi-official organizations. In each of the-se organizations there
is, in effect, a private Gong An charged with the surveillance of the members,
including children, of the respective organizations.
Organization
8. Provinces A typical provincial Cong An is now divided into three bureaus:
The Administrative Bureau (Ranh Chinh),.divided into three sections:
(1). The Police Service (Cong An Trat,Tu)
(2,)- The Mobile Cong An (Cong An Luu Dong )
(3). The Assault Cong An (Cong An Xuan Phong).
b. The Political Bureau, responsible for the Economic Blockade Section
Cong An Bao Vay TUinh Te Dich), shares with the Bureau of Propaganda
and Education the responsibility for the Bureau of Investigation
(Nghiem Cuu).
c. The Bureau of Propaganda and Education, which also has under its super-
Vision the Bureau of Instructional Techniques and the primary and
secondary cadre schools of the province.
District: On the district level, the Cong An is divided into the same three
bureaus as the provincial Cong An. The village Cong An is not divided into
sections Of bureaus and is directly responsible to the various semi-official
local organizations. Both the district and the village Cong An are directed
by a Chief and a Deputy Chief.
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