DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM ACTIVITIES IN LAOS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500720005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA003500720005-9
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INKC, RMATION REPORT
CCNJ DE i AL
This Doe? iant Contains information affecting the Na..
tionai Defense of the united .States, within tie mean-
inQ of Title 18, Neetions 7O3Nno 764, of the U...Code, as
amende4. 10. transmission or revelation of its oonte*
to or redelpt by an unhuthorleed person IS Prohibited
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25X1-ii Ths Deannevatic Repulic of Vietnam (DRV) High Command has recently assigned
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25X1. 2, Hoang Sam as having been replaced by Ha KK Tan as commander-
i n-e e o erzone III, as of July 1951.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS ROTATIVE.
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44e4-0 ang %flang, who had previously been deputy commander of the Viet Bac
rterzone, to the Laotian front as deputy commander under General Hoang Sam.2
t~t)tR irtbd and formed into battalions and will become regular units in 1954,
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regional forces up to battle conditions. Independent companies are being
T'ie ERV is' making efforts to develop guerrilla forces in 1-non and to brin
arty branches in Laos and Cambodia should inereaaa their', rinks and; win over
the population so that they will be ableto stand on their own feet,'
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po.iticalaotivitiee so that the party will be able to operate without
Outeide assist ce or support. This increased' activity was first suggested
Truonig Chinh at the national conference of the Lao Dorig party in June
]9 ,when Chinh stated: "If Cambodia and Laos are not liberated" the
-liberation of Vietnam will not; be successful. We musts therefore" make
eev'ery effort '.to develop the, military forces of our neighbors in Indochina.
' Laotian branch of the Lao Dong party is presently train n aL enta f
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Truong Chinh was
ry-ueneraL of the aes um of the Lao Dong party.
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