STATUTES OF THE INDOCHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2003
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• Publication Date: September 10, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
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The Statutes of the Indochinese Cor,runist Party, passed in l935P _re stnurarized
in the present .form (presented below) in 1943. The S%mn ary. was r,-.:-, (Third
~,dition) on 22 Sorterber 194,5. It is still undoubtedly current in? fact$ although
`_n name the Uon n:snnist Party in Irndochi.ns was dissolved in Ncm embe 1945.
No information is available ccncsrnina thi, identity of the drafter ,s of these
totes. 13 PVer, HO chi in-a, the f:~, rd of the Pet , was certainly the guidn-
? spirit, It is probable that the majority of the drafters werereturned etuden ;s
`-_o m Moscow. Some lip-ht on
their identity may be shed by nartix. Y that the statutes
were dotted by the First Conr?ress of the Party in 1935, and It ! s probable that
~e drafters had been chosen from among the deletes to that Congress., That
`;crngress was held in prea.t secrecy because of the ever-present danr.'r of the F'rencl.
r"t etg. Pecrxuse of the secrecy in which. it way held, it is impos ,'.ble to state
:, itively wiio were the defer ates to that Congress; but it is prci sable that the
"allowing participated:
NOUN :Luang Deng, now a membor of the Tong-Bo
132i4?: hug`' Lien? "i:ni gter r)or?t c= 9' 'l in the Vietnam Provisi n a I Government
of autumn 1945
BANG aan hu. now a membrer of the Toni,-Po
NGUY- f hong e?hang and his r-_Lfe J now deceased) a MIDI Chai
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V6 nguyer Giap, no^r Or '.umde:' :an.Ghi.ef`_,O:f thh.Armed Forces '
:LTO'!G teach Mai, memhrr of rer?marent Vietnam Govt rrment Deler-_ation in Puu'is,
arrested '-,y the French and reportedly now detained in Djibot.ul, Fast Africa
an Minh and
P 1GC F?; van Tao. Both are members of the Tao-'Tinh-Thau trio; the third one
-,ras TA thu Thau (see Para;;^rar}: 3); NGUY3'" -7an Tao is now ,'.inis -er of Labor.
3? All of the del_eglates to the Conr-.ress were ardent . talinists. At t};-t time there
was no open schism between the Stalinist Communists and the Trotskyi is in Indo-
china. There was beginning to ;,e apparent, ho:t;ever, a difference cr" opinion
between those Indochinese Communists who were defi.nitely affiliated with the USSR'
and those who were not. For example, the Tao-Ninh-Thau trio, which had worked
harmoniously together against the French, wa:; regi nni ng to split. VA thou Thau
was the most prominent leader of the Indochinese Ccrrmunlsts who x'ef.ised affiliation
with the UUSSR, Thau refused to attend the First Cones of the i!.aoehinese
Commttni st Party 4h i()I;.. Afterwards he became famous as a Trotskyist leader and
was executed ty the Stalinists in 1!_J45. I I on th:3 rot s1 mist 25X1
t'ovement in 7rdochina) o
The whole tarn, and canton l.s of the Statue inci e ate a close dependence on the
Third Cormunist Internatic,nal (Comintern)~ j hey were written at tf' time of the
Indochinese Cswmuni st Par' "y's renaissance after the repression of fe early
.1930ts--a ren .ism nce which led to the great strengthening of the G:?ty shortly
afterwards, dc;.r:ing the t'_pe of the Front Pcpulaire in France
These Statutes; concern i:,rincipally the organization and rules of t. Party. They
contain very :Little dis":,ussion of doctrine, except Statute. 2 (see t iow), which
Is certainly it later addition. They deal almost entirely with c'uti sa, scarcely
at all rith rl.ghts. This is in accord with the irit of the Part, at that tine
(see .rote at end of report),
G, Thee stye in the on 'i.na" A,,. arise is con erased, often a!aar?d and ague. he
tone is luguhricus, and in places even. desperate--with it er^phasi,: cn the com fete
negation cf ti,(- inr'ividual in favor of the Party. "I':7c: style and t',-ss are in
r:>anccd cor,tr,,,r:st 77i thhr those to be f'o:ind in the ` orstitution of the Vietnam Republic
adopted in w1 . ch is lucid, sirrple, lefty, hopeful. and full of respect for
the individual and his ritl,.ts. l_tf:ci:g!> the style of the Stttutc '.s so different
ror' that Of the' CCons titut?'.or: (drafted ton years later), the adm n -ttra?tive
.mac' i nery of the '!irr+nb:)lic f=5; surer eO upp in the Constitution is in a broad sense the
outgr- :t"n c.' ?" -e original organi:zat i c-rn of the Cor"ri:unist Party. Noi the following,,
similarities: "Par"ty Organs" or ?'G,aaer? l Comr,i.ttees" and "People ?s ? oTr7,ittees' ?s
"Executive Corrnittees" of the, Party and ""Excerat,ive Co rriti;ees's of t' e present
rgovernment; the "Gener,: i Assembly` of the Party and the "Peo}ale ? s ! . se inbly" of
the rresrnt regime; the "Central 'ixecutivc Cor;mitte&1, the Tone`:-1~o?? and the
"Perraner:t Cor Fission"" of the Peoples Assembly; the Party "Can-Bo`" :and the present
State "Gan-Ho" the '? "i rf i ltraatic;a Groups" and certain sorts of Trii -Saat of 'tt:c
Cons-Apr; also i;hr similarity in the Mer?arc::,ration of the Party w the present
hierarc"hhhizatior: of the Governmental admir,istratior.--iu both cases use of
the Co?=mif"tees theoretically chosen by the :Local. voters, but deren,'_n? in fact
in each case c;:t the Committee of the "rext, higher le?~:fl'?~--the Euyer 'o1--.m ittee
being answerai ie to that of the Province, that of the Xu or T'o to t.=o Central
Committee, etc, As thf, present Government I c dominated: by the Viet t+:inh and the
Viet ! rte is 6c_r-.inated by the theoaetlc_a.:l.J.-y' non-existent Cor,duni at, "'arty, these
simil.aaritiFs Earc act remarkable.,
7. At the time o{' the drafting, the terminology used by the Party was .-neraa"lized,
vague and so,ett.res incoherent. (It. has since become srecific). ~ example,
the !}areas used ,o de ctc` various urn .ts of ce ll..ular? organizations az . ; Chi-Bo,
t? g r sts t,} e branch of a treeS ? khan-L3o wh_ ch merely neans se ,? Lion; and
.ui :3 C~ +~ r a r
Tieu-To, little nests, It is cftc r: ircpossible 't'd% determine from ti-, text whether
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a General Committee or an Executive Committee is intended. There is much use of
vague words such as; organ---Cap-Bo, an organ on any level; Dang-T o, an organ
' the Party; CapTang-Bo, an organ of the Party on any level; Co~-Quan, organ;
?~ rr< seni;ativE, i!ai-yieu; Uy-Vien, cieJegate. Often terms are used interchangeably.
At the time of the c?r~-.fting,, the word Can-Po had not yet acquired the specific and
?efinite meaning J t. now has and was soretimes used interchangeably with Chi-Dao,
liter lly' g id e'; Just as the terminology for organs in general has b'.en greatly
iiP.he':. C E Farty7
van rug coun tr i i-r be sc,t"CT'ti nr r.. far 10 * orSil ie. )
GtE'. ' is In J.in? or"intern T c'1' c t! ave tLe Ccr 'ri:i
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