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he was one of several high-ranking party and MND officials who met
with a North Korean military delegation headed by Defense Minister
Kim Chang-pong. Between 1965 and 1973, he was the responsible
authority in the MND General Political Department for US POW
affairs, participating in decisions for the early release of US POWs.
Major General Le Quang Dao, a deputy director of the MND General
Political Department, acted on his behalf in US POW affairs. In April
1974, Hao was promoted to the rank of colonel general. At the Fourth
Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) Congress in December I976, he
was appointed a member of the VCP Secretariat and head of its
Central Control Committee. Hao has traveled to the PRC and USSR
(dates unknown), and has used the aliases Mai Huu Thao, Mai Van
Tho, Do Huy Tien, and Nguyen The Vien.
Nguyen Hiep, member, Ouang Da Special Region Party Committee
Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section, concurrently chief,
Administrative Office, 1968 to 1974. Born about 1985 in Loc Phuoc
Village, Dai Loc District, Ouang Nam Province, Central Vietnam,
Hiep participated in the 1945-1954 French Resistance War in Region
5; regrouped to North Vietnam in 1954/1955; and infiltrated South
Vietnam in 1966, when he was assigned to the Quang Da Special
Region Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section. In 1968, he became
a member of its command group and head of its administrative office.
Duy Hoa alias Ba Hoa, Staff Assistant for Training and Operations,
SVNLA Political Staff Department Enemy Proselytizing Office’s
Propaganda Section, 1965 to 1975. Born about 1930 in North
Vietnam, Hoa was a squad leader at the time of the May 1954 Battle
of Dien Bien Phu. In 1965, he was sent by the CDV with the rank of
captain to the SVNLA headquarters, where he was assigned to the
Enemy Proselytizing Office’s Propaganda Section. Hoa conducted
political indoctrination courses for US POWs who were to be released
from the Policy Section POW Inter-Unit A camp system for
US/foreign civilian and military POWs.
Le Hoa, Deputy Chief, CDV Policy (POW) Office, 1958 to 1970s.
Born about 1920 in Hanoi, Hoa held the rank of lieutenant colonel;
had written many articles on the morale of US and ARVN troops in
South "Vietnam; and was familiar with CDV POW listings and files.
Hoa is an English linguist.
Nguyen Quoc Hoat, Korean-language specialist, Region 5 Party
Committee Enemy and Military Proselytizing Section, July 1968 to
1972. Born in 1934 in Hanoi, North Vietnam, Hoat graduated in 1959
as a metallurgical engineer from the I-Ianoi Polytechnical University.
Between 1959 and 1965, he was sent as a postgraduate student to
North Korea, where he studied Korean and worked in the Pyongyang
Steel Factory. In late 1965, he returned to North Vietnam and was
assigned to the Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel Plant complex. In 1967,
he was inducted into PAVN; attended the Son Tay Infantry Officer's
School; and graduated with the rank of senior lieutenant. Assigned to
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