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This is a December 1979 Central Intelligence Agency study published by the Directorate of Operations Counterintelligence Staff. It describes the Enemy Proselytizing Department (Cuc Dich Van) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of National Defense. The study traces the department's origins from 1941 through the French and Vietnam wars. It covers psychological warfare, fifth column penetration of ARVN and allied forces, the handling of US and allied prisoners of war, and the postwar reeducation of former ARVN personnel. It contains no material on UFOs.
. March 1961-1975. Born about 1912 in Quang Ngai Province, Central Vietnam, Luong joined the Indochinese Communist Party's Nghe Tinh X0-Viet Movement in 1930. Between 1930 and 1945, he was imprisoned several times by the French for revolutionary activities. In March 1945, he and senior Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) cadre Pham Kiet organized a successful revolt and break out from the French Ba To District Prison in Quang Ngai Province. Between 1945 and 1953, he gained fame as the political officer of the PAVN Interregion 5 Command Group in Central Vietnam. In January 1954, he was cited as a deputy director of the MND General Political Department, and was a member of the Central Agrarian Reform Committee. In lune 1955, he led a three-man MND General Political Department delegation which was assigned command over the Pathet Lao Armed Forces. Luong was promoted to the rank of major general in 1958. Following the Third National Party Congress in September 1960, he was appointed a full Lao Dong Party Central Committee member and a member of the MND Central Military Party Affairs Committee. In late 1960, he was sent to South Vietnam under the alias Tran Nam Trung. At Han0i’s Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN), Luong became in March 1961 a Nam Bo (COSVN) Current Affairs Committee (CAC) member, secretary of its military affairs committee, and the first political officer of PAVN’s South Vietnamese Liberation Army (SVNLA). He was concurrently a vice chairman of Hanoi's National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLFSVN) Secretariat and head of its military affairs commission. He was the Lao Dong Party’s representative to the NLFSVN Central Committee. After the People’s Revolutionary Party (PRP) was established in December 1961 as the Lao Dong Party’s southern party branch in South Vietnam, Luong became the PRP secretary-general, and the PRP's representative to the NLFSVN Central Committee. In April 1964, he relinquished his positions as the SVNLA political officer and secretary of the COSVN Military Affairs Committee to Senior General Nguyen Chi Thanh, who replaced Major General Tran Van Quang as the SVNLA Commander. Following the establishment of Hanoi's Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRC) of South Vietnam in April 1969, Luong became the PRC Minister of National Defense, a paper organization front for Hanoi’s SVNLA. Between June 1961 and 1975, Luong in his position as a COSVN CAC member was the direct supervisor of the COSVN Civil Health, Civilian Proselytizing, Finance-Economics, and Military Proselytizing Sec- tions. At an unknown date, he was promoted to lieutenant general. After the Communist takeover of South Vietnam on 80 April 1975, he was listed as a vice chairman of the Council for National Reconciliation and Concord and a member of the National Electoral Commission of South Vietnam. In April 1976, he was elected a National Assemblyman. In July 1976, he.was appointed chairman of the SRV Council of Minister's State Inspection Commission. Le Mai alias Tu Kien, Chief, Saigon City/Region 4 Party Committee MPS, August 1968 to 1975. Born in 1923/1928 in Sadec, South 87 I *5-EG-iEI_ ‘ E A mm oavnn --—-/1 0 "
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 120 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.