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committee. In April 1950, he was reassigned to the Viet Bac Military
Region, where he became the deputy commander and political
officer of the PAVN 804th Division. In April 1951, he was reassigned
to the MND headquarters before becoming the head of the Lao Dong
Party Central Committee's Enemy Proselytizing Board in 1952. In
1954, he was noted as the deputy director of the MND General
Political Department in charge of Enemy Proselytizing Department
affairs. In February 1956, he replaced Ngo Gia Loan as the director
of the MND General Political Departments Military Security
Department (CBV) and held this post until June 1958, when he was
appointed Deputy Chief of Staff in the MND General Staff
Department, a post which he currently holds._Ouang held the rank of
senior colonel. On 25 February 1960, he was promoted to the rank of
major general. At the September 1960 Third National Party Congress,
he was appointed a secret alternate member of the Central
Committee and a member of the MND Central Military Party Affairs
Committee. In late 1960, he was sent to South Vietnam, where he
became in March 1961 the deputy secretary of the Lao Dong Party's
Nam Bo/COSVN Military Affairs Committee and commander of its
South Vietnamese Liberation Army (SVNLA). In June 1964, he was
recalled to Hanoi, where he reassumed his position of Deputy PAVN
Chief of Staff. By 1966, he had become the commander of PAVN
Military Region 4, which directed the operations of Military Region 5
in Central Vietnam from its forward headquarters in the Vinh Linh
Special Region (VLSR). Following the establishment in early 1967 of
the Tri-Thien-Hue Military Region, he became concurrently its
political officer. In about 1973, he was secretly appointed a full
member of the Lao Dong Party's Central Committee before being
promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in 1974. In January 1974,
Hanoi Moi cited him as a full Central Committee member, a member
of the Central Military Party Affairs Committee, a PAVN Deputy
Chief of Staff, and as a Vice MND Minister. In November 1976, he
led a PAVN delegation to Cuba. Since March 1978, he has been cited
by the Hanoi press as a Vice MND Minister and Deputy PAVN Chief
of Staff with the rank of lieutenant general.
Do Quyen alias Luu Quyen, Director, CDV, 1950 to June 1955.
DPOB unknown. Quyen, a lieutenant colonel, replaced Lieutenant
Colonel Luu Van Loi as the head of the MND Political Staff's Enemy
Proselytizing Office (Phong Dich Van/PDV), which became known
as the CDV in 1954. In June 1955, Quyen was a member of a three-
man MND General Political Staff Department delegation headed by
Deputy Department Director Senior Colonel Tran Luong, which was
assigned command over the Pathet Lao Armed Forces. Quyen was
replaced as the CDV Director by Colonel Oanh alias Tam Thoi.
Nguyen Xuan Su alias Hai Su, Political Officer, SVNLA Political
Staff Department Enemy Proselytizing Office Policy Section Inter-
Unit A POVV Escort Unit 23A, April 1968 to 1973. Born about 1928 in
Ha Dong Province, North Vietnam, Su had been an instructor for the
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