MILITARY ORGANIZATION OF THE HANOI FRONT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900200019-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: January 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Indochina
DATE DISTR.
12 Jan. 1952
SUBJECT Ni11t.aay Organization of the Hanoi Front
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. The Hanoi Front is directly responsible to the high command of the Demoaratio
Republic of Vietnam (MV) and coimnuniaates with the high command of Inter-
sector III and the ?Tani Gong An only when matters of mutual interest are
to be discussed.
2. At present the only combat unit assigned to the Hanoi Front is the 812
Battalion, inter Nguyen Hha, which includes a guard compatW and a coazmica-
tiois unit. The 812 Battalion is the former 802 Battalion, which has been
formed from the combination of the.104 Battalion, disbanded in early 1949,
and the 3 Battalion, formerly the guerrilla unit in the area. During 1950
and early 1+ both the 50 Battalion and the 802 Battalion were assigned
to the Pront:I
3. The High Command of the Hanoi Front, with headquarters at I Duo, Ha Dong
Province, to organised as follower
Comnnder
Deputy Commander
Political Commissar
General Staff
Chief of Staff
Intelligence
Personnel
Military Training
Correspondence
Poet, Telegraph and Telephone
Tran vy2
Nguyen Dinh Hong3
Dinh Van Ranh
VyHai
Mon and Hue
Nguyen )long Hang
Tam
Nguyen D .nh Hoc,
Unidentified
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Political Section
Su pl.y Section
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Chiefs Vu D-tnh Hoan
Nguyen Phan
Trans nort,at ion Hue
Correspondence Limb
Manh Hiau
Administration Ng en Bang
Armament ^Ihu
Supplies Glue
?Cowie nt The information in r ort differs widely from that
contained in its
accuracy is difficult to asaess, however, because of the constant
change in local and guerrilla units as the result of purges and military
losses, as well as the known DRV practice of distributing deception
material, including lists of alleged subversive agents, designed to
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Comment. The information contained in
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to the information containe
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1. ~ Conant . ONOWOK ^
cif the 50 Battalion, under Le
4 Tune 3.951. no
this battalion.
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2. Comment?
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Nguyen Quang Thanh, aka Le fain.
He is yoncurrently Communist
Party of Indochina (PCI) chief
for the special zone of Hanoi.
appears to lend some weight
s report.
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reported the assignment
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Gong Nhoa, to the Hanoi Front as of
indicsti,on as to the oarrent status of
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c, reported that
Trap Vq was commander of the 802 Battalion in
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Ng ren Dinh Hhng has never appeared on the lists of high-ranking members
of the Hanoi Front. Ngo Duy Cao, former
President of the :Administrative and Resistance Comittee of Thai Bimb,
Is Vice President of the Front. It is probable, however, that Cao is
Vice President of the Administrative and Resistance Committee of Hanoi,
while Hong is possibly Deputy military conmnder.,
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