NAM BO REGIONAL COMMITTEE-HANOI CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000200160013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 12, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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12 April 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: George A. Carver, Jr.
SUBJECT : Nam Bo Regional Committee-Hanoi Central
Committee Meetings
1. From key captured documents and to a limited extent from
the public record, the following known Party meetings were held in the
1954-59 showing that the . Party Central Committee made the decision
to wage an armed struggle in South Vietnam:
July 1954: 6th plenum of the Central Committee; reviewed the Geneva
Agreements and endorsed the political struggle in the South.
Late 1954: Nam Bo Regional Committee Resolution; mimicked the
CC resolution.
Early 1957: 2nd Nam Bo Regional Committee Conference; "the
conference's resolution mentioned the problem of armed
activities, but it considered the building of the armed forces
as preparatory to a situation when war would break out
again. The Regional Committee did not recognize that
armed struggle was part of the revolutionary struggle in
South Vietnam'.' (Taken from Nam Bo Regional Committee
Report, 1954-1960.)
August 1958: 3rd Nam Bo Regional Committee Conference; "the entire
Regional Committee recognized that the possibility of
changing the South Vietnamese administration had vanished,
and it asserted that the South Vietnam revolution should take
the 'relatively peaceful' line. The problem of armed
struggle was raised more positively, but the concept of the
struggle means was still indistinct." (Taken from Nam Bo
Regional Committee report, 1954-1960. )
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January 1959: 15th Central Committee plenum; "the correct line the
Party advocates at present [1961] is the general uprising
line to seize power and return it to the people, which is in
accordance with the resolution adopted at the 15 Central
conference." (Taken from COSVN Resolution 1, Oct. 1961)
"The resolution of the 15th Central conference clearly
delineated the general responsibility of the Vietnam revolu-
tion. . . and at the same time outlined the path which the
South Vietnam revolution should take. IT (Taken from the
"Crimp" document, 1963)
May 1959: Politburo Directive on countering the GVN's anti-Communist
law 10/ 59 .
"The Regional Committee grasped the line of struggle in South
Vietnam more clearly when it received the Political Bureau's directive
regarding the counter-measures against the fascist law 10/59 and
especially when it received the resolution of the 15th Central conference.
(Nam Bo Regional Committee report, 1954-60)
In mid-late 1959,"the Regional Committee received the resolution
of the 15th Central conference and a number of other important directives
of Central which set forth the principles and the direction of the South
Vietnam revolution. " (Nam Bo Regional Committee report, 1954-60)
Party Members in South Vietnam
July 1954: 60, 000
1955-56: 15, 000; the reduction is due to a selection out of members
with non-proletarian backgrounds, and to the regroupment
of several thousand Party members to North Vietnam.
mid-1959: 5,000
late 1961: 34,800
late 1962: 54,000
December 1963:69,580
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