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Reference Aid

Council of Ministers of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

CR 77-10004 January 1977

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PREFACE

In April 1976, a year after the North vietnamese

takeover of the Republic of Vietnam, a National Assembly

was elected, consisting of 492 representatives from both

North and South Vietnam. On 24 June the Assembly convened

for its first session, at which it unanimously adopted a

set of proposals laying the groundwork for the de jure

unification of Vietnam. These proposals included naming

the country the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and designating

Hanoi as its capital. The flag of what had been the

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) was affirmed as the

national flag, and Saigon, former capital of the Republic

of Vietnam, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. On 2 July Hanoi

Radio officially announced the unification of North and

South Vietnam. During 2-3 July a new government was

promulgated. It retained most of the officials who had

served in the now legally defunct government of the DRV,

but also included a few token southerners as a gesture

toward Vietnamese unity. During 14-20 December the ruling

Lao Dong (Workers) ~arty held its Fourth Congress. At the

Congress, the first since 1960, the party changed its name

to the Communist Party of Vietnam and greatly expanded the

size of its Central Committee and Politburo.

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This reference aid contains biographic summaries on

the 38 members of the Council of Ministers of the Socialist

Republic of Vietnam. The information was cOllected before

November 1976 and was obtained principally from the Vietnamesle

press and radio. The summaries are arranged alphabetically

by personal name (the last element in the name). A list

of the complete Council of Ministers begins on page v.

Information on dates is fragmentary. Thus, the notation

"1955-?" shows that only the beginning date of an appointment

is known; "?-1955" shows that only its end date is known;

"as of 1955" indicates that no information is available

to indicate exactly when the assignment began or ended.

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Premier

Pham Van Dong

Vice Premiers

Pham Hung Huynh Tan Phat Vo Nguyen Giap Nguyen Duy Trinh Le Thanh Nghi Vo Toan Do Muoi

COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Ministers of the Premier's Office

Minister in Charge of Agricultural Science and Technology Nghiem Xu an Yem

Minister in Charge of the Da River Project Ha Ke Tan

Minister in Charge of Oil and Natural Gas Dinh Duc Thien

Minister in Charge of Cultural Affairs and Education Tran Quang Huy

Minister of the Premier's Office Dang Thi

\ Minister; Director of Cabinet of the Premier's <l>ffi'ce

Phan My , .. ,'.' ,r

Ministers

Agriculture Vo Thuc Dong

Building Do Muoi

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Ministers (cont.):

Communications and Transportation phan Trong Tue

Culture Nguyen Van Hieu

Education Nguyen Thi Binh

Engineering and Metals Nguyen Con

Finance Dao Thien Thi

Food Ngo Minh Loan

Foreign Affairs Nguyen Duy Trinh

Foreign Trade Dang viet Chau

Forestry Hoang Van Kieu

Higher and Vocational Education Nguyen Dinh Tu

Home Trade Hoang Quoc Thinh

Interior Tran Quoc Hoan

Labor Nguyen Tho Chan

Light Industry Vu Tuan

Maritime Products Vo Toan

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Ministers (cont.):

National Defense Vo Nguyen Giap

Power and Coal Nguyen Chan

Public Health Vu Van Can

Supply Tran Sam

War Invalids and Social Welfare Duong Quoc Chinh

Water Conservancy Nguyen Thanh Binh

Commissions

State Bank Hoang Anh

State Inspection Tran Luong

State Nationalities Le Quang Ba

State Planning Le Thanh Nghi

State Price To Duy

State Science and Technology Tran Dai Nghia

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HOANG ANH

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:

1913, Thua Thien Province

CURRENT POSITIONS AND DATES OF APPOINTMENT:

Director General, State Bank, Jul 1976

Deputy, Sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976

Member, Communist Party Central Committee, Mar 1951

PREVIOUS POSTS:

as of 1951

Mar 1951-Dec 1976

as of 1952

1955

Sep 1955-1958

1956-1959

1956-?

Jan 1957-?

VIETNAM

Chairman, Resistance and Administration Committee, Interzone V

Member, Lao Dong Party Central Committee Secretariat

Chairman, Resistance and Administration Committee, Interzone IV

Deputy, First National Assembly; member, National Assembly Standing Committee

Vice Minister of Defense

Chairman, Central Physical Culture and Sports Committee

Permanent member, Demobilization Committee

Chairman, National Assembly Subcommittee on Organization and Steering

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PREVIOUS POSTS (cont.):

as of 1957

pre-1957-Jun 1975

1959-Apr 1965

Jul 1959-?

May 1960

Jul 1960-?

as of Apr 1962

1965-1967

1965-Apr 1971

as of Apr 68

Apr 1971-Apr 1974

Apr 1971

Mar 1971-Jul 1976

Head, General Directorate of Rear Services, people's Army of Vietnam

Member, National Defense Council

Minister of Finance

Member, Subcommittee to Study Budgets, National Assembly

Deputy, Second National Assembly

Chairman, Financial and Commercial Board, Premier's Office

Chief, Finance and Trade Commission, Lao Dong Party Central Committee

Minister of Agriculture

Chairman, Agricultural BOard, Premier's Office

Chairman, Central Resettlemen,t Commission

Cha"irman, Central Agricultu:r;al COIilInission

Deputy, Fourth National Assembly

Vice Premier

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MISCELLANEOUS:

In 1971 the National Assembly Standing Committee announced the merger of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of State Farms and the Managerial Board of Agricultural Cooperatives into the Central Agricultural Commission. Anh became chairman of the newly created commission.

Anh is probably well educated. He is married and has seven or eight children.

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LE QUANG BA


1907, Cao Bang Province


Chairman, State Nationalities Commission, Jul 1960


PREVIOUS POSTS:

as of 1941

as of May 1949

as of 1951

pre-Apr 1952-at least 1958

pre-May 1960-at least 1962

May 1960

Apr 1964

pre-sep 1964-at least 1966

Mar 1967-7

VIETNAM

Secretary, Cao Bang Province party committee

Commander, Northeast Maritime Sector

Lieutenant colonel; member, General Staff, people's Army of Vietnam

Commander, 316th Division

Commander, Viet Bac military sector


Deputy, Third National Assembly

Director, Administration of Land Clearing

Member, Preparatory Committee for Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution

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PREVIOUS POSTS (cont. ) :

as of Oct 1969

Feb 1971-?

Apr 1971

Jun 1971-?

as of May 1972

Jun 1975-?

Feb 1976-?

Jul 1976-?

Sep 1960-Dec 1976

MISCELLANEOUS:

Chairman, Minorities Affairs Board, Lao Dong Party Central Committee

Member, Electoral Board, National Assembly Standing Committee


Member, Committee to Review the Qualifications of National Assembly Deputies

Member, Secretariat, Ho Chi Minh Lao Dong Youth Group

Minister; Vice Chairman, State Planning Commission

Member, Electoral Council, National Assembly Standing Committee

Member, Committee to· Review the Qualifications of National Assembly Deputies

Member, Lao Dong Party Central Committee

At about the time of ,the founding of the Indochinese Communist party in 1930, LeQuang Ba used the aliases Le Kinh Ba or Le.

22 December 1976

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NGUYEN THANH BINH VIETNAM


Minister of Water Conservancy, Jun 1973 Deputy, Sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976 Member, Communist Party Central Committee,

Dec 1976 Major General, People's Army of vietnam

(PAVN), pre-1956

PREVIOUS POSTS:

as of 1951

as of 1956

1956-at le.ast 1962

as of Apr 1960

Sep 1960-Dec 1976

Feb 1961-at least 1964

Apr 1964

Nov 1966-Nov 1967

Nov 1966-Dec 1969

Dec 1969-?

Director, Viet Minh military ordnance

Deputy chief, Operational Planning Section, PAVN

Deputy chief, General Directorate of Rear Services, PAVN

Member, State Science and Technical Committee

Alternate member, Lao Dong Party Central Committee

Acting Minister of Internal Trade


Chairman, State Price Commission

Chairman, Financial and Commercial Board, Premier's Office

Chairman, Government Auditing Committee

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1971-at least 1973

Apr 1971

TRAVEL:

Aug 1962

Dec 1971

Apr 1973

May 1973

MISCELLANEOUS:

Chairman, State Inspection Commission


Participant, conference on agriculture, Peking

Head, delegation to celebration of 50th anniversary of Chilean Communist Party (visited Cuba en route) .

Head, State Inspection Commission delegation to Budapest, Hungary

Head, delegation to USSR, Hungary, Bulgaria and the German Democratic Republic

Binh is married and has at least one child, a son. He speaks fluent French and English and understands Russian and Chinese.

22 December 1976

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NGUYEN THI BINH


20 Jun 1927, Saigon


VIETNAM

Minister of Education, Jul 1976


PREVIOUS POSTS:

as of Sep 1962

as of Nov 1962

as of Jul 1963

as of Mar 1965

as of 1965

Nov 1965-7

Nov 1968

Dec 1968

Member, Central Executive Committee, South Vietnam Liberation Women's Union

Member, South Vietnam Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee

Member, Central Committee, National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NFLSV)

Head, Executive Committee, South Vietnam Liberation Women's Union

Special delegate, Presidium of the NFLSV Central Committee

Vice President, South Vietnam Liberation Women's Union

Member, NFLSV delegation to Paris peace talks

Deputy chief, NFLSV delegation to Paris peace talks

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Jun 1969-Jul 1976

Nov 1975

Nov 1975 .

TRAVEL:

Feb 1963

May 1963

Jun 1963

Jul 1963

Aug 1963

Dec 1963

Dec 1963

Foreign Minister, Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG)

Delegate to Political Consultative Conference on National Reunification, Saigon . Member, Secretariat of Political Consultative Conference

Attended Third Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Con,.. ference in Cairo

Attended conference of Afro-Asian journalists in Jakarta, Indonesia, as a representative of Patriotic and Democratic Journalists of the NFLSV

Attended Internation·al. Women's Congress in Moscow

Attended International Women's Meeting in Peking

Head of South Vietnamese delegation touring China

Attended the celebrations of the third anniversary of the founding of the NFLSV

Head of delegation to Indonesia for "week of support for the patriotic 'U

struggle of the South Vietnamese people"

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TRAVEL (cont.):

Feb 1964

Mar 1964

Jun 1964

Oct 1964

May 1965

Jun 1965

Jul 1965

Nov 1965

Mar·1966

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Head, NFLSV delegation to Conference of International Union of Students Committee for Solidarity with the Students and Peoples of vietnam in Budapest, Hungary

Participant, Sixth Session, Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization, Algiers, Algeria

Head,. South Vietnamese economic delegation to Second Asian Economic Forum in Pyongyang, North.Korea

Head, South Vietnamese Liberation Women's Union delegation to Sofia to attend conference of bureau of Women's International Democratic Federation

.Head, goodwill mission to . '.,Cliln4J!:ry, Guinea

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TRAVEL (cont.):

Sep 1967

Mar 1968

May 1968

May 1968

Jun 1969

Sep 1969

Nov 1969

Dec 1969

Mar 1970

Apr 1970

May 1970

Jun 1970

Head, NFLSV delegation to talks in Bratislava between mass organizations of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and South Vietnam and US citizens' groups

Visited England at invitation of leftwing Members of Parliament

Head, South Vietnam Liberation Women's Union delegation to the National Congress of the Union des Femmes Francaises in Nimes, France

Spoke at Vietnam Emergency Action Conference in Stockholm

Spoke at World Peace Assembly in Berlin

Went to Hanoi for funeral of Ho Chi Minh; stopped in Moscow en route back to Paris

Flew to Tirana via Budapest to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Albanian Republic

Goodwill visit to Budapest, Hungary

Guest of Algerian Government in Algiers

Attended World Peace Council in Moscow

Went to Norway at invi tatio.1'l of Norwegian Movement for Support for Vietnam

visited Prague, Czechoslovakia

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TRAVEL (cont.):

Jun 1970

Jul 1970

Jul 1970

Sep 1970

Oct 1970

Nov 1970

Jan 1971

Feb 1971

Mar 1971

May 1971

Sep 1971

Mar 1972

Jun 1972

Jun 1972

Received by Premier Chou En-lai in peking

Visited Indial met with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

Visited Ceylon

Met with President Tito of Yugoslavia in Lusaka, Zambia, stopped in Moscow en route

Invited to England by the British Campaign for Peace in Vietnam, Cambridge University students' union

Official visit to Bulgaria

Visited Belgium at invitation of Belgian Association of Democratic Lawyers and Belgian National Committee for the Defense of Vietnam

Visited Italy at invitation of Italian Movement Against the War in Vietnam

Friendship visit to Romania

Friendship visit to Hungary and Yugoslavia

Friendship visit to Poland 1 stopped in Peking en route back to South Vietnam

Returned to Paris via Peking and Moscow

'Headed PRG delegation that visited Mauritania

Friendship visit to Italy

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TRAVEL (cont.) :

Jul 1972

Sep 1972

Oct 1972

Dec 1972

Jan 1973

Feb 1973

Mar 1973

Apr 1973

Apr 1973

Aug 1973

Sep 1973

Apr 1974

Jun 1974

Jun 1974

Paid official visit to Cuba, traveling via Moscow

NFLSV representative at Social Democratic Congress in Stockholm

Spoke at a rally in Tokyo

Official visit to China

Stopped in Moscow en route to Paris

Headed PRG delegation to Algeria

Official visits to USSR, Iraq and Syria

Official visit to Mongolia, stopping in Peking en route

Headed inspection team visiting Bulgaria

PRG representative at Fourth Summit Conference of Nonaligned Countries, Algiers

Accompanied NFLSV Chairman Nguyen Huu Tho on official· visit to Senegal

Paid short visit to Laos·

Visited Somali to lo:bby .. :!.<5:f'African recogni tionofl'~IG'1 traveling via MoscOW

Visited People's Republic of Yemen bilateral Yemen and tl:le

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TRAVEL (cont.):

Jun 1974

Jul 1974

Dec 1974

Mar 1975

Apr 1975

Aug 1975

MISCELLANEOUS:

Headed PRG delegation to Tanzania for the 20th anniversary celebrations of ruling Tanganyika African National Union Party

Official visit to Algeria; returned to South Vietnam via East Berlin

Member, of PRG and NFLSV delegation to "liberated zone" of Cambodia

Goodwill visit to Afghanistan

Official visit to Algeria to request aid in organizing Third World relief efforts for the civilian population of South Vietnam. Also visited other African countries

Attended Conference of Foreign Ministers of Nonaligned Countries, Lima, Peru; toured Cuba, Peru, Mexico and Venezuela

As of August 1962, Binh was a member of the South Vietnam Liberation Students' ,U1'):iom. As Foreigm Minister of the PRG, she signed a cease-fire agr.eement in January 1973. Binh was a member of the Vietnam-France Friendship Association as of February 1976.

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VU VAN CAN VIETNAM


Minister of Public Health, Jun 1975 Deputy, Sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976 Deputy Chief, General Directorate of Rear Services,

People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), 1950

PREVIOUS POSTS:

Aug 1949-?

pre Mar 1950-at least 1964

as of Jun 1950

as of 1955

Jun 1959-?

as of Apr 1960

Jul 1960-at least 1968

Apr 1964

pre 1968-Jun 1975

Apr 1971

as of Aug 1974

TRAVEL:

Aug 1948

Jun 1961

Counselor, Children's Institute

Chief, Medical Bureau, Rear Services Directorate, PAVN

Member, Preparatory Committee, Vietnam-USSR Friendship Association

Senior colonel, PAVN

Member, Scientific Technical Council

Member, Department of Medical Science, State Science Committee

Vice Minister of Public Health


Acting Minister of Public Health


Secretary, Lao Dong Party Fraction of Ministry of Public Health

Attended National Congress for the Cu;]' ture ,of V,.ietbnlll!m

Head., de.:J;~, .. ;at.\on to conference of Minis't;e'l;"s of Health of the Socialist Countries, Hungary

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TRAVEL (cont.):

Jun 1973

Jun 1973

Jul-Aug 1973

MISCELLANEOUS:

Head, delegation to China

Head, delegation to 14th meeting of Ministers of Public Health of Socialist Countries, Cuba

Head, delegation to sign health cooperation plans with Hungary, Poland, East Germany and USSR

In September 1947 Carl signed the "Proclamation of Intellectual Vietnamese Denouncing the Tentative Plan of Colonialists to Restore the Monarch of Vi.e<t:.nam,"

22 December 1976

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Minister of Power and Coal, Jul 1976 Deputy, Sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976 Alternate Member, Conununist Party Central

Conunittee, Dec 1976

PREVIOUS POSTS:

as of May 1957

as of Sep 1958

Oct 1959-?

as of 1965

as of Feb 1970

as of Apr 1971

Aug 1973-?

as of Jun 1974

Apr 1975

TRAVEL:

Feb 1962

Member, Central Conunittee, Fatherland Front

Chief, Department of Light Industry, Ministry of Industry

Vice Minister of Heavy Industry

Director, Ky-Thuat-Cong-Nghiep (Industrial Technology)

Head, Directorate General of Chemicals

Member, Planning and Budget Conunittee, National Assembly

Vice chairman, Planning and Budget Conunittee, National Assembly

, Acting Minister of Power and Coal

Deputy, Fifth National Assembly

Head, North Vietnamese delegatio.n to spring fair in German Demooratio Republio "

TRAVEL (cont.):

Nov 1970

Jun 1973

Jul 1973

Aug 1975

Met with Li Hsien-nien, Vice Premier of State Council, in Peking

Head, Chemical Directorate delegation to Japan

Visited Japan as a member of Standing Committee of Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association

Head, Vietnam-Korea Friendship Association delegation to. the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

22 December 1976

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DATE OF BIRTH:

29 Aug 1922


Minister of Labor, Apr 1974 Member, Sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976

PREVIOUS POSTS:

1955-1959

pre-1959-at least 1962

Sep 1960-Dec 1976

1962-1967

Mar 1967-Dec 1971

Jun 1969-Dec 1971

as of Jun 1972

pre-Ju1-at l~ast Aug 1972

TRAVEL:

Jun 1962

Feb 1968

Chairman, Manpower Department, Ministry of Labor

Deputy secretary, Lao Dong Party Committee, Hanoi Municipality

Alternate member, Lao Dong Party Central Committee

Secretary, Lao Dong Party Committee, Quang Ninh Province

Ambassador to USSR

Ambassador to Sweden

Chairman, State Reunification Committee

Deputy chief, Reunification Department, Lao Dong Party Central Committee

Member, party delegation to USSR

Head, state delegation to Sweden

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TRAVEL (cont.):

Nov 1970

Dec 1971

MISCELLANEOUS:

As of 1939, Conununist Party. He was imprisoned activities during

Member, delegation to Hungarian Party Congress, Budapest

Visited China en route to Hanoi from Moscow

Chan was a member of the Indochinese Chan is married to Huynh Ngoc Huong. by the Frenc!). for subversive 1943-45 and 1951-54.

22 December 1976

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1910, Thanh Hoa Province


Minister of Foreign Trade, Jul 1976 Deputy, National Assembly, 1957 Member, Communist Party, as of May 1958

PREVIOUS POSTS:

as of 1949 Chairman, Resistance and Admi:nistration Committee, Interzone IV

Jul 1950-at least 1951 Under Secretary of State for National Economy

pre-1954-at least 1958 Vice Minister of Commerce and Industry

1957.,.?, Member, Scientific and Techno-

May 1960

logical Committee for Cooperation " wit'lilFriendly Countries

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Jul 1962-?

Apr 1964

pre-Jul ~964-1975

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Apr 1971

Jun 1975-Jul 1976

Jun 1975-Jul 1976

TRAVEL:

Dec 1957

1958

Dec 1958

Nov 1959

Dec 1960-Apr.196l

Jul 1961

Jan 1962

Aug 1964

Sep 1964

Sep 1971


Director general, State Bank

Vice Premier

Head, economic delegation to Egypt and Mongolia

Head, economic delegation to Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and USSR

Head, delegation to economic conference, Egypt

Head, economic delegation to East Germany and Poland

Head, economic delegation to China, USSR, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Albania, East Germany, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia

Head, scientific and technological cooperation delegation to China

Head, scientific and technological cooperation delegation to China

Head, scientific andtechno.lLogical cooperation delegation to China

Head,. economic deleg.ation ,to. Poland and Czechoslovaki~.··

Head;. finance delegiitioon to Bulgiiria

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Oct 1971

Mar 1973

Mar 1976

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Head, state delegation to Bulgaria

Head, economic delegation to Joint US-DRV Economic Committee meeting in Paris

Head, economic delegation to the German Democratic Republic

22 December 1976

DUONG QUOC CHINH


Minister of War Invalids and Social Welfare, Jun 1975

Deputy, sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976

Member, Communist Party Central Committee, Sep 1960

PREVIOUS POSTS:

VIETNAM

Jul 1960-? Minister of Water Conservancy and Electric Power

Jan 1963-Apr 1965

Apr 1971

pre-Aug 1971-Jun 1975

TRAVEL:

Sep-Nov 1964

MISCELLANEOUS:

Minister of Agriculture


Minister of Interior

Head, delegation to China

Duong Quoc Chinh is sometimes confused with Le Hien Mai, who is also known as Maj. Gen. Duong QUoc Chinh.

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NGqYEN CON VIETNAM


Minister of Engineering and Metals, Apr 1974 Member, National Defense Council, Jun 1971 Deputy, Sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976 Member, Communist Party Central Committee,

Sep 1960

PREVIOUS POSTS:

Jan 1957-?

May 1959-?

May 1960

as of 1960

1960-1965

Sep 1960

Apr 1964

Apr 1965-1973

Nov 1967-1976

Apr 1971

as of Jul 1974

pre-Jul 1968-Dec 1976

Member, Land Reform Subcommittee

Vice Minister of Construction


Vice Chairman, State Scientific Board

Vice Chairman, State Planning Commission



Chairman, State Planning Commission

Vice Premier


Assistant director, Food Products Corporation

Member, Lao Dong Party Central Committee Secretariat

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TRAVEL:

Oct 1964

Sep 1969

Oct-Nov 1970

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Member, delegation to National Day celebrat.ion, China

Head, economic delegation to Sweden, Czechoslovakia, North Korea

Head, economic delegation to Sweden, USSR, Czechoslovakia, North Korea and China

22 December 1976

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Mar 1906, Quang Ngai Province


Premier, Sep 1955 Vice Chairman, National Defense Council, Ju1 1960 Deputy, Sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976 Member, Communist Party Politburo, 1951

PREVIOUS POSTS:

May-Sep 1946

194B-Ju1 1960

1949-1955

1954-Feb 1961

1954

Apr 1954-1956

pre-196B-at least 1971

Apr 1971

Ju1 1976

TRAVEL:

Aug 1954

Apr 1955

Member, delegation to discussions with French at Fontainebleau

Chairman, National Defense Council

Vice Premier

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Head of delegation to Geneva Conference on Indochina

Chairman, Agrarian Reform Committee

Chairman, Central Committee for Protection of Mothers and Children


Member, Committee to Draft the Constitution

Head, friendship delegation to China and USSR

Head;. delegation to Bandung Conference, Indonesia, visiting India and Burma en route

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TRAVEL (cont.):

Jun 1961

Nov 1964

Jan 1966

Sep-Oct 1969

Nov 1971

Jun 1973

Ju1-Aug 1973

Nov 1973

Mar 1974

Apr 1974

Aug 1976

MISCELLANEOUS:

Head, party delegation to China

Head, delegation to celebration of 47th anniversary of October' Revolution, Moscow

Visited India

Head, party and state delegation to East Germany, USSR and China

Head, party and state delegation to China

Head, delegation to China and North Korea

Head, delegation to Romania, Poland, Hungary, USSR and Bulgaria

Official visit to USSR, East Germany, Albania and Czechoslovakia

Head, official delegation to Yugoslavia

Head, official delegation to Sweden and USSR

Attended Nonaligned Nations Conference, Sri Lanka

Dong joined the Revolutionary Youth League sometime prior to 1925. By 1929 he was a member of tbeYoung Revolutionary Comrades Asso.ciation for Nam Ky (southern Vietnam). From 1929 to 1936 he was imprisoned at -Po·J.tlO Condore.

Dong's father was a mandarin and secretary to Emperor Duy Tan (deposed in 1916). Since 1945 Dong has distinguished himself as an administratlbr, organizer and politician. He was educated at lycees in Hue and Hanoi.

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DATE OF BIRTH:

1916


Minister of Agriculture, Jul 1976 Deputy, Sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976 Member, Communist Party Central Committee, Sep 1960

PREVIOUS POSTS:

as of Mar 1957

as of Feb 1962

Feb 1962-at least 1970

Jan 1972-at least Jul 1974

pre-Nov 1974-Jul 1976

TRAVEL:

Jun 1972

Oct 1972

Dec 1972

Assistant secretary, Lao Dong Party Committee, Interzone IV

Chairman, Nghe An Provincial Administrative Committee

Secretary, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee

Ambassador to USSR

Chairman, Central Agricultural Commission

Member, delegation to celebration of 90th anniversary of birth of Gheorgie Dimitrov, Bulgaria

Head, delegation to 23d National Congress, Swedish Communist Party, Stockholm

Member, delegation to 20th Congress, French Communist Party, Paris

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MISCELLANEOlJS:

Dong joined the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930. In 1965 he was noted as holding the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is married.

22 December 1976

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Chairman, State Price Commission, Jun 1975 Deputy, Sixth National Assembly, Apr 1976

PREVIOUS POSTS:

as of Sep 1956

as of Sep 1956

as of Aug 1968

as of Oct 1974

Member, Presidium, Haiphong Administrative Committee

Member, Haiphong Fatherland Front Committee

Vice chairman, Department of Finance and Commerce, Lao Dong Party Central Committee

Acting Chairman, State Price Commission

22 December 1976

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1911, Quang Binh Province


VIETNAM

Vice Premier, 1954 Minister of National

Defense, Nov 1946 Member, National

Defense Council, 1964 Member, Communist Party

Politburo, 1954

PREVIOUS POSTS:

1936-7

Aug 1945-7

Sep 1945-7

Sep 1945

Sep 1945-Mar 1946

Mar 1946-7

1947-at least 1972

1950-at least 1969

Publisher/editor, Lao Dong, Our Voice, Forward, Rally, Times, News

Member, National Insurrection Committee, Indochinese Communist Party

Minister of Interior, Provisional Revolutionary Government

Standing member, Central Committee, Indochinese Communist Party

Secretary, Military Commission, Indochinese Communist Party

Chairman, Military Commission, Indochinese Communist Party

Commander in Chief, People's Army of Vietnam

Member, Presidium, Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Association

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1962-Jan 1963

1964-197.1

Apr 1971

Apr 1976

Jul 1976

TRAVEL:

Sep 1959

Feb 1960

1962

1963

Apr 1965

Aug .1966

Oct 1967

Dec 1975

Dec 1975

Member, Presidium, Vietnam-China Friendship Association

Chairman, National Scientific Committee

Vice Chairman, National Defense Council

Deputy, Fourth National ·.l\.ssembly

Deputy, Sixth National As.sembly

Member, Committeefor·the Drafting of the Constitution for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Member, party and state delegation to China

Visited USSR

Visited USSR with Truong Chinh

Visited USSR with Le Duan and Ng'1.1ye\l'l DUy Trinh

Member, party and state'delegation t9 USSR and China

Visited USSR and China

Member, delegation to c'elebration of 50th anniversary Of Gl(::toj;)elt"' , Revolution, USSR

Head, state del,ei'iIlti~4'l>"tOUJi;SilR<' i

Head, state friendsl\ipc;l;.el.eg,ation to Cuba

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MISCELLANEOUS:

The son of Vo Van Quyen, Giap attended Quoc Hoc School in Hanoi and the Faculty of Law in Hanoi. He was a member. of the Vietnam Revolutionary Party as of 1927, and was a founding member of the vietnam Communist League in 1929. He was reportedly arrested by the French in 1930 on charges of political agitation and sentenced to 2 years in prison. By 1933 he was a member of the Indochinese Communist Party, and in 1936 he became a founding member of the Democratic Front. Giap also founded the "armed propaganda brigade for the liberation of Vietnam" in 1944.

Giap has been married twice. Minh Thai, whom he married in 1934, later died in prison. In 1946 he married Dang Thai Ha, the daughter of Dang Thai Mai, professor and director of the Cultural Institute.

An unconfirmed European press report indicates that Giap is suffering from Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic glands.

22 December 1976

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NGUYEN VAN HIEU


1922, Ca Mau Province


Minister of Culture, Jul 1976

Member, Secretariat, National Assembly, Jun 1976

VIETNAM


PREVIOUS POSTS:

1954-?

Dec 1960-Apr 1976

1960-:Jan 1965

Jul 1961-at least 1971

1961-at least 1970

1962-?

Mar 1964-?

as of Jan 1966

Jul 1967-1969

Press commissar for the Viet Minh in Saigon/Cholon

Member, Presidium, Central Committee, National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NFLSV)

Secretary general, NFLSV

Secretary general, South vietnamese Radical Socialist Party

Secretary general, South Vietnamese Committee for Defense of World Peace

Vice President, International Organization of Journalists

Head, NFLSV Permanent Mission to the German Democratic Republic

Head, NFLSV Permanent Mission to Czechoslovakia

Permanent representative of NFLSV to Cambodia

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PREVIOUS POSTS" (cont.):

Nov 1968-?

Jun1969-at least 1972

pre Mar 1973-Apr 1976

Jun 1975-?

Jan 1976-?

Feb 1976-?

TRAVEL:

Jul 1962

Sep 1962

Oct 1962

Nov 1962

Dec 1963

Jan 1964

Jun 1964

Vice president, South Vietnamese Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee

Ambassador of Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG) to Cambodia

Minister of State, PRG

Member, Cultural and Social Affairs Committee, Fifth National Assembly

Vice chairman, Ho Chi Minh Municipal People's Revolutionary Committee

Member, Electoral Commission of South Vietnam

Head, NFLSV delegation to World Congress for General Disarmament and Peace, Moscow

Head, NFLSV delegation to China

Head, NFLSV delegation to. Indonesia

Head, NFLSV delegation to; .the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Attended celebration of .third anniversary of founding of NFLSV, Moscow

Head, NFLSV delegation to Mongolia

Head, NFLSV delegation to Albania

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TRAVEL (cont. ) :

Aug 1964 Head, delegation to scientific symposium, Peking

Nov 1964 Head, NFLSV delegation to National Day, Algeria

Dec 1964

Apr 1965

May 1965

Jun 1965

Oct 1965

May 1970

Jun 1970

Jul 1970

Nov 1970

Dec 1970

Head, South Vietnamese delegation to negotiations on Vietnam-Cambodia border question, Peking

Head, NFLSV delegation to 10th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, Jakarta

Head, NFLSV friendship delegation to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Head, NFLSV delegation to Egypt and Algeria

Head, NFLSV delegation to Tanzania and Syria

Member, PRG delegation to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Head, NFLSV and PRG delegation to Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Attended Ninth Congress of International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Helsinki

Head, PRG delegation to World Conference of Peace-Loving Forces; Stockholm

Head, delegation to celebration of 10th anniversary of the founding of the NFS'LV, Moscow

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TRAVEL (cont.) :

Dec 1970

Mar 1971

Apr 1971

May 1971

Jun 1971

Sep 1971

Dec 1971

May 1972

Mar 1973

Apr 1973

Aug 1973

Sep 1973

Oct 1973

Head, PRG delegation to International Conference on US Chemical Warfare, Paris

Head, NFLSV delegation to 24th Congress of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow; visited Peking en route

Head, NFLSV delegation to 10th Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Sofia

Head, NFLSV delegation to 14th Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, Prague

Head, NFLSV delegation to Eighth Congress of the German Democratic Republic Socialist Unity Party! Berlin

Head, NFLSV delegation to Sixth Congress of Albanian Labor Party; visited Peking en route

Head, NFLSV delegation to Poland; visited Peking en route home

Head, NFLSV delegation to Hungary

Head, PRG delegation to consultative conference between the two South Vietnamese parties, Paris

Head, PRG delegation to Rome

Head, PRG delegation to Berlin

Member, PRG delegation to Algeria

Head, PRG delegation to founding conference of the Belg.ium-Vietnam Friendship Association, Belgium

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TRAVEL (cont.) :

Dec 1973 Head, PRG delegation to conference on Vietnam, Stockholm

May 1974 Visited Hungary at invitation of the National Peace Council and National Council of the Patriotic People's Front

Aug-Sep 1974

Nov 1975

MISCELLANEOUS:

Head, PRG delegation to Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Albania and Bulgaria

Member, delegation to Political Consultative Conference on National Reunification, Ho Chi Minh City

In August 1945 Hieu participated in the Viet Minh uprising and seizure of power in Ca Mau, South vietnam. From 1945 until 1954 he was a participant in the "national resistance movement," working primarily as a propagandist in intellectual, educational and cultural circles. In 1954 he took part in the "struggle against US intervention and aggression and the puppet government."

Hieu is married. In 1958 both he and his wife, Ma Thi Chu, were arrested for pro-Communist activities. wife was also a member of the NFLSV Central Committee. were released in October 1958.

His They

22 December 1976

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TRAN QUOC HOAN


1910, Quang Ngai Province


VIETNAM

Minister of Interior, Jun 1975

Member, National Defense Council, Jul 1976


Member, Communist Party Politburo, 1972

PREVIOUS POSTS:

1949-1951

1951

1953-1975

1954-1955

May 1960

Jul 1960-1976

Jul 1960-1965

Sep 1960-1972

Political commissar in Hanoi and Ha Dong Provinces


Minister of Public Security

Member, Central Committee for Agrarian Reform


Member, National Defense Council

Chairman, Home Affairs Board, Premier's Office

Alternate member, Lao Dong Party Politburo

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PREVIOUS POSTS (cont.)

Apr

Deputy,

)i!i:!h·Deputy,

Third Natiqna1Asseinbly·

Fourth. Nationa1·Assemb1y.

22 December 1976 •

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PHAM HUNG


11 Jun 1912, Vinh Long Province


VIETNAM

Vice Premier, Jul 1976 Deputy, Sixth National

Assembly, Apr 1976 Member, National

Defense Council, Jul 1976

Member, Communist Party Politburo, as of Oct 1957

PREVIOUS POSTS:

1945-1949

1950-1952

Oct 1951-?

1952-1954

as of Apr 1955

Nov 1954-1955

Sep 1955-Apr 1958

Apr 1958-1971

Deputy director, Surete, South Vietnam; member, Resistance and Administration Committee, South Vietnam

Director, Surete, South Vietnam

Member, Resistance and Administration Committee, South Vietnam

President, Resistance and Administration Committee, Eastern Interzone; political commissar and commander in chief, Eastern Interzone

Chief, People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) liaison mission to International Control Commission, Saigon

Chief of delegation, PAVN High Command, South Vietnam

Minister Attached to Premier's Office

Vice Premier

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as of Apr 1959

as of Jan 1960

Apr 1960-?

as of Jun 1960

pre-Jul 1960-Jan 1963

Sep 1960-?

Jan 1963-Nov 1966

Apr 1964

Oct-Dec 1964

Apr 1965-NOV 1966

1967-1975

as of May 1975

Feb 1976-?

Mar 1976~?

Chairman, Drought Prevention Committee

Member, Control Commission, Lao Dong Party Central Committee


Chairman, Central Arbitrators Committee

Chief, Office of Agriculture, Premier's Office

Member, Central Committee Secretariat, Lao Dong party

Director, Financial and Trade Bureau, Premier's Office

Deputy, Third National . Assembly

Acting Premier

Chairman, State Price Commission

Head, Central Office for South Viebiam

Secretary, Lao Dong Party organization, South Vietnam

Deputy chairman, National Election Council

Chairman, Southern Electoral Council

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