Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
TOP SECRET – Sensitive
Vinh was in South Vietnam up until late 1956. 124/
However, overt DRV political activities with the regroupees or on behalf of reunification) were normally carried out through the Fatherland Front, which, as mentioned above, from its foundation in 1955 advanced proposals for rejoining North and South Vietnam. With the founding of the NLF in late 1960) the Fatherland Front became its DRV counterpart, its propaganda counterpoint) its sounding board) and international sponsor. 125/ In fact the NLF was set up as a mirror image of the Fatherland Front:
SELECTED CO~~ONENT ORGANIZATIONS National Liberation Front (South Vietnam) People 's Revolutionary Party (PRP) Democratic Party Radical Socialist Party Association of Labor Association of Women Association of Youth Association of Artists and Writers Association of Demccratic Journalists Association of South Vietnamese Buddhists South Vietnam Comm ittee for the Defense of Peace South Vietnamese Committee for Afro- Asian Peoples Solidarity Fatherland Front (North Vietnam) Lao Dong Party Democratic Party Socialist Party General Confederation of Labor Women's Union Youth Federation Writers and Artists Union Journalists Association Unified Buddhist Association National Liaison Committee far Patriotic and Peace Loving Catholics Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Association Vietnam-Chinese Friendship Association Vietnam -French Friendship Association Peace Committee
Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee
