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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011


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Organization of the Lao Dong Party
Organization of the Lao Dong Party
Organization of the Lao Dong Party

Source: NIS 43 C, p. 28

The Lao Dong internal organizational principle is "democratic centralism," hierarchal subordination of elected leaders of Party entities formed in all geographic, economic, bureaucratic, social, and cultural groups, wherever at least three Party members exist. Membership in the Party is deliberately confined to an elite, and has never a mounted to more than about 3% of the population. 10/

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