TAO, DO XUAN_THE TRAINING OF VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST CADRES IN LAOS

This confidential document was obtained in Laos in 1969. The captured document was translated and from it it may be inferred that the author was a mid level cadre member of the Vietnam Worker\u27s Party.The notes are significant for two main reasons : First, they provide a great deal of substantive information on the Laotian Revolution, the Vietnamese role in it, and Vietnamese techniques of dealing with peoples of different nationality . Second, they present the Vietnamese and Laotian revolutions as described by Vietnamese party leaders to other insiders not the masses . In this description can be seen the enduring image which Vietnamese communist leaders hold of both Laos and ethnic minorities in Indochina . It is also hoped that this document provides some insight into the ways in which national policies were carried out on the local level .Edited by Joel M Halpern and William S Turle