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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 TOP SECRET – Sensitive  which is the principal element, counts 1,500 in the north, 3,000 in the center, and 5,000 in the south and has influence amongst business men, officials, and intellectuals.

(2) The Vietnam Patriots' Party, made up of doctors, lawyers and intellectuals in the liberal professions and having latent power among young intellectuals.

(3) The National Socialist Party, having about 2000 members and its chief sphere of influence in the light industry towns of Haiphong and Hanoi. This party was directed by Tran Trong Kim, late premier of the Bao Dai government, and is said to have been inspired by the Japanese Military Police and Intelligence Organization to recruit Vietnamese for the puppet military forces.

In Cochinchina, the Restoration League was preeminent:

(1) The Vietnam National Independence Party, founded by Tran Van An, Nguyen Van Sam, Ho Van Nga, and Ngo Tan Nhon. Some of the elements of the dissolved Vietnam Revolutionary Party, which had been founded in 1939, joined the new organization. The Party was markedly pro-Japanese in orientation. It favored collaboration with the Japanese Army and the adherence of Vietnam to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

(2) The Vietnam Patriots' Party, a group of intellectuals and students.

(3) The Great Vietnam Nationalist Party, an outgrowth of the Cochinchina Vietnam Nationalist Party, consisting of pro-Japanese elements.

(4) The Vietnam National Party, a minor political group.

(5) The Youth Justice Association, a minor youth group.

(6) The Youth Patriots, the southern branch of a terrorist youth group. Elements of this southern group created an organization known as the Vietnam Democratic Party.

(7) The Hoa Hao Buddhist Sect, also known as the Vietnam Independence Restoration Party , a militant Buddhist sect led by Huynh Phu So. Rh