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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011   ( New York: Praeger, 1962), 107–108. For Ho's statement on Land Reform in late 1953, see Bernard B. Fall, ., (New York: Praeger, 1967), 258–269; the statement was made to the Third Session of the National Assembly of the DRV (Dec 1–4, 1953), in which the Assembly enacted an Agrarian Reform Law based on reports by Ho and Pham Van Dong.

21. Truong Chinh, (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1960; Facsimile Edition, New York: Praeger, 1963), 211.

22. Fall, .,, loc. cit.

23. Hoang Van Chi, ., 211.

24. P. J. Honey, .,, ., 8–9; Fall, , .; Hoang, ., 166. Bernard B. Fall, (New York: Praeger, 1966), 96–98.

25. Hoang, ., and Gérard Tongees, (Paris: Les Nouvelles Editions Debress, 1960), are both sometime residents of the DRV, the former a Viet Minh defector of 1955, and the latter a French professor who left Hanoi in 1959. Their accounts of the agrarian reform campaign are consistent with eye witness reports recently collected from prisoners and defectors in South Vietnam, reported in J. J. Zasloff, (U) (Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, Memorandum RM-4703-ISA/ARPA, August 1966) (Confidential), 44–53, 159–160. The best short summary is that of CIA Staffer George A. Carver,. For contemporary intelligence estimates, see: : Also: Department of State, Office of Intelligence Research (INR) (December 1955) (5650.49) (SECRET) 82–83; INR,  1955 (January 1956) (5650.50) (SECRET) 19; INR, "North Vietnam Braces Itself for Socialism," (Oct. 13, 1958) (7837) (SECRET) 2–5, 17–18; INR, "The Outlook for North and South Vietnam," (May 5, 1959) (8008, SECRET/NOFORN), 25–26; CIA,  (6 December 1956).

26. For a description of village polity in South Vietnam which suggests why Northerners might have reacted adversely to disruption of the traditional society see Gerald Cannon Hickey, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964), 178–211. Rh