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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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| PARTY or FACTION | DESCRIPTION |
The Bao Dai Restoration Movements (Continued)
| Hoa Hao (Continued) (Phat Giao Hoa Hao) |
preached an anti-foreigner creed, and in 1945, joined the anti-French, anti-British resistance. In 1947, Huynh Phu So, the sect's leader, was executed by the Viet Minh, which lead to the defection of the Hoa Hao from the resistance, and the sect's support of Bao Dai's restoration. Relations with the French, and with rival Vietnamese factions, remained strained. |
| Buddhist Group (Tinh Do Cu Si) |
A movement centered chiefly on the overseas Chinese community, and advocated passive resistance to the Viet Minh. |
| Vietnam Catholic League (Viet Nam Lien Doan Cong Giao) |
Organized by and around the Catholic clergy, the League exercised varying degrees of influence over some 2,000,000 Catholics, chiefly in Annam. The League supported the DRV in 1945 and 1946, and approved struggle for Vietnam's independence. Ngo Dinh Diem led the League into the National Union Front, but the League split with the Front over the desire of the majority to back the resistance, and the repugnance of the remainder, including Diem, at Bao Dai's inability to break France's control over Vietnam. |
| Binh Xuyen (Lien Khu Binh Xuyen) |
A Saigon-sited gangster apparatus which originally fought as allies of the Viet Minh, but — like the Hoa Hao — were disaffected by the Viet Minh's shooting of several of their leaders. Provided tepid support for Bao Dai, and remained wary of the French. |
| Vietnam National Rally (Viet Nam Quoc Gia Lien Hiep) |
An outgrowth of the National Union Front formed in December, 1947, in Hanoi, the Rally attempted to merge the various pro-Bao Dai parties in Cochinchina, Annam, and Tonkin. Such success as it enjoyed was a matter of form rather than substance, and its influence was quite limited. |
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