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To: Dayuhan who wrote (12097)	8/25/1998 9:27:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

In 1945 Ho Chi Minh took 24 year old OSS officer Archimedes Patti around Hanoi with him for public appearances. Patti writes: "Ho Chi Minh was on a silver platter in 1945. We had him. He was leaning not toward the Soviet Union; at the time, he told me that the USSR could not assist him, because they had just won a war only by dint of heroism, and they were in no position to help anyone. So really, we had Ho Chi Minh, we had the Viet Minh, we had the Indochina question in our hand." Here's the man "we had": Nguyen Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyen Tat Thanh, finally known as Ho Chi Minh. Born in Huang Tru, Vietnam, French Indochina, May 19, 1890. From the age of 14 to 18 he studied in Hue, then worked as a schoolmaster. In 1911, using the name Ba, he worked as a cook on a French steamer. He ended up in France under the name Nguyen Ai Quoc, (Ngyuen the Patriot) where he was a founding member of the French Communist Party in 1920. In 1925, under the name Ly Thuy, Ho went to work for the Soviet Union in its Embassy in Canton, China. Ho organized exiled Vietnamese nationalists, recruiting them for a Communist cadre. Those whom Ho found unreceptive he turned in to the French police back in Indochina. In 1926 Ho turned in his oldest teacher, Phan Voi Chau, an important Vietnamese nationalist, to the French police for gold, and used the money to organize a street rally protesting France's imprisonment of... Phan Voi Chau. Ho returned to the Soviet Union in 1927 when the Chinese expelled the Communists from Canton. Ho travelled as a representative of the Communist International, and in Hong Kong on 1930 he helped form the Vietnamese Communist Party. The French condemned Ho, in absentia, to death as a revolutionary, and obtained extradition rights from Hong Kong. Ho fled back to Moscow. In 1938 Ho returned to China and stayed with Mao Zedong in Yen-an. In 1941 Ho took the name Ho Chi Minh (He Who Enlightens), and crossed over the border into Vietnam and formed the Viet Minh, "The League for Independence for Vietnam". Ho sought help back in China from the government of Chiang Kai-shek, who, distrusting communists, had Ho jailed for 18 months. In 1944 Ho contacted the American OSS, the precursor of the CIA, and collaborated with them to fight the Japanese. In 1945 two events paved the way for a Viet Minh victory: the Japanese had imprisoned or killed the French, and in August the US defeated Japan. In Hanoi, on September 2, 1945, Ho declared Vietnam independent.