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's 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 Turley