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Viewing cable 06HOCHIMINHCITY382, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NGUYEN TAN DUNG: STRONG ROOTS IN THE

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06HOCHIMINHCITY382 2006-04-13 10:22 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
VZCZCXRO2154
RR RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHNH RUEHPB
DE RUEHHM #0382 1031022
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 131022Z APR 06
FM AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0684
INFO RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI 0499
RUCNARF/ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM COLLECTIVE
RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 0714
UNCLAS HO CHI MINH CITY 000382 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR SOCI VM
SUBJECT: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NGUYEN TAN DUNG: STRONG ROOTS IN THE 
MEKONG DELTA 
 
REF: Hanoi 767 
 
1. (SBU) During a visit to the Mekong Delta province of Kien 
Giang April 6-7, the Consul General discussed with local 
officials Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who spent his 
formative years in the province.  According to Kien Giang 
People's Committee Chairman Bui Ngoc Suong, Dung was born in 
neighboring Ca Mau Province in November 1949. He later moved 
with his family to Kien Giang.  Dung's father was a senior 
National Liberation Front (NLF or, Viet Cong) leader, who was 
killed in the war when Dung was young.  Dung subsequently joined 
the insurgency himself, Suong said.  (Dung's public records 
indicate that Dung joined the People's Army in 1961 when he 
would have been 12 or 13 years old.  He joined the Communist 
Party in 1967.) 
 
2. (SBU) According to the Kien Giang chairman, Dung served as an 
NLF corpsman, and later led a surgery unit in Kien Giang during 
the war. He reportedly operated in the U Minh forest, which used 
to be an NLF stronghold.  In 1981, after 20 years of military 
service, Dung was discharged as a Major and moved to Hanoi to 
continue his education at the Party's Nguyen Ai Quoc Political 
Academy where he earned a bachelors degree in law and a diploma 
of advanced studies in political science.  (Note:  Nguyen Ai 
Quoc is one Ho Chi Minh's previous nommes de guerre.  End Note.) 
 
3. (SBU) Upon graduation from the Hanoi Party academy, Dung was 
appointed Deputy Head of the Kien Giang Party Committee's 
Personnel and Organization Board.  He rapidly rose through the 
Party ranks in the province.  Within a decade he was appointed 
Party secretary.  He concurrently served as a member of the 
Party's Committee of the 9th Military Region.  Dung was elected 
a member of the Party's Central Committee at the 6th national 
Party Congress in 1986.  At the end of 1994, he was transferred 
to Hanoi to be Deputy Minister of the Interior (later was 
renamed the Ministry of Public Security). 
 
4.  (SBU) Kien Giang officials say that Dung remains a son of 
the soil.  He travels frequently to Kien Giang and has secured 
political appointments for many Kien Giang and other contacts in 
the Mekong Delta in Hanoi.  For example, a reliable contact in 
Kien Giang told us that Minister of Public Security and 
Politburo member Le Hong Anh is a protege of Dung; Dung helped 
Anh become his successor as Party secretary in Kien Giang and 
later brought Anh to Hanoi.  Dung also helped appoint former 
vice chairman of the Kien Giang People's Committee Huynh Vinh Ai 
to become the vice chairman of the National Sports and 
Gymnastics Committee (a vice minister-equivalent position).  Ai 
reportedly is responsible for coordinating a GVN initiative to 
legalize certain forms of sports betting.  Dung also brought 
then-director of the Kien Health Department Tran Chi Liem to 
Hanoi.  Liem now is Standing Vice Minister of Health. 
 
Ties of Blood to the Right and Left? 
------------------------------------ 
 
5. (SBU) According to another contact in the Mekong Delta, 
Dung's father died while participating in a planning meeting 
with then-insurgency leaders Le Duc Anh and Vo Van Kiet when 
they were attacked by either U.S. or ARVN artillery fire.  The 
contact says that Anh and Kiet believed they had a blood debt. 
Both supported Dung's political career although the two are 
rivals from the opposite ends of the political spectrum within 
the Party. (Anh, a political conservative, served as President 
from 1992 to 1997, although contacts say that he remains highly 
influential behind the scenes.  Kiet, a former Prime Minister, 
is the leading figure in the Party's reform camp.) 
 
6. (SBU) Comment: Very proud of their native son, Kien Giang 
provincial officials revel at the likelihood of his ascension to 
Prime Minister (reftel) following the 10th National Party 
Congress, and infer that Kien Giang might benefit from increased 
GVN investment and financing of provincial projects.  However, 
they avoided discussing his political orientation.  Other HCMC 
contacts say that Dung is a direct, no-nonsense decision-maker 
who is not afraid of taking risks.  For example, they report 
that he was one of the first senior Party leaders to send his 
children to a university in the United States.  Moreover, his 
wartime pedigree and relationships with both Le Duc Anh and 
former Prime Minister Kiet may allow him to balance competing 
pressures from the conservative and reform wings of the Party. 
 
WINNICK