Nguyen Van Hieu, a veteran of the Viet Minh, founds the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (“Viet Cong”) for the purpose of conducting guerrilla warfare against the rival government of dictator Ngu Dinh Diem.
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References:
Stanley A. Karnow, Vietnam: A History, (1983; New York: Penguin, 1997), 245, 693.
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