851G.01/4–249: Telegram
The Consul at Hanoi (Gibson) to the Secretary of State
secret
Hanoi, April
2, 1949—2 p. m.
22. Vietminh radio made following announcement: “The High Command of the Vietnamese resistance forces (NB Vietminh) announces that the first elements of the Chinese forces of liberation1 have registered great activity recently at the Sino-Vietnamese frontier.” Radio then referred to “important support which the Vietnam forces have received as a result.”
[Page 18]This is first official acknowledgment by Vietminh of military cooperation with Chinese.
Sent Department, repeated Paris 5, pouched Saigon.
Gibson
- Chinese Communist forces under Mao Tse-tung.↩