The Department of Internal Political Security (A03), under Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security of, is the leading agency advising the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the regime on ensuring internal political security. This is an agency set up to monitor comrades, in the name of detecting infiltrating ingredients, or people “self-evolving” for purification.
But in reality, it is an agency for comrades to use to beat other comrades. Because it holds the secret stories of high-ranking comrades.
In 2018, CPV’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong dissolved the General Department of Intelligence (ie General Department 5) of the police forces, then some people in this General Department were purged, while others were transferred to A03, because the two agencies have almost the same duties.
Crime Investigation Police Department (coded C03) is also an agency set up to fight corruption. In general, both C03 and A03 target officials. Minister of Public Security To Lam holds these two agencies, like two hands and two swords, ready to “slash” at comrades when he is ordered. In most cases involving officials, C03 and A03 are the two units assigned to volunteer. Recently, we received news that the grandson of Vu Xuan Dien, former Director of the Department of Health of Quang Ninh province, was arrested by C03. At the same time, A03 was also gathering information about Quang Ninh provincial health officials. However, unfortunately, C03 allowed Vu Xuan Dien’s nephew to jump from the building to commit suicide, interrupting the police investigation.
Recently, information on the Internet said that Colonel Nguyen Tuan Viet of the Internal Political Security Department, was stripped of his military forces because he leaked information to Duong Van Thai, the Youtube lived in exile in Thailand but was abducted and taken to Vietnam in mid April this year. This is reliable news, because A03 is home to a whole store of data about the secret stories of officials. And someone told us, it’s not just Nguyen Tuan Viet, but there may be other officials doing the same. It is possible that along with giving secret information to Duong Van Thai, Viet had also leaked important information to other people.
Someone else commented, if Nguyen Tuan Viet let Duong Van Thai know his name, and then confessed, then most likely, this Colonel was still inexperienced. Because once living with tigers without proper skills, it is very easy to be torn apart by the tigers. It is unclear if Nguyen Tuan Viet sold information to collect money, or is it just because of self-transformation, but leaked secret information to “enemy forces“?
The case of Nguyen Tuan Viet being stripped of his military membership must have scared many officials, because their movements could be exposed in front of the public very easily. And if Nguyen Tuan Viet leaked information because of his own development, then this can be said to be a sign of dissatisfaction with the regime. Even people who work in agencies that need to keep the state’s secrets don’t want to keep secrets anymore. Surely, those who know a lot about the secret history of officials, will also loathe the people who are said to be “high authority” in the apparatus.
Obviously, A03 is like a knife that Minister To Lam used to attack his comrades. In the Ministry of Public Security, there are also many factions, if Minister To Lam loses control of this knife, one day, he would be a victim.
That is to see, even in the Communist Party, comrades do not trust each other. They watch each other, they spy on each other, and collect all sorts of disgusting stories from each other, then store them. Someone said that, if one day, the Communists collapsed, people had the opportunity to read the data stored by A03, or the data of the General Department of Intelligence under the Ministry of National Defense, people would be very surprised.
Politics is a game like a double-edged sword. If not careful, it is the knife user who will cut their own hand, not their opponent.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
