Essential Matters: A History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Viet-Nam, 1945-1975

Conclusion

The army cryptographic branch appeared immediately after the birth of our nation. As Uncle Ho said, "Cryptography must be secret, swift, and accurate." The army cryptographic branch strove to endure, to be worthy of the esteem of the Party. "In many decades past we fought bandits – we understood, and knew positively, that those were most important times, that our most secret problems could not be revealed."^[102] In forty-five years of continuous building and fighting, under the command leadership of the Central Military Committee, the Ministry of National Defense, the General Staff, and of the echelons in the army, and the guidance of the Central Cryptographic Section, with respect to professional technical guidance, the army cryptographic ...