List of State secrets of the Vietnam Communist Party at the "Secret" level

List of State secrets of the Vietnam Communist Party at the "Secret" level​ (Image from the internet)

List of State secrets of the Vietnam Communist Party at the "Secret" level​

(1) Information on general leadership and direction includes:

- Documents of the Communist Party National Delegate Congress, documents of the Party Committees under the Central Committee submitted for feedback to the Central Committee of the Communist Party and summary reports of discussion suggestions to the draft documents of the Communist Party National Delegate Congress not publicly disclosed.

- Work programs of the Politburo, the Secretariat, and members of the Politburo, the Secretariat; undisclosed minutes of Central Committee meetings of the Communist Party.

- Decisions, conclusions, and directives of the Politburo, Secretariat on national defense, security, and foreign affairs assurance not publicly disclosed (except for regulations in point a clause 1 Article 2 Decision 1385/QD-TTg).

- Documents, archival materials on the history of the Communist Party, the background and career of Communist Party leaders that have not been evaluated, verified, or concluded; files, materials on counter-revolutionary cases, and anti-Vietnam Communist Party cases; undisclosed lists of documents at the Communist Party's Historical Archives related to politics, national defense, security, and national interests.

(2) Information on inspection, supervision, and Party discipline enforcement includes:

- Documents, programs, and plans of the Politburo, Secretariat, Central Inspection Committee, and Central Committees, Provincial, and District Inspection Committees concerning inspection, supervision, and party discipline enforcement with signs of violation not publicly disclosed (except as provided in clause 1 Article 1 and point b clause 2 Article 2 Decision 1385/QD-TTg).

- Decisions, plans, reports, announcements, minutes, documents of the Communist Party Central Committee, Central Inspection Committee on inspection, supervision, complaint resolution against Communist Party Central Committee members and former members not publicly disclosed (except for provisions in point a clause 2 Article 2 Decision 1385/QD-TTg).

- Decisions, plans, reports, submissions, announcements, minutes, documents of the Central Communist Party, Central Inspection Committee, Provincial-level and District-level Party committees and inspection committees concerning inspection, supervision, complaint resolution, consideration of party disciplinary actions against Central Level, Provincial, and District-level Party executive management, and the management of Politburo, Secretariat affiliated cadres, and executive members not publicly disclosed.

(3) Information on organizational work for Party building includes:

- Resolutions, decisions, conclusions, proposals, plans, reports, submissions, and correspondence of the Central Communist Party, Provincial-level, and District-level committees regarding policies for establishment, dissolution, incorporation, adjustment, and delineation of administrative boundaries in border areas, islands, and regions of strategic importance for national defense and security not publicly disclosed.

- Resolutions, conclusions, reports, submissions, documents (excluding Decisions, notifications) of Party executive committees, Party organizations, committees at various levels (excluding grassroots level), steering committees, subcommittees, councils, and other task forces regarding organizational work and personnel as formed by the Politburo, Secretariat, and standing committees of directly-affiliated central level Party committees and editorial staffs on personnel planning, approval, evaluation, and transfer, appointment, nomination, dismissal, and discipline for cadres under the management of the Secretariat, Party organizations affiliated with the Central level, Provincial Executive Committees not publicly disclosed.

- Conclusions, notifications, reports, submissions, documents of the Politburo, Secretariat, Party committees, and advisory organs at the central level concerning the process of conferring military ranks to generals, Vice Adjutants, and Navy Captains in the military, police not publicly disclosed.

- Reports, evaluations, self-criticism suggestions from collectives and individuals under the Secretariat's management or Provincial standing committees regarding the evaluation of national defense and national security task execution not publicly disclosed.

- Decisions, conclusions, reports, notifications, documents of Party committees and organs at all levels concerning cadres and party members with political issues not publicly disclosed (except for provisions in point a clause 2 Article 1 and point d clause 3 Article 2 Decision 1385/QD-TTg).

- Documents from Party agencies and organizations regarding regulations, guidance, exchanges on internal political protection tasks within the Communist Party; directives, orientations, considerations, evaluations, and placement of cadres and party members with political issues.

- Documents from Party agencies and organizations directing, guiding, exchanging on matters concerning Party members related to ethnic minorities, religion, and Party members abroad containing information, assessments impacting politics, national defense, and security not publicly disclosed.

(4) Information on propaganda and training work (except as provided in clause 4 Article 2 Decision 1385/QD-TTg) includes:

- Directives, resolutions, conclusions, proposals, submissions, plans, reports, documents of Party committees, propaganda committees about identifying targets, measures, countermoves, results of struggles against plots disrupting the Communist Party, State, and policies in ideological and theoretical domains, "peaceful evolution" not publicly disclosed.

- Documents from Party committees, Propaganda committees, regulatory bodies on protecting the ideological foundation of the Communist Party, combatting wrong, hostile viewpoints with content evaluating the situation and efforts not publicly disclosed (excluding statistics of articles and contributors, establishment documents of steering committees).

- Reports, announcements, documents from Party committees on the political thoughts of cadres, party members concerning cases affecting national security, severe disruptions to social security, corruption, severe offenses with significant public interest.

(5) Information on Party foreign affairs and mass foreign affairs includes:

- Plans, proposals, reports, and documents on foreign relations activities from the Communist Party Central Committee, Party agencies, Party Committees, and directly affiliated organizations not publicly disclosed.

- Reports, plans, programs, proposals, submissions, documents, and diplomatic documents of high-level Communist Party delegations visiting abroad and receiving high-level delegations from parties, countries, and international organizations within Vietnam related to national defense and security not publicly disclosed.

- Reports, plans, proposals, schemes, submissions, correspondence, and agreements of foreign affairs by Communist Party organizations affiliated with the Central level, Provincial Party Committees on meetings with parties, countries, foreign localities with common borders, foreign organizations related to national defense and security not publicly disclosed.

- Reports, documents from the Central External Relations Committee, Provincial Party Committees with assessments, evaluations, proposals on international external relations, regional and neighboring countries' policies on foreign affairs and international integration concerning defense and security not publicly disclosed.

(6) Information on socio-economic work includes: Decisions, conclusions, proposals, submissions, reports, notifications, documents from Party organizations affiliated with the Central, provincial, and city Party Committees on investment policies, regional economic development projects linked to national defense, security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity assurance.

(7) Information on mass mobilization work includes:

- Reports, notifications, documents of executive committees, mass mobilization committees, Party organizations (excluding grassroots level) on ethnic, religious, and belief work related to security, politics, foreign affairs, and activities of relevant subjects and opposition organizations concerning regional ethnic, religious affairs not publicly disclosed.

- Reports from Party committees and mass mobilization committees on results of interactions with religious organizations, dignitaries, and key religious personnel influencing politics, national defense, security, and foreign affairs.

- Resolutions, decisions, conclusions, guidance, submissions, reports, documents of Party executive committees, Party agencies on Party members chosen, placed, used within religious areas not publicly disclosed (except for provisions in point g clause 3 Article 3 Decision 1385/QD-TTg).

- Reports, documents from Party executive committees, Party organizations on choosing, placing key personnel for religious initiatives.

(8) Information on judicial work includes:

- Resolutions, conclusions, proposals, notifications, programs, plans, documents from the Politburo, Secretariat, Central Judicial Affairs Committee, Steering Committee on anti-corruption, wastefulness, provincial-level deficiencies and above, and executive committees and Party organizations (excluding grassroots) with contents on assessments, remarks, directions, observations, handling issues, cases impacting national security, social order, superior cases involving corruption, wastefulness, severe negligence; public interest cases with high social concern.

- Documents from Party agencies and organizations containing evaluations on the complex internal political protection work not publicly disclosed.

(9) Information on defense and security includes:

- Documents, directives, guidance from Party agencies and organizations on policies, directions, measures for resolving and handling complex security situations locally, in ethnic regions, religious sectors, economic zones, border areas, and islands.

- Documents, directives from Party agencies and organizations on deploying plans, forces, measures for national defense and military tasks at local levels not publicly disclosed.

- Resolutions, directives, decisions, conclusions, reports, plans, guidance, and documents of Party executive committees, Party agencies (excluding grassroots level) on building armed forces ready for combat and defense at local levels.

(10) Information on science and technology includes: documents, directives, guidance from the Central Communist Party, Party agencies, organizations concerning policies related to innovative scientific and technological activities, atomic energy that have not been officially disclosed by competent state authorities (except as provided in clause 10 Article 2 Decision 1385/QD-TTg).

(12) Information, materials on work locations, secrecy storage of the Central Communist Party, Central Party agencies, and key Communist Party and State leaders include:

- Documents reflecting details of construction design drawings, technical design drawings, site management system design drawings, security surveillance system design drawings, communication system design drawings; maps, diagrams showing locations of working offices, secrecy storage sites.

- Construction design drawings, technical design drawings, site management system design drawings, security surveillance system design drawings, communication system design drawings; maps, diagrams showing locations of working offices, secrecy storage sites.

- Security and safety plans for work locations, secrecy storage of the Central Communist Party, Central Party agencies, and key Communist Party, State leaders.

- Locations of conferences, seminars, meetings with state secrets; locations storing cryptographic products, encryption, decryption of state secret information; sites storing, preserving documents, items containing state secrets.

(13) Information, materials on computer networks, state secret database systems of the Communist Party include:

- Technical design schemes of computer networks, state secret database systems of the Communist Party.

- Diagrams, drawings showing installation locations of means and devices in computer network systems.

- Data connection, sharing plans.

- Security, safety plans for computer networks, state secret database systems of the Communist Party.

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