[4] Lê Khả Phiêu served in the Vietnam People's Army during the First and Second Indochina Wars, join in the Cambodian war, and was Head of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army.

Lê Khả Phiêu criticized what he called 'illness of partyization' (bệnh đảng hoá), meaning that the Party controls everything.

[9] Lê Khả Phiêu was born on 27 December 1932 in Thượng Phúc village in Đông Khê District in Thanh Hoa Province.

He was promoted to second lieutenant, advancing to the position of Company Politician in the 66th Regiment of the 304th Division.

Lê Khả Phiêu died on 7 August 2020 in Hanoi, after suffering from serious illness, at the age of 88.