Nguyễn Khắc Viện

[1][2] Viện was a party member formerly in charge of external propaganda and statements to foreign press.

[6] Khắc Viện first came to Paris, France, in 1937, a time where the capital was a hotbed for anti-imperialist political exiles.

He would stay in the country for twenty years, wherein he pursued an advanced degree in medicine, became a doctor and a writer.

[7] He became a member of the French Communist Party in 1947, two years after Ho Chi Minh's declaration of Vietnamese independence.

Khắc Viện was a prominent voice for Vietnamese national liberation since 1953 until his expulsion to Vietnam in 1963.