Trần Bạch Đằng (born Truong Gia Trieu) (1926 – April 16, 2007) was a key figure in planning the 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, and was the leader of Communist forces in Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, during that offensive.
He was the leading Communist political officer in Saigon and a member of the National Liberation Front Central Committee.
Đằng is the author of the novel Ván bài lật ngửa, which was about an intelligence figure in the Vietnam War - Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, under the pen name Nguyễn Trương Thiên Lý.
He was born on July 15, 1926, in Hòa Thuận commune, Giồng Riềng District, Rạch Giá (now Kiên Giang province).
In 1946, he was assigned to be in charge of the "Chống Xâm Lăng" newspaper of the Saigon Party Committee.