Le Duc Tho (1911-1990), pseudonym of Phan Dinh Khai, is best known for negotiating the Paris cease-fire with U.S. presidential adviser Henry Kissinger in January 1973. Both were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that year, however Tho refused to accept it. He was one of the founders of the Indochinese Communist Party, along with Ho Chi Minh, and was imprisoned by the French twice in the 1930s and 1940s. In the late 1950s, he directed the Viet Cong guerrilla campaign against Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam. Tho also directed the offensive that vanquished the South Vietnamese government in 1975. Three years later he played a similar role in the early stages of Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia.

Le Duc Tho died in 1990.

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