Wrong.
Ho had been a member of the Comintern since the 1920s, and was a member of the French Communist Party since 1917. He was always a Communist and always loyal to the Soviet Union.
Let me clarify - I didn’t say he wasn’t a Communist himself (because clearly he was), I meant that he didn’t approach the Communist *Bloc* for support first; he didn’t go to the Soviet Union to get aid until after the US had turned him down by supporting the French. If the US had actually told the French to bugger off, he might have accepted a more democratic government as a requirement of that aid; he was a nationalist more than a Communist, from what I’ve read.