Foliations by complex curves and the geometry of real surfaces of finite type

We show that if the Levi form of a smooth CR manifold is de-generate in every conormal direction, then on a dense open set, the manifold is foliated by complex curves. As a consequence we show that every real analytic manifold of finite D'Angelo type can be stratified so that each stratum locally is contained in a Levi nondegenerate hypersurface.