Viet Nam is not an independent country; the Communist government is
corrupt.   The Vietnamese refugees and immigrants thrive in
democracies and are participatory citizens.  We care about the
Vietnamese people in their homeland, and want them to have productive
lives and futures and live without fear of reprisal for practicing religions
and seeking human rights for Viet Nam.  

We believe the history of the Vietnam War must be well- represented of
the people who were on the side of the Republic of Viet Nam -- South
Vietnam.   For them, the war did not end with the Paris Peace Accords of
1973.  That was a secret agreement between the United States
government (Henry Kissinger) and the Communist regime of Vietnam.
It continued with brutal force after April 30, 1975 with the invasion of their
country, unprotected by the United States in violation of the Treaty.


       This double-agent has
SHAME

       duped the Americans  
         
       again.  The publisher,

           Harper-Collins and

             Smthsonian Books,  have signed an
             
             exclusive contract with the Vietnam

              News Agency to publish in  Vietnamese
Vietnam War History by      
  Republic of Vietnam
(South Vietnam) authors
and their allies (USA)
In-depth reviews by
Bui Van Phu

English (pdf)

Vietnamese (link to Talawas)
"We were Marines once, and young."  James Webb,
now U.S. Senator from Virginia, and U.S. Marine
helicopter pilot Quang Pham, now a business executive
in California, ca. 1992.
Quang X. Pham is now at
work on his second book,
about the ignored
lessons of Vietnam for
Iraq, co-authored with
former Wall Street Journal
and U.S. News & World
Report journalist and
Vietnam vet/Bronze Star
recipient Mike Tharp,
should be out next year.
The working title is
“Waging Wars Without
Winning: Conduct
Unbecoming an Ally.,”

Read the English version of "Black
Steel"(Thep Den) by Dang Chi Binh

FREE in pdf on www.vietamericanvets.com

Mr. Dang Chi Binh was a Special Forces
commando for the Republic of Vietnam in
1962.  Assisted by Americans, he was
infiltrated back into his home, Hanoi.   
He spent eighteen years imprisoned
as a spy at the "Hanoi Hilton" (with
American pilots) and the Gulag--
Communist re-education camps.  

photo at home in Boston with the dissident poet
Nguyen Chi Thien
by Mrs. Binh               September 2006
Jean Libby's American review:
This is a must-read for journalism and  
Vietnam War interests.  Disappearing ink, secret
marketplace meetings, a man who attends
community college in Orange County, California,
to learn American culture-- the first Vietnamese
person to attend there in 1957.     

The teachers and students, America's best and
brightest, believed the manipulative Pham An.  
They loved him and took him into their homes
and hearts, especially the impressionable
co-eds.  One even believed he wanted to marry
her.  How sad.  

How sad to see David Halberstam, recently
killed in an accident, on many pages. He
suspected Pham An perhaps more than others
who were their colleagues at Reuters and Time
Magazine.  

Saddest of all:  the betrayal of the South Vietnam
democratic nation with the assassination of
President Diem in 1963 and the secret
negotiations with Hanoi by Secretary Kissinger
ten years later.  Larry Berman pulls no punches
in describing these two debacles by the USA.

Two Vietnamese who were in the war with
Pham An state he was a double agent (including
Bui Van Phu, linked above).  But the Americans
were duped by the Communists.  

Now the publishers, Harper Collins and
Smithsonian Books, have allowed the Vietnam
News Agency, the state-run press, to publish the
Vietnamese language version.  They are the
only agency allowed by the publisher to do so.
Perfect Spy; the Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time
Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent by Larry
Berman (HarperCollins 2007).  328 pages, photos, index.   

Reviewed by Nguyen Cong Gian, Virginia.  Lieutenant-Colonel in the
South Vietnamese army, and prisoner of the Communists for
thirteen years after 1975.

As is well-known, after the 1954 Geneva Agreement Viet Nam was
divided into two parts.  At that time it was very easy for HANOI to
plant spies in South Vietnam.

Some pro-Viet Cong (VC) had sheltered and protected VC in Saigon
and other provinces, especially during the General Offensive Tet
Mau Than in 1968.

Our Counter-Intelligence Department had disclosed many spy rings
and underground VC in South Vietnam during the war.  They were
arrested and put in jail.  Phaïm Xuan AN’s case was an exception.

The reason AN helped Dr. Tuyen leave VN in April 1975 is that if
Tuyen had been arrested, he would have given full information on AN’
s secret activities to HANOI.

Since Dr. Tuyen was living abroad until he passed away, he said
nothing about his past, and kept quiet.  

HANOI also knew that AN had very close relations with America and
Western journalists as well as with South Vietnamese officials,
including some high-ranking Vietnamese officers.

Therefore after April 1975 AN was closely watched and HANOI did
not let AN out of the country, because they did know that if AN went
abroad, AN would ask for asylum.  

HANOI praised AN as a hero only for propaganda reasons.  After the
end of the Viet Nam War in 1975, the true face of Vietnamese
Communism was revealed for all to see.

NCG

It's official!

The U.S. State Dept. says  
Pham An was a double
agent!  in the Vietnam
Country Report, 2007.