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About Vũ Ngọc Nhạ
- Vu Ng?c Nh? (Thái Bình, 3 March 1928 - Ho Chi Minh City, 7 August 2002) was a Vietnamese communist spy who served as an advisor to South Vietnamese presidents Ngô Ðình Di?m and Nguy?n Van Thi?u.
- Nh? served with the Viet Minh during French-Indochina War, and transferred to South after the Geneva Accord in 1954.
- In Vung Tàu, Nh? met Hoàng Quy?n, an anti-communist priest who recommended him to the Ngo brothers.
- He served on the presidential staff from 1957 until 1969.
- In 1968, Nha warned the communists that the U.S.
- planned to curtail the annual T?t ceasefire.
- During the Tet offensive he opened presidential wine cellar so that the palace guards would become drunk.
- Assuming that the wine was distributed to improve morale, Thieu commended Nha when he returned to the palace a few days later.
- In 1969, a probe by the U.S.
- Central Intelligence Agency exposed Nha as a spy.
- He was handed over to North Vietnam in 1973 as part of a prisoner exchange.
- His story received little attention at the time and is known mainly from the book Ông c? v?n (The Advisor) by H?u Mai, which was published in 1989.
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