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Article: Nguyen Van Hao's missing visa.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 23, 1984
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NGUYEN VAN HAO'S MISSING VISA
ONLY ONE senior official in the U.S.-supported government of Nguyen Van Thieu was kept on by the Communists as an advisor after their takeover of South Vietnam in 1975. He is Nguyen Van Hao, a Western-educated economist who was deputy prime minister in charge of economic development in the final year of the Thieu regime. In the summer of 1982, after his advice had been ignored for seven years, Hao was allowed to leave Vietnam, legally, for France. Either because he cooperated with the Communists and was never asked to undergo a coure of "re-education,' or because he was instrumental in blocking a scheme that would have shipped South ...