Word: phuoc
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...wrote a 60-page report to the government in which he made adverse comments on France's conduct in Indo-China. Somehow the report got into the hands of the Communists, as the worried French government learned last September, when a young Indo-Chinese named Do Dai Phuoc got into a fight with a French soldier in a Paris bus. After the fight Do Dai Phuoc, a doctor of law and president of the Vietnamese Students' Association in France, was arrested for disorderly conduct. Among various innocuous pamphlets in his briefcase, police found a copy of General Revers...
...Phuoc led French counter-espionage agents to an Indo-Chinese Socialist in whose home police found 80 copies of the Revers report. The Socialist said he had received the report from a known informer whom the cops suspected of playing a double or triple game-informing not only for the French in Indo-China, but also for Ho Chi-Minh's Communists, and possibly checking on Ho for Moscow. The informer in turn told police that he got the report from General Charles Emmanuel Mast, onetime Resident-General in Tunisia, since 1947 on the inactive list...