Word: truong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virginia, David Truong and Roland Humphrey were sentenced to 15 years in prison, five weeks after they were convicted of espionage, stealing government documents and feeding them to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The two men admitted to stealing the documents, but maintained that their goal was to help normalize relations between the U.S. and the nation we bombed, defoliated and depopulated during the '60s and early '70s. True, they could have gotten life sentences--but the fact that they were convicted at all demonstrates that there are serious problems in the federal government...
Briefly, it was revealed during the trial that President Carter had, without a court order, authorized wiretaps on Truong and Humphrey after Justice Department officials persuaded him that the pair was dangerous to national security and had to be caught. In the course of the trial, several government officials testified that the documents in question were neither sensitive nor fraught with national security matters--the crux of the government prosecutor's case. Yet Truong and Humphrey were singled out, as if to demonstrate Washington's contempt for Vietnam. While the pair clearly deserves some sentence--pilfering government documents, after...
Another issue involved in the Truong-Humphrey case is the future of American relations with Vietnam. Carter may pledge a commitment to human rights elsewhere in the globe; with regard to the nation that we bombed and delohated in the name of democracy, however, the lofty rhetoric is abandoned. Truong and Humphrey's trial may be interpreted by the Vietnamese government as a clear indication that the United States is neither ready nor willing to normalize relations, nor is our government willing to consider the payment of reparations...
LAST MONTH a federal jury in Virginia convicted David Truong and Ronald Humphrey on counts of espionage, stealing government documents and passing them to the government of Vietnam. On June 23 the two men will be sentenced, facing a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. While Truong and Humphrey did, indeed, steal some classified documents and give them to Vietnam through a CIA agent, they maintain that their purpose was not espionage but a part of a campaign to normalize relations between the United States and Vietnam. During their trial, both prosecution and defense witnesses disagreed whether the passing...
...Truong-Humphrey case indicates not only Carter's maintenance of a foolish Cold-Warrior attitude towards Vietnam, it represents an infringement of civil liberties. For these reasons we condemn the conviction of David Truong and Ronald Humphrey and hope that they will receive a fair trial in their appeal...