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The author discusses how her father's Communist sympathies divided their family and how she agreed to act as a spy for the CIA in return for her family's safety
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Yung Krall was born in Vietnam during the French-Indo-China war. Her father and older brother chose to join the Vietminh to drive the French from Vietnam. The Vietminh were supported by the Communist backed National Liberation Front (NLF) who were there to win the hearts and minds of the Vietminh fighters. Yung Krall's father was one of those who chose to join with Communist cause, over the years rising in the organization to become Hanoi's Ambassador to Russia. Yung's mother subscribed to free and democratic ideals, eventually moving the rest of her family to live near Saigon, where Yung Krall would meet her future husband a US Navy pilot. Years later, when the fall of Saigon was imminent, Lt. Commander John Krall, on his own accord, helped free Yung's family only days before the invasion and fall of Saigon. Living in the US and now a naturalized citizen, Yung Krall was recruited by the CIA to serve as an espionage agent gaining valuable information on communist subversives here in the United States. She would ultimately discover that a senior US official, with a top secret clearance was selling classified information to the communists. Her work with the CIA and FBI resulted in the only espionage prosecution associated with the Vietnam war. US Information Agency employee Ron Humphrey and his co-conspirator David Troung both received 15 years in prison for espionage. Ms. Yung Krall is a true American hero of Vietnamese decent who fought against communism, despite her father being a top level official of the Hanoi government as Ambassador to Russia.
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- PublisherLongstreet Press
- Publication date1955
- ISBN 10 1563522314
- ISBN 13 9781563522314
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages412
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. [12], 412, [8] pages. Map, Illustrations. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Includes Foreword by Griffin B. Bell, Formerly United States Attorney General. Also includes Acknowledgments by the author. Yung Krall (Vietnamese: ng M Dung; born 1946) is an American former spy born in Vietnam. Her autobiography, A Thousand Tears Falling, recounts her life growing up in the midst of the Vietnam War, as well as her life in America as a spy for the CIA, FBI, and NSA. Krall gained employment working for American vendors on a U.S. Navy base near Saigon where she met Lt. John Krall, a U.S. Navy pilot, whom she later married. The two of them moved to the United States. Using her background as a native Vietnamese, she worked with the CIA and FBI to bring down a communist Vietnamese subgroup and recruit members in the U.S. and Europe. She played a role in the capture and conviction of North Vietnamese spies Ronald Humphrey and David Truong. In exchange for her family's rescue from a falling Saigon, Yung became a spy for the CIA. The author is the first child of one of Viet Nam's most senior southern Communist cadres to come forth and share the intimate years of painful conflict within a family as the cost of competing political ideologies. Her father failed to transform her into a servant of the revolution, but instead he produced one of Viet Nam's more noted counterrevolutionaries. Derived from a review by Bill McDonald found on-line: A View Not Seen by Vietnam Veterans Before. There are some books that are so important that they act as a kind of "rosette stone" for our understanding of historical events and the people who were caught up in them. This book is going to become a touchstone importance for those trying to relate to the human element of the Vietnam War for non-combatants. The author, Yung Krall, opens a new doorway to viewing what life was like for those families caught in up the cross fires of the Vietnam War. In her book, "A Thousand Tears Falling," she will change and alter the thought processes of any veteran reading of her personal experiences. It will also enlighten those readers who were never a part of any war but often wondered what life was like for those who tried to live inside a war zone with their families. She puts a face on that war and on the enemy and on the allies. She, through her sometimes very sad story, will peel away some of the mystery of why certain members of a family, or a community in Vietnam, fought for which side. It is not as simple as one thinks. It has more to with personal loyalties, family and nationalism and less at times, to issues about communism or capitalism. Her father however, was a powerful leader in the war against the French, the South Vietnamese and the Americans and believed in communism. He left her loving home to go fight the war leaving behind his family to forge for themselves while he lived in the jungles and forests for 18 years. He was a NLF Senator and when the war was over he was rewarded with an ambassadorship. This book is all about family and loyalties and choices. There were many hard choices to be made in the author's young life. She had to choose where her heart and loyalties really were at. She eventually worked for the South Vietnamese and American armies and ends up falling in love with an American navy pilot, getting married and moving to the United States. However, in order to get the rest of her family out of Vietnam to safety, she had to work with the CIA and became a spy. She will move you to tears at times when you read her book, but when you finish you will find that you have gained something valuable through that experience. Seller Inventory # 80045
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