Espionage Vietnam

Vietnam and China traded 32 prisoners along its tense border in the 21st such exchange since troops clashed in a border war in 1979. Vietnamese troops turned over 18 Chinese arrested for alleged spying in territorial waters off central Binh Tri Thien province. A Chinese official at the exchange described 12 Vietnamese returned to their homeland as armed intruders and two others as spies.

The FBI has halted its advertisement in Vietnamese-language newspapers that drew criticism from civil libertarians for asking emigres to report to the agency anyone they believed might be a spy for Hanoi. George Grotz, a spokesman for the San Francisco office of the FBI, said the ad has run the course of a two-month contract with the Westminster-based Nguoi Viet Daily and another newspaper in Houston.

Pham Xuan An was the consultant to a generation of journalists here in what was then Saigon during the long American involvement in Vietnam. A man of forceful personality and intellectual gifts, An was immensely influential. He worked full time for Time magazine's large bureau, and American reporters valued his insights and opinions. Vietnamese reporters working for Western news organizations often took his line on Saigon's political developments.

Chau Carey read the advertisement with rapt interest. In an effort to staunch the "proliferation of Vietnamese Communist intelligence," the notice in a Vietnamese-language newspaper said, the FBI is seeking emigres' help in reporting suspected spies to the bureau. Carey immediately called the FBI and left a message accusing a well-known activist of espionage. "I have no proof, of course," the Garden Grove woman said in an interview.

Chau Carey read the advertisement with rapt interest. In an effort to staunch the "proliferation of Vietnamese Communist intelligence," the notice in a Vietnamese-language newspaper said, the FBI is seeking emigres' help in reporting suspected spies to the bureau. Carey immediately called the FBI and left a message accusing a well-known activist of espionage. "I have no proof, of course," the Garden Grove woman said in an interview.

The FBI has halted its advertisement in Vietnamese-language newspapers that drew criticism from civil libertarians for asking emigres to report to the agency anyone they believed might be a spy for Hanoi. George Grotz, a spokesman for the San Francisco office of the FBI, said the ad has run the course of a two-month contract with the Westminster-based Nguoi Viet Daily and another newspaper in Houston.

Chau Carey read the advertisement with rapt interest. In an effort to staunch the "proliferation of Vietnamese Communist intelligence," the notice in a Vietnamese-language newspaper said, the FBI is seeking emigres' help in reporting suspected spies to the bureau. Carey immediately called the FBI and left a message accusing a well-known activist of espionage. "I have no proof, of course," the Garden Grove woman said in an interview.

Chau Carey read the advertisement with rapt interest. In an effort to staunch the "proliferation of Vietnamese Communist intelligence," the notice in a Vietnamese-language newspaper said, the FBI is seeking emigres' help in reporting suspected spies to the bureau. Carey immediately called the FBI and left a message accusing a well-known activist of espionage. "I have no proof, of course," the Garden Grove woman said in an interview.

Pham Xuan An was the consultant to a generation of journalists here in what was then Saigon during the long American involvement in Vietnam. A man of forceful personality and intellectual gifts, An was immensely influential. He worked full time for Time magazine's large bureau, and American reporters valued his insights and opinions. Vietnamese reporters working for Western news organizations often took his line on Saigon's political developments.

Vietnam and China traded 32 prisoners along its tense border in the 21st such exchange since troops clashed in a border war in 1979. Vietnamese troops turned over 18 Chinese arrested for alleged spying in territorial waters off central Binh Tri Thien province. A Chinese official at the exchange described 12 Vietnamese returned to their homeland as armed intruders and two others as spies.