monday, november26, 1979
daily nebraskan
page 9
Vietnamese nationalist will compare
Carter administration with Nixon's
By Debora Hemminger
A Vietnamese nationalist who compares President
Carter's administration to. former President Nixon's will
speak Tuesday at UNL. s
David Truong said he was under surveillance by the
FBI in 1976. He said President Carter ordered his phone
tapped, his mail opened and his apartment broken into
without judicial warrant in 1977. The next year, Truong
was arrested, convicted and sentenced to 15 years in jail
or a $250,000 fine for espionage. .
Eric Johnson, a member of the Talks and Topics
Committee which is sponsoring the speech, claimed that
Truong was convicted to allow Carter to reestablish that
the president can act illegally in the name of national
security.
Truong contends that he was made an example because
of bad feelings in America about the Vietnamese conflict.
Truong, who is free on bail, said he is appealing the
verdict. The appeal will be heard Dec. 6.
Truong is a 1968 graduate of Stanford University. He
was attending classes at George Washington University
when he was arrested.
Truong was arrested with Ronald Humphrey, a U.S.
Information Agency official. Humphrey was charged
with allegedly giving Truong information illegally. John
son said Truong allegedly passed the information on to a
Vietnamese newspaper in Paris.
A press release said the documents were alleged to con
tain the official American viewpoint of political activity
and intelligence assessments in Thailand and Vietnam.
In 1969, Truong and former political columnist Drew
Pearson set up the Vietnam Political Freedom Committee.
In 1971, he was active in the Committee of Concerned
Asian Scholars. ,
In 1975, he helped organize the Vietnamese-American
Reconciliation Center, which dealt with Vietnamese
refugee resettlement and readjustment.
Truong's father opposed General Thieu in South Viet
nam in 1967. He was imprisoned for five, years. He had
campaigned for a negotiated settlement of the war.
Since Truong has been released from jail on bond, he
has been speaking at universities around the country. He
said he must receive court permission to give the speeches
or travel. He also must report to authorities three times a
week.
Johnson said he thought it was interesting that
Alexander Ginzburg, a Russian dissident, was not consid
ered a political or ideological speaker, but Truong another
dissident was considered a political speaker. He also said
the government is more interested in Truong's conviction
than in national security.
Truong is scheduled to attend a brown bag luncheon at
the Law College Tuesday at 1-2:30 pjn. He will speak in
the Centennial Room in the Nebraska Union at 7:30 p.m.
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