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2026-04-26 02:24 UTC
When Graham Martin, the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, suggested that most Vietnamese refugees should head to coastal points, where American ships would attempt to pick them up, Mr. Rosenblatt and Mr. Johnstone, both of whom had served in diplomatic postings in Vietnam, grew alarmed at his seeming indifference toward the Vietnamese who were not high-ranking officials. So they secretly devised their own evacuation plan to assist former colleagues and their families.
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@rowat_c@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 02:24
The two Americans arrived on April 22 amid chaos at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Saigon, aboard one of the last scheduled Pan Am flights into the country. From a colleague at the American Embassy, they learned that their mission had been discovered by higher-ups, and that they were to be sent home. Fearing arrest, Mr. Rosenblatt said in a 2013 oral history, he and Mr. Johnstone “ran away as fast as we could” and went underground. 2/n