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2026-04-26 02:24 UTC
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.
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@rowat_c@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 02:25
Mr. Rosenblatt shaved his bushy mustache and wore a hat to disguise himself. Also concerned with being detected by the South Vietnamese police, they used false IDs and drove a 30-year-old Citroën, and other cars that friends had abandoned upon leaving Saigon, to rendezvous with Vietnamese colleagues. Both spoke Vietnamese, and Mr. Rosenblatt was fluent in French. “Everybody thought we were Corsican gangsters,” he said in the oral history ... “So nobody messed with us.” 3/n