Post #1784158
2026-04-26 02:25 UTC
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.”
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@rowat_c@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 02:29
To prepare documents for Vietnamese colleagues to leave aboard U.S. military aircraft, Mr. Johnstone found a typewriter in a friend’s apartment. He and Mr. Rosenblatt also obtained departure forms, stamps and consular seals from sympathetic embassy colleagues. The two men set up in a bowling alley on the military side of the airport ... then shepherded their Vietnamese friends to planes... After five tense days with little food or sleep, the two Americans left Saigon. 4/n