branch death_date allegiance birth_date nickname rank article_title education name
vietnam people 's army 20 september 2006 vietnam 12 september 1927 hai trung 20pxmajor general phạm xuân Ẩn
 college of cần thơ phạm xuân Ẩn
phạm xuân Ẩn

phạm xuân Ẩn -lrb- september 12 , 1927 -- september 20 , 2006 -rrb- was a vietnamese general whose nicknames were `` hai trung '' and `` tran van trung . ''
he worked in south vietnam as a reporter for reuters , `` time '' magazine and the `` new york herald tribune '' during the vietnam war but was simultaneously spying for north vietnam .
Ẩn earned a north vietnam war medal , the viet minh , after the battle of ap bac and contributed to the ultimate defeat of the us and saigon .
he was awarded the `` people 's army force hero '' by the vietnamese government on january 15 , 1976 .
he was also put in a `` softer '' version of a reeducation camp for a year after the war for being considered too close to the americans .
