On the afternoon of
April 28th 2012, Security Investigation Agency - General Security -
Ministry of Public Security announced
the arrest of Nguyen Quoc Quan, a member of the central committee of the
terrorist organization - Viet Tan, when he entered Vietnam under a fake name of
Richard Nguyen to carry out terrorist plots during the anniversaries of the
Liberation of South Viet Nam and May Day in 2012.
On April 17th
2012, while implementing immigration procedure for passengers at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat International
Airport, Vietnamese authorities discovered an American citizen named
Richard Nguyen, passport number 469267405, is Nguyen Quoc Quan (also known as
Le Trung, Tuan Anh, Chu Canh Lam), member of the central committee of Viet Tan.
Soon, the investigation agency of the Ministry of Public Security conducted the
arrest and urgent search of Nguyen Quoc Quan, born in 1953, lived in the 8276,
Oakbark, Ct ElkGrove CA 95785, USA for organizing terrorist activities.
Afterward, the
investigation agency decided to prosecute the case, and detain Quan for 4
months for further investigation on charge of organising terrorist activities against
the people’s government, which violates article 84 of Vietnamese Criminal Code.
Who
is Nguyen Quoc Quan?
Quan was born on
November 20th, 1953 in Hanoi. In 1954, he and his family migrated to
the south of Vietnam. From 1965 to 1975, Quan studied at elementary school,
then high school and university in Saigon. After the Liberation of South Viet
Nam April 30th 1975, Nguyen Quoc Quan was a teacher in Rach Soi town, Rach Gia
city, Kien Giang Province.
On August, 1981, he
crossed the border and settled in California. Earlier, in 1980, in California,
Hoang Co Minh, a former
vice admiral in
the South Vietnamese Navy, founded a reactionary
organization called “the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam” (the Front),
gathering elements were officers, soldiers of the Saigon regime with the aim of
overthrowing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by armed activities. On June
1981, Hoang Co Minh established a "resistance base" in Udon,
Thailand, to collect the fleeing youths, living
in refugee camps in Thailand, Indonesia ... and then to implement armed
training to sent back to Vietnam to carry out terrorist activities.
On October 9th
, 1982Hoang Co Minh held a congress at Udon base, establishing the headquarter
of the Front known as "Vietnam Reform Party", abbreviated as
"Viet Tan". Members of Viet Tan’s central committee were also members
of the Front’s board. The platform of Viet Tan defined its objectives of devastating the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam, eliminating the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
On June, 1986, Quan
joined reactionary organizations “the Front”. Due to the PhD of mathematics,
leaders of the Fronts entrusted Quan to design a membership management sofware
and to set up a system of managing personnel files for the Front. (When
arrested by the Vietnamese security agency in illegal entry into Vietnam on the
date November 17th, 2007, Quan admitted to his involvement in the criminal activities and software
source code, the administrative , staffing and Viet Tan’s plans against the
State of Vietnam from 2006 to 2010).
After the so-called
"Eastern campaign 1, 2, 3" failed, Hoang Co Minh was shot dead by
militant, Laos revolutionary soldiers on his way to penetrate through Laos to
Vietnam to organize armed violence , the Fronts’ leaders were decapitated but
they are not give up on plots, tricks against the State of Vietnam.
On September 1990, in
order to provide a cover for gathering
Vietnamese extremist, reactionary, and intellectuals that did not understand
the situation of the country to carry out terrorist plots, to overthrow the government,
Viet Tan leaders directed Nguyen Quoc
Quan to establish the so-called "vietnam experts meeting" with the
president – Vu Quoc Quy, Nguyen Quoc Quan is the general secretary, Nguyen Quoc
Quan was assigned to draft of the documents of recruitment, internal security,
design a information encryption software in the form of camouflage, called
"fortunes", to guide members in organisation to learn about security
and terrorism tactics. In addition, VietTan established external organizations
like "Free Vietnam Alliance", "Political Campaign Committee of
Vietnamese Americans", "Vietnam Youth Network on the road" ...
The
first penetration
At the beginning of
2007, after several days of meeting and discussion, Viet Tan leaders released a
plan named “River crossing plan”. The content of this plan included sending
back people to Vietnam under relatives visiting, travelling or seeking
investment opportunity, thereby taking photos, making maps, knowing working
principles of Vietnam’s key agencies, deploying illegal penetration across Vietnam
- Cambodia’s border and founding communication post, rest houses in order to
bring men, weapons, explosives into Vietnam for terrorism.
Nguyen Quoc Quan was
among Viet Tan followers who were sent to Vietnam to carry on the intrusion
plan. bordOn October 2007, Nguyen Quoc Quan, bringing provocative leaflets,
illegal entered Vietnam’s territory through a secret path often used by
cigarette traffickers on Moc Bai bordergate, Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. He
then managed to find the way to travel from Moc Bai to Ho Chi Minh city.
Nguyen Quoc Quan came
back to the US in early November, 2007 to advise his superiors on the result of
the intrusion. After that, he traveled to Thailand to meet Nguyen Hai, who is
often called Khunmi Somsak or Nguyen Quang Phuc. Quan and Hai then traveled to
Cambodia to meet Nguyen Ngoc Duc, a high-ranking member of Viet Tan. Duc gave
Quan and Hai two Cambodian and three Vietnamese phone numbers and two
counterfeit identification cards in the name of Ly Seng.
By that time, Nguyen Thi
Thanh Van and Truong Van Si (often referred to as Truong Leon), disguising as
ones visiting family members in Vietnam, had successfully entered Vietnam to
join Quan to carry on the terrorist plot.
Nguyen Thi Thanh Van,
Truong Van Si, Nguyen Hai one by one visited Nguyen The Vu who, under the
instruction of Nguyen Duc Thuan, Oslo, Norway- based Viettan member, had
collected the addresses of over 40 companies and 7,000 people across Vietnam.
The team wrote letters to those addresses calling for riot and strike,
convincing people to join Viet Tan and overthrow the government. However,
before the letters were sent, those men had been arrested by Vietnamese
Department of Security and Investigation.
Truong Leon, while
being in jail, had confessed he and other Viettan members including Nguyen
Thanh Cong, Nguyen Quoc Quan, Nguyen Thi Thanh Van were planning a the
terrorist attack in Vietnam.
In a confession letters
asking for early release, he wrote, “After being arrested by Vietnamese
authorities, I was well-treated. Vietnamese investigators work objectively, in
accordance with the law. I was not tortured, ill-treated”.
“I promised if I was
released, I shall come back to the US and left Viet Tan. I also shall not join
any other organization that goes against Vietnam”, added he.
However, after arriving
in the US, Truong Leon cried out that he faced starvation and was threatened
during his time in prison, that Vietnamese officers wrote the confession letter
and forced him to sign.
Ironically, despite of
being ill-treated as he claimed, Truong Leon looked very healthy and rather fat
when he was freed from jail. If he had been threatened, then why did he express
his gratitude to the Vietnamese jail officers and the investigators? His
claiming to have been forced to sign the letter could not hide the fact that
the letter was written by his own hands.
No different from
Truong Leon, Nguyen Thi Thanh Van (often referred to as Thanh Thao), a
Vietnamese French, who born on June 4, 1956 in Sai Gon, become a Viet Tan
member in 1993 thanks to the introduction of Nguyen Ngoc Duc and Tran Duc
Tuong. Van was the editor of the “Democracy Bulletin” and a speaker of the “New
horizon” radio which often airs anti-Vietnam programs.
“I was fooled due to
lack of knowledge. What were written in anti-Vietnam leaflets about the
situation in Ho Chi Minh city is totally different from what I saw in my own
eyes”, said Van.
However, right after
arriving in France, Van refuted her previous words and telling distorted
stories about her time in jail. However, those lies, despite being aired in the
internet and on the New Horizon radio, sound unconvincing.
Ly Seng, upon crossing
border between Vietnam and Cambodia in Tay Ninh province, was arrested for
illegal immigration. His only belonging at that time was an ID in the name of
Ly Seng, Cambodia.
At first, Nguyen Quoc
Quan insisted that he was a Cambodian, and if there was any allegation against
him, then it should only be the illegal immigration. However, due to concrete
proof, Nguyen Quoc Quan confessed his fake ID and name, confirming that he was
member of Viet Tan’s Central Committee.
After the arrest,
Nguyen Quoc Quan confessed his terrorist plan, following which he would intrude
into Vietnam to check on conditions to develop Viet Tan’s illegal forces in the
coming time. Besides, he also elaborated on the plan so-called “East-heading
plan 07” and the intention to build a “Domestic forces development team”, and
the “working group C21”. He also named all Viet Tan members with details on
their positions in this organization.
Nguyen Quoc Quan was
sentenced to 6 month imprisonment, and shall be extradited to the US upon
release. Nguyen Hai was sentenced 9 month in jail, and forced to stay under
supervision 3 years upon release. Nguyen
The Vu was sentenced 5 month and 29 days in jail with 1 year under supervision.
The
2nd penetration
After arriving in the
U.S upon release from jail, Quan did not give up his attempt to overthrow the
Vietnamese government, which he made public on Viet Tan’s website.
From late 2008 to early
2011, Nguyen Quoc Quan traveled to Thai Land and Malaysia to train Viet Tan’s
members on know-how to safeguard information and carry out non-violence
uprising in Vietnam.
Nguyen Quoc Quan, in
the fake name of Richard Nguyen, on 17th April, 2012 intruded
Vietnam for the second time to carry out the terrorist plan, calling for
strikes and chaos in an attempt to ruin the April 30 and May 1st
celebrations in Ho Chi Minh city and several other provinces in Vietnam. By
doing that, Quan had violated the article no.84 of Vietnamese Criminal Law,
i.e. “carrying out terrorist attacks on the people’s government”.
After being arrested,
Nguyen Quoc Quan honestly confessed his illegal activities and is being
cooperative with Investigators. At the same time, Vietnamese Department of
Security and Investigation has been investigating the illegal activities of
Quan and his accompanies, which would be shed the light on soon.
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