David Truong

David Truong (born Trương Đình Hùng, September 2, 1945 – June 26, 2014) was a South Vietnamese national who lived in the United States and partook in the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. Truong was the son of South Vietnamese politician Trương Đình Dzu, a candidate for the presidency in the 1967 elections against Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Dzu advocated negotiating with the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam to end the war. Truong and co-conspirator Ronald Humphrey were arrested for passing diplomatic cables and classified information to Vietnam. They were convicted of espionage in 1978.

He was born in Saigon and also had a sister, Monique Truong Miller. In the 1960s he studied in Stanford University in the United States, previously living and studying in Paris. After his conviction, Truong began his prison sentence in 1982 and was paroled in 1986.

In 1981, he married American economist Carolyn Gates and after Truong's release the couple lived in the Netherlands and later Malaysia. He taught economics and worked as an economic development consultant for the European Commission. David Truong died from cancer in June 2014 in a hospital in Penang, Malaysia. Provided by Wikipedia