Sergeant Major Edgar Foshee, a devout

anti-communist Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, w ...

, served as a combat medic in the U.S. Army Special Forces. His former wife Thuong Nguyen Cuc Foshee was held without formal charge by the government of Vietnam starting in September 2005. She was eventually convicted of terrorism and returned to the United States in November 2006 after her early release for medical problems.

Biography

In 1974, he retired from the United States Army, and later retired as an agent from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He had served in Vietnam with both organizations, assisting the

South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...

ese government against the Communist North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong agents. He owned a construction company until 1980, and retired with his wife to Florida. On April 30, 1995, he was appointed Chairman of the International Committee of an exiled

organization known as The Government of Free Vietnam.

Quotes

*"I do hope that the Vietnamese Community Abroad quickly identifies the malicious motive of the Viet Cong." *"Vietnam is sending out secret agents to disrupt the motivation of the Vietnamese Community Abroad." *"Mr Nguyen Huu Chanh and the Government of Free Vietnam are motivated individuals determined to fight against the VCs to the end."

External links

International World Committee Government of Free Vietnam
from the desk of Edgar Foshee

Video
What's Vietnamese For Irony?

Official Site

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