Yung Krall ( vi, Đặng Mỹ Dung; born 1946) is an American former

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born in

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

. Her autobiography, ''A Thousand Tears Falling'', recounts her life growing up in the midst of the

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, as well as her life in America as a spy for the

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, and

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. She is the mother of actor and comedian

Lance Krall Lance Krall (born December 9, 1970) is an American producer, screenwriter, and actor of half Vietnamese descent. He became well known after his portrayal as "Kip" in the role in faux-reality show ''The Joe Schmo Show''. He went on to create ...

Biography

Yung Krall was born Đặng Mỹ Dung in 1946 near

Cần Thơ Cần Thơ, also written as Can Tho or Cantho (: , : ), is the fourth-largest city in Vietnam, and the largest city along the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam. It is noted for its floating markets, rice paper-making village, and picturesque r ...

in Vietnam during the French administration of the Indochine colony, and lived there during the Anti-French Resistance War. She was nine years old at the signing of the Geneva Conference, which divided Vietnam into North and South Vietnam. Yung's mother chose to remain in South Vietnam to raise her children while her husband joined the Communist cause in the

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with the NLF, eventually becoming

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's ambassador to the

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Krall's father remained in the North for the greater part of her upbringing. Krall gained employment working for American vendors on a

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base near Saigon where she met Lt. John Krall, a U.S. Navy pilot, whom she later married. The two of them moved to the United States. Using her background as a native Vietnamese, she worked with the CIA and FBI to bring down a communist Vietnamese subgroup and recruit members in the U.S. and Europe. She played a role in the capture and conviction of North Vietnamese spies Ronald Humphrey and David Truong.

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