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FD-302{REV. 11-27-70} LL INCRATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED CATE 11-16-2016 BY 2245K35 ALG FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transcription. 2/16/78 1 EDWARD GEARY LANSDALE, also knOWn as Major General (retired) E. G. LANsDALE, 20o8 Lorraine Avenue, McLean, Virginia. was interviewed at that address by Special Agents and who identified themselves as such.. b3 General LANSDALE was advised that he was being b6 interviewed in order to determine the nature of his b7C association with TRUONG DINH HUNG, recently arrested on b7E charges of espionage. General LANSDALE stated that he had known TRUONG's father, TRUONG DINH DZU, while serving as a Minister at the U.s. Embassy in Saigon. He said he had had several conversations with Dzu prior to Dzu's running for President of South Vietnam and subsequent imprisonment. LANSDALE added that apparently he was one of the few Americans who would have anything to do with Dzu.. According to General LANSDALE, his first contact with TRUONG was in 1969, when TRUONG visited him at his home, then near Mt. Vernon, Virginia. LANsDALE stated that, at the time, TRuoNG was living in New York City, and had come to visit LANSDALE in order to try to secure LANSDALE's assistance in getting TRUONG's father out ol prison in South Vietnam, which assistance LANsDALE was unable to provide. General LANSDALE advised that since the one 1969 meeting, he had not seen Truong in person, but that he thought there might have been a telephone call, and Christmas cards were exchanged. As to how Truong had. known about him, LANSDALE could only presume that TRUONG's father had possibly written to TRuoNG and advised him to contaet LANSDALE. .General. LANSDALE was unable to provide any further information concerning tRuONG or TRuoNG's activities.. He stated he had no knowledge of any contact by TRuoNG with the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRv). LANSDALE did add parentheticalIy that he had information while serving in Saigon, that TruoNg's father, Inierviewed on. 2/11/78 at._McLean, Virginia File # SAs and Y Dole dictaled 2/13/78 JJG:cad This dosvment contains neilher recommendglions nor concdusions of the F8l. it is the properly of the.F8i and is loaned Io your ogency: il and its contenls are not lo be distributed outside your ogency.