Ngo Trong Anh

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This is a Vietnamese name; the family name is Ngô, but is often simplified as Ngo in English-language text. According to Vietnamese custom, this person properly should be referred to by the given name Anh.

Ngo Trong Anh

Ngo Trong Anh (Vietnamese: Ngô Trọng Anh) was born in Vietnam.

[edit] Biography

He was born on 26 November 1926, Hue, Vietnam.

He served in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) administration as Minister of Transportation and Public Works 1965-1966 and as Secretary of State, Founder of the National Supervisory Institute in 1966.

He was Vice-President of Van Hanh University in Saigon, 1965-1975.

After bbeing jailed for three years he was under house arrest for six years by the Communist Vietnam Government because he was anti-communist, 1975-1984.

[edit] Exile

With the intervention of the ODP (Orderly Departure Program) he immigrated to the United States in November 1984.

Since 1995, he has served as President of the National Security Council and as Chairman of the National Advisory Council of an exiled anti-communist organization known as The Government of Free Vietnam.