Surrounded by enemy troops , the first documentary about intelligence officer Pham Ngoc Thao will air on VTV1 at 9:50 p.m. on April 27.
The life of intelligence officer Pham Ngoc Thao on film
Colonel, Hero of the People's Armed Forces Pham Ngoc Thao is known through the film The cards are up thanks to the character Thanh Luan (played by Nguyen Chanh Tin) of which he is the prototype.
However, images and stories about his career and real life are rarely exploited and mentioned due to the nature of the intelligence profession. Surrounded by enemies is the first documentary about this legend.
According to information from VTV, to make the film, the production crew had to rely entirely on real events and data about Mr. Pham Ngoc Thao, this was also the biggest difficulty.
Journalist Le Thanh Binh, deputy head of the Documentary Film Department, Special Topics - Science and Education Department (VTV), said the crew spent a lot of time finding official data sources.
Find witnesses and people who have contacted, met, and worked with him (on both sides); his remaining relatives at the present time.
During the process of "turning the pages", the authors have accessed many more valuable documents. There are also contents referring to the coups in the period of 1960-1965 in which Mr. Pham Ngoc Thao was mentioned in quite detail in secret/confidential documents.
VTV said the station wanted to portray a hero from the perspective of the next generation.
The filmmakers chose to take advantage of photo and documentary sources, exploiting the remaining emotions in people's memories and memories of him, interwoven with the places where he was attached, worked and died.
The "most talented and strange" man of the Vietnam War
Mr. Pham Ngoc Thao was born in 1922 in Long Xuyen in a Catholic family, intellectual, one of the richest in the South, with French nationality.
Instead of becoming a great official or scholar in colonial society, he voluntarily gave up his French citizenship, joined the resistance, began his journey as a soldier, and then became one of the most outstanding strategic intelligence soldiers in the world. History of the Vietnamese Revolution.
During the period from 1960 onwards, Pham Ngoc Thao was known as an "unknown factor" in the internal turmoil of the Saigon government.
He participated in and was behind many coups, including the November 1, 1963 coup that overthrew the Ngo Dinh Diem brothers.
Pham Ngoc Thao was arrested on July 16, 1965 and died in July of the same year. In 1987, he was recognized as a martyr. In 1995, the State officially awarded him the title Hero of the People's Armed Forces.
Revolutionary, Scholar Tran Bach Dang once commented: "Normal intelligence officers have the task of hiding, collecting, exploiting information and sending it to the center. Pham Ngoc Thao alone went straight into the enemy ranks, operating for the Fatherland until his death..., he is a unique special intelligence officer."
Still Former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet once said: "Mr. Pham Ngoc Thao has received a special mission, unprecedented in our revolutionary work."
That is the mission that according to the words spy Pham Xuan An - revealed in the book Perfect Spy by American historian Larry Berman - was "far more dangerous than my mission".
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