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Mr. Nguyen Tai comes from a family of patriotic revolutionary intellectuals in which nearly ten people were imprisoned by the enemy. full: father – writer Nguyen Cong Hoan; uncle Nguyen Cong Mieu (also known as Le Van Luong); uncle Nguyen Vinh; brother Nguyen Tai Khoai…
From a young age, Nguyen Tai Always a good student. Participated in the 1944 revolution and participated in youth activities to save the country at Hoang Dieu citadel; in 1945, Nguyen Tai was admitted to the Indochina Communist Party and was sent to graduate from the Military School to fight against Japan during the war. Viet Bac area.
Comrade Nguyen Tai in the US C.I.A. detention center in Saigon in 1974.
Talented in literature and journalism, being the son of famous writer Nguyen Cong Hoan, he was introduced by Mr. Vo Nguyen Giap to work in the editorial office of the newspaper “New Country” located in
< p>liberated area. After the August 1945 Revolution, comrade Nguyen Tai returned to work at the Northern Police Department. In October 1946, comrade Nguyen Tai was the first police officer to come to the Northern Censorship Department. Apply for a license to publish the newspaper “New Police”. The New Police Newspaper published its first issue on November 1, 1946, the predecessor of the current People’s Police Newspaper.
In 1947, comrade Nguyen Tai joined the City Party Committee. Hanoi’s Deputy Director of Hanoi Police was one of the first people from the city party committee to be sent to work behind enemy lines in Hanoi’s inner city during the resistance war against the French. In addition to the specific duties of the police sector, he was also assigned to be in charge of intellectual work in the inner city.
In 1954, after the Geneva Agreement, Nguyen Tai and Tran Vi, two members of the Hanoi Party Committee, were appointed to join the Vietnamese Government delegation at the Phu Lo conference to discuss the French handover of the recently occupied Hanoi area to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. During this time, comrade Nguyen Tai joined the Central Armistice Union Committee to take over Hai Duong and then took over the 300-day zone of Hai Phong city.
Year In 1958, at the age of 32, comrade Nguyen Tai received the decision to become Director of the Political Protection Department of the Ministry of Public Security, the predecessor of the General Security Department of the General Intelligence Department later.
In 1964, when the American invaders To strengthen the Vietnamese invaders, Comrade Nguyen Tai voluntarily volunteered to enter the Southern battlefield on an unnumbered train. He was the highest-ranking officer in the police sector sent to the Southern battlefield at this time.< /p>
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Farewell to Nam comrades named Tu Trong was assigned to be the head of the T4 Security Department of Saigon – Gia Dinh city. On December 23, 1970, during a business trip, comrade Nguyen Tai was captured by the enemy. Being shackled and brutally tortured in Ben Tre Can Tho prison, puppet division 7 detention center, Nguyen Tai was still optimistic and believed in the day of victory and still wrote many revolutionary lyrical poems.
I would like to introduce the poem “Eyes” he wrote in prison in December 1971 when remembering the eyes of his son Nguyen Truong Dai in the North (Nguyen Truong Dai at that time is currently the Deputy Director Department of Communications, Ministry of Public Security).
Minister of Public Security Tran Quoc Hoan ( 2 from left) and comrade Huynh Viet Thang (4 from left) meet comrade Nguyen Tai (3 from left) after comrade Nguyen Tai was freed from US prison – Saigon government in 1975.
“Every night when the cell is full of animals those eyes appeared
Yes Dai’s black eyes! Right! I want to ask Dad: Do you love us?
Don’t worry, my child. Dad is determined to defeat the enemy. Keep the Party’s secrets. And the Honor of Man
Let’s meet again tomorrow. In boundless joy. Dad came home and saw me. With familiar friends”
In November 1971, comrade Tran Bach Dang, Secretary of the Saigon – Gia Dinh Party Committee, on behalf of the Liberation Front Committee The South wrote a letter to the US Embassy in the South raising the issue of exchanging prisoner Nguyen Tai with American prisoner Duglas Ramsey, a US State Department employee captured in 1966, the American prisoner of war held the highest position in the South during his time. this time. The United States refused on the grounds that prisoner Nguyen Tai was too important a Viet Cong figure to be exchanged for American prisoner Ramsey at that time.
In 1972, the enemy brought comrade Nguyen Tai to the Saigon National Interrogation Center. Here the C.I.A. The US directly took charge of the torture and interrogation of political prisoner Nguyen Tai. An American intelligence officer named Franfk Sneep once interrogated prisoner Nguyen Tai in an interview published in L’ Express newspaper and said: “They kept him in prison.” a small white-painted cell with high-pressure lights on day and night, cooled by a high-power air conditioner, repeatedly tortured with all kinds of things however, he was not subdued and never fully confirmed who he was…”
The comrade was included in the enemy’s list of political prisoners to be exterminated. .
During several conversations with friends, comrade Nguyen Tai confided: “… While in prison, the enemy brought lunch on April 26, 1975. Give me a bowl of melon soup. When I picked up the bowl of soup and saw a strange smell, I suspected it was because I was afraid of getting an intestinal disease that I skipped lunch. Maybe that’s why I escaped death that day?……”
In the book Decent Interval, a C.I.A. Frank Sneep wrote:
“…Before North Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon, a high-ranking official of the C.I.A. suggested to the Saigon authorities to kill Tai by putting him on a plane flying over the sea and throwing him into the South China Sea from a height of ten thousand feet…”.
The order had not yet been carried out when on April 30, 1975, Saigon was liberated.
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Nguyen Tai was freed by our soldiers from prison number 3, Bach Dang street.
< p>When talking about comrade Nguyen Tai, comrade Nguyen Thanh, former Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security, who worked with comrade Nguyen Tai since 1946 and many years later said: “Minister Tran Quoc Hoan often has very good comments about comrade Nguyen Tai. During the period when Comrade Tran Quoc Hoan was sick, when asked about his plans to choose a replacement as Minister of Public Security, he thought carefully and said: “If there is Tai, he is already in the South.” On April 30, 1975, when comrade Nguyen Tai was freed from prison, Minister Tran Quoc Hoan along with comrade Huynh Viet Thang, member of the Central Security Committee of the Southern Department, and a number of police officers came to meet with him. Comrade Nguyen Tai in Saigon. After that, Nguyen Tai received the decision to become a standing member of the City Party Committee, Head of the Security Committee and then Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police. Some time later, after going to Hanoi to cure his illness, comrade Nguyen Tai was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Home Affairs (Ministry of Public Security).
< span style="font-style:italic">In the position of Deputy Minister for a period of time, he was assigned to work at the State Inspection Committee and then became General Director of the General Department of Customs until retiring in 2019. 1992.
During this time I was Deputy Director General and Secretary of the Party Committee of the General Department. Working with comrade Nguyen Tai, I greatly admire his highly effective scientific way of working.
Comrade Vo Van Kiet, former Secretary of the Special Party Committee of Saigon – Gia Dinh, former Prime Minister, former advisor to the Party Central Committee, who had time to work with Comrade Nguyen Tai, in the letter addressed with the Party and State to consider awarding the title of Hero of the Armed Forces to comrade Nguyen Tai wrote: “The process of operation as well as the process of persistent and cunning struggle when captured by the enemy during the resistance war against the US Comrade Nguyen Tai showed that he truly deserves to be a hero. After liberation, he persistently and straightforwardly fought with principles to defend himself against questions about the time he was imprisoned by the enemy and was confirmed by Party agencies, which further clarified his qualities. comrade’s hero.”
And then in 2002 comrade Nguyen Tai was very deserving of the award. The President conferred the title of Hero of the People’s Armed Forces. He was later awarded the Ho Chi Minh Medal.
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When he retired 5-7 years ago, comrade Nguyen Tai also cordially spent time visiting friends and relatives in Ho Chi Minh City and many provinces across the country.
Recently, due to health conditions, he has not been able to go out of the house to visit friends, but many friends and relatives still often come to visit him intimately. In his small, simple room on the top floor of an apartment complex in Cau Giay District – Hanoi, when confiding with Mr. Nguyen Tai, friends and relatives often shared the same opinion:
From From past to present, wherever he goes, Nguyen Tai is always sincere, humble, simple, and straightforward. At the age of nearly 90, he is still lucid and lucid, and this police officer truly deserves the words: “Indomitable talent and virtue” that everyone still praises him for.
Do Sam
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