An was required to write a “confession” concerning the details of Dr. Tuyen’s escape and instructed to disclose the names of his contacts and sources during the war, obtained while working as a Time journalist. As noted earlier, he provided the details as best he could recollect about Tuyen, but said his memory was very bad about his contacts over the past fifteen years. “I told them I could not remember and gave them very little,” said An, a man who I know possessed extraordinary recall of details from decades earlier.
