Scientist - spy Nguyen Dinh Ngoc

In the hundred years of history to regain independence and unification of the country, many successful scientists have abandoned their careers and glorious flowers in the country of return to the great cause of the nation. Scientist and intelligence expert Nguyen Dinh Ngoc is such a case.

In my life as a journalist, I was fortunate to interact with him, a man with a vibrant and rich life, a long time in the hearts of the enemy.

Scientist and intelligence expert Nguyen Dinh Ngoc.

At that time, in many press conferences, scientific conferences I saw him sitting on the presidency. He was small, white, with the slanted, dark eyebrows of the old martial artist, only making his face radiant and bright. Always seeing him wearing a green and military uniform, a soft hat, wearing white glasses with a rope behind his neck, those who knew him all said that he was simple and easy to go and only carried each piece. Such a suit.

That is the Doctor of Science, the former Professor of many universities in Saigon, Can Tho . before and after 1975. As an agent in Saigon from 1966 to 1975, after 1975, Major General, Director of Department Telecommunications - Informatics, Ministry of Public Security, Deputy National Steering Committee for Information Technology; Vice Chairman of Electronics - Telecommunications Association; Vice Chairman of Vietnam Informatics Association; Founding member of Thang Long University. He was born on August 13, 1932, died on May 2, 2006; born and breathed last in Hanoi.

I intentionally approached him, but still only short discussions about the content of a particular seminar, he was always busy and humble. Then one day, a friend showed me his new research, the branch of the State-level Program with code KX.06.

The name of the topic has drawn attention, because it is half of natural science, half of social science: ' Science and technology with cultural values ' . The focal point of this ' two halves ' work is that, from a purely theoretical formula in modern physics - The Theory of Relativity of A. Einstein, the author has applied to our country's situation to find The most common solution to the complex socio-political problem is to escape poverty and backwardness, from a slow-growing country to developing.

Please quote the most interesting piece of the topic, but be sure those who are outsiders about math - as I can still understand.

In physics, the famous expression of the great physicist Albert Einstein, describes the relationship between the mass of an object with the energy E that can be released as follows:

E = mxc ² , where c is the speed of light.

Applying to the field of social politics, scientist Nguyen Dinh Ngoc describes the relationship between intangible ' quantities ' in the form of expressions similar to the following:

Knowledge = Data volume x (Processing speed) ²

Knowledge = Volume of knowledge x (Simulation speed) ²

Decision = Knowledge volume x (Simulation speed-Forecast-Selection) ² .

The above expressions have shown that knowledge or knowledge plays a very important role in forming decisions, or more specifically, policy decisions, policy guidelines . Scientist Nguyen Dinh Ngoc gives that: 'My father once said that he lived, that is, to promote the role of Decision in the case of national survival '.

It is possible to expand the importance of the intellectual problem for society and the country. As Mr. Ngoc emphasized: ' People must be noticed right now, from tiny citizens entering kindergarten . '

After carefully reading the project, I wrote a short article ' From Knowledge to Decision '. Then one day, I received a call he invited to meet at the headquarters of the Information Technology Steering Committee. In a rather open and friendly conversation that day, I understood why he was enlightened to patriotism and revolution very early on and in any circumstance he persevered, constantly learning to improve his knowledge.

He was born in an intellectual family in Hanoi, with four brothers, he was the eldest. His father, Dr. Nguyen Dinh Diep was rich in patriotism, before 1945 was imprisoned by French colonialists in Son La prison. Entering the long-term resistance war, Dr Diep was the chief medical officer of Phuc Yen province.

Dr. Truong My Dung Professor Nguyen Dinh Ngoc's wife received Sao Khue Award for SG Nguyen Dinh Ngoc.

In late 1947, during a raid, Dr. Diep and the 15-year-old Ngoc were arrested. Escorting to Cau Bridge, Bac Ninh separated his father and son and from then on he could never see his father again. At the farewell, the father only told the children each sentence: 'Please try to learn and help others learn, my people suffer first because of ill-fated war' .

Many years later, Nguyen Dinh Ngoc always worried about his father's words. That is the most passionate thing of my father, an intellectual who experienced slavery, once saw his people immersed in ignorance and backwardness. This also explains why, in his research work, the decision to raise the intellectual standard became the key point, so highly promoted!

In 1953, he was organized to study abroad. Nearly 10 years of living and studying in Paris, France, he has earned degrees, all of which are excellent, such as meteorological engineers; telecommunications engineer; ship building engineers; doctor of geophysics; doctor of mathematics. Returning home in February 1966, he was appointed by the Saigon government to the position of Professor of Saigon Science University.

Few people suspected that he was still in the organization that reported him with the alias ' Diep Son ' (pairing his lost father and brother name).

It was not until after the reunification of the country , the life of many new intelligence soldiers was revealed, they had different ' covers '. For example: intelligence journalist Pham Xuan An is a journalist; Vu Bang is a writer; Duc Phuong intelligence house is a trader .

With Nguyen Dinh Ngoc, he chose a career as a university professor, but it was not entirely a ' shell ', he was a true scientist, had profound knowledge, varied, more beneficial in performing tasks spy.

During our conversation that day, answering the question, why did I have to study so much, he told a story of 1970.

Seeing that the general of Saigon was eager to investigate the hydro-meteorological situation in northwestern Saigon, to let people consult him as a meteorological expert who had studied abroad, he deduced, there would be one. The big operation with many helicopters entered the area, mainly targeting Tay Ninh and the Cambodian border area, with the headquarters of the National Liberation Front of the South. Judging, then summing up the other moves of the enemy, he transferred the information right back to the base . In 1980, during a business trip with the National Assembly to Campu, I heard a senior leader in the delegation recounted At that time, he and many other central officials had escaped due to being told in advance.

There must also be important intelligence reports that he did not count. For example, at the end of April 1975, due to the timely and accurate analysis of the current situation, he was one of the people who came to the conclusion: America will let go without intervention. Such intelligence sources have contributed to grounded leadership to push the expedition into the final lair of Saigon regime.

After the liberation day, he went public and worked in the Ministry of Public Security, using his diverse professional ability to manage and research science . He was back with passion to do science. Just like Prof. Hoàng Xuân Sính, who had many years of knowing Prof. Nguyễn Đình Ngọc since he was in France, when he died, he wrote: ' You do science as if you want to crave, because you have not been wholeheartedly Give it to him because he's busy doing intelligence for a long time. You were born to do science, that's the only desire of my life . '.

People say, people, from ancient times, there are three passions: power, money and women. Nguyen Dinh Ngoc escaped the circle of that girl, but caught the passion of real scientists, that was the passion for discovery. It is through this passion that mankind has come from ignorant darkness to great light of understanding.

Patriotic scientist and intelligence Nguyen Dinh Ngoc was lucky to pursue that passion until the last years of his life.