# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pham-xuan-an
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:02:57.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pham-xuan-an"
name: "Phạm Xuân Ẩn"
slug: "pham-xuan-an"
description: "Phạm Xuân Ẩn was a notable Vietnamese spy, journalist, and correspondent for Time, Reuters and the New York Herald Tribune, stationed in Saigon during the war in Vietnam. He was revealed to have simultaneously been spying for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF) during the Vietnam War. After the war, he was promoted to the rank of general of the People's Army of Vietnam. His nicknames were Hai Trung and Trần Văn Trung. He was awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the Vietnamese government on January 15, 1976."
tagline: "Vietnamese journalist and military leader (1927–2006)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1927-09-12"
deathDate: "2006-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.652066666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_Xu%C3%A2n_%E1%BA%A8n"
    title: "Phạm Xuân Ẩn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فام اكسوين ان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_Xu%C3%A2n_%E1%BA%A8n"
    title: "Phạm Xuân Ẩn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8C%83%E6%98%A5%E9%9A%B1"
    title: "范春隱"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_Xu%C3%A2n_%E1%BA%A8n"
    title: "Phạm Xuân Ẩn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_Xu%C3%A2n_%E1%BA%A8n"
    title: "Phạm Xuân Ẩn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3132804"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump