On Apr 14, 12:16 pm, "ww" wrote:
People occasionally posted messages on the net making allegations
about other people, who could not defend themselves.

You should start by verifying your claims.

He claims that he was inside the US Embassy Compound and he could have taken the last helicopter out of Vietnam, but declined a seat on the helicopter out of loyalty to his family..."I was at the US Embassy at the time of the last helicopter. I finally made it through the gates but my mother, father and less than 2 year old brother were stuck outside. They shouted at

me to get on the helicopter. But I decided not to abandon my
family...My father and I finally escaped on the 4th anniversary of the
fall of Saigon. I was 13.. "

Tru*o*ng's claim is plausible. He was 9, inside the gate, in a very
chaotic environment w/ strangers... Even his family wanted him to get
on the helicopter, that 9 years old kid decided to stay with his
family, instead. How many 9 years old do you know would choose to do
otherwise?

It is of course possible that Paul Troung was inside the US Embassy
Compound and refused a seat on the last helicopter out of Vietnam on
April 30, 1975. Somebody had to be there. Why not Paul Truong?

http://www.mishalov.com/Vietnam_finalescape.html

However, that coupled with all of the other fantastic claims that Paul
Truong has made leads one to doubt that any of it is true.

Paul Truong also claims that he competed in an International Youth
Chess Competition in Manila, Philippines representing VietNam in 1975.
This seems to conflict with his claim that he refused a seat on the
last helicopter.

Then Paul says that his father went into hiding for the next four
years, all the while that Paul was winning the national chess
championship of Vietnam four times.

Then Paul and his family escaped on a boat out of Vietnam exactly four
years later. They landed in Malaysia but later the Malaysians forced
them onto another boat and put then out to sea.

Paul then writes a horrifying account about how his boat was attacked
repeatedly by Thai pirates who raped and killed all the women,
throwing their dead bodies overboard. Yet, his own family survived.
These things all happened to people but did they all really happen to
Paul Truong.

Arriving in America as a boat person, Paul Truong almost immediately
lost a tournament chess game to Sam Sloan at the House of Spain
sponsored by Jose Cuchi (Paul claims that he cannot remember the game)
but he went on to great glories, earning a Ph.D. degree he says, but
he will not tell us what the degree is in or what educational
institution awarded him this degree.

Paul then became a financial expert and a marketing expert as well as
a builder on the scale of "Bob the Builder". Billion dollar companies
in trouble have repeatedly come to Paul Truong, hiring him and asking
him how to save them, and he has rescued him.

Although often asked to provide the names and contact numbers for
these billion dollar companies that he has saved, he has failed to do
so, saying that he cannot reveal their confidences.

One wonders how these billion dollar companies knew to hire Paul
Truong when he has failed to produce a client list.

One also wonders why Paul Truong is always demanding money or free ad
space from the impoverished United States Chess Federation when he is
such a wealthy and successful business person.

It is also a curious fact that an Internet search for Paul Truong
under his real name of Hoainhan Truong fails to produce any hits at
all. He seems to have completely disappeared during his fabulously
successful years in business.

So, one is left with the conclusion that all of the claims by Paul
Truong are true, or else none of them are true.

This is a question that the voters will have to decide when they
decide whether to vote or not to vote for Paul Truong in the coming
USCF election.

Sam Sloan