"Portrait Of Life With The Vietcong - A Defector's Story" by Seymour Topping, The New York Times, May 23, 1965

The article  tells the story of Do Van Dau, a former Vietcong officer who defected to the South Vietnamese government. Dau describes his life from joining the Communist forces at age fifteen, serving in North Vietnam and Laos, and returning south to fight in brutal guerrilla battles. Eventually, disillusioned by corruption, hunger, and the killing of his mother, he escaped, explaining that although he had abandoned Communism, he still felt caught between two worlds.