Scope and Contents

Approximately 4.5 linear feet of books and booklets accumulated by David Gustin during his service as an interpreter/translator with the Army Security Agency from 1963-1965 and the Central Intelligence Agency from 1965-1969 in Saigon. Most of the materials cover Vietnamese, English, Russian, and French translations of vocabulary on various topics including intelligence, military units and organizations, literary and esthetics studies, and musicology. One book is a history of Vietnam written in Russian. There are also Vietnamese-French-English dictionaries for idioms and scientific and technological terms put out by both Hanoi and Saigon. Also included in the collection are artifacts and maps of Saigon and Southeast Asia. Also included is a set of photographs that Gustin purchased in Saigon. The materials are dated 1963, 1966-1967, 1969, and 1983.

Biographical / Historical

Born in 1939, David Gustin volunteered for the United States Army in 1962 and served for over five (5) years. After training, he was assigned to the U.S. Army Security Agency. Then he was transferred to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in 1969 with an MOS of Translator / Interpertator and assigned to Saigon, Vietnam. David Gustin held the rank of E5 until being discharged in 1965. After Vietnam, he served with the CIA until retirement.