Anniversary of Fall of Saigon. Strange case of Amb. Graham Martin

With the anniversary of the Fall of Saigon coming up, I thought you might want to check out the history of the Ambassador at the time the city fell. Graham A. Martin, whose adopted son Glenn Dill Mann was KIA in Nov. 1965 (right after the Ia Drang Valley battles -- remember Mel Gibson's movie ?) while Martin was then Ambassador to nextdoor Thailand, appointed by JFK on Nov. 1, 1963. The adopted son's KIA info is mentioned below at:

http://www.flyarmy.org/K11260.HTM

Martin also had some strange things happen when he stole files from JFK's cables etc and stashed them away in a DOJ safe in Rome, Italy, where he was ambassador from 1969 when Nixon appointed him ambassador. From 1973 to April 1975 he was ambassador to South Vietnam. Gerald Ford's library at Univ of TX has those files: National Security Adviser

Saigon Embassy Files Kept by Ambassador
Graham Martin: Copies Made for the NSC, 1963-1975 (1976)

http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/guides/Finding%20Aids/Saigon%20Embassy%20Files%20Kept%20by%20Ambassador%20Graham%20Martin.htm

"In January 1978, the North Carolina State Police found a cache of classified documents in the trunk of a car that had been stolen from former U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Graham A. Martin. They turned the documents over to the FBI. The documents were embassy files Martin had taken with him when he evacuated Saigon on April 29, 1975, just hours before the city fell to the Communists. The Justice Department, in considering prosecuting Martin for misuse of classified documents, sent copies of the files to the National Security Council for a damage assessment. The copies remained in NSC files until 1982, when the NSC determined that they should have been considered presidential papers and sent them to the Ford Library."

Martin was not prosecuted. I believe that Martin's obvious CIA connections (drugs, Thailand, Rome) would make an interesting investigation for any DU historians out there. Care to comment ???

BTW, Graham A. Martin's biography shows his CIA connections more clearly by chronology see http://www.namebase.org/main2/Graham-Anderson-Martin.html
In France I'm sure he helped secure the port of Marseilles with mafia help in order to keep French Indochina War material, mostly US, going in. In Thailand (where a former ambassador was Wm. "Wild Bill" Donovan) the connections don't need explanation, in Rome books by Penny Lernoux and David Yallop clearly show Martin acting as a 'bagman' for CIA money, and finally in So. Vietnam he was screaming for more money even when everyone else knew the goose was cooked.

Since 1975, Vietnam has been free of occupation.

which refers to the adopted son but not by his real name. Same with Frank Snepp's book "Decent Interval" which uses Glenn Martin, and not the young man's real name as it appears on the Vietnam Memorial Wall.

I guess one of the reasons Martin was chosen by Nixon as So.Vietnam ambassador was because of his adopted son's death. This inevitably lead to his hawkish behavior. Ya think ?

And if SE Asia was to take over as a drugrunning/moneylaundering op with the loss of Cuba, you can see how Martin's role in the system plays out.