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As an attorney in the Chief Counsel's office at Customs headquarters in Washington, Stuart P. Seidel was invited to Saigon in 1972 to review the draft customs code of the Republic of Vietnam. He worked with Officer Nguyen Tan Thanh to study the laws and suggest modifications. Most of the recommendations in his final 56-page report were adopted in the new Vietnamese Customs Code. This image is from a photocopy of Mr. Seidel's Vietnam identification card; the original was turned in when he left the country. (Courtesy Stuart P. Seidel)
This plaque was presented to Stuart P. Seidel after completing his study of and suggestions for the Vietnamese Customs Code. (Courtesy Stuart P. Seidel)
Denise Crawford of the U.S. Customs Service holds a Vietnamese refugee. Between April 26 and May 30, 1975, military customs inspectors-under the supervision of U.S. Customs advisors-processed more than 60,000 U.S.-bound Vietnamese refugees at Guam and Subic Bay, the Philippines. (Update '75, U.S. Treasury)
USAID/Customs men at a reunion. Front row: George Roberts, Saigon; Arthur E. Ouellette, Laos. Back row: Walter J. Pardaen, Senior Customs Representative, Paris-on special assignment in Saigon; William Shaw, James Foster and Ernest Bennet, all Laos. (Customs Today, May 1966)
In Saigon, Nguyen Van Loc, director general of the Vietnamese Customs Directorate, leans upon one of 14 fast river patrol boats supplied to Vietnamese Customs by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Donald G. MacDonald, USAID director to Vietnam; Tran Van Kien, minister of finance; Alexander R. Honoré, U.S. Customs advisor; Le Xuan Long, captain of the customs service boat fleet and an unidentified USAID advisor look on. (Customs Today, January 1967)
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