BIO
Michael Hauben is a retired Foreign Service Officer who was a civilian member of of the CORDS Province Teams in Tay Ninh and Gia Dinh, Republic of Vietnam, 1971-73. After the termination of CORDS in February 1973, he served in its successor organization, the Office of the Special Assistant to the Ambassador for Field Operations (SAAFO), as the US Embassy’s Province Representative to Gia Dinh and, concurrently, intermittently, to a number of other provincial governments “because we were shorthanded,” all in Third Military Region, until evacuation in 1975.