During the August Revolution in 1945, Tín became an active supporter to politically pressure the government of France to cede Vietnam its independence.

[4] Western media often claims to have been called into service at the Fall of Saigon because of his Army rank of colonel and to have personally accepted the surrender of Dương Văn Minh and his Cabinet,[5] this was disputed by the Vietnamese government as well as by Tín himself, claiming the act to Colonel Bùi Văn Tùng[vi].

[3] Tín's testimony was the subject of anticipation: when he had arrived at Dulles International Airport three weeks earlier, former U.S.

[12] In a 2000 PBS American Experience forum, he maintained that no captured U.S. soldiers had been tortured during their captivity in North Vietnam during the war.

He conceded the same might not be true of captured United States Air Force pilots, going so far as calling some of their alleged treatment "a violation of the International Agreement on Prisoner of War".