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Perfect spy: the incredible double life of Pham Xuan An, Time magazine reporter and Vietnamese communist agent (1st Smithsonian Books ed.)

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During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdalenot to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army.

None of them ever guessed that he was also providing strategic intelligence to Hanoi, smuggling invisible ink messages into the jungle inside egg rolls.

His early reports were so accurate that General Giap joked, "We are now in the U.S. war room."In Perfect Spy, Larry Berman, who An considered his official American biographer, chronicles the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating spies.

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Smithsonian Books
0061736546 / 9780061736544
eBook (EPUB)
13/10/2009
English
214 pages
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