Perfect spy : The incredible double life of Pham Xuan An, Time magazine reporter and Vietnamese communist agent

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 Lansdale & #8212; not to mention the most influential members...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
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Prif Awdur: Berman, Larry
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Iaith:Undetermined
Cyhoeddwyd: New York Smithsonian Books/Collins 2007
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Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
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Crynodeb: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 Lansdale & #8212; not 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."