Perfect Spy
The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan an, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
1st Edition
Published on 13. October 2009
309 pages
978-0-06-173654-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life Of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine R eporter And Vietnamese Communist Agent
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05/2008
HarperCollins
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Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: HOA BINH : SPY AND FRIEND
- Chapter 2: THE APPRENTICESHIP OF A SPY
- Chapter 3: CALIFORNIA DREAMING
- Chapter 4: THE EMERGENCE OF A DUAL LIFE
- Chapter 5: FROM TIME TO TET
- Chapter 6: THE BLURRING OF ROLES : APRIL 1975
- Chapter 7: IN HIS FATHER's SHADOW
- Epilogue: AN EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE LIFE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON SOURCES
- NOTES
- Searchable Terms
- About the Author
- Praise for PERFECT SPY
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
