Perfect Spy The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan an, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent

Name: Perfect Spy The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan an, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
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ISBN: 9780060888398

ISBN-10: 0060888393

ISBN-13: 9780060888398

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Authors: Larry Berman

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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 Lansdale--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." In "Perfect Spy," Larry Berman, who An considered his official American biographer, chronicles the extraordinary life of…

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List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Prologue: "I Can Die Happy Now"



Hoa Binh: Spy and Friend



The Apprenticeship of a Spy



California Dreaming



The Emergence of a Dual Life



From Time to Tet



The Blurring of Roles: April 1975



In His Father's Shadow


Epilogue: An Extraordinary Double Life


Acknowledgments


Note on Sources


Notes


Index