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The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
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May 2007
On Sale: April 24, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0060888385
EAN: 9780060888381
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Non-Fiction
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.” For more than twenty years, An lived a dangerous
lie—and no one knew it because he was a master of both his jobs. After the war, An was named a Hero of the People's Army and
was promoted to general—one of only two intelligence
officers to ever achieve that rank. 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. In
doing so, he offers a new perspective on a war that
continues to haunt us.
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