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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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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 Lansdaleβnot 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, βWe are now in the U.S. war room.β For more than twenty years, An lived a dangerous lieβand 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 generalβone 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.
 Media BuzzWeekend Edition Saturday - April 28, 2007
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