The Spy Who Loved Us_ The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game ( PDFDrive )

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hen he left Reuters in 1964, An was out of a job but not
out of work. The American presence in Vietnam was
building. From seventeen thousand “advisers,” the United
States was preparing to introduce half a million combat troops.
Included in the baggage to this buildup was a raft of journalists
(more than five hundred would be accredited by 1966, all of
whom needed translators and local reporters). As An’s friend
Frances “Frankie” FitzGerald remarked, “The news corps included
senior editors from New York, cub reporters from
hometown papers, Ivy League graduates, crime reporters with
two-syllable vocabularies, spaced-out young photographers,
combat veterans of Korea and the Second World War—
everything, in fact, except a determined opponent of the war.”
An freelanced for this flotsam of American journalists, his
two major clients being Robert Shaplen, veteran correspondent
in Asia for The New Yorker, and Beverly Ann Deepe, a
twenty-seven-year-old, fresh-faced reporter with bangs and
a beehive hairdo who was freelancing for Newsweek, the
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