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

266 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
working together during the war: Mai Chi Tho, Nguyen Van Tau
(Tu Cang), Nguyen Xuan Manh (Muoi Nho), Nguyen Thi My
Nhung (Tam Thao), Nguyen Thi My Linh (Chin Chi), Nguyen
Van Thuong, and Nguyen Thi Se.
I am grateful for having been invited to Vietnam twice as an
official guest. My thanks to Le Thanh Ha, chairman of the Ho
Chi Minh City People’s Committee, and Nguyen Thien Nhan,
vice-chairman, for inviting me to attend the press events surrounding
the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Second
Indochina War, and to Bach Ngoc Chien and his colleagues at
Vietnam Television for organizing my visit to Hanoi in 2008. I
also appreciate the assistance I have received over the years
from the press section and the consular staff at Vietnam’s Washington
embassy.
I am indebted to the Vietnamese authors and journalists
who have written about Pham Xuan An, some of whom generously
shared with me their notes and other material. These include
Hoang Hai Van and Tan Tu; Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hai; and
Truong Giang, Viet Ha, and The Vinh. Another colleague whose
help I gratefully acknowledge is filmmaker Le Phong Lan.
To the friends who accompanied me over the years, I was
always pleased to spend time with Phuong Thao and Ngoc Le,
Tran Van Hong (Viet), Le Ly Hayslip, Henry Nguyen Bao
Hoang, Thuyen Nguyen, and Du Thi Thanh Nga (Tiana). I
thank with invisible ink another friend who wishes to remain
anonymous. “Chu tai lien voi chu tai mot van.”
I owe a great debt to my able translator Thuy Duong Nach,
who is also a very good cook, and to her husband Jim Nach, who
shared with me his knowledge of Vietnam. I am grateful for the
aid of other scholars and experts, including James Fisher,
Christopher Goscha, Francois Guillemot, Tom Heenan, Gerald
Hickey, Joyce Hoffman, Hy Van Luong, Maurice Isserman,
Loch Johnson, Wayne Karlin, Stanley Kutler, Jack Langguth,
Jonathan Nashel, Ngo Vinh Long, John Prados, Andrew Rotter,