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

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Neither of these was for analysis or strategic intelligence, and
they establish that An’s greatest contributions to the cause
were not for analysis or reporting but for work as a tactical
intelligence operative who secured specific information on
impending military operations and, in the words of the official
citation making him a Hero of the People’s Armed
Forces in January 1976, ‘provided in a timely fashion’ much
information ‘of great value.’” Kyle Hörst, “Imagining Viet
Nam: Misunderstanding Pham Xuan An” (talk delivered at
the Vietnam Center, 6th Triennial Vietnam Symposium,
Lubbock, Texas, March 13, 2008).
BAPTISM BY FIRE
23 death rates higher than twenty percent: See Ngo Vinh
Long, Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under
the French (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991),
113.
36 “What we know today as Saigon”: See William L. Cassidy,
Southern Viet-Nam’s Criminal Traditions (Washington, D.C.:
International Association of Asian Crime Investigators,
1991), 8.
THE WORK OF HUNTING DOGS
49 Diaries written by Jack and Bobby Kennedy: My thanks to
the Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, for access to
the diaries and other personal papers of John F. Kennedy
and Robert F. Kennedy.
72 “Indochina became a vast chessboard”: See Alfred W.
McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global
Drug Trade (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1991), 132.