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84 Lansdale scripting battles: See L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret
Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United
States and the World (Costa Mesa, CA: Institute for Historical
Review, 1973), 12; and JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and
the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (New York: Citadel,
1996), 65.
89 “three Lansdales”: See Zalin Grant, Facing the Phoenix
(New York: Norton, 1991), 98.
91 “band of superterrorists”: See Prouty, JFK, 60. See also A.
J. Langguth, Our Vietnam: The War, 1954–1975 (New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2000), 93.
91 denied Mankiewicz permission to film in Vietnam: See
Fisher, Dr. America, 157–158.
92 “let it be finally revealed that the Communists did it”:
Letter from Edward Lansdale to Joseph Mankiewicz, March
17, 1956, reproduced in Graham Greene, The Quiet American,
Viking Critical Edition, ed. John Clark Pratt (New
York: Penguin, 1996), 301.
93 “I would never have chosen Colonel Lansdale”: See
Greene, Quiet American, 319.
96 “The South Vietnamese government existed in name
only”: See Christian Appy, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered
from All Sides (New York: Viking, 2002), 51.
CONFIDENCE GAME
139 assassinated in Dallas, Texas: Conspiracy theorists who are
struck by the propinquity of Ngo Dinh Diem’s and John F.
Kennedy’s assassinations should consult the writings of Lansdale’s
former assistant, L. Fletcher Prouty, particularly his
book JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate
John F. Kennedy. Other intriguing connections between the
two events are presented in The Tears of Autumn, a novel by
former CIA agent turned novelist, Charles McCarry.