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

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193 “Oh sure, all the time”: Cited by Daniel Brandt in “Journalism
and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer,” NameBase
NewsLine, April-June 1997.
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198 Westmoreland cabled Wheeler: Cited by Larry Berman
in “The Tet Offensive,” in Andrew J. Rotter, ed., Light at the
End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, rev. ed.
(Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1999), 111.
202 sent to Hanoi for display in the museum of military intelligence:
The only report by Pham Xuan An to see the light
of day is a memo he wrote to headquarters in 1995 describing
his Renault 4CV, before it was put on a flatbed
truck and shipped to Hanoi for display in the military intelligence
museum. Using his code name, Hai Trung, An describes
how he bought the car because it looked like the
taxis then being driven in Saigon. It was a good car for avoiding
undue attention from “enemy security forces,” he wrote.
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224 An was put in the political deep freeze for a decade: In
2008, I traveled to Vietnam and France, trying to learn what
Pham Xuan An had done as an active duty military officer
and intelligence agent from the end of the war in 1975 until
his death in 2006. Opinion divided between an orthodox
view, presented in Hanoi, and a more skeptical view offered
by An’s friends in Saigon and outside Vietnam.
Officials in Hanoi informed me that Western writers
misunderstand An’s position. He assumed new duties after
1975 and was kept from public view like the rest of the