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

INDEX 289
astrology, belief in of, 249
baptism by fire (baptème de feu) of,
40, 43
battle of the sects and, 93–94
biographies of, 5, 6–7, 149, 171, 201
as bird lover, 12, 13, 22, 54, 109,
203, 255, 257
birth of, 14–15
as brigadier general, 3, 225, 277n
Buddhist crisis (1963) and, 139, 195
Cambodia, U.S. invasion of and, 6
Cam Ne operation and, 152–155
captured journalists and, 186–190
character of, 3–4
childhood of, 24–33
Chinese ancestry of, 17
CIA and, 65, 66, 73, 88, 107, 119,
121, 151, 180, 219, 223, 224,
232, 240
civil service of, 51
code name of, 2, 6
as Communist, 4, 5, 15, 38, 40–42,
60–61, 62–63, 120, 275–276n
Communist handlers, attitude
toward of, 63, 179, 180
Conein, Lucien “Black Luigi” and,
80
as conversationalist, 5, 8, 229–230
counterinsurgency and, 73
cover story of, 5, 6, 112, 123–124,
221–222
death of, 5, 6, 8, 259–263
déesses (protective goddesses) and,
14, 109, 128–129, 142, 151
desire to be cremated of, 250, 257
disinformation, planting of and,
182–183, 226
as “divided man,” 3, 4, 7, 276–277n
as dog lover, 2, 12, 88–89, 118, 169–
170, 203, 257
education of, 26–29, 31–35, 46, 224
“exile” to Truoi, 28, 29
family altar of, 15, 21–22, 260
family background of, 14–18, 22–25
First Indochina War and, 5–6, 40–
43, 46, 52–54, 60–61
France, love of and, 33, 262
as gangster, 29, 114
as general, 229, 236, 277n
God and, 26, 42, 153, 219
health problems of, 8, 12, 46, 100,
171, 251, 254–255, 259
as Hero of the People’s Armed
Forces, 3, 40, 206, 225, 236,
270n, 277n
Ho Chi Minh campaign and, 218–
221
home of, 212, 214–215
honesty of, 3, 13, 123–124, 125,
169, 182–183
as intelligence agent, 2–3, 5, 8–9,
53–54, 54–57, 65–67, 109, 126,
136–139, 170–176, 221–224
intelligence training of, 53–54, 202
as interpreter, 122, 124
as journalist, 3, 7, 100, 110, 118–119,
123, 126–128, 134–136, 139–144,
145–164, 165, 166, 167–170
An Lac village attack and, 134–135
Lam Son 719, battle of and, 217–
218, 221, 260
as landowner, 40–42, 43–44, 63–64,
170, 224
mapping and, 23, 137
marriage of, 128–129, 131
meaning of name of, 8
medals awarded to, 3, 4–5, 6, 137,
178, 218, 260, 269–270n, 277–
278n
military career of, 4–6, 276–277n
in movies, 231–232, 233
nam tien (march to the south) and,
16–17
nationalism and, 7
nicknames of, 2, 107
nom de guerre of, 172
obituary for, 262, 278n
Paris Peace Accords and, 218, 226
as patriot, 26, 120
personality of, 5
as political analyst, 1–2, 3, 26, 168,
218
postwar assignment to spy in U.S. of,
3, 230, 234–236, 238
postwar Vietnam and, 1, 3, 224–
226, 230
Poulo Condore prison (Con Dao)
and, 120, 249
reading and, 8, 33, 46, 48–49, 239,
249–250