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

INDEX 295
war against France of, 5–6, 49–50,
59–60, 64, 70, 75, 154, 200, 278n
war against Mongols, 18
war against Thais, 18
war against United States, 3, 5, 8–9,
47, 47–48, 51, 70, 85–86, 205,
211
World War II and, 36, 37
See also Vietnam, Democratic
Republic of (North); Vietnam,
Republic of (South)
Vietnam, Democratic Republic of
(North), xiv (map)
army of, 1, 202, 222
Black River Valley of, 35
Chinese army withdrawal from, 15
Ho Chi Minh and, 39
Politburo of, 2, 3, 104, 177, 205
Têt Offensive (1968) and, 197, 198
Vietnam war, end of and, 1, 199
See also Vietnam; Vietnam,
Republic of (South)
Vietnam, Republic of (South), xiv
(map)
American approach to ruling, 87
Americans and, 47
army of, 204, 217, 260, 278n
Catholic refugees in, 81–82, 93, 236
corruption in, 169
creation of, 85–86
end of, 237
Laos, invasion of by, 6
Ngo Dinh Diem, election victory of
and, 85
Paris Peace Accords and, 218
psywar operations of, 77
scandals in, 169
Têt Offensive (1968) and, 198
U.S. remaking of, 8
See also Vietnam; Vietnam,
Democratic Republic of (North)
Vietnamese
anticommunism of, 206
as America’s enemy, 8–9
as Buddhists, 21
Chinese occupation and, 18
French colonial rule, opposition to
of, 23–24
nationalism in, 32
as patriots, 255–256
religion and, 21
United States and, 8
Vietnamese Communist Party
An’s love of United States and, 3
China and, 231
COSVN and, 53
factions in, 38
indoctrination of, 100
Lansdale, Edward and, 87
Ngo Dinh Diem and, 86–87
NLF and, 199, 202
as organizational weapon, 97
OSS and, 134
Pham Xuan An, importance of to,
157, 236
Pham Xuan An and, 120
Pham Xuan An in, 4, 5, 15, 40–42,
60–61
propaganda, use of by, 42
strategy of, 97, 147–148
Tam Ha defection and, 148–149
Têt Offensive (1968) and, 199
underground headquarters of, 2,
61, 141, 177, 178, 196,
206–211
Vietnamese Kuomintang (VNQDD),
37, 42
Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, 227, 241
Vietnamization, 218, 256
Vietnam Press, 119
Vietnam war
American failure in, xvii, 62, 70,
252–253
American involvement in, 46–47,
71, 79, 86–87, 90, 117, 145, 147,
181–182, 279n
Cam Ne operation and, 152–155
casualties in, 8, 133, 149, 181, 198,
217, 228, 229
China and, 230–231, 253
as CIA operation, 65, 75, 76, 86–87,
90–91
civilians, relocation of and, 70–71,
122–124, 188, 238
end of, 1, 44, 218–221, 279n
French antecedents of, 46–48, 49–
51, 69–73, 77–78, 117
Ho Chi Minh campaign and, 218–
221