Rabu, 22 Maret 2017

A Soviet Spy in Saigon: The Case of the French Doctor

A story of CIA officers, Russian agents in Paris, the French FBI, lavish parties and one doctor who operated a clinic in South Vietnam. The only known Soviet espionage agent permanently based inside South Vietnam during the war was a Frenchman who treated tuberculosis patients and mingled freely with U.S. and Vietnamese officials. The “French …

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