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He was an American spy. She was a South Vietnamese chemist for an oil firm. They teamed up to root out corruption that threatened her country’s survival. When William R. Johnson arrived in Saigon at the end of 1972 as the new chief of the CIA’s base there, he badly needed two sources: someone who …
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