Wednesday, 21 March 2018

The “Unquiet” Allies

CIA flown C-119 flying supplies into Dien Bien Phu 1954
French and American Intelligence Relations During the First Indochina War, 1950–54 by Jean-Marc LePage, PhD, and Elie Tenenbaum. French-American intelligence relations were famously presented in literature through the prism of Graham Greene’s brilliant novel, The Quiet American. The book portrays Alden Pyle, a soft-spoken, intellectual, serious, and idealistic CIA officer meddling in badly corrupt French colonial affairs. The rest of this less known affair - here.

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