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The Spy Who Loved Us

The Spy Who Loved Us

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Oct 09, 2006
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Pham Xuan An, a character right out of a Graham Greene novel, died in Saigon. An indispensable member of the Time Magazine bureau during the war, Pham was also a spy for the North Vietnamese. Then-Time bureau chief Frank McCulloch, the equally legendary newsman who hired Pham in 1965, and who now lives in retirement in California, provided the Asia Sent…

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