Luke Hunt, award-winning Australian war reporter and frequent Washington Times stringer, is the author of “The Punji Trap — Pham Xuan An: The Spy Who Didn’t Love Us,” the story of a North Vietnamese ...

A black wall in Washington, D.C., bears the names of more than 50,000 Americans killed in Vietnam. Many owe their fate to Pham Xuan An, the communist spy who masqueraded as a reporter for Time ...

Larry Berman's new book, Perfect Spy, tells the true story of reporter Pham Xuan An. He was a Time magazine reporter who also worked as a secret... The Story of Vietnam's 'Perfect Spy' Larry Berman's ...

One of modern history's most sympathetic, clever and ultimately luckiest spies, Pham Xuan An, successfully hoodwinked the CIA, American journalist colleagues and the South Vietnamese establishment for ...

Professor Larry Berman, left, and Pham Xuan An at the latter’s home in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2005. One of modern history's most sympathetic, clever and ultimately luckiest spies, Pham ...

A review of Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent by Larry Berman, ($26 Smithsonian Books, 2007). In November, 1974, in ...

Pham Xuan An, 79, the Viet Cong colonel who worked as a reporter for U.S. news organizations during the Vietnam War while also spying for the communists, died of emphysema Sept. 20 in a military ...

Berman sets out in this book to report on his interviews with just about all the leading members of the Saigon press corps during the Vietnam War to determine whether they had had any idea that Pham ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Pham Xuan An, who led a remarkable and perilous double life as a communist spy and a respected reporter for Western news organizations during the Vietnam War, died Wednesday at age 79 ...