Spies in Saigon: CIA Covert Operations in French Indochina and South Vietnam, 1950-1963

This is the story that the CIA does not want you to read.

Beginning in 1950, a small cadre of American intelligence officers arrived in Saigon under diplomatic cover to assess the Viet Minh, Chinese Communists, French, and Nationalist political groups in an effort to check the spread of communism amid the crumbling French colonial empire. Paul Springer was the CIA's first chief of station in Saigon. CIA involvement during the French-Indochina War has never been covered in depth, largely be...