Celebrity Spies, Part 1/3 - The Dangerous Edge of Things | MI6
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The Quiet American by John Green
In his early twenties, Green had converted to Catholicism. Initially, he had done this to facilitate his marriage to a devout believer. After a trip to Mexico in the late 1930s, he found himself drawn more deeply to the faith. Something like a tenth of Vietnam at the time was Catholic and had been so for 400 years. So Green's deep insight into the region made him an ideal candidate to conduct intelligence for the British. But it was not going to be a smooth ride. The French authorities were quickly onto him. By 1955, when he was sent to meet with Ho Chi Minh, Green had essentially been blacklisted. His cover story was also proving hard to sustain.
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