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Celebrity Spies, Part 1/3 - The Dangerous Edge of Things | MI6

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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Why the British Wanted Green to Meet Ho Chi Minh?

Rumours had been circulating that as Ho Chi Minh had got older, he had lost his grip on power and become more of a figurehead. The Catholic purges in Mexico still haunted him. He was there to seek assurances from Ho Chi MinH that should the communists be victorious, they would not harm the Catholics. By the time Green reached the major seaport of Haifong in the communist controlled North, he could expect no such goodwill from the nationalist leader.

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