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CIA’s black warfare and the Navy’s Operation Passage to Freedom
Col. Edward Lansdale, chief of the CIA's Saigon Military Mission, was the genius cowboy who skirted the rules to achieve just goals; for others, he was the embodiment of an arrogant foreign policy gone dangerously wrong.
By Marc D. Bernstein, HistoryNet