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13. For more on SMM operations, see Lansdale’s own report, “Lansdale Team’s Report on Covert Saigon Mission in ’54 and ’55,” in Neil Sheehan et al., The Pentagon Papers as Published by The New York Times (New York: Quadrangle Books, 1971), pp. 54–67.

14. See ibid. , p. 65; also Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man, p. 133.

15. Cecil B. Currey, Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), p. 159; Lansdale quoted on p. 157.

16. Ibid., pp. 170, 188. Lansdale also had several clashes with French colonial administrators during his tour of Vietnam.

17. Edward Lansdale, report on Operation Brotherhood, 35.804, Lansdale Papers.

18. Fisher, Dr. America, p. 6.

19. Lansdale, quoted in ibid., p. 117. Referring to a more famous “jungle doctor,” the U.S. ambassador to Laos dubbed Dooley “the Madison Avenue Schweitzer.” J.

Graham Parsons, quoted in ibid., p. 139.

20. Ibid., p. 60.

21. Dooley wrote his mother from Haiphong (in a letter that inadvertently proved his unsuitability for real espionage) “to the world, we are doing . . . medical triage to the refugees who are here in such large numbers awaiting their [transfer] to the Navy Transports down at Baie d’Along. . . . The second part of our job, and the real thing, is Medical Intelligence.” Thomas to Agnes Dooley, 14 September 1954, 1.7, Dooley Papers.

22. Fisher, Dr. America, p. 49.

23. Norton Stevens, a naval intelligence officer, quoted in Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man, p. 150.

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24. See, for example, Thomas to Agnes Dooley, 11 February 1955, 1.7, Dooley Papers, in which the young doctor portentously explained to his mother that “just as important as the diplomatic table talks” in winning the Cold War struggle for hearts and minds were “the rice paddy talks [and] the sick call talks.”

25. Thomas Dooley to “Rosa,” 1 July 1955, 1.9, Dooley Papers.

26. “I tried to point out that our job in Asia is not a matter of money or hordes of people,” Lederer wrote Lansdale in October 1957, following conversations with some U.S diplomats. “It only requires a small number of highly trained or skilled guys.” William Lederer to Edward Lansdale, 28 October 1957, 38.992, Lansdale Papers.

27. Fisher, Dr. America, p. 74.

28. Quoted in ibid., p. 73.

29. Debate continues about the veracity of Dooley’s atrocity stories: although their early appearance in letters to his mother suggests that they were not entirely fab-ricated after the event, a lengthy report on Deliver Us from Evil commissioned by the United States Information Agency in 1955 concluded that they were

“nonfactual and exaggerated.” Quoted in Jim Winters, “Tom Dooley: The For-gotten Hero,” Notre Dame Magazine, n.d., 10.147, Dooley Papers.

30. For more on the extensive links between the CIA and Reader’s Digest, see John Heidenry, Theirs Was the Kingdom: Lila and DeWitt Wallace and the Story of Reader’s Digest (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1993), pp. 470–474. In April 1963, Lansdale met with seven editors and senior writers at the Pleasantville, New York, headquarters of Reader’s Digest and briefed them, “off the record,” about U.S. counterinsurgency measures in Vietnam. He then proposed the publication of a number of short stories about individual Americans

“who are in today’s struggle abroad [and] who are doing the right thing unselfishly,” explaining “that Reader’s Digest was in a unique position to make situations in critical areas of the world understandable in warmly human terms.”

The editors and writers “were intensely interested in the subject matter and responded warmly to my suggestions,” Lansdale reported to Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L. Gilpatric. “I trust that this leads to some further constructive working together in a quiet way.” Edward Lansdale to Roswell Gilpatric, 17

April 1963, 48.1359, Lansdale Papers.

31. Quoted in Fisher, Dr. America, p. 90; Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man, p. 153.

32. Fisher, Dr. America, p. 35.

33. Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man, p. 154.

34. Fisher, Dr. America, p. 83.

35. Frank Mahon, “Legacy of a Legend,” Notre Dame Magazine (Spring 1998), 23.

See Randy Shilts, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1993), pp. 22–27, 517–521, 735–736.

36. Instead, in 1952 the CIA established a proprietary organization, Aid Refugee

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