Strange Flowers on the Diplomatic Vine; U.S. Detainees in Cambodia

The author provides insights into his life as Vice Consul in Cambodia during the 1960s, and of the operations of an overseas Diplomatic Mission and the peculiarities of the situation in Cambodia.

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