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As Hugh Wilford identified: “It absolutely was a brilliantly devious maneuver of postmodern literary complexity: by helping to rewrite a story showcasing a personality reputedly based on himself, Lansdale had reworked an anti-American tract into a cinematic apology for U.S. coverage - and his very own steps-in Vietnam.”Wisner was also in the po