50 Years On: The Last Great Spy Story of the Vietnam War

Frank Snepp, a top CIA analyst in Saigon in the war’s chaotic final weeks, tells how officials fatally ignored the warnings of two top spies in the enemy camp.

Apr. 29, 1975: An Air America helicopter crewman helps evacuees up the ladder on top of a Saigon Building to ferry evcuaees to US Navy ships off South Vietnam’s coast (UPI photo by Van Es)

THIS WEEK 50 YEARS AGO, Frank Snepp was in Saigon desperately trying to convince his bosses and Washington that U.S. officials were falling into a communist trap. As t…