The Russian Spy Who Became a Green Beret

Peter Debbins’ tangled loyalties and ideological shifts ultimately culminated in a double life fraught with espionage and betrayal, underscoring the complex interplay of personal history and national allegiance.

Guns, Guts, and Glory on the Sơn Tây Raid

On a moonlit run into North Vietnam on November 21, 1970, Bull Simons and 56 Green Berets hit Son Tay with surgical violence, found the cells empty, and left the nearby Secondary School littered with bodies that looked a lot more like Chinese advisors than local NVA, a truth the official record preferred to bury.