John Murphy and Michael Reiter discuss their documentary Agents Unknown. (3/19/19)
John Murphy has a story to tell. An elite adviser, analyst, and operative for the Army, CIA and South Vietnamese intelligence services, John experienced the Vietnam War up close and behind close doors in a way that few people did. Michael Reiter’s documentary “Agents Unknown,” currently streaming on Amazon Prime, is the first in-depth look into John’s role in this untold bit of US military history. It’s a story of intelligence work at the ground level: espionage, agents and bad information working its way through the war machine, leading to the epic failures of command that made the human cost of the Vietnam War much greater. In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, John Murphy and Michael Reiter discuss their important documentary “Agents Unknown.”