Transcript: Interview: John Richardson Jr. on a reporter's family secrets and his new book "My Father the Spy"

JENNIFER LUDDEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
08-13-2005
Interview: John Richardson Jr. on a reporter's family secrets and his new book "My Father the Spy"

Host: JENNIFER LUDDEN
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

JENNIFER LUDDEN, host:

When he was a teen-ager and living in McLean, Virginia, John Richardson Jr. found out his father was a spy for the CIA, a high-level cold warrior during the '50s and '60s. John Richardson Sr. had been posted as station chief in Saigon, then made headlines when he was recalled. For decades, John, the son, was desperate to know more, but his father was distant and tight-lipped until his last years. With some reluctance, his dad began to fill in the blanks. And after his ...

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