Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American by the late ... he has had access to Lansdale’s letters both to his wife and to Pat Kelly, Lansdale’s longtime Filipina mistress. Indeed, Boot is the ...

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in ... a long-term extramarital affair with a Filipino widow, Pat Kelly, whom he would eventually marry). Lansdale persuaded the ...

Edward Lansdale was one of the most fascinating ... It was there where Lansdale met perhaps the most important person in his life, Pat Kelly, nee Yapcinco. A vivacious, intelligent war widow ...

From left: Edward G. Lansdale in 1963; Richard Holbrooke in ... Lansdale had only one mistress — Pat Kelly, the great love of his life — and he eventually married her after the death of ...

Now comes Max Boot’s The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam ... his wife Helen and his mistress (and eventually second wife), a Filipina known as Pat Kelly. Boot ...