Dewey fully shared Patti’s anticolonial predilections and had helped facilitate the earlier failed negotiations between Cédile and the Viet Minh. He had sought an early audience with Gracey, but the Englishman rebuffed him. To Gracey, indeed, the troubles in Saigon could be blamed partly on Dewey and his OSS detachment, whom he declared persona non grata and labeled “blatantly subversive” for supposedly conniving with the Viet Minh.52
