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This can be an Authors Guild/BIP identify. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specifications. "An very important work."John Prados, writer of President's mystery Wars"This definitive account of the Phoenix software, the USA try and spoil the Viet Cong via torture and precis execution, continues to be sobering analyzing for all these attempting to comprehend the Vietnam warfare and the ethical ambiguities of Americas chilly conflict victory. although rigorously documented, the ebook is written in an obtainable kind that makes it excellent for readers in any respect degrees, from undergraduates to specialist historians."Alfred W. McCoy, writer of The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity within the international Drug alternate
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The interrogation rooms had twoway mirrors. "Tucker was a hero in the Marine Corps in World War Two," Muldoon added. "He joined the agency right after and worked with [station chief] John Hart in Korea, running operations behind the lines. He was in Afghanistan and worked in training, too. He got to Vietnam in 1962 and was base chief in Da Nang running everything [i] that had to do with intelligence and paramilitary operations .... He was no longer the Da Nang base chief when I arrived in Saigon," Muldoon continued, "but he hadn't taken over field operations yet either.
It's a GVN presence that's really comprised of your own people that have, by God, gone off and been washed in the blood of the lamb. They've been trained and they've seen the light," Donohue palavered. 35 "They spoke the local dialect, and they're there to defend and focus people on their own defense, to try to enlist the people into doing something positive. " Of course, the GVN was not a government but a military dictatorship which was opposed to independence in the countryside. The GVN at that time, writes Professor Huy, "could be curiously compared to that of the USSR with the Armed Forces Council as the Supreme Soviet, the Committee Leading the Nation as its Presidium, and the Central Executive Committee as the Soviet government before World War Two when its ministers were called commissars.
Candidates for Project 24 were vetted and, if selected, taken out for dinner and drinks, to a brothel, where they were photographed, then blackmailed into joining special reconnaissance teams. Trained in Saigon, outfitted with captured NVA or VC equipment, then given a "one-way ticket to Cambodia," they were sent to locate enemy sanctuaries. When they radioed back their position and that of the sanctuary, the CIA would "arc-light" (bomb with B52's) them along with the target. No Project 24 special reconnaissance team ever returned to South Vietnam.