The CIA's Operation Phoenix Program (1968-1972)

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Interview with CIA case officer John Stockwell. http://freegovreports.com/index.php/phoenix-program The Phoenix Program was a military, intelligence, and internal security program designed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and coordinated and executed by Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus and US Special Operations Forces such as the Navy SEALs, United States Army Special Forces and MACV-SOG (now Special Operations Group in the CIA's Special Activities Division) during the Vietnam War. The Program was in operation between 1967 and 1972, and similar efforts existed both before and after that period. The Program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, or assassination) the civilian infrastructure supporting the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong) insurgency.

According to one view, Phoenix was a clear success. Between 1968 and 1972, Phoenix neutralized 81,740 NLF members, of whom 26,369 were killed. The Phoenix Program is sometimes seen as an "assassination campaign," and has been criticized as an example of human-rights atrocities alleged to have been committed by the CIA or other allied organizations, including U.S. Military Intelligence. There was eventually a series of U.S. Congressional hearings. Consequently, the military command in Vietnam issued a directive that reiterated that it had based the anti-VCI campaign on South Vietnamese law, that the program was in compliance with the laws of land warfare, and that U.S. personnel had the responsibility to report breaches of the law. Supporters argue that the primary intent was to capture, not to kill, in order to gain further information. However, decentralized operations in an uncertain, ambiguous environment did lead to abuses. In many instances, rival Vietnamese would report their enemies as "VC" in order to get U.S. troops to kill them (Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing, New York: Signet, 1984, p. 625.) In many cases, Phung Hoang chiefs were incompetent bureaucrats who used their positions to enrich themselves. Phoenix tried to address this problem by establishing monthly neutralization quotas, but these often led to fabrications or, worse, false arrests. In some cases, district officials accepted bribes from the NLF to release certain suspects.

Books: * Andrade, Dale, Ashes to Ashes. * Cook, John L. The Advisor. * Herrington, Stuart, Stalking the Viet Cong. * Moyar, Mark, Phoenix and the Birds of Prey. * Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Program, 1990. * Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism., Newsweek, 19 June, 1972. * Don Luce, Hostages of War (Indochina Resource Center, 1973). * Seymour Hersh, Cover-Up, Random House, 1972. * Long Time Passing, by Myra MacPherson, Signet, 1984. * Then the Americans Came, by Martha Hess, Four Walls Eight Windows Press, 1996. * Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA, by Ralph McGehee, 1999. * Patriots: the Vietnam War remembered from all sides, by Christian G. Appy, Penguin, 2003.

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[dcarlson12206]

please show the rest of this video!!

[thefilmarchive]

@dcarlson12206 I've added a link for this in the description

[Eaglezero6205]

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[oldman66live]

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[SuperBingo21]

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[centurion180ad]

CIA has all the choices on the planet. Sick-O sadistic rotten bastards, are exactly the ones that they WANT to hire.

What you are supposed to do is study-up on the Articles, get a security team together, pull out tons of guns, ask nicely for that pervert to stop carving on people and when he tells you to oink youself you stick machineguns into his and his teams faces, turn THEM into War Criminal prisoners of war, and hand them over to military justice.