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skill tight smashs Elisabeth's anger
during the Vietnam conflict, was responsible for the
* arrest, incarceration, torture and murder of over 50,000 innocent civilians. * * The CIA and U.S. Army acclaimed it a success and a model for future "human * pacification" programs. * http://ursula.blythe.org/NameBase * * Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program. New York: William Morrow, 1990. * 479 pages. * * Operation Phoenix * * Along with saturation bombing of civilian populations, Operation Phoenix * has to rate as America's most atrocious chapter in the Vietnam War. * * Between 1967 to 1973 an estimated 40,000 Vietnamese were killed by CIA- * sponsored "counterterror" and "hunter-killer" teams, and hundreds of * thousands were sent to secret interrogation centers. * * William Colby's records show 20,587 dead between 1968 and 1971, though he * likes to believe that most were killed in military combat and afterwards * identified as part of the VC infrastructure. * * Other testimony suggests that Colby was a bit disingenuous in these 1971 * hearings. At one point Congressman Ogden Reid pulled out a list signed by * a CIA officer that named VC cadre rounded up in a particular action in * 1967. * * "It is of some interest that on this list, 33 of the 61 names were * women and some persons were as young as 11 and 12," noted Reid. * * Valentine spent four years researching this name-intensive book, and * managed to interview over 100 Phoenix participants. If post-Vietnam * America had ever looked into a mirror, this book might have become a * bestseller. Instead it wa |
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