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- Such critical assessments emerge throughout this work when the CIA is mentioned, starting with the Saigon Military Mission (SMM) in 1954 and extending through passing treatments of covert operations, the order-of-battle contro-versy, Agency activities in Laos, the Phoenix program and rural pacification, and involve-ment with South Vietnamese leaders.
www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Takes-on-Intel-Vietnam.pdfTakes on Intelligence and the Vietnam War - The World Factbook
CIA activities in Vietnam were operations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in Vietnam from the 1950s to the late 1960s, before and during the Vietnam War. After the 1954 Geneva Conference, North Vietnam was controlled by communist forces under Ho Chi Minh's leadership.
This anthology was prepared as a contribution to Department of Defense-led interagency efforts to commemorate the passing of 50 years since the large-scale engagement of the military forces of the United States and other countries in defending the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) against communist guerrilla, mainforce, and North Vietnamese ...
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Vietnam and continually expressed doubts that heightened US military pressure alone could win the war. Contrary to the opinions voiced by then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and others, Dr. Ford strikingly illustrates the substantial expertise CIA officers brought to the Vietnam question.
Just as with more contemporary wars, the intelligence war in Vietnam has generated several narrative strands that dominate the popular imagination: paramilitarism and violence, controversy and politicisation, and accusations of profound failure.
- Huw Dylan, David Gioe
- 2020
Aug 18, 2022 · It recounts how the CIA loyally helped the Johnson and Nixon administrations to prosecute the Vietnam War, in which it did not believe, and how it killed people contrary to its own counterinsurgency principles.
Aug 1, 2019 · After initial recruitment by South Vietnam, a mid-level Viet Cong cadre spied for the CIA from 1969 until the end of the war. U.S. experience in this episode and others in Vietnam points up a challenge.
