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Phoenix audio files and documents at Cryptocomb
Many of the most important Phoenix documents and the first four taped interviews are up at Cryptocomb. More to follow. The documents show the development of “targeted kills,” "administrative detention" and "High Value" rewards programs, among other things relevant to the eternal war on terror and Homeland Security |
Below are links to the 7 documents that enabled the CIA's Phoenix Program in Vietnam. Open to Discussion.CIA officer Nelson Brickham's "Attack on the VC Infrastrcture" Nov. 1966
Brickham's response to Station Chief John Hart for a "general staff for pacification" Brickham "Concept" memo 22 May 1967
In response to CORDS chief Robert Komer Brickham's "Observations" memo 26 May 1967
ICEX starts to take shape Brickham's "Proposal"
this document went back to CIA HQ in June 1967 MACV Directive 381-41
Composed by CIA officers Jim Ward and Evan Parker, and MACV Colonel Junichi Buhto in Saigon June 1967 George Carver's Attack on the VC Infrastructure, 7 August 1967
Carver was the senior CIA HQ officer for Vietnam policy Wade Lathram's Action Program for Attack on VCI
Calling for ICEX to be in operation by 15 August. Lathram was ACoS CORDS Evan Parker's Project Takeoff
program guidance for all ICEX - CORDS - and associtated military managers in Vietnam I very much appreciate any comments, and will reply right away, but I seldom visit my own website, so please, if you post, send me an email at redspruce@comcast.net and let me know. thanks
Comments/Questions About The War On Terror Go Here Click and type in a question or comment my email is dougvalentine77@gmail.com Hey Doug, I enjoyed your article, The Greatest Covert Operation Ever, published on Global Research, if "enjoyed" can be used to describe this sickly state of affairs. Thanks for your honesty. I, too, think they've won. My address is cayetanoluis@hotmail.com. My name is Luis. What do you think the American role in the formation and activities of the Iraqi death squads has been? We have heard about the "Salvador Option", a plan ostensibly approved by Rumsfeld which was meant to involve special units hunting down and assassinating key figures in the insurgency, based on a model roughly similar to the assassination programs in El Salvador and Vietnam. We now know that specialists from the civil war in El Salvador - including the man who was instrumental in organising the death squads there - were sent to Iraq to help reorient the counter-insurgency effort. From what you know, would you say it is likely that the death squad violence is to a significant degree orchestrated by organs of the American colonial administration itself, or is it more a case of sectarian interests infiltrating the Iraqi ministries and using them for their own ends? (possibly with the benefit of some American training that was rendered earlier?) Edward Herman has referred to the "genocide option" of ripping the country apart to create smaller, more manageable states. To me it seems that the degree of American control in Iraq is over-stated, and that talk of a deliberate strategy of organising death squads to foment unrest risks spilling over into vulgar conspiracy theory. Or are the death squads in fact likely to be part of a program that affords the White House "plausible deniability"? What do you think? And do you know of any good work that's been done on this? (Michael Schwart's book "War without end" alludes to some American involvement in the creation of the first death squads, but seems to suggest that these groups acquired a momentum of their own, and anyway his book doesn't deal centrally with this). Hi Luis, there is quite a lot of evidence that the CIA created death squads in Iraq, for its colonial purposes, but, of course, the US does not have a monopoly on them. And, as you note, CIA created death squads are used by Iraqi secret policemen and militia for their own purposes, though the CIA is aware of this. I don't think thy need training, other than in weapon and surveillance systems they hadn't had before. Herman is right, that is policy: but it's not the only policy, and these polcies (stated andd unstated) are not mutually exclusive. It's helps to understand that: and that there are always conspiracies within and without stated policies. Don't get bogged down in this or that, just stick to what happens, and that you don't know everything because "plausible deniability" is a policy. Do you see what I mean? Thanks for mentioning Schwart's book, i didn't know about that. I know of no boooks that deal with this. Let's talk more, you could probably teach me a few things. If you don't mind, send your email too. Many thanks for your intelligent comment. Comments/Questions About The War On Drugs Go Here Click and type in a question or comment Doug oops. Did you get the question I had on Mexico? I didn't know if you wanted my email which is davideabeles@yahoo.com David Do you like my web site? Click and type in a question or comment Mr Valentine, I am currently reading The Hotel Tacloban, and enjoying it very much. It was a gift as my father too served during this time and was shot down over Japan. Your early statement of how your father would not participate in other typical verteran organizations or talk of the war was so my father. You described him to a tee, right down to the nightmares. I only wish I could have gotten my father to talk. Thank you for this book. Susan from Florida Hi Douglas, I just read your most recent piece on the CIA killings in Afghanistan. Good stuff. I was wondering if you might be interested in me reviewing Strength of the Pack. If you recall, I reviewed The Strength of the Wolf. If you are interested, please let me know and I can provide a mailing address for your publisher. Thanks, Ron Jacobs Mr. Valentine, I have purchased and read your Phoenix Program and Strength of the Wolf books. Both are masterpieces. |
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