The major two components of the program were Provincial
Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) and regional interrogation centers.
PRUs would kill or capture "suspected VC members" as well as
"civilians" who were 'thought' to have information on VC
activities. Many of these people were taken to interrogation
centers and were "tortured" in an attempt to gain intelligence
on VC activities in the area.
The information extracted at the centers was given to military
commanders,
who would use it to task the PRU with further "capture and
assassination" missions. The program's effectiveness was
measured in the number of VC members who were "neutralized", a
euphemism meaning imprisoned,
persuaded to defect, or killed.
The program was in operation between 1965 and 1972, and similar
efforts existed both before and after that period. By 1972,
Phoenix operatives had "neutralized" 81,740 suspected VC
operatives, informants and supporters, of
whom between 26,000 and 41,000 were killed.
Dismantling Democracies:
CIA & US Far-Right Wing (GOP & DEM) Policy
A new US bill would make it illegal to reveal the
identity of a covert agent, even after their retirement
or death, if it becomes law. Former CIA officer, and
whistleblower, John Kiriakou told RT that it will
protect wrongdoers.
The 2020 Intelligence Authorization bill passed the US
House of Representatives last week, and will become law
once agreed upon by the House and Senate. Aside from
funding the US’ intelligence agencies for the
forthcoming year, a provision in the act would
dramatically expand a 1982 law that makes it a criminal
offense to disclose the identities of covert officers.
Agencies and
individuals involved in the program
1. The CIA.
2. United States special operations forces.
3. U.S. Army intelligence collection units from the U.S.
Military.
4. Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV—the joint-service.
command that provided command and control for all U.S.
advisory and assistance efforts in Vietnam)
5. Special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training
Team Vietnam (AATTV),
6. The Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security
apparatus.
Vietnam Americas Holocaust
Ear's for Beers. - Testicles too! Video documents how the same "alleged" VC
were thrown out of helicopters and would splat into the
rice fields below from a 1000 foot drop. As well as
shooting anything that moved.
I dedicate this webpage to my
best friend while growing up. He always seemed to be at
our house, that was at a time in which the term
"boyfriend" meant something totally different then it
does today. My father would always ask if he was staying
the night?
His family were all Mormon's, mom was trying to raise me
as a Jehovah's Witness, and he and I grew close. Yet it
was when I only later understood the reason why he was
always at my house. I'd known him since the 2nd grade. I
met him in 1968 and his two older brothers were veterans
from the Vietnam war.
I also have twin brothers as well as two sisters that
are older then I am. But he was closer then my own
brothers were. Perhaps if was the empathy for his plight
in his own family's life?
When he started hanging around he never seemed like he
wanted to go home. When he stayed and it was time for
bed I recall him removing his shirt and pants and seeing
the mass bruisings all over his body. When he'd take a
shower and remove his shorts I saw there was no area
exempt from their physical abuse of him in beating him
up all the time.
I'm not sure if it was all related to their experiences
in the war or not, or a form of PTSD that came after
their separation from their military service? They drank
heavy too!
Later our friendship would be reciprocal as I at 12
years of age, was sexually abused and he was the only
one I could talk to.
Robert McNamara admits Vietnam War a mistake
McNamara highlight the
fictitious Communist and Soviet threat's outlined by
President Truman's 1947 Military Industrial Complex that
Eisenhower would later warn about as the
NSC 68 (National
Security Counsel) would push the false narrative for the
expansion of the U.S. Military budget that at the time
was $30 Billion dollars to 3 X's that amount. Today the
Pentagon's budget in nearly $800 Billion annually for
the same perceive "Russian Aggression" used to distract
Americans from the dying infrastructure, people crapping
in the streets, the homeless living in tent cities,
starvation as well as those military recruiters, active
duty Marines and Special Op's and Veterans who are daily
committing suicide.
NSC 68 a 66-page top
secret
National Security Council policy paper
drafted by the Department of State and
Department of Defense and presented to President
Harry S. Truman on 7 April 1950
Not to exclude all the
past and current government corruption, sex scandals and
those who profit in the arms sales and importing of
drugs into America by our own government.
Plus the Corporate takeover of America who to seek cheap
slave labor, out sourced their job's to which as
President Trump recently said, "70,000 Factories have
left America." He blames China, yet it was those US
Corporations that did that. Millions lost their
apartments, homes, vehicles and credit. Then the CEO's
got millions in bonus pay and the Corporations received
massive tax breaks.
McNamara's Folly:
The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam
War In the below video, upwards of 100,000
drafted boys with very low IQ's were used during the
Vietnam war. Referred to like in Tennessee as Hill
People who didn't even know there was a war.
At the end of World War II, the Army had
over 8 million service members. Today, the Army has fewer than
500,000 troops. And it’s struggling to reach its recruiting
goals.
I have to laugh at this article as to the current
government trying to disarm law abiding Americans of their
assault weapons being banned. But I guess if your 16, freshly
drafted out of those gun free zones at school's and now in the
military. That suddenly all the assault rifles are good and that
youth's shooting people is A OK?
