Tag: vietnam

  • Inside the CIA’s Use of Terror During the Vietnam War

    Inside the CIA’s Use of Terror During the Vietnam War

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    Ryan Dawson
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    Author Douglas Valentine discusses how the Phoenix Program set the stage for the War on Terror. By: Douglas Valentine The CIA’s Phoenix program changed how America fights its wars and how the public views this new type of political and psychological warfare, in which civilian casualties are an explicit objective. The CIA created Phoenix in…