The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam

Reissue of Essential History on U.S. "Counterterror" and the CIA Jeffrey S. Kaye One of the first books published in Open Roads' "Forbidden Bookshelf" series is Douglas Valentine's invaluable, in-depth history of one of America's most egregious counterinsurgency, torture and assassination programs, as described in his 1990 book The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam.The book is intricately and densely written, yet reads like a Rashomon-like detective story, as Valentine allows many of the actors involved to speak for themselves. Never has such an i. Joe in AlasKa said the way wars should be done. well done. i remember first hand the program.. When other methods don't work David Evans Winning hearts and minds in a hot jungle.

Residents on American soil are routinely targeted under the guise of protecting us from terrorism - which is why, more than ever, people need to understand what Phoenix is all about.. Between 1965 and 1972, more than eighty thousand noncombatants were "neutralized," as men and women alike were subjected to extended imprisonment without trial, horrific torture, brutal rape, and in many cases execution, all under the watchful eyes of US government agencies.Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with former participants and observers, Douglas Valentine's startling expos blows the lid off of what was possibly the bloodiest and most inhumane covert operation in the CIA's history.The ebook edition includes "The Phoenix Has Landed," a new introduction that addresses the "Phoenix-style network" that constitutes America's internal security apparatus today. A shocking expos of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians during America's war in Vietnam, with a new introduction by the author. In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America's Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, commonly known as the "Viet Cong." The victims of the Phoenix Program were Vietnamese civilians,