48 Covert Operations and Intelligence. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
48 Covert Operations and Intelligence. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Adams, Sam. War of Numbers : An Intelligence Memoir.
Introduction by Col. David Hackworth. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press,
1994.
*CORE* Posthumously published work by a CIA
analyst concerning the underestimate of enemy forces in Vietnam. The book
had been ready for much earlier publication when a great number of
documents were declassified for the Westmoreland - CBS suit on the
order of battle controversy. Adams felt he had to incorporate the
newly available material; however, at the time of his death in 1988,
much was still left out. Despite this incompleteness, the work shreds
much light on the question of intelligence throughout the war.
McGehee, Ralph. Deadly Deceits : My 25 Years in the CIA.
New York: Sheridan Square Publications, 1983.
Tourison, Sedgwick D. Secret Army, Secret War :
Washington's Tragic Spy Operation in North Vietnam. Naval Institute
Special Warfare Series. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Tourison's account of SOG's covert operations into North Vietnam,
Oplan 34A, prior to the Tonkin Gulf incident and the
formal U.S. entry into combat. Using documents from both sides as well
as oral history interviews from the participants, this is the story of
failed ops in the early 1960's, and ultimately the betrayal of those
Vietnamese operatives by the U.S.
Tourison, Sedgwick D. Talking with Victor Charlie : An
Interrogator's Story. New York: Ivy Books (Ballantine), 1991.
Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program. New York: William
Morrow and Company, 1990; Avon Books, 1992.
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