Word: 34a
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Pham, who is 49 and now lives in Garden Grove, California, was one of about 450 South Vietnamese commandos who were part of an operation called Oplan-34A, which the CIA and Pentagon ran between 1961 and 1968. Two hundred of the commandos who are now living in the U.S. have filed a suit asking that all commandos still alive be paid $2,000 for every year they served in prison--an estimated total of $11 million. Two weeks ago, the case broke open when a federal claims court forced the CIA and the Pentagon to declassify secret payroll rosters...
...know where and when they were coming. Some captured radio operators, ordered by the North Vietnamese to ask for more agents, managed to signal to their CIA handlers with code words that they were being held. Still, when SOG, the Pentagon's Studies and Observations Group, took over Oplan-34A in 1964, it sent hundreds more commandos into North Vietnam during the next four years, even though the officers in charge of the program in Saigon knew it was riddled with enemy informants...