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...liberal press has been notably deficient in its reporting of the Indochina War. Nguyen Van Thieu ruled South Vietnam for several years before his repressive laws and police-state apparatus were described in any detail. The war went on for almost a decade before the press hinted that the National Liberation Front drew its strength from sources other than coercive terror...
...dealt in false allegations that various public officials (and distinguished private citizens too) were either Communists or dupes of Communism. He attacked not just alleged Communists but also their colleagues, friends and relatives. He almost never seriously tried to check facts. Finally, he was backed by a whole apparatus of secret interrogations and blacklists by which a victim could be deprived of reputation and livelihood without any chance to defend himself. The term McCarthyism should be used with precision-as a synonym for nothing less than demagoguery and deceit...
...Radcliffe men think they're hot stuff when they beat two-bit machines like 'Outer Space.' Wait until they run up against some big-league apparatus, like 'Straight Flush,'" Rosenbaum said...
...spying apparatus sprang readily into action in September 1971 when Nixon ordered his own White House investigation into Ellsberg's entire background. Ehrlichman admits that he assigned the Hunt-Liddy team to the task. In testimony before the Washington grand jury, released last week by U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. at the Ellsberg trial, Hunt told an intriguing story of being aided by the CIA in the burglarizing of the Beverly Hills office of Psychiatrist Lewis Fielding...
Arrayed against the NLF in its early days was the corrupt administrative apparatus of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime, whose power was increasingly based on terror. The NLF-planned assassinations of government bureaucrats in the countryside were intended to remove the repressive Saigonese presence from rural areas so land and other reforms could be implemented...