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...sickened and confused by flooding the jungle with the concentrated body odor of meat eaters. During the 1960s Congo rebellion, another Pentagon study investigated the possibility of creating "special magic potions" for use by friendly Congolese troops. In Viet Nam, American forces distributed "propaganda soap" layered with anti-Viet Cong messages, and experimented at Cam Ranh Bay with dolphins in underwater surveillance and detection...
Americans printed up 50,000 pictures of the eyes and had them pinned to people's doors as a warning against aiding the Viet Cong...
...Viet Nam, the Army was ever eager for new ploys in psychological warfare. In a program called Operation Black Eye, South Vietnamese assassination teams infiltrated enemy villages, killed Viet Cong leaders quietly in their beds, and left on each body "a piece of paper printed with a grotesque human...
...some of the pieces himself, and in one typical month in 1969, the U.S. dropped 713 million leaflets over Viet Nam. At least a few pilots developed their own distribution system, dropping leaflets in tied bales to get the chore done quickly. Sometimes the system worked. One harried Viet Cong defector told Americans that his will to resist was broken one day by an astonishing incident: an enormous bundle of papers fell out of the sky and killed his best friend...
...Viet Nam already amount to $10 billion," he told a group of journalists from Thailand. "The only thing wrong is that we have given Viet Nam too much," he added, referring to the vast amounts of military aid given Hanoi during the war, including 80% of the Viet Cong's weapons...