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...existence of numerous terraced rice fields indicated the existence of VC/NVA crop growers, since the Montagnards who lived in the valley did not practice terracing...
Meselson's group surveyed the sprayed area of the valley a few days after the crop destruction operation. Their observations were exactly the opposite of the rationale given by the Chemical Corps for the spraying...
Before the American Chemical Corps came in August of 1970, 70,000 Montagnards lived and farmed in this valley. In August, the Chemical Corps operations staff decided that the Song Re valley was a VC/NVA crop production area and that the crops should be destroyed to prevent their consumption by "enemy" forces...
Survey of the maps and photographs showed approximately 800 hectares of land were being used to grow crops. (A hectare is about two and a half acres.) With 900 family dwellings in the area, the average of one hectare per family is a minimal amount of crop land; enough for sustenance but certainly not surplus...
...Chemical Corps arguments for spraying were simply false. The chemical crop destruction in the Song Re valley destroyed food which would have fed the civilian Montagnard population, not VC/NVA soldiers. Was this particular mission a mistake? The HAC was told by the chemical staff officer that this crop destruction mission was particularly effective and well planned...