Word: diem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kwitny finds the CIA involved in impropriety across Asia. He argues that the CIA was a key player in a drug smuggling operation headed by President Diem's brother, Nhu, that poured heroin into the United States. And it was Nugan Hand that, during its solvency in the 1970s, laundered the operation's money...
...FORCES IN South Vietnam seem to be trying everything short of outright fighting to stem the growing strength of the guerilla revolt. But plush relocation camps to concentrate the peasants and helicopter supply lifts cannot sustain unpopular President Diem's rule without direct U.S. military support. Even such military action, however, would be likely to succeed only in the distant future. If U.S. policy continues, as guerilla fighting spreads and more American troops pour into Vietnam, the U.S. will doubtless be involved, in a shooting capacity, with a long and messy jungle...
Because some of the Communist-led guerillas are non-Communists who oppose President Diem's authoritarianism, such a war could hardly be waged in the name of democracy. Because many are South Vietnamese, American intervention would mean, at best, meddling in a civil war; at worst, suppressing a popular rebellion. But the principle of national self-determination has guided American policy only when its Cold War stategy permits...
...Nixon directive to tar John F. Kennedy with the assassination of former Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...works well. What is produced is the exact opposite of what is intended by the original anti-Communists. The Communists themselves cannot do it nearly as successfully. From Batista to Diem to Lon Nol to Somoza to Marcos and beyond, Communist subversion has not been as effective as American support...