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...facts appear straightforward. A Green Beret unit in Vietnam running Project Gamma, a top-secret intelligence operation that monitored the results of the secret U.S. bombing in Cambodia, discovers that Chuyen, its key agent, may be a North Vietnamese double. The agent represents a profound threat to what the Green Berets perceive as a sensitive covert White House operation. A low-level CIA official in the embassy gives a wink and a nod for termination with extreme prejudice. Colonel Robert Rheault, a Green Beret officer cut in the Ollie North mode, orders Chuyen's death...
...murder. But is it murder? How did Chuyen's death differ from the hundreds of Vietnamese killed in the CIA's Operation Phoenix? Unlike the rowdy and unprofessional soldiers at My Lai, these Green Berets were elite and disciplined troops. Can they be faulted for believing Project Gamma to be an extremely critical intelligence operation, deserving of all efforts to protect...
...known as the Great Annihilator: a mysterious region close to the center of the Milky Way galaxy that spews out bursts of high-energy gamma rays. A popular theory held that the Great Annihilator was actually a gigantic black hole, a million stars collapsed into a single object so dense that its gravity wouldn't let even light escape. New information gathered by the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico and published in Nature has found that this theory is slightly off the mark. The Great Annihilator does indeed seem to be a black hole...
Cover: Photograph for TIME by John T. Barr -- Gamma Liaison...
...EX400 CCD PEEPING DOM: Planted on Widener and Pusey ceilings; High resolution and sensitivity; gamma correction; video enhancing; smoked, high impact dome; wide angle, auto iris, low light lens...