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...other two Green Berets in the boat. Undaunted, the trio rolled the body of the alleged North Vietnamese double agent into the murky waters off Nha Trang -- and into presumed obscurity. Instead, this 1969 real-life slaying triggered a Vietnam War scandal second only to the My Lai killings, and one of infinitely more complex moral overtones...
...intelligence officer in Vietnam when the case broke, paints an exhaustively researched and heavily documented history of the 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...
Nearly two decades after the final peace accords, it is almost impossible to think of the Vietnam War in any terms but its ironies. The isolated stories are so horrifying--My Lai, "Friendly fire," the idea that we could burn a village to save it--that we rarely get a chance to concentrate on the war as a whole event. Instead, the ironies tell their own story, cluing us in bit by bit to the twisted logic that kept the war going for so long...
Reporters: Kevin Fedarko, Sinting Lai, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Sribala Subramanian...
Reporters: Kevin Fedarko, Sinting Lai, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Sribala Subramanian...