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...quite apparent to me that when Westmoreland pulled out, after his chief of intelligence. Gen Joseph McChristian, and the chief of the order of battle branch responsible for putting together enemy strength figures, one called what the general had done "improper," the other called what he was asked to do by MACA command "dishonest," it seems to me that these two men who had specific and discreet knowledge of the charges leveled in the documentary, and each of them appeared is witnesses for us, it would seem to indicate that the basis of our story was accurate...
...Intelligence Agency officers stated that estimates of enemy troops had been tainted by politics. Producer Crile offered an impressive point-by-point explication of the evidence for each assertion in the program. In the most dramatic moment, Westmoreland's former intelligence chief and close friend, retired Major General Joseph McChristian, testified that his boss had "improperly" held back a cable about high troop estimates because it would cause a "political bombshell" in Washington...
...While McChristian testified, he did not look at his former boss, who sat 20 feet away. Westmoreland, the plaintiff in a $120 million libel suit against CBS News, has charged that a 1982 documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, falsely accused him of "conspiracy at the highest levels of military intelligence" to mislead President Lyndon Johnson about the success of the war of attrition against Communist insurgents. CBS contends that the documentary was true and that much of the program's evidence came from Westmoreland's colleagues...
...McChristian's testimony was among the most dramatic of the trial. He not only attributed to Westmoreland the "political bombshell" phrase, which the commander testified he had never spoken, but also rejected Westmoreland's claim to have disputed the cable on substantive grounds. Said McChristian: "He had the right to question the intelligence, but this isn't what happened at that meeting...
...combat officer, Captain H. Daniel Embree, demonstrate how easily a grenade could be turned into a land mine by a civilian "irregular." Similar booby traps, said Embree, "routinely" caused two casualties a day when his unit was on the move. This testimony, contended CBS Attorney David Boies, proved that McChristian and others were right to insist on including the so-called self-defense-force irregulars in the official enemy-troop estimate, or "order of battle...