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When CBS Attorney David Boies presented the network's case, the initiative shifted dramatically. A succession of current and former Central 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...
With that statement, McChristian, who was Westmoreland's chief of intelligence for two years, contradicted sworn testimony by the former commander of U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam. Earlier in the trial Westmoreland declared that he had sought an explanation from McChristian of how he had calculated the troop estimates, and had then disputed inclusion of civilians because, Westmoreland felt, they had a limited impact in combat. McChristian said he never learned what happened to his report, but added, "I think that for a military man to withhold a report based on political implications would be improper...
...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...
Last week's attack, especially the brief incursion into Thailand, drew a predictable response from Washington, which termed the intrusion "deplorable." In Peking, the Chinese government issued condemnations of "the crimes of aggression committed by the Vietnamese," but refrained from making any direct threats against Hanoi. Despite reported Chinese troop movements over the past few weeks along the Sino-Vietnamese border, Peking does not appear eager to repeat its costly 1979 invasion of Viet Nam in order to relieve the pressure on its Kampuchean allies...
...documentary that television viewers saw on CBS on Jan. 23, 1982, was glossy and seamless. In The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, CBS's Mike Wallace, his voice resonating with authority, charged that there had been a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to underreport enemy troop strength in Viet Nam in order to deceive President Lyndon Johnson and the American people into believing that the U.S. was winning...