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...heroin and carried across international borders by young women posing as the mothers of sleeping babies. And a Vietnamese gang member testified that the head of his crime network was none other than Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier and air force boss during the U.S. involvement in Viet...
...could be a manual for the Viet Cong or the Cuban-backed rebels in El Salvador. If it were, the Administration would likely be waving it as proof of its thesis about the sources of insidious world terrorism. In fact, however, it is a publication of the CIA, written for Nicaraguan contras seeking to overthrow the Sandinista regime. Its disclosure last week came as a political embarrassment to the Administration and a major moral one for the U.S. It stirred memories of CIA abuses that were supposedly outlawed a decade ago and gave Democrats a potentially hot new campaign issue...
Walt Rostow, an archetype of the best and the brightest, spoke slowly and carefully, recalling in vivid detail a meeting that took place in April 1967. General William Westmoreland, then commander of U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, had asked for 200,000 more troops. President Lyndon Johnson and top aides pressed for a date by which the American forces would win. As jurors in a Manhattan federal courtroom listened intently, the former National Security Adviser said he had no recollection of Westmoreland's having offered misleadingly hopeful "good news." The exchange was subdued but freighted with drama. This...
Westmoreland's suit has aroused expectations of a definitive judgment on issues ranging from the adversary role of the press to the apportionment of blame for the U.S. failure in Viet Nam. Federal District Judge Pierre Leval, however, emphasized to jurors last week that they will be asked to decide specific matters of fact. A "historical inquiry," Leval warned, could last a lifetime. Instead, the focus is on what CBS alleged in its 1982 documentary The Uncounted Enemy: that Westmoreland engaged in "a conspiracy at the highest levels of military intelligence" to mislead his superiors, including the President, about...
...aware of disputes among military factions and the CIA over how to count "self-defense" and "secret self-defense" forces. These fighters, who operated, respectively, in enemy-and U.S.-held territory, laid traps and took potshots but were not part of regular combat units. Komer, who was known to Viet Nam-era journalists as Blow Torch for his high-powered manner, was asked by CBS Attorney David Boies whether these forces were armed. Komer laughed. "We never could find these people," he said, "much less determine whether they were armed." Responding to CBS charges that Westmoreland and others had felt...