The Phoenix Program - Douglas Valentine

Category: History, Military, Political
Language: EnglishKeywords: Military Political
Written by Douglas Valentine
Format: MP3
Unabridged
The Phoenix Program is a grim history of one of the darkest episodes of the Vietnam War, the CIA’s civilian torture and assassination program called Phoenix. Phoenix was the grotesque brainchild of William Colby and may have resulted in the elimination, to use Colby’s antiseptic phrase, more than 40,000 South Vietnamese civilians, suspected by the CIA of having anti-American sentiments. This was a difficult story to excavate, taking all of the professional and human resources of one of America’s most gifted and tenacious investigative reporters, Douglas Valentine.
Valentine dares to tred across territory long considered taboo to reveal the shocking and baldly criminal behavior of the CIA and its South Vietnamese clients at the peak of the war in Vietnam. Wholesale arrests of non-combatants, brutal interrogations, torture of the most unspeakable nature and murder. Valentine shows that the My Lai massacre was no isolated incident, but an outgrowth of a systematic, decade-long program of state sponsored terrorism.
Dare to tell the truth about the CIA and you will pay a heavy price. Valentine’s book has oddly disappeared from the shelves of American bookstores. This a historical tragedy, since it is one of the few volumes that has dared to tell the truth about the true nature of the CIA’s role in Vietnam. This book demands to be republished, as it is quite simply one of the best histories of the Vietnam war.
The Phoenix Program is a grim history of one of the darkest episodes of the Vietnam War, the CIA’s civilian torture and assassination program called Phoenix. Phoenix was the grotesque brainchild of William Colby and may have resulted in the elimination, to use Colby’s antiseptic phrase, more than 40,000 South Vietnamese civilians, suspected by the CIA of having anti-American sentiments. This was a difficult story to excavate, taking all of the professional and human resources of one of America’s most gifted and tenacious investigative reporters, Douglas Valentine.
Valentine dares to tred across territory long considered taboo to reveal the shocking and baldly criminal behavior of the CIA and its South Vietnamese clients at the peak of the war in Vietnam. Wholesale arrests of non-combatants, brutal interrogations, torture of the most unspeakable nature and murder. Valentine shows that the My Lai massacre was no isolated incident, but an outgrowth of a systematic, decade-long program of state sponsored terrorism.
Dare to tell the truth about the CIA and you will pay a heavy price. Valentine’s book has oddly disappeared from the shelves of American bookstores. This a historical tragedy, since it is one of the few volumes that has dared to tell the truth about the true nature of the CIA’s role in Vietnam. This book demands to be republished, as it is quite simply one of the best histories of the Vietnam war.