Valentine,D. The Phoenix Program. 1990
Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
479 pages.
Along with saturation bombing of civilian populations, Operation
Phoenix has to rate as America's most atrocious chapter in its collection
of fun facts from Vietnam. Between 1967 to 1973 an estimated 40,000
Vietnamese were killed by CIA-sponsored "counterterror" and "hunter-killer"
teams, and hundreds of thousands were sent to secret interrogation
centers. William Colby's records show 20,587 dead between 1968 and 1971,
though he likes to believe that most were killed in military combat and
afterwards identified as part of the VC infrastructure.
Other testimony suggests that Colby was a bit disingenuous in these
1971 hearings. At one point Congressman Ogden Reid pulled out a list signed
by a CIA officer that named VC cadre rounded up in a particular action in
1967. "It is of some interest that on this list, 33 of the 61 names were
women and some persons were as young as 11 and 12," noted Reid.
Valentine spent four years researching this name-intensive book, and
managed to interview over 100 Phoenix participants. If post-Vietnam
America had ever looked into a mirror, this book might have become a
bestseller. Instead it was published just as the Gulf War allowed us
to resume business as usual, and went virtually unnoticed.
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