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Project Phoenix
& The CIA
CIA and Operation Phoenix in Vietnam
- "the most indiscriminate and massive program of political
murder since the Nazi death camps of world war two."
Started in Vietnam in 1959 the Intel
Coordination and Exploitation Program (ICEX) was a joint
MACV/CIA op, the forerunner of Phoenix. Though Project Phoenix
may have been officially sanctioned on 7/1/68, members of its predecessor ICEX
(who MAY still be alive), to this day, still call that earlier project, Project Phoenix. The Vietnamese leaders
knew that we wanted them dead. So they fled into Laos and Cambodia.
By 1962/1963, we sent special forces units, composed of special
forces operatives, from all branches of the military, under the
control of the CIA, into these two countries to assassinate these
fleeing Vietnamese ex-patriots. The operatives used video
equipment, and videography training, from the School of the
Americas, and NO U.S. made equipment, to infiltrate these two
countries. There these Vietnamese ex-patriots were assassinated;
sometimes with knives.
According to ex-CIA agent, John Stockwell, 40,000 people were
killed through Project Phoenix.
"Vietnam,
65-73 Phoenix Program torture tactics include rape, electric
shock, water torture, hanging from ceiling, beatings,
incarceration and execution. Counterspy 5/73 16. Vietnam, 69-71
K. Barton Osborn, Phoenix agent, testified to Congress "I never
knew an individual to be detained as a VC suspect who ever lived
through an interrogation in a year and a half. Uc 114. Note says
this testimony given before U.S. Congress, Heari. 315-321."
"Vietnam,
67 The Phoenix (Phung Hoang) program was officially born on
12/20/67 when the SVNese premier issued a decree. This differed
from ICEX only in official SVNese support for the program.
Seal-and-search op in Bui Cui village. LRRP ambush parties.
People's self-defense forces (psdf) started after Tet, it was a
nationwide system of local militias." -- Andrade, D. (1990), Ashes
to Ashes, 72-81.
"Vietnam, 68 President
Thieu with the help of William Colby, Komer's deputy for CORDS,
drafted a decree that officially sanctioned Phoenix/Phung Hoang
on 7/1/68."
[William]"Colby was
CIA's chief in Saigon during war and was associated with
Phoenix, an op to root out rural support for communist
guerrillas via sweeping arrests, torture and execution of
suspects. Critics said most of those killed were innocent
peasants." -- Chicago Tribune 12/3/94 p21.
"Vietnam, Australia, Vietnam, 62-73 Australian AATTV
teams operated in VN often in CIA Phoenix op. `Black team' commanded
by American of australian usually given target figure. He pinpointed
and black team would go out, usually dressed in enemy's gear and the
assassination then blamed on VC."
-- Toohey, B., & Pinwill, W. (1990),
Oyster: The Story of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
87-88.
"Vietnam,
Phoenix Program most notorious of counterinsurgency programs.
Originated by robert w. Komer, who now headed Civilian
Operations Revolutionary Development Staff (CORDS), Phoenix
designed to root out secret Vietcong infrastructure in South
Vietnam. Miller, N. (1989)." -- Spying for America p. 379
"First called ICEX. Name
changed to Phoenix in 69 with SVN version phung hoang. Had
interrogation centers in each of SVNs 235 districts and 44
provinces, card files and computerized indexes." "Colby
told senate Phoenix killed 20,587 VCI. When questions arose re
legality Colby retreated and said 87% killed in regular military
actions."
-- Presidents' Secret Wars, 307-310 -
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