Project Phoenix & The CIA

          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 (clothes or items of any kind), to infiltrate these two countries. There these Vietnamese ex-patriots were assassinated.

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"The most indiscriminate and massive program of political murder since the Nazi death camps of world war two."
                                                                                                                                 -- CIA and Operation Phoenix in Vietnam

        "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."

          "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