The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam

De: Douglas Valentine

Narrado por: Bob Souer

A shocking expos of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians during America’s war in Vietnam, with a new introduction by the author. In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America’s Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, commonly known as the “Viet Cong.” The victims of the Phoenix Program were Vietnamese civilians, male and female, suspected of harboring information about the enemy - though many on the blacklist were targeted by corrupt South Vietnamese security personnel looking to extort money or remove a rival. Between 1965 and 1972, more than eighty thousand noncombatants were “neutralized,” as men and women alike were subjected to extended imprisonment without trial, horrific torture, brutal rape, and in many cases execution, all under the watchful eyes of US government agencies.Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with former participants and observers, Douglas Valentine’s startling expos blows the lid off of what was possibly the bloodiest and most inhumane covert operation in the CIA’s history.The ebook edition includes “The Phoenix Has Landed,” a new introduction that addresses the “Phoenix-style network” that constitutes America’s internal security apparatus today. Residents on American soil are routinely targeted under the guise of protecting us from terrorism - which is why, more than ever, people need to understand what Phoenix is all about.

©1990 Douglas Valentine (P)2014 Audible Inc.

The CIA has it's hand's in country shaping!

WoW, The more I learn about our government and the CIA. The more I understand our current situation. GREAT BOOK

Detail. Some people don’t like it but it’s absolutely necessary to get the point across.

Too predictable regarding criticism of the overall policy objective given the difficulty of operating in Vietnam nam. The real problem started with Woodrow Wilson’s short sighted and rude treatment of Ho at the end of WWI.

Very Informative

This is a very well written and informative book. This book helps people understand why US troops sometimes did what they did in Vietnam which was to unwittingly carry out the master plan of the CIA who first became involved in Vietnam in the 50's. As the author eludes to, Phoenix type programs have gone on around the world ever since. This book brings the reality of US policy and war into view. Well worth listening to.

Scattered

While the book provides a lot of information it does it in a confused manner. Not helped by an over use of acronyms. Great potential for truth bringing, failing due to need for an organizing editor.

Skeptical

I had to force myself through this book! One of the sources the author references often? The supposed SEAL who killed the little girls with a knife. Is a full on POS poser. This book has a lot of good knowledge that I believe is true. But a lot of stories from supposed sources? I feel it shows how information leaks from a secret organization into the periphery of said organization to people who leak it and sensationalize it with their presence. Interesting how this program is the root of the Patriot Act. Also how all this was stolen from the communists, as they are some phenomenal organizers who love to steal others freedoms.

Plausible deniability?

Only the House of Yahweh can teach you how to win the hearts and minds.

a lot of needless detail but interesting

this book is highly detailed about the facts of the Vietnam War and the covert operations by the CIA. it drones on and on about specific Personnel moves and people who did one thing or another but it fails to really flow well. undoubtedly this is very important because it documents our government immoral and illegal killing and torture in foreign countries. it takes 33 chapters to get to the conclusions that this may be going on today which is probably not too far-fetched. good study for someone writing documentaries or papers maybe not so interesting for the regular person.

very detailed

this is an exceptionally well researched book. it does a nice job of echoing the roots of the use of torture and terror as an official policy seen used during our recent wars in the middle East. the book is detailed and a little heady.

The real story of Vietnam

This book tells what many of us already knew - that the US and its allies committed war crimes on a massive, coordinated scale in Vietnam. We forget such histories at our peril, as this book could be just as true today in the countries of our enemies.

Who knows what crimes are being committed in our names?

So that is who we have become to the world...

Why would anyone be willing to work with us again... Very eye opening, scary, and angering.