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Documents from the Phoenix program

nolympics writes The Phonenix Program
was a CIA project in South Vietnam from 1967 which set out to eliminate popular support for the Viet Cong through assasination, kidnapping, torture, psychological operations, propaganda and general terror. The link above provides some original documents and some analysis of the operation.

What with Blackwater and the pressing need for counterinsurgency, as well as a voracious appetite for the usual slaughter, there is little doubt that Cheney, Bremer and dracula man Rumsfeld will be leafing through its archives.