vietnam-era cia counterinsurgency ops documents surface

"Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at 'neutralizing'--through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture--the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying 'final solution' that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality.

"The CIA destroyed its copies of the documents related to this program, but the creator of Phoenix gave his personal copies to author Douglas Valentine. He, in turn, has given them to The Memory Hole. They have never previously been published, online or in print."

(c/o politech)