
A Monument to Deceit
Foreedge (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 3. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-61168-598-5 (ISBN)
Description
It was an enigma of the Vietnam War: American troops kept killing the Viet Cong-and being killed in the process-and yet their ranks continued to grow. When CIA analyst Sam Adams uncovered documents suggesting a Viet Cong army more than twice as large as previously reckoned, another war erupted, this time within the ranks of America's intelligence community. Although originally clandestine, this conflict involving the highest levels of the U.S. government burst into public view during the acrimonious lawsuit Westmoreland v. CBS. The central issue in the suit, as in the war itself, was the calamitous failure of U.S. intelligence agencies to ascertain the strength of the Viet Cong and get that information to troops in a timely fashion. The legacy of this failure-whether caused by institutional inertia, misguided politics, or individual hubris-haunts our nation. In the era of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden, Sam Adams' tireless crusade for "honest intelligence" resonates strongly today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
University Press of New England
Illustrations
25 illus., 4 maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-61168-598-5 (9781611685985)
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