Decent Interval
An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam
Published on 30. November 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
632 pages
978-0-7006-1213-0 (ISBN)
Description
Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America's final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great sacrifice by an author who believed in the CIA's cause but was disillusioned by the agency's treacherous withdrawal, leaving thousands of Vietnamese allies to the mercy of an angry enemy. A quarter-century later, it remains a riveting and powerful testament to one of the darkest episodes in American history.
Reviews / Votes
"A great service to everyone's understanding of what happened in Vietnam in the spring of 1975. . . . Other accounts of that time will have to be measured against what Snepp, from his unique and highly informed vantage point, has produced." -Kevin Buckley, New York Times Book Review"By far the richest document yet produced on the American and South Vietnamese end game." -Laurence Stern, Washington Post Book World
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kansas
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
896 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7006-1213-0 (9780700612130)
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An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam
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Person
Frank Snepp spent eight years in the CIA, five of them as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief CIA strategy analyst in the Saigon embassy. His second book, Irreparable Harm (see page 26), recounts the Supreme Court case that emerged from the CIA's efforts to punish Snepp for publishing Decent Interval. A freelance writer and cable television producer, he currently works as an investigative reporter for ABC's "20/20" television news magazine.