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of interrogation, torture and
*   final disposition honed and developed by the CIA and Special Forces Green
*   Berets through their 'Operation Phoenix' program are to be used on
*   victimized citizens.
*
*   Operation Phoenix, during the Vietnam conflict, was responsible for the
*   arrest, incarceration, torture and murder of over 50,000 innocent civilians.
*
*   The CIA and U.S. Army acclaimed it a success and a model for future "human
*   pacification" programs.


*   http://ursula.blythe.org/NameBase
*
*   Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
*   479 pages. 
*
*                           Operation Phoenix
*   
*   Along with saturation bombing of civilian populations, Operation Phoenix
*   has to rate as America's most atrocious chapter in the Vietnam War.
*
*   Between 1967 to 1973 an estimated 40,000 Vietnamese were killed by CIA-
*   sponsored "counterterror" and "hunter-killer" teams, and hundreds of
*   thousands were sent to secret interrogation centers.
*
*   William Colby's records show 20,587 dead between 1968 and 1971, though he
*   likes to believe that most were killed in military combat and afterwards
*   identified as part of the VC infrastructure. 
*   
*   Other testimony suggests that Colby was a bit disingenuous in these 1971
*   hearings. At one point Congressman Ogden Reid pulled out a list signed by
*   a CIA officer that named VC cadre rounded up in a particular action in
*   1967.
*
*   "It is of some interest that on this list, 33 of the 61 names were
*   women and some persons were as young as 11 and 12," noted Reid. 
*   
*   Valentine spent four years researching this name-intensive book, and
*   managed to interview over 100 Phoenix participant