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- A Monument to Deceit: Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University Press of New England
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Foreword to the Paperback Edition
- pp. vii-xii
- Prologue: Tet, 1968
- pp. 1-5
- 1 | A Downwardly Mobile WASP
- pp. 6-26
- 2 | Crisis in the Congo
- pp. 27-40
- 3 | Vietnam
- pp. 41-56
- 4 | George Allen’s War
- pp. 57-71
- 5 | The Crossover Point
- pp. 72-89
- 6 | Told to Lie
- pp. 90-104
- 7 | SNIE 14.3-67
- pp. 105-128
- 8 | A Lugubrious Irony
- pp. 129-143
- 9 | The Adams Phenomenon
- pp. 144-162
- 10 | A Thoreau Type
- pp. 163-185
- 11 | Investigations
- pp. 186-206
- 12 | CBS Reports
- pp. 207-221
- 13 | Cravath
- pp. 222-239
- 14 | The Libel Trial of the Century
- pp. 240-255
- 15 | The Colonels’ Revolt
- pp. 256-277
- 16 | Reckless Disregard
- pp. 278-294
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 295-296
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- pp. 297-298
- Bibliography
- pp. 311-312
- Photo Credits
- pp. 313-314
- Image Plates
- pp. 329-340
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611686005
Related ISBN(s)
9781611685985
MARC Record
OCLC
877907954
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2014-04-22
Language
English
Open Access
No