A Monument to Deceit: Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars

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Notes Abbreviations Adams Collection, From the Samuel A. Adams Collection in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University. Westmoreland v. CBS, Westmoreland v. CBS, Inc., et al., 752 F.2d 16 (2d Cir. 1984). Prologue: Tet, 1968 1. Adams, War of Numbers, 130–44. 2. Nolan, The Battle for Saigon: Tet 1968, 118. 3. Oberdorfer, Tet! 168–69. 4. The Hué CIA station staff was hidden by a South Vietnamese family in their attic during the three-week Communist occupation. The head of the station realized that he and his men were safe when the foulest swearing in English could be heard from the floor below: The U.S. Marines had arrived. (Source requests to remain anonymous.) 5. New York Times, February 1, 1968; New York Times, February 4, 1968. 6. Oberdorfer, Tet! dedication page. Chapter One: A Downwardly Mobile WASP 1. Quotes from Malcolm Gordon School letters, school records, and Adams’s work are courtesy of Malcolm Gordon’s grandson, David Gordon Jr. This material is now in the Adams Collection. 2. In researching his ancestry two centuries later, Adams learned that his ancestor John Adams lost both shoes during the war and later petitioned the Continental Congress for compensation. (Clayton P. Adams interview.) 3. Peter Hiam is my father, and he made Adams my godfather. 4. Saint Mark’s, Sam Adams report cards, Adams Collection. 5. Boston Globe, June 16, 1951. 6. Navy records, Adams Collection. 7. Philadelphian and American patriot George Clymer (1739–1813) signed the Declaration of Independence. 8. Chapter interviews: (Adams’s family) Anne Cocroft Adams, Clayton P. Adams, Eleanor McGowin Adams, Catherine “Cally” Adams Christy, H. Nichols B. Clark, Caroline Davidson, Alix Clark Diana, Mary Adams Loomba, Judy Smith, and Nicola Smith; (Adams’s friends and classmates) Ned Ames, Edward Ballantyne, Nathaniel Ching, Joan Gardiner, Carlson Gerdau, Andrew Hamilton, Peter Hiam, Hunter Ingalls, 299 Hiam_A MONUMENT TO DECEIT_text_Layout 1 1/28/14 9:43 AM Page 299 Charles Kivett, Jean Kraemer, Waldron Kraemer, John Lorenz, Clark McCartney, Byam Stevens, Roger Stone, William Stratton, Dale Thorn, Jim Witker, and Gertrude “Sue” Johnson Yager; and (Adams’s shipmates) John Hardegree and William LaBarge. Chapter Two: Crisis in the Congo 1. Kirk Balcom interview. Other interview sources for this chapter were Eleanor McGowin Adams, Dana Ball, Janet Ball, Howard Beaubien, Jerry Jacobson, Ray McGovern, and Robert Sinclair. To avoid excessive notation I will alert the reader early in each chapter regarding all interviews (listed in the acknowledgments) I used as source material and will refrain, except where clarity is needed, from further citations for the remainder of that chapter. 2. The “undisclosed location” was a well-kept secret at the time, although in subsequent years the training site and its location in southern Virginia became widely publicized. For another description of the training experience, Adams’s JOT classmate Patrick J. McGarvey provided one in his book C.I.A.: The Myth and the Madness (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972). 3. Adams, War of Numbers, 14. Chapter Three: Vietnam 1. Berman, Lyndon Johnson’s War, 9. 2. Sam Adams, “What Ed Hauck Knew,” unpublished paper, Adams Collection. 3. Adams, War of Numbers, 26–27, 29–30. Sadly, this would be the Clymer’s third and last war: The Greasy George was scrapped in 1967. 4. Mary Kreimer interview. Other interview sources for this chapter were Eleanor McGowin Adams, George Allen, Kirk Balcom, Howard Beaubien, Joseph Carrier, Leon Goure, David Elliott, Robert Layton, and Anthony Russo. 5. Elliott, The Vietnamese War, vol. 1, 227–28, 195. 6. Adams, “Vietnam Cover-Up”; Adams, War of Numbers, 34–35. 7. Adams, War of Numbers, 41–49. 8. Sam Adams, draft manuscript, Adams Collection. 9. Adams, “Vietnam Cover-Up.” 10. Adams, War of Numbers, 60. 11. Adams, “Vietnam Cover-Up.” 12. Sam Adams, draft manuscript, Adams Collection. 13. Adams Collection. Chapter Four: George Allen’s War 1. George Allen interview. Other interview sources for this chapter were Don Blascak and David Elliott. 2. Allen, None So Blind, 8–10. 3. Karnow, Vietnam, 193. 4. George Allen interview; Allen, None So Blind, 15–17, 24, 38–42. 300 Notes Hiam_A MONUMENT TO DECEIT_text_Layout 1 1/28/14 9:43 AM Page 300 5. Ibid., 50–59. 6. Lanning and Cragg, Inside the VC and the NVA, 21. 7. Allen, None So Blind, 70–71, 92–93. 8. Elliott, The Vietnamese War, 221; Pike, Viet Cong, 194–204. Viet Cong...