Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency

By Thomas L. Ahern Jr.

Book Overview

Vietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and its partners. Retired CIA operative and intelligence consultant Thomas L. Ahern Jr. is the first to comprehensively document the CIA's role in the rural pacification of South Vietnam, drawing from secret archives to which he ha

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813136598
• ISBN13: 9780813136592
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up