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South Vietnamese government figures were 40, dead. About one third of VC targeted for arrest were summarily executed. In an Ex-Phoenix operative revealed that sometimes orders were given to kill U. The following is testimony of Vincent Okamoto, combat officer Lieutenant in Vietnam in , and recipient of Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest award conferred by the US Army.
Wounded 3 times. As far as they were concerned whoever answered was a Communist, including family members. Every Vietnamese 15 and over had to register and carry identity cards, these records were computerized and eventually it evolved into a highly computerized and statistical means of generating names a month for the target list, coordinating the information on suspects from 30, plus informants. When the strategic Hamlet program failed, CIA and military intelligence concentrated on the Phoenix Program, a terror campaign aimed at the civilian population.
Instead of winning hearts and minds, using the threat of assassination and a state of terror to defeat the NV. Many non- political Vietnamese were arrested and tortured and in effect forced into the resistance army. They viewed the military defeat in Vietnam as a betrayal on the home front, a loss of will by domestic political enemies, not a military failure against a nationalist revolution fought as a guerilla war. The Phoenix Program, assassinating suspected VC sympathizers in a systematic manner, worked well and is the blueprint for the current black op targeting thousands of loyal Americans using state of the art microwave MW and radio frequency radiation RFR weapons.
The motivation to suppress domestic dissidents and to assassinate loyal American opposition stems from the perception of dissent against the war as treason. The DOD has a huge stake in futuristic technology that kills by ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, leaving little or no trace.
