Wanderthread Redux (Part 1)

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Wanderfound · July 4, 2020, 2:29am

The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng ) was a program designed and coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving cooperation between American, South Vietnamese and Australian militaries.

The program was designed to identify and destroy the Viet Cong (VC) via infiltration, torture, capture, counter-terrorism, interrogation, and assassination.[1][2][3][4] The CIA described it as “a set of programs that sought to attack and destroy the political infrastructure of the Viet Cong”.[5]The Phoenix Program was premised on the idea that infiltration had required local support from non-combat civilian populations, which were referred to as the “political branch” that had purportedly coordinated the insurgency.[6]

Throughout the program, Phoenix “neutralized” 81,740 people suspected of VC membership, of whom 26,369 were killed and the rest surrendered or were captured. A number of criticisms arose regarding the Phoenix Program, including the number of neutral civilians killed, the nature of the program (which critics have labelled as a “civilian assassination program”[6]), the use of torture and other coercive methods, and the program being exploited for personal politics.

Wanderfound · July 4, 2020, 6:06am

Nightflyer · July 4, 2020, 7:37pm

(Whoops, wrong thread. Deleted to repost in the correct place. )

Wanderfound · July 4, 2020, 11:12pm

Remember when white America unified to demand that Obama disavow Jeremiah Wright?

Tell me what he said that was wrong.

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Crashproof · July 8, 2020, 12:35pm

I would totally listen to a band named Big Time Socialists!

Also I’m really enjoying the phrase “KPOP agents.”

Wanderfound · July 8, 2020, 8:46pm

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