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PRU
Phoenix Program was an intelligence and counterinsurgency program designed to gather, analyze information and then “neutralize” (via capture, infiltration, torture, terrorism, and assassination) the infrastructure of the Viet Cong (National Liberation Front) in South Vietnam.
Phoenix was operated and executed under the direction of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supported by U.S. Special Operation Forces, Special Forces Operatives from Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATIV), and South Vietnam’s security services.
Although the program came to an end in December 1972, specific components remained in effect until Saigon fell in 1975.
By 1972, Phoenix operatives had neutralized 81,740 suspected NLF operatives, informants, and supporters, of whom 26,000 and 41,000 were killed. William Colby, the head of CORDS from 1968-1972, claimed that Vietnamese Communists’ most challenging period of their entire struggle was from 1968 to 1972 when the Phoenix program was at work. #pru #sfg #specialforces #greenberet #cia #tigerstripes #vietnam #vietnamwar #provincialreconnaissanceunit #sog #macvsog #1stsfg
PRU
Phoenix Program was an intelligence and counterinsurgency program designed to gather, analyze information and then “neutralize” (via capture, infiltration, torture, terrorism, and assassination) the infrastructure of the Viet Cong (National Liberation Front) in South Vietnam.
Phoenix was operated and executed under the direction of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supported by U.S. Special Operation Forces, Special Forces Operatives from Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATIV), and South Vietnam’s security services.
Although the program came to an end in December 1972, specific components remained in effect until Saigon fell in 1975.
By 1972, Phoenix operatives had neutralized 81,740 suspected NLF operatives, informants, and supporters, of whom 26,000 and 41,000 were killed. William Colby, the head of CORDS from 1968-1972, claimed that Vietnamese Communists’ most challenging period of their entire struggle was from 1968 to 1972 when the Phoenix program was at work. #pru #sfg #specialforces #greenberet #cia #tigerstripes #vietnam #vietnamwar #provincialreconnaissanceunit #sog #macvsog #1stsfg