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	Notes from Underground - The New York Review of Books
		Frank Snepp, a top CIA analyst in Saigon when the South Vietnamese regime collapsed in 1975, tells us that he had to conduct interrogations of captured members of the Viet Cong in the dungeons of Saigon through an interpreter.
		Certainly Snepp relished playing the part of the classic spook, carrying a hidden.45 and wearing sunglasses, and he enjoyed the further thrill of having an audience for his theatrics; all the American journalists knew him as the resident CIA briefing officer.
		Snepp was a fair-haired boy at the embassy, encouraged, at the age of about thirty, to write essays analyzing the conduct of the war.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/386 (3869 words)

	CIA vs. Snepp: Irreparable Harm
		Frank Snepp, on the other hand, was sued by the Justice Department, on behalf of the C.I.A., for writing a book about the fall of Saigon, "Decent Interval," without the agency's permission.
		The goal, Snepp says, was to reduce him to penury and seal his lips and fingers with legal superglue.
		In court, the Government argued that Snepp should be strippedof all earnings from the book -- virtually every penny he had made in the nearly two years it took to write it -- as well as all future profits.
	cryptome.sabotage.org /cia-v-snepp.htm (847 words)

	Frank Snepp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Warren Snepp (born 3 May 1943, Kinston, North Carolina) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the CIA in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
		Snepp accused the CIA of ruining his career and violating his First Amendment rights.
		Snepp enlisted the help of the American Civil Liberties Union in his defense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Snepp (211 words)

	October surprise conspiracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Retired CIA agent Frank Snepp of The Village Voice compiled several investigations of Sick’s allegations in 1992, and concluded that almost every single statement Sick made, and all the witnesses he had used turned out to be false or lying.
		Snepp alleged that Sick had only interviewed half of the sources used in his book, and supposedly relied on hearsay from unreliable sources for large amounts of critical material.
		Snepp also discovered that in 1989, Sick had sold the rights to his book to Oliver Stone, who refused to turn it into a movie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/October_surprise_conspiracy (1901 words)

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		Snepp contends that loyalty to the Agency and its prepublication norms was maintained until the Agency refused to open itself to internal criticism.
		Snepp complains about inconsistencies in the law and federal judges and U. Department of Justice lawyers' willingness to defer to CIA demands for censorship despite the absence of law or administrative rulings supporting those demands.
		Snepp portrays his case as a fight for First Amendment freedom of expression and the right of government employees to criticize government actions.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/Snepp01t.htm (1022 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		Snepp stipulated at trial that - after undertaking this obligation - he had been "assigned to various positions of trust" and that he had been granted "frequent access to classified information, including information regarding intelligence sources and methods." 456 F. Supp., at 178.
		In his petition for certiorari, Snepp relies primarily on the claim that his agreement is unenforceable as a prior restraint on protected speech.
		We agree with the Court of Appeals that Snepp's agreement is an "entirely appropriate" exercise of the CIA Director's statutory mandate to "protec[t] intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure," 50 U.S.C. 403 (d) (3).
	caselaw.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=444&invol=507 (6598 words)

	Review of Irreparable Harm
		Were it not for Frank Snepp, the world might never have learned the true story behind America's cowardly, inept and utterly reprehensible abandonment of thousands of doomed South Vietnamese who had been loyal to the U.S. for years and who had been led to believe that they would be protected at the war's end.
		That Snepp himself was complicit in both instilling that trust and abrogating it later in no way diminishes the impact of his exposure of the shameful fall of Saigon.
		Snepp wrote a shocking and historically vital book called Decent Interval which, despite its cathartic genesis, was a meticulously researched and soberly written account that placed the fall of Saigon squarely on the (blessedly abbreviated) list of acts of shame in U.S. history.
	www.leegruenfeld.com /reviews/snepprevw.htm (1760 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Frank Snepp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The October Surprise Conspiracy was an alleged plot that claimed representatives of the 1980 Ronald Reagan presidential campaign had conspired with Islamic Republic of Iran to delay the release of 66 Americans held hostage in Tehran until after the election.
		Frank Snepp is a journalist and former CIA Station Chief in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
		Snepp enlisted the help of the American Civil Liberties Union in his defence.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frank-Snepp (638 words)

	Irreparable Harm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A CIA operative in Vietnam from 1969 to 1975, Snepp grew frustrated by his superiors' lack of concern for the thousands of South Vietnamese who assisted the U.S. throughout the war and whom he believes were abandoned by the U.S. after the North's victory.
		Snepp's level-headed account is only slightly marred by awkward forays into Raymond Chandleresque monologue ("In time, [my two lovers] were sharing everything I had to offer but my heart.
		Occasional howlers aside, the revealing mea culpas scattered throughout the text humanize Snepp, enhancing what is at once a moving personal narrative and a disturbing examination of how claims of national security can have a sledgehammer effect on arguments about free speech, overwhelming all competing claims.
	www.familyhaven.com /books/irreparableharm.html (305 words)

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		Snepp chose to believe that his several CIA secrecy agreements---one dating from when he joined the Agency, and a second decidedly different one from when he resigned---obligated him to submit the manuscript to CIA censors only if it contained classified information, which he firmly (and correctly) believed it did not.
		Snepp worries that the litigation reduced him to little more than "an italicized metaphor for a very bad First Amendment case." But despite the magnitude of that disgraceful Supreme Court ruling, Snepp fails to appreciate how enduring a book Decent Interval truly is (even now that it is regrettably out of print).
		Snepp's account of that trip, including a visit to his old office in the partially abandoned former embassy, is deeply moving, and the journey seems to have given him as much closure as he can attain.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /books/1999/9912.garrow.snepp.m4 (1122 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / The white room
		One such incident was recorded by Frank Snepp, a CIA case officer, who spent more than four years in the Saigon station during that war.
		The only time Snepp ever saw a fracture in his implacable facade was when Snepp mentioned Tai's family, whom he had not seen in 10 years.
		Snepp learned some two years later, however, that just before the communist tanks rolled into Saigon, a senior CIA official suggested that it would be useful if Tai were to disappear.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/01/22/the_white_room (727 words)

	Book Review: Inside (and Outside) the CIA
		Frank Snepp, the book's author, was a high-level CIA operative in South Vietnam who returned in 1975, shaken by the massive failure of both the intelligence agency and the American ambassador to respond with due speed to the advance of the North Vietnamese army in South Vietnam.
		Snepp was taken to the cleaners, with the CIA seizing his profits from Decent Interval and legally empowered to make sure he was not committing any treasons in the TV scripts he wrote for an ABC series, "Undercover." (These had to be routed to Langley CIA headquarters for the good of the republic.)
		Snepp's telling of the controversy surrounding the publication of Decent Intervalmakes up much of his new book, and it is a sordid affair.
	www.speakout.com /activism/opinions/4305-1.html (936 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / The 'white room' revisited
		Frank Snepp was one of his interrogators, and he found Tai a tough nut to crack.
		And, quoting from Snepp's book, I wrote that Tai was taken from his cell, put into a helicopter, and thrown out at 10,000 feet over the South China Sea.
		After the war, Snepp left CIA, but, unable to get Tai out of his mind, he traveled to Paris specifically to pass the word through the Vietnamese mission that Tai had comported himself honorably and died bravely.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/06/the_white_room_revisited (830 words)

	Amazon.de: Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Frank Snepp was a CIA analyst in Vietnam who witnessed the abandonment of those who had helped us there during that war.
		Snepp writes a meticulously detailed and researched, blow-by-blow account of the events that led the CIA to shun him, leading him to produce his first book, Decent Interval, and of the aftermath of its publication.
		Frank Snepp's "Irreparable Harm" is one of the most frightening page-turners I've ever read, because it exposes some of our worst fears about the system we trust with our ultimate well-being.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/070061091X (1131 words)

	Frank Snepp: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Frank Snepp is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnames strategy for the CIA Central Intelligence Agency quick summary:
		The vietnam war was a war fought roughly from 1957 to 1975 after the north vietnamese government secretly agreed to begin involvement in south vietnam....
		Snepp accused the CIA of ruining his career and violating his First Amendment[Click link for more facts about this topic] rights.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/frank_snepp.htm (332 words)

	Reagan, National Security, and the First Amendment: Plugging Leaks by Shutting Off the Main
		United States.[9] Ex-agent Frank Snepp was being sued by the government for publishing his book, Decent Interval, without submitting it to the CIA for prepublication review.
		Given that Snepp's book did not contain any classified information or any information about the CIA that had not been made public previously by the CIA, what apparently triggered this chain of events was not the content of the book, but the mere fact of its publication without CIA approval.
		The type of termination agreement signed by Frank Snepp in 1976 was first used by the CIA in 1973.[18] That type of agreement covered only classified information or information not made public by the CIA.
	www.cato.org /pubs/pas/pa037.html (5241 words)

	Books & Reading: Book Reviews
		Snepp was a young CIA agent when Saigon fell in April 1975.
		Lest anyone think Snepp's case is unique, and in the interest of reviewer disclosure, I was followed by the CIA for three weeks in 1972 in a vain attempt to identify leakers to my then-boss, Jack Anderson.
		Yet, to be fair, it was a Snepp villain, CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner who, under the Freedom of Information Act, released to me CIA records showing that this spying was "at the direction of" one of his predecessors, "Mr.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/books/reviews/irreparableharm0801.htm (778 words)

	Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the Cia's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam - ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Snepp had the advantage of actually being not only in Saigon for several years before and during the collapse but of being in the CIA.
		One is really not sure whether to laugh or cry at Snepp's cheerful descriptions of life inside the American Embassy in Saigon as the consequences of thirty years of botched military and political intervention came crashing down.
		Snepp has no apologies for having made a more or less complete mess of the "intelligence analysis" that he was supposed to be doing -he just points out that so did everyone else.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0700612130-locale-us.html (901 words)

	AIM Report - July B 1992
		Frank Snepp, a former CIA officer who had gone to work as a producer for ABC News, interviewed Brenneke for 14 hours on camera.
		Frank Snepp says he was away at the time and had no input into the broadcast.
		Frank Snepp and Peggy Robohm don't have the incomes of the wealthy officials responsible for ABC News.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1992/07b.html (4751 words)

	IRREPARABLE HARM: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle over Secrecy and Free Speech
		The book was riddled with guilt and compassion for the Vietnamese -- Snepp says he was not able to save a Vietnamese woman who killed herself and the child she said he fathered.
		Now, more than 20 years later, Snepp tells in ``Irreparable Harm'' how, after he published his earlier book, the government sued him for violating its rules and found a judge who would not let the word Vietnam be uttered in his courtroom.
		Snepp, now a Los Angeles TV news producer covering stories such as the Monica Lewinsky case, says he was unprepared for what happened to him.
	www.afio.com /reviews/irreparable_harm.html (595 words)

	Irreparable Harm
		Among the last CIA agents airlifted from Saigon in the waning moments of the Vietnam War, Frank Snepp returned to headquarters determined to secure help for the Vietnamese left behind by an agency eager to cut its losses.
		In protest, Snepp resigned to write a damning account of the agency's cynical neglect of its onetime allies and inept handling of the war.
		FRANK SNEPP spent eight years in the CIA, five of them in Vietnam as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief CIA strategy analyst in the Saigon embassy.
	www.kansaspress.ku.edu /sneirr.html (410 words)

	Stansfield Turner at AllExperts
		Turner accused Snepp of breaking the secrecy agreement required of all CIA agents, and then later was forced to admit under cross-examination that he had never read the agreement signed by Snepp.
		Frank Snepp, Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took On the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Secrecy and Free Speech (New York: Random House, 1999), 242.
		The ultimate irony was that the CIA would later rely on the Snepp legal precedent in forcing Turner to seek preclearance of his own memoirs, which were highly critical of President Ronald Reagan's policies.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/st/stansfield_turner.htm (786 words)

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		This injunction, which was affirmed by this Court in 1980, Snepp v.
		Upon leaving the CIA, Snepp also signed a termination agreement, reaffirming his promise not to reveal "any classified information, or any information concerning intelligence or CIA that has not been made public by CIA.
		The court of appeals explained that "(w)hile the language in the footnote arguably imposes on the CIA the burden of seeking an injunction by initiating a legal proceeding, such a requirement would not eliminate (petitioner's) burden to seek judicial review of the Agency's decision to withhold approval." Id. at 9a.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1990/sg900878.txt (2654 words)

	The Man in the Snow White Cell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If, as Snepp wrote and Tai's interrogators believed, Tai helped prosecute his father during this period, his memoir suggests that he subsequently reconciled with his father and appears to have resolved never to cause such pain to his family again.
		After the session, Snepp came to see me (we had become friends during his first tour in Vietnam), told me of his unhappiness with the "performance" of the interpreter (who was a close colleague of mine), and asked if I would be free to interpret for him in future sessions with Tai.
		In compliance, Snepp, without obtaining prior authorization from the South Vietnamese CIO (which was still the organization officially responsible for Tai's detention), informed Tai and other communist prisoners of the agreement and its prisoner exchange provisions.
	www.cia.gov /csi/studies/vol48no1/article06.html (4883 words)

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