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| | Media, Propaganda and Vietnam - Global Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | He was disillusioned, he said, because the CIA had become not an “intelligence gathering organisation but a covert operations arms of the Presidency”. |
 | | The purpose of these operations was to force the native South Vietnamese to accept the Catholic mandarin [Ngo Dinh] Diem, who had been selected by US policymakers to provide an alternative to communism in Vietnam. |
 | | Like Operation Speedy Express [an atrocity where the US Ninth Infantry Division had killed 11,000 people, 5,000 of whom were “non-combatants”], the massacre of between 90 and 130 men, women and children at the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968, was not a story until long after it had happened. |
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