VIETNAM

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Tanhan, George K., and Dennis J. Duncanson. "Some Dilemmas of Counterinsurgency." Foreign Affairs 48, no. 1 (Oct. 1969): 113-122.

Tidwell, William A. "A New Kind of Air Targeting." Studies in Intelligence 11, no. 1 (Winter 1967): 55-60.

"Reconnaissance techniques developed for use against the Viet Cong's hidden bases may be of historic significance."

Tourison, Sedgwick. Secret Army, Secret War: Washington's Tragic Spy Operation in North Vietnam. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

Bates, NIPQ 12.2, calls this book a "damning account of our almost entirely ineffective use of agent teams inserted by land, sea, and air into North Vietnam from 1961 until 1967.... [T]he North Vietnamese ... duplicated the British 'Double Cross' achievements by capturing most teams within hours or days of their insertion and convincing many of the captured radio operators to transmit what Hanoi wanted.... Secret Army, Secret War is extensively documented."

Gaddy, Periscope 21.2, notes that "[i]gnoring the evidence [of the capture of the teams and the turning of the radio operators], SOG officials continued to carry the infiltrators on the books, to resupply them, even to reinforce them, pursuant to the messages drafted in Hanoi."

For Crerar, AIJ 16.2/3, this is "a fascinating, depressing and tragic story" that is "highly recommended." Similarly, Reske, NIPQ 12.3, finds Secret Army, Secret War "[e]minently readable, well sourced, disquieting, and highly recommended." Unsinger, MI 24.1, agrees, noting that the "style keeps one's attention and the story, while sad, is worth discovering."

In a review article that stands well on its own, Ronnie E. Ford, I&NS 11.2, focuses less on the 34 Alpha operations per se and more on Tourison's linking of these activities and DESOTO intelligence collection operations to the Gulf of Tonkin incidents and the follow-on Congressional action. Ford regards Tourison's work as "a worthy addition to the history of the Vietnam War and a necessary addition to the existing Vietnam War intelligence literature."

Tourison, Sedgwick D. Talking with Victor Charlie: An Interrogator's Story. New York: Ivy Books, 1991.

Tegtmeier, at http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/articles/rrl-faq.htm, says that this account of the author's tour in Vietnam as a MACV interrogator has "[l]ots of information on the role of military intelligence, plus some surprising material on the Cu Chi tunnels [and] the Tonkin Gulf incident."

Tovar, B. Hugh. "Vietnam Revisited: The United States and Diem's Death." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 5, no. 3 (Fall 1991): 291-312.

"The overthrow of President [Ngo Dinh] Diem constituted the opening of the floodgates of American involvement in Indochina.... By intruding as it did -- crassly and blind to the consequences -- the burden of responsibility for winning or losing was removed once and for all from South Vietnamese shoulders, and placed upon America's own."

Young, Darryl. The Element of Surprise: Navy SEALS in Vietnam. New York: Ivy Books, 1990. [Seymour]

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