Shadow Warrior (106 page)

       
ARVN and,
159
,
172
,
178
,
181
,
209
,
210
,
309

       
CIDGs and,
162
,
163
,
179

       
famous battalion of,
164

       
hotbeds of,
206
,
207

       
as omnipresent,
279

       
PAT program and,
208
,
209

       
penetrating civil and military bureaucracies,
252

       
position paper on,
256

       
Rhade tribe and,
156
,
157
,
161
,
163

       
Rural Development Cadre and,
252
,
265
,
270
,
302

       
Strategic Hamlet Program and,
168
,
197

       
tactics of, roots of,
255

       
terrorism campaign by,
161
,
163

       
US air base attacked by,
210

       
US embassy attacked by,
282–283

       
villages ruled by,
252

       
withdrawal of, to underground tunnels,
327

       
See also
National Liberation Front

Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI),
287
,
288–289
,
310
,
312
,
315
,
327

Viet Minh,
116
,
117
,
118
,
120
,
121
,
125
,
134
,
135–136
,
144
,
157
,
168
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169
,
201
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208
,
218
,
233
,
250
,
252
,
320
,
476

Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang (VNQDD),
128
,
136
,
208

Vietnam,
5
,
94
,
136
,
142
,
144
,
153
,
173–174
,
196
,
217
,
353
,
355
,
370
,
409
,
410
,
412
,
472

       
background on,
116

       
Chinese and French approach to,
128

       
CIA collaborating with the French in,
93

       
demilitarized zone,
133
,
294
,
345

       
dividing of,
116–117
,
155
,
205

       
escalating US military involvement in,
213

       
Geneva Accords and,
116–117

       
Japan and,
116
,
118–119

       
language of, learning,
285–286
,
300

       
nationalist parties of,
128

       
nationwide elections for,
131–132

       
need for a new political identity in,
130–131

       
physical environment of, described,
132

       
postcolonial, rural population of,
250

       
two CIA stations in,
93
,
117
,
125

       
See also
Cambodia
;
Counterinsurgency and pacification in Vietnam
;
Laos
;
North Vietnam
;
South Vietnam
;
US Mission in Vietnam

Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
395

Vietnam War opposition.
See
Antiwar movement

Vietnam wars.
See
First Indochinese War
;
Second Indochinese War

Vietnamese Air Transport Command,
139

Vietnamese Communist Party.
See
Lao Dong

Vietnamese Nationalist Party.
See
Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang

Vietnamization,
253
,
309
,
311
,
317
,
325
,
326
,
327–328

Village Voice
,
389
,
461

Villebois, Roger (pseudonym Louis Giry),
39
,
41
,
44
,
45
,
47
,
49
,
50
,
125

Vital Center, The
(Schlesinger),
114

V-J Day,
119

Voice of America,
86
,
273
,
334

Wagner, Karl,
348–349

Walker, Jenonne,
372
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373
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374
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377–378
,
386
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391
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403
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418
,
455
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475
,
476

Wallace, Henry,
75

Wallace, Mike,
273

Walsh, Mike,
313

Walsh, Sharon,
2

Walters, Barbara,
399
,
454

Walters, Vernon,
348
,
350
,
351
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352
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362
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365
,
443
,
456

War Department,
67
,
70
,
85

War Powers Act,
429

Warner, John,
410
,
440

Warnke, Paul,
295

Warren Commission,
412

Warsaw Pact,
111

Wartime intelligence and espionage activities, history of,
69–70

Washington, George,
69

Washington Post
,
273
,
275
,
327
,
354
,
364
,
391
,
405
,
414
,
451
,
460
,
461
,
462
,
469
,
471
,
472

Washington Star
,
420
,
465

Watergate,
346–349
,
350–353
,
358
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359
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361
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362
,
363–364
,
365
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370
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376
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377
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381
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382
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392
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397
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404
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406
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412
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416
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419
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442
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451
,
456
,
461

Weathermen faction,
342

Welch, Richard S.,
459–460

West Germany,
93
,
101
,
111
,
112
,
119
,
176

West, Samuel,
69

Westmoreland, William,
202
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209
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210
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211
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239
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244–245
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248
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256
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284
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292
,
294
,
297
,
299
,
304
,
346

Weyler, Valeriano,
152

White Lotus Society,
17

Whitlam, Gough,
472–473

Whittemore, Reed,
103
,
104

Wick, William,
104

Wicker, Tom,
397
,
452–453

Wilderness of Mirrors
(Martin),
471

Wilhelm, Kaiser,
430

Williams, Samuel “Hanging Sam,”
127
,
128
,
136
,
150
,
158

Wills, Frank,
347

Wilson, Edwin P.,
473

Wilson, Jasper,
249

Wilson, Wilbur,
292

Wilson, Woodrow,
18–19
,
22
,
23
,
24
,
322

Wise, David,
339
,
365
,
392
,
395

Wise, Joseph “Carroll,”
2
,
4

Wisner, Frank,
74
,
80
,
83
,
85
,
90
,
91
,
110
,
111
,
112
,
178
,
274
,
340

Woodward, Bob,
364

World Bank,
282

World War I,
12
,
15
,
24
,
25
,
31
,
32
,
40
,
70
,
395

World War II,
1
,
26
,
31
,
65
,
76
,
82
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86
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90
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92
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108
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116
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145
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205
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208
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214
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217
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227
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232
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242
,
395

       
code-breaking during,
104
,
107
,
385–386
,
388

       
surrenders ending,
62
,
66

       
See also specific countries, organizations, events, and people involved in the war

World War III, possibility of,
111
,
112
,
395

Worldview
,
470

Wright, Peter,
403

X-2,
104
,
107

Yalta Accords,
71

Yarborough, William,
143

Yom Kippur War,
381–382
,
383
,
386
,
400
,
447

Young, David,
343

Young, Steve,
324–325

Yugoslavia,
96

Zellerbach, James David,
113

Zionists,
105

Zone D,
207