The morel ject would eventually produce 62 thousand pages of transcripts interviews with captured viakong and others. Gray briefs the air force, army, us Embassy, then off to honolulu to the headquarters of the army of the pacific. He holds cocktail parties for everyone who is anyone in south vietnam. Henry kissenger, walter mandale, later to become jimmy carter's vice president.
In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas in order to measure the effect of relentless U.S. bombing on their morale. Yet despite a wealth of great data, even the leaders of the study couldn’t agree on what it meant.
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