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Colonel Herbert maintains that when he served under Barnes and Franklin in Viet Nam, he reported to them a number of incidents involving murder, torture and mistreatment of prisoners; Herbert claims to have witnessed four such episodes. After one battle with the Viet Cong, he says, units of his battalion took some 15 prisoners, who were then put in custody of South Vietnamese troops accompanied by an American lieutenant...
...Medina, Calley's superior officer, who commanded Charlie Company on its sweep into the South Vietnamese village, testified, as Calley had earlier, to the shock effects of combat. Like Calley, he recited a grisly story about the company's casualties when the men walked over a Viet Cong minefield 20 days before the massacre. One man hit by mine fragments, said Medina, "was split as if somebody had taken a cleaver right up from his crotch all the way to his chest cavity." Discussing the day of the massacre, Medina said: "For those of you who have been...
Polite Threats. Mme. Phuong did not give way easily. "She threatened me in a polite way," said Castle. "She said she had several general officer friends and she would go see them." Castle began to receive anonymous telephone threats. Eventually, the colonel was wounded in a Viet Cong attack on his depot and sent home...
...than 22,500 Communists have been reported killed since the allied invasion began last April. Allowing for a ratio of two men wounded for every man killed, this would raise the number of enemy casualties to 67,500. But U.S. intelligence analysts estimate that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong started out with some 40,000 troops in Cambodia last April, that they now have slightly less than 60,000 there, and that the rate of reinforcement has not been exceptionally high since last spring...
...They came to tell me the truth," Weltner recalls. "We're only part of it, they said." And to prove it they gave him a remarkable eight page memo describing the "Phoenix" program, a U. S. operation designed, as Weltner ironically described it, to eliminate the "Viet Cong Infrastructure, which has prevented the pacification program from taking hold of the hearts of the people...