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According to the broadcast, Westmoreland had engaged in "a conspiracy at the highest levels" of the military to "suppress and alter" intelligence data regarding enemy troop strength in the months before the January 1968 Tet offensive. Westmoreland, said CBS, omitted from the order of battle, the official estimate of enemy forces, some 100,000 self-defense, secret self-defense and political cadre. Westmoreland's suit challenges the CBS charge that hi doing so he deceived President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff about the Westmoreland growing military threat facing U.S. servicemen...
...neither conspiracy nor deceit regarding the estimates. Washington officials, he insists, were well aware of a debate between the CIA and military analysts over whether the enemy's "irregular self-defense" supporters should be included in the figures. The defeats suffered by North Viet Nam during the Tet offensive of early 1968, Westmoreland claims, vindicate his command's method of reporting enemy strength. In an internal investigation six months later, conducted after TV Guide had published a cover story on the show titled "Anatomy of a Smear," a CBS official concluded that the word "conspiracy" was not justified...
...young to fight on Dday; yet I fought in another war some 20 years later, half a globe away from Normandy [WORLD, June 18]. We had no Dday, but we had Tet. I have told my daughter I have no desire to return to Viet Nam. I wonder if history and world leaders will award us similar accolades on our 40th...
...guerrilla offensive this fall, most likely in September. The increase is said to have been accompanied by a stepped-up guerrilla recruitment campaign, intended to raise their forces to about 14,000. The Administration's fear is that the guerrillas are planning a Salvadoran equivalent to the 1968 Tet offensive in Viet Nam, which heightened popular opposition to a war in the midst of a U.S. presidential election campaign...
...claimed to have "conclusive documentation of the factual assertions made in the broadcast," which it too introduced in court. Subordinate officials of the CIA and the Pentagon asserted that they had indeed lowered pre-Tet estimates of enemy strength, under explicit or implied orders from Westmoreland's command team. Retired Army Major General Joseph McChristian suggested that Westmoreland may have sidetracked a cable about troop strength after saying it could be a "political bombshell." Said McChristian: "Although I usually sent my reports directly to Washington, General Westmoreland told me to leave it with him. I do not know what...