28-04-2018, 05:34 AM
I gave you a brief summary of my background. And it should be easily verifiable. I'm listed all over the internet related to my former company XYPRO.
Phoenix:
As I said in my last message I was involved in both Phoenix (at least from a selection point of view) and CHAOS because my office got requests to monitor Stanford, San Jose State, Cal State Santa Cruz, etc. I was the Sunnyvale Field Office Commander (115th MI Group) for a short time in 69 or 70 (and the Operations Officer before that) until I got selected for a "voluntary" program called MASA (Military Assistance Security Advisor) (Phoenix). I had a great reputation with a 99% Officer Efficiency Rating (but I'm apparently tactless, one point off my rating). MASA Class 70-1 was the first MI class after the US Army took over Phoenix from the CIA. Evan Parker (CIA) spoke to Class 70-1 along with a couple of US Army Generals to tell us how important we were to "winning the Vietnam War with honor." Phoenix was supposedly Nixon's secret plan to win the Vietnam War.
I attended the MASA 70-1 training class at the Special Warfare School, Fort Bragg, NC and even before I got there I knew something was very wrong. The "offer" from the Army was "too good to be true." Two out of Vietnam R&Rs, one in country R&R, guaranteed promotion to Captain before deployment to Vietnam. Guaranteed promotion to Major after Vietnam. First choice of family housing at any base in the US for duration of tour. First choice at any assignment after Vietnam (including bootstrap education program), etc. All this while Lt. Calley, Sgt. Mitchell, and Capt. Medina were being tried for My Lai 4.
After a few months of Vietnamese language training the "program" was revealed:
a. It was counter-terror (not counterterrorism in the normal sense) terrorism (by US and Vietnamese) against the opposition cadre and civilians (non-combatants).
b. Get three sources that say an individual was against the South Vietnamese government.
c. Identify their regular travel routes.
d. Set up Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRP) or Provincial Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) ambush where "target" and the entire travel group is ambushed when the target enters a 3 foot square.
e. If target does not jump out of the square, 1 in 13 get captured for a "hearing" and possible "detention" in tiger cages (most of the rest die in the ambush women and children, too).
f. The "hearing" consisted of three appointed representatives of the South Vietnamese government.
g. One in three of the surviving targets is found to be worthy of detention by the three government representatives of SVN. Detention for indeterminate period BUT not a trial and no judicial involvement (per Geneva Convention avoidance plan).
I got these numbers from a Major teaching one of the many classified "Secret" classes on the Geneva Convention (very unusual). Where everything was about redefining the words (very weakly) to avoid "violating" the Geneva Convention. I argued that redefining words would not work and that I'd not participate in the illegal violations of the convention and was threatened with a court martial on the spot.
I went to the Judge Advocate General's office and asked to speak to an attorney. I told a JAG Captain officer my story and he advised me to:
a. Never come back to JAG.
b. Get a civilian attorney ASAP.
I subsequently missed my plane for Vietnam three times and was sent new orders with a delayed date each time. I was followed by members of the Los Angeles Field Office, 115th MI Group (or the FBI) during my temporary assignment there. After my third missed plane I received orders to be given a "hardship" discharge at my earliest convenience (April 1, 1971, my wife's birthday).
For many months after my discharge MI or FBI followed my attempts to obtain employment with visits to the companies where I applied and told the companies NOT to hire me. Many of the companies either had or intended to make employment offers and called me to ask "What the hell was going on?" I was unemployed for over six months due to the follow up punishment.
CHAOS:
Many requests (usually imbedded as "additional information requests") for all sorts of information on activists who were "perhaps" associated with the subject of a security background request. Some were clearly illegal. I sent back clearly illegal surveillance requests to 115th MI Group HQ at the Presidio of San Francisco and was told never to do that ... quoting regulations to HQ.
Dale
Phoenix:
As I said in my last message I was involved in both Phoenix (at least from a selection point of view) and CHAOS because my office got requests to monitor Stanford, San Jose State, Cal State Santa Cruz, etc. I was the Sunnyvale Field Office Commander (115th MI Group) for a short time in 69 or 70 (and the Operations Officer before that) until I got selected for a "voluntary" program called MASA (Military Assistance Security Advisor) (Phoenix). I had a great reputation with a 99% Officer Efficiency Rating (but I'm apparently tactless, one point off my rating). MASA Class 70-1 was the first MI class after the US Army took over Phoenix from the CIA. Evan Parker (CIA) spoke to Class 70-1 along with a couple of US Army Generals to tell us how important we were to "winning the Vietnam War with honor." Phoenix was supposedly Nixon's secret plan to win the Vietnam War.
I attended the MASA 70-1 training class at the Special Warfare School, Fort Bragg, NC and even before I got there I knew something was very wrong. The "offer" from the Army was "too good to be true." Two out of Vietnam R&Rs, one in country R&R, guaranteed promotion to Captain before deployment to Vietnam. Guaranteed promotion to Major after Vietnam. First choice of family housing at any base in the US for duration of tour. First choice at any assignment after Vietnam (including bootstrap education program), etc. All this while Lt. Calley, Sgt. Mitchell, and Capt. Medina were being tried for My Lai 4.
After a few months of Vietnamese language training the "program" was revealed:
a. It was counter-terror (not counterterrorism in the normal sense) terrorism (by US and Vietnamese) against the opposition cadre and civilians (non-combatants).
b. Get three sources that say an individual was against the South Vietnamese government.
c. Identify their regular travel routes.
d. Set up Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRP) or Provincial Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) ambush where "target" and the entire travel group is ambushed when the target enters a 3 foot square.
e. If target does not jump out of the square, 1 in 13 get captured for a "hearing" and possible "detention" in tiger cages (most of the rest die in the ambush women and children, too).
f. The "hearing" consisted of three appointed representatives of the South Vietnamese government.
g. One in three of the surviving targets is found to be worthy of detention by the three government representatives of SVN. Detention for indeterminate period BUT not a trial and no judicial involvement (per Geneva Convention avoidance plan).
I got these numbers from a Major teaching one of the many classified "Secret" classes on the Geneva Convention (very unusual). Where everything was about redefining the words (very weakly) to avoid "violating" the Geneva Convention. I argued that redefining words would not work and that I'd not participate in the illegal violations of the convention and was threatened with a court martial on the spot.
I went to the Judge Advocate General's office and asked to speak to an attorney. I told a JAG Captain officer my story and he advised me to:
a. Never come back to JAG.
b. Get a civilian attorney ASAP.
I subsequently missed my plane for Vietnam three times and was sent new orders with a delayed date each time. I was followed by members of the Los Angeles Field Office, 115th MI Group (or the FBI) during my temporary assignment there. After my third missed plane I received orders to be given a "hardship" discharge at my earliest convenience (April 1, 1971, my wife's birthday).
For many months after my discharge MI or FBI followed my attempts to obtain employment with visits to the companies where I applied and told the companies NOT to hire me. Many of the companies either had or intended to make employment offers and called me to ask "What the hell was going on?" I was unemployed for over six months due to the follow up punishment.
CHAOS:
Many requests (usually imbedded as "additional information requests") for all sorts of information on activists who were "perhaps" associated with the subject of a security background request. Some were clearly illegal. I sent back clearly illegal surveillance requests to 115th MI Group HQ at the Presidio of San Francisco and was told never to do that ... quoting regulations to HQ.
Dale
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass