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050	0	0	_aKF7642.U55 _bS74 1992
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100	1		_aStein, Jeff.
245	1	2	_aA murder in wartime : _h[electronic resource] _bthe untold spy story that changed the course of the Vietnam War / _cJeff Stein.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c1992.
300			_axiii, 414 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aThe Green Beret murder case is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries and political cover-ups of the Vietnam War, a story that burst onto the front page of the New York Times and then suddenly disappeared into a fog of conflicting official explanations. In 1969, members of a top-secret Green Beret intelligence organization were arrested by the Army for the murder of a suspected North Vietnamese double agent. The officers thought they had killed the man with CIA approval,
520			_abut now the CIA and the military were hanging them out to dry in one of the most bizarre homicide investigations in the history of the U.S. Army. Defense attorneys for the Berets, including the famed Edward Bennett Williams, soon learned of assassinations being carried out under the CIA's Operation Phoenix, and used that to attack the Army for its hypocritical prosecution of the men. The case became an epic, behind-closed-doors courtroom struggle between two West.
520			_aPointers: Robert Rheault, a decorated Green Beret colonel from a prominent New England family, and Gen. Creighton Abrams, the supreme American commander in Vietnam. It pitted the Special Forces--tough, bright, unfettered by the past, the fighters of a new kind of war--against an Army establishment that proclaimed its opposition to terror and assassination. When back-channel messages reached Washington that the slain agent's wife was making inquiries, top officials of the.
520			_aPentagon and CIA jockeyed to avoid responsibility for the killing. But when a country lawyer ripped the lid off the case, it became an international sensation--and a heated debate on the floor of Congress over the morality of unconventional warfare. President Nixon finally stepped in to abort a trial that would have exposed worldwide CIA operations and the secret, illegal Cambodian bombings. But the government's handling of the case prompted Daniel Ellsberg to leak the.
520			_aPentagon Papers, which changed the course of the war and led to Watergate. On one level, A Murder in Wartime is a fascinating tangle of espionage and intrigue, a detective story involving the highest officials of the American government. On another, it is a portrait of an era, a twilight time of fading innocence, when America had only begun to rethink its love affair with spies. Most of all, it is the personal story of eight men caught in a nightmare within a.
520			_anightmare--a politically explosive murder trial in the middle of the Vietnam War.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy. _bSpecial Forces _xTrials, litigation, etc.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bCentral Intelligence Agency _xTrials, litigation, etc.
650		0	_aCourts-martial and courts of inquiry _zVietnam _zHo Chi Minh City.
650		0	_aTrials (Murder) _zVietnam _zHo Chi Minh City.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _zUnited States.
650	0	7	_aMilitär _2swd
650	0	7	_aGeheimdienst _2swd
650	0	7	_aMord _2swd
650	0	7	_aVietnamkrieg _2swd
651		7	_aUSA _2swd
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.archive.org/details/murderinwartimeu00stei _zFree eBook from the Internet Archive
856	4	2	_uhttp://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1558108M _zAdditional information and access via Open Library
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