Bibliography: The Vietnam War

An Annotated Reading List

F. Covert Operations and Intelligence

compiled by John R. Tegtmeier, Charlotte, North Carolina

Adams, Sam. War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir. Introduction by Col.

David Hackworth. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1994.

    Posthumously published work by a CIA analyst concerning the underestimate of enemy forces in Vietnam. The book had been ready for much earlier publication when a great number of documents were declassified for the Westmoreland - CBS suit on the order of battle controversy. Adams felt he had to incorporate the newly available material; however, at the time of his death in 1988, much was still left out Despite this incompleteness, the work shreds much light on the question of intelligence throughout the war.

McGehee, Ralph. Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA. New York: Sheridan Square Publications, 1983.

Tourison, Sedgwick D. Secret Army, Secret War: Washington's Tragic Spy Operation in North Vietnam. Naval Institute Special Warfare Series. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

    Tourison's account of SOG's covert operations into North Vietnam, OPLAN 34A, prior to the Tonkin Gulf incident and the formal U.S. entry into combat. Using documents from both sides as well as oral history interviews from the participants, this is the story of failed ops in the early 1960's, and ultimately the betrayal of those Vietnamese operatives by the U.S.

Tourison, Sedgwick D. Talking with Victor Charlie: An Interrogator's Story. New York: Ivy Books (Ballantine), 1991.

Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990; Avon Books, 1992.

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Section II: Cultural Representations of the War


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