PHUNG HAUNG DONG TIEN
HISTORY OF PHOENIX
What was the Phoenix Program Part 2
COVERT:
A hiding place; masking or concealing something, in other words the
"Phoenix Program."
THE REAL BEGINNING:
In 1964 the Red Cross and also the Peace Corp were information
gathering units. Red Cross and Peace Corp volunteers were required
to submit daily reports on their activities and any information
gathered during the day.
As a note of interest, the Peace
Corp was meant to help with the construction of water ways,
buildings, mostly physical type work. Since these were skills not
taught in college, why did volunteers have to be college graduates,
as FBI and CIA agents are.
THE FIRST PHASE:
Was the collection and identifying
of Viet Cong cadre.
THE SECOND PHASE:
Exploitation, was the systematic
elimination of those suspected of being Viet Cong either by
arbitrary arrest or assisination.
 William Colby, the Saigon station
chief of the CIA estimated that 60,000 Viet Cong were either killed
or captured. Of that amount he estimated that 20,000 were killed.
PURPOSE OF PHOENIX:
The advertised purpose or objective
was not pacification, meaning that garbage was thrown about that
Phoenix was intended to help restore the economy of individual
villages by advice and physical assistance.
The main purpose, on paper, or what
any Advisor will tell you, was that Advisors were to identify the
Viet cong through the collection of information from prisoners of
local police and in turn give that information to the enforcement
arm of the program, the irregulars. The idea was to capture or kill
them. Any man being in Vietnam will testify to the fact that no
matter what side a Vietnamese is on, he is like having a pet tiger
cub, feed him what you think is good for him, until the cub grows
into a lion, then he eats you up, so are the Vietnamese.
"THE FIRST THING WE
DO, LETS KILL ALL THE LAWYERS,"
so said William Shakespeare in 1591. (King Henry VI, part 11
4.)
Blowtorch, he was called. A former
CIA man and General Westmoreland's Deputy for Pacification, Robert
Komer masterminded a plan called "CORDS", (Civil Operations and
Revolutionary Development Support), note the use of the word
"civil." He then sold this plan to President Thieu in early 1967.
The plan was called "Phung Hoang Dong Tien."
Phung Hoang Dong Tien, as it was
called, used South Vietnamese Police, troops, and irregulars, (brig
rats and mercenaries) under CIA direction.
By July, satisfied with the results
of the program, it was taken over by The Commander, United States
Military Assistance Command Vietnam, (COMUSMACV) called it
Intelligence, Coordination, And Exploitation, (ICEX) and called it
"Phung Hoang" until again satisfaction caused the name to be changed
back to Phoenix in December 1967. The name "Phoenix" was again
changed back to Phung Hoang in 1970 due to public outcry of claims
of brutality etc. The entire program, by any name, closed down in
1972.
This means that if a man claims to
have been a part of "Phoenix", he would have had to have been part
of the program between 1967 and 1970. This also means that the
Phoenix program only existed between 26 and 29 years ago as of 1996.
The pilot program began in Quang
Ngai province, and make important note, the program was under the
control of the Republic of Vietnam and backed by CIA.
Always keep in mind that westerners
have a habit of raping the eastern culture, not even understanding
what they have taken, yet when they believe that they have, they
treat the information as gospel. Their way is correct and right. As
usual they were wrong, for the Phung Hoang, a legendary bird of
Vietnam, was consumed and cleansed by fire, but the bird did not
survive the fire. We westerners, in our wisdom, called it Phoenix,
because the bird survived, more white mans lies. Those who survived
are still dead, just don't know it.
The program was designed for reasons
later to be written, but it's primary function was to eliminate
those peoples who escaped punishment by legal loopholes or misused
places of trust and power.
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