Heroes Hall Speaker Series - Echoes of Conflict Remembering Vietnam
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Perspectives from the CIA: A Complete Arc of the Vietnam Conflict
Join us for a comprehensive examination of America’s involvement in Vietnam, presented through the experiences of two CIA operatives whose combined service spans the full duration of the conflict.
Frank Scotton arrived in Vietnam in 1962 as a specialized foreign service officer, where he developed the Peoples Defense Forces (PDF) program. He collaborated with the CIA beginning in 1964 and served on loan to the 5th Special Forces Group from 1964 to 1966. His mission required extensive travel throughout remote areas of Vietnam to verify, collect, and disseminate information for the U.S. government. In 1967, he joined Bob Komer in Vietnam to assist in the transition from the Office of Civil Operations to Military Assistance Command Vietnam—Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support. He also participated in the prisoner recovery mission to Loc Ninh.
Frank Snepp joined the CIA in 1968 and served multiple tours in its Vietnam station. Over time, he became the station’s senior analyst of enemy intentions and a close aide to two ambassadors and two station chiefs. He interrogated key prisoners and played a central role in tasking and debriefing the CIA’s two most valuable intelligence sources operating behind enemy lines. In the spring of 1975, Snepp accurately assessed enemy plans to seize Saigon. In an effort to avert catastrophe, Ambassador Graham Martin enlisted him to help President Nguyen Van Thieu flee the country. Three days later, Snepp was among the final seventeen CIA officers evacuated from the embassy roof as communist forces entered the city.
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