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Author_Frank Snepp
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central intelligence agency
cia
end of vietnam war
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graham anderson martin
henry kissinger
nguyen van thieu
vietnam war
william colby
withdrawal from vietnam
Product details
- ISBN 9780700612130
- Weight: 896g
- Dimensions: 153 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2002
- Publisher: University Press of Kansas
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America’s final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great sacrifice by an author who believed in the CIA’s cause but was disillusioned by the agency’s treacherous withdrawal, leaving thousands of Vietnamese allies to the mercy of an angry enemy. A quarter-century later, it remains a riveting and powerful testament to one of the darkest episodes in American history.
Frank Snepp spent eight years in the CIA, five of them as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief CIA strategy analyst in the Saigon embassy. His second book, Irreparable Harm (see page 26), recounts the Supreme Court case that emerged from the CIA's efforts to punish Snepp for publishing Decent Interval. A freelance writer and cable television producer, he currently works as an investigative reporter for ABC's "20/20" television news magazine.
