Yup, blank as hell!
Bill Clarke
F Troop, 17th Cav
Yours truly, Bill Langston.
Ralph McGehee <rmcg...@igc.org> wrote in message
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> The Failure of Intelligence
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> I appreciate the views that Mr. Langston cites re my post.
> He notes that his unit -- and the men in the field -- did a good job
> and that the U.S. was not taken by surprise at Tet 1968.
>
> His experience is echoed in my own. However doing a good job
> at the working level, (in my case) and his, made no difference.
>
> The momentum in Vietnam to win and to ignore pessimistic intelligence
> permeated the upper levels. I tried from 1967 to 1975 to warn about
> the structures of the enemy being underreported and for my efforts
> I was relieved of any position of influence.
>
> I disagree with Mr. Langston when he says the U.S. was not taken
> by surprise at Tet. I provided a number of citations to highly
> authenticated and checkable sources to document my case -- I would like
> to suggest that Mr. Langston acquire access to these sources and then
> advise who was lying and where. I do not wish to cause him or other
> Vietnam veterans pain -- I merely wish to demonstrate the proclivities
> and inability's of the upper levels of the intelligence community.
> Inability's that exist today. I worry that the United States can
> again be pulled into unwinnable situations by false, contrived and
> inaccurate, "forward-leaning" intelligence by this infrastructure.
>
> Ralph McGehee
> http://come.to/CIABASE