Kiss the Boys Goodbye : How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam

by JENSON-STEVENSON, MONIKASTEVENSON, WILLIAM

• ISBN13: 9780771083280
• ISBN10: 0771083289
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: MCCLELLAND & STEWART

Summary

For many, the United States' military success in the Gulf War marked a restoration of the honour that America lost in the blood-soaked jungles of Vietnam.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Map of Vietnam and Southeast Asia	p. viii
Overview: The Story	p. 1
Traitor	p. 16
"Roadblocks" in the Name of National Security	p. 39
Taking on the Government	p. 65
The White House Colonel	p. 79
The Government Position	p. 95
Betrayal	p. 105
The Freelance Operative	p. 120
There but for the Grace of God...	p. 128
Lies in Laos	p. 145
Telling Dirty Secrets	p. 159
Complications and Conspiracies	p. 177
Prisoners and Politics	p. 195
Silencing the Critics	p. 210
The Radical, the Billionaire, and the Green Beret	p. 231
The Vanishing Cabbie	p. 244
The Drug Lord	p. 256
Buried Lists	p. 266
The Business of Covert Ops	p. 276
The Sleaze Factor	p. 285
Getting "Bo"	p. 298
Scott Barnes Tells His Story	p. 316
The Party Line (or Else)	p. 327
Perot Makes a Move	p. 337
Garwood Debriefed	p. 350
Vietnam Revisited	p. 366
What the Government Always Knew	p. 378
A Matter of Ethics	p. 387
The Secret War	p. 400
Postscript	p. 415
Open Letter from Robert Garwood to the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs	p. 421
Letter from Ronald Reagan to Mrs. Anthony Drexel Duke	p. 423
Extracts from an Affidavit by Jerry Mooney	p. 425
Affidavit of Clarence Edward Johnson	p. 431
Glossary	p. 436
Note to Readers	p. 442
Notes	p. 446
Bibliography	p. 485
Afterword to the 1999 edition: A Bird in the Hand	p. 488
Index	p. 495
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