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Loading... Why Viet Nam?: Prelude to America's Albatrossby Archimedes L. A. Patti
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Col. Patti was the only OSS officer assigned to Viet Nam in WWII. He tells how President Roosevelt did not want the French colonist to re-occupy their former colony of Viet Nam. But then Roosevelt died. It was President Truman's turn. The named U.S. Army military attache, a Major, who was to meet the Viet Cong in the jungle to asses their side is in the book. French army intelligence learned of the meeting and ambushed and machinegunned to death the attache in a vehicle flying the American flags just miles from the meeting. The French idea was to make it look like the Viet Cong betrayed him, not the French. Is the name of that U.S. Army Major to be found on the wall at the Washington, D.C., Viet Nam War memorial? It should be! no reviews | add a review
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)327.730597Social sciences Political Science International Relations North America United States U.S.-Asian RelationsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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with Ho Chi Minh, the French and the Chinese, when many more options were available to the United States. As time passed those doors of opportunity closed. ( )